Michael Porter
Arlington,VA
Summary
Professional manager with significant expertise in overseeing complex projects and ensuring timely delivery. Skilled in strategic planning, budget management, and risk assessment. Strong focus on team collaboration, fostering results-driven environment, and adapting to changing needs. Known for reliability, leadership, and effective communication. My approach combines technical skills and proficiency with strong project management skills.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Project Manager
QinetiQ
03.2022 - Current
- Currently acting as Project Manager for two projects within the Department of Transportation (DoT), ensuring successful execution and delivery.
- Prepares, outlines, and executes project scope, objectives, and deliverables in a timely manner and within budget.
- Fosters collaboration among my team, stakeholders, and leadership to promote effective communication and alignment of goals.
- Submits weekly status reports for all OCIO S86 contracts, maintaining transparency and accountability.
- Responsible for technical deliverables, including, but not limited to, backend data building, front-end visualizations, data quality control, data analysis, and business intelligence solutions, contributing to project excellence.
- Developed data repositories of Department of Transportation (DoT) applications to help stakeholders better understand the purpose of each software and criticality to DoT goals. This data is necessary for stakeholders to make informed decisions on which applications need to be rationalized or continue to be supported.
- Provided a broad range of technical and professional project management support for IPv6 Transition and Federal Data Strategy (FDS) Task Orders.
- Conducted interviews with Chief Data Officers (CDOs) from multiple federal organizations to establish an effectiveness assessment of current Federal Data Strategy (FDS) polices.
- Developed and wrote recommendations for future improvements to Federal Data Strategy (FDS) policies based on information gathered from these interviews.
- Wrote Federal Data Strategy (FDS) compositions recommending changes to FDS Actions Plan and broader FDS strategy.
- Created and maintained new Master Risk Registers utilizing Tableau dashboard technology.
Data Analytics and Cost Associate, Project Manager
Avantus
07.2021 - 03.2022
- Acted as the primary liaison between Avantus and government client.
- Worked with product managers and users to gather requirements to create business intelligence solutions such as the Year in Review Dashboard, and Project Financial Tracker.
- These tools provided users a detailed look at the financial health of their projects, allowing leadership to make better informed financial decisions going into next year.
- Directly involved with the development and transition of a new financial tracking system at General Services Administration (GSA). Our input allowed the organization's new system to officially standardize the way data is tracked and manipulated organization wide.
- Assisted rewriting and developing old system standardized query language (SQL) queries and dashboards to be compliant, standardized and meet business reporting requirements.
- Provided technical and analytical support regarding data quality on a monthly basis, ensuring that all data collections were valid and accurate.
- Created Project Staffing Plan (PSP) template which was adopted organization wide. This automated tool allowed client users to update their projects’ staffing plan quickly and efficiently with less risk of human error.
- Prepared, reviewed, and published ad-hoc reports and dashboards on internal and public facing websites.
- Responsible for reviewing and signing off on all Independent Government Cost Estimates (IGCEs) and cost pricing efforts the team worked on.
Data Analytics and Cost Associate, Team Lead
Avantus
06.2018 - 07.2021
- Supported Federal Systems and Management Center (FEDSIM) Leadership by creating and maintaining data driven dashboards so they may make better informed decisions.
- Assisted clients with developing price estimations and Independent Government Cost Estimates (IGCEs) for multi-million-dollar projects by analyzing historical and current market data, allowing management to price contracts more accurately.
- Regularly conducted cost analyses on contractor proposals to ensure compliance and reasonable pricing, allowing Contract Specialists to make more accurate choices when awarding contracts.
- Created ability for clients to make data driven decisions in a real-time environment by developing multiple interactive dashboards utilizing sophisticated software such as Tableau and standardized query language (SQL).
- Maintained 7 different Excel and Tableau tools by updating them with relevant data on a weekly basis.
- Reduced work time by ~40 hours by creating an autonomous Dynamic Funds Tracker for a $46 million project.
- Audited at-risk contract by analyzing thousands of lines of data consisting of purchase orders, invoices, and building plans. My findings directly influenced a change in project leadership.
Financial Analyst, Team Lead
Avantus
06.2017 - 06.2018
- Led a two-person team of financial analysts responsible for a portfolio of General Services Administration (GSA) Federal Systems and Management Center (FEDSIM) contracts worth over $1 billion dollars across several contract years.
- Responsible for ensuring team deliverables on a weekly basis. This included invoice payments, Travel Authorization Request (TAR) and Request to Initiate Purchase (RIP) review, tracking and acceptance, etc.
- Reconciled client financials to account for ~$49 million of misused funds for the Army portfolio's biggest project. This resulted in an internal change in account structure to ensure proper payment.
- Drafted dozens of financial reports to present to portfolio managers so they can make better informed decisions.
- Held monthly team meetings to discuss financial performance of current contracts and share lessons learned.
- Conducted multiple interviews for potential new team members.
Financial Analyst
E3 Federal Solutions
03.2015 - 06.2017
- Managed and analyzed financials and performance of several multi-million-dollar contracts for the General Services Administration's (GSA) Federal Systems and Integration Management (FEDSIM).
- Reviewed 7-8 invoices a month and communicated issues and recommendations for improvements to Project Managers.
- Reviewed budgets, project funding, expenditures, and burn rates to avoid overages for government clients.
- Reviewed hundreds of Travel Authorization Requests (TARs) and Purchase Orders to ensure accuracy and funding availability.
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Finance
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA01-2015
Skills
- Project management, planning and execution
- Stakeholder communications
- Risk management
- Schedule management
- Excel
- Tableau
- PowerBI
- Data analysis and visualization
- Data Governance
- Database programming and SQL
Certification
- Program Management Professional (PgMP) - Project Management Institute.
- Certified Scrum Master
Timeline
Project Manager
QinetiQ
03.2022 - Current
Data Analytics and Cost Associate, Project Manager
Avantus
07.2021 - 03.2022
Data Analytics and Cost Associate, Team Lead
Avantus
06.2018 - 07.2021
Financial Analyst, Team Lead
Avantus
06.2017 - 06.2018
Financial Analyst
E3 Federal Solutions
03.2015 - 06.2017
Bachelor of Arts - Finance
Virginia Tech
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