Ryan Sikorsky
USA
Summary
Experienced Program Manager with background in leading diverse teams to accomplish project objectives. Strengths include strategic planning, process improvement, and stakeholder management. Known for leveraging technical skills to improve organizational efficiency and drive project success. Previous work contribution includes streamlining processes for improved productivity and implementing innovative program strategies that increased overall performance.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Enterprise Data Lake Program Manager
United States Census Bureau
03.2021 - 03.2025
- Directed oversight of project management team for Census Bureau Enterprise Data Lake during transition to major enterprise program.
- Directed expense oversight, procurement processes, and performance metrics for comprehensive programs.
- Manage and oversee the EDL program's annual budget ($24M-$28M), lifecycle budget ($300M), and IT Investment Authority ($110M).
- Manage acquisition needs and direction of eight active EDL contracts ($19M annually).
- Develop and present Commerce IT Review Board and IT Investment Authority documentation and materials to obtain program funding.
- Develop DOC and OMB budget deliverables and oversight documentation, including AITPS, quarterly performance metric reports, monthly, and annual capital planning submissions, program office estimates, and independent cost estimates.
- Led cross-functional teams in the successful delivery of program milestones, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and objectives.
- Managed and distributed program budget to specific projects according to scope and cost estimates.
- Develop and maintain the Program Office Estimate in concert with PPSI Cost Estimation staff, integrating financial system information, JIRA requirements tracking, Project Web App timesheet reporting, and MS Project schedules.
- Established EDL Project Management Office to strengthen program oversight and coordination.
- Oversaw major project management activities for projects leading to the production-ready data lake and customer onboarding of bureau-wide stakeholders.
- Created comprehensive program and project management documentation for tracking initiatives using Commerce IT Folio.
- Maintained accountability to executive leadership for the schedule, budget, and quality of all program elements, including: risk and issue management, investment planning and management, change management, communication and outreach management, performance management, and schedule management.
- Counsel Associate and Assistant Directors on program policies, priorities, and resource requirements.
- Support the program's integration with multiple projects and business processes, including direction to integrate with DICE, CEDSCI, and Frames major initiatives.
- Support project management policies and practices, and develop reports on schedule variances that may affect program performance measures, other key milestones, or other activities on the schedule's critical path; recommend corrective or mitigating actions.
- Provide oversight for the identification and escalation of risk management concerns, progress, analytics, and monitoring of various workstreams.
- Develop and maintain configuration and change management best practices, including managing changes to the EDL system specifications and the configuration of the system, including all its components, source code, scripts, security permissions, and other configuration files that directly affect the EDL system.
- Oversee the Software Development Lifecycle and Agile Methodology project management, including active development schedule tracking during the program increment and sprint management process.
- Facilitate and lead program increment planning sessions and retrospectives for major EDL development teams during 10-week Program Increments with 5 two-week sprints, including daily stand-ups and touchpoints.
- Oversee project management staff activities of IT teams, including managing to enterprise standards of epics, stories, and activities in JIRA.
- Lead and support EDL environment provisioning based on SLT direction, including for urgent and high-priority programs, including the Data Science Community Environment, the Integrated Research Environment, and analytical environments supporting the Decennial, Economic, and Demographic directorates.
- Ensure effective governance design, facilitation, transparency, and cross-program artifact consistency.
- Evaluate overall program effectiveness by reviewing and analyzing program reports, discussing with Census Bureau leaders, and through conferences with both internal and external participants.
- Ensured compliance with regulatory requirements and industry standards throughout the program lifecycle.
- Created presentations outlining proposed solutions for addressing challenges encountered during program execution.
Project Management for Operations Branch Chief
United States Census Bureau
09.2016 - 03.2021
- Directed operations as branch chief in the Project Management for Operations Branch.
- Manage project operations for up to 10 project managers handling over 40 surveys across various divisions.
- Provide project manager and project coordination support for the 2017 and 2022 Economic Census.
- Engaged in planning meetings on a weekly basis, offering detailed insights into high-level tasks for upper leadership.
- Developed and maintained SharePoint site as project information repository.
- Developed and managed six distinct schedules and risk registers for project phases such as Instrument Development, Design, and Content.
- Created milestones, deliverables, and cost reports based on reported hours and organized schedule times by subteam.
- Manage project management support for various reimbursable surveys.
- Coordinated creation of schedules for diverse survey projects ranging from business research to public finance.
- Oversaw cost estimates to enhance accuracy in economic surveys.
- Developed cost model frameworks to maintain data coherence across multiple surveys.
- Designed standardized work breakdown structures to promote cost accuracy.
- Directed risk management strategies for Economic Census and annual surveys.
- Managed risk registers, issues logs, and key decision lists for surveys.
- Monitored and tracked status of issues and mitigation plans for all surveys, developments, and operations.
- Led executive management and governance meetings to track issue status.
- Manages documentation process to record essential data fields including issue description, root cause, rating, and mitigation plan.
- Developed Microsoft Project schedules for internal tracking, including multiple cycles of an annual survey at one time.
- Directed staff recruitment efforts and conducted performance evaluations for branch personnel.
Supervisory Survey Statistician and Program Manager
United States Census Bureau
11.2014 - 09.2016
- Oversaw project management for the 2017 Economic Census across four core disciplines.
- Analyzed and interpreted survey results using statistical techniques.
- Determined data relationships, trends and factors that could affect research results.
- Utilized standard work breakdown structure to create the 2017 Economic Census schedules in Microsoft Project.
- Coordinated with 35 census teams and team leads to structure scheduled tasks.
- Monitored schedule to identify discrepancies against established baselines and deadlines.
- Crafted comprehensive reports for straightforward assessment of milestone achievements.
- Oversee multiple EC17 schedules to ensure efficient management of inter-project dependencies.
- Streamlined communication through effective SharePoint configuration.
- Developed master Economic Census SharePoint page with integrated sub-sites for teams, initiatives, and working groups.
- Facilitated assessment and identification of risks at both project and organizational team levels.
- Maintain a detailed project risk register via Project Server through risk identification, categorization, analysis, response planning, and monitoring.
- Collaborated with Risk Review Boards to design mitigation and contingency measures.
- Supervise risks and issues across 5 SLC-based risk boards.
- Created risk metrics to evaluate and prioritize potential risks for management decision making.
- Synchronized change control processes and ensured adherence to standards.
- Guide team members utilizing change management tool.
- Evaluated change impacts on the master schedule to identify shifts in critical baselined milestones.
- Coordinated project activities for the 2017 Commodity Flow Survey.
- Designed templates for SharePoint team sites.
- Created standardized management plans for PMO-supported surveys.
- Convey best practices to PMO team members for achieving ECON targets.
Survey Statistician and Project Manager
United States Census Bureau
09.2009 - 11.2014
- Led project management for Tabulations Team (SSSD and MCD).
- Manage tabulation production activities, such as specification work, coding and testing using Microsoft Project.
- Designed and maintained a static test database replicating production processes to ensure comprehensive testing.
- Drafted detailed documentation to highlight updated processes in coding and data review.
- Confirm that tabulation processes comply with project management standards, as well as meet the requirements of OMB and Census Quality Audits.
- Ensured correct structure, transformations, and routines in tabulation and extraction processes.
- Facilitated project management and business analysis for the release of Publication Ready File review tool.
- Enhanced traceability between business requirements and functional programming.
- Developed comprehensive use cases and test cases using Unified Modeling Language.
- Led team of user acceptance testers by conducting unit and integration testing.
- Led MDRT analyst training sessions at both Headquarters and NPC in Jeffersonville, IN.
- Oversaw and coordinated Pre-Dissemination System (PDS) project tasks.
- Implemented PDS system, including Disclosure Avoidance, to support data review needs of Manufacturing and Construction Division.
- Validated metadata required for successful program execution.
- Served as primary contact for assigned companies to facilitate Economic Census reporting process.
- Analyzed and interpreted survey results using statistical techniques.
- Collaborated with other departments to ensure accuracy of survey data.
- Analyzed data using descriptive and multivariate statistical analysis processes.
Education
Master's Certificate - Project Management
The George Washington University
01.2013
Associate Citation - Business Analysis
The George Washington University
01.2012
Bachelor of Arts - Economics
University of Maryland
College Park, MD05-2009
Skills
- Program performance analysis
- Team leadership
- Resource management
- Financial leadership
- Budget development
- Project lifecycle
- Scope management
- Process improvement
Certification
- PMP, Project Management Institute, 1694262, 2014-present
- FAC P/PM Level III, Duke University Corporate Education, 2022-present
- FAC P/PM IT Plus Specialization, Duke University Corporate Education, 2024-present
- CSM, Scrum Alliance, 518734, 2016-present
- Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt, 2023-present
Accomplishments
Bronze Medal 2024 (Data Science Community Environment (DSCE) Creation) 2024
Awarded by the Secretary for superior service characterized by outstanding and significant contributions
Director Award for Innovation 2020 (Economic Census Redesign) 2020
Awarded by the Director for creativity, effectiveness, and risk-taking behavior in developing new processes, products, or services critical to the mission of the Census Bureau.
Timeline
Enterprise Data Lake Program Manager
United States Census Bureau
03.2021 - 03.2025
Project Management for Operations Branch Chief
United States Census Bureau
09.2016 - 03.2021
Supervisory Survey Statistician and Program Manager
United States Census Bureau
11.2014 - 09.2016
Survey Statistician and Project Manager
United States Census Bureau
09.2009 - 11.2014
- PMP, Project Management Institute, 1694262, 2014-present
- FAC P/PM Level III, Duke University Corporate Education, 2022-present
- FAC P/PM IT Plus Specialization, Duke University Corporate Education, 2024-present
- CSM, Scrum Alliance, 518734, 2016-present
- Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt, 2023-present
Master's Certificate - Project Management
The George Washington University
Associate Citation - Business Analysis
The George Washington University
Bachelor of Arts - Economics
University of Maryland
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