Tonya Tatum
Alexandria,VA
Summary
Focused Project Manager adept with 10 plus years of experience at planning, directing and maintaining continuous operations in various departments. Experienced in directing manufacturing employees and keeping efficient production in accordance with quality standards. Applying creative and analytical approach to operations for continuous process improvement. Skilled at identifying or anticipating problems and providing solutions. Excels through mentoring, training and empowering team to excel in performance.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Data Project Manager
Arrow Alliance Industries
05.2023 - Current
- Responsible for providing administrative oversight and functional management of USMC Logistics information technology (IT) and data to meet the needs of the Marine Corps in Joint, Coalition, and expeditionary environments also known as Information Technology Portfolio Management (IT PfM).
Lead Portfolio Analyst
Department of The Army
10.2022 - 04.2023
- Responsible for facilitating the management and process for analyzing value; evaluating risk; prioritizing; and onboarding new technology project requests to ensure alignment with organizational strategy
- Restructured the mission areas data roles and responsibilities to support the Army Data Plan
- Planned, coordinated, and executed, Investment Certification and Annual Review.
Lead Data Architect
Cortek / EM Key Solutions
07.2021 - 10.2022
- Responsible for designing, creating, deploying, and managing the Mission Command Domain’s data architecture
- Responsible for providing real time analysis to the Army for the Warfighting Mission Area (WMA) Portfolio using the appropriate analytical tools
- Managed project resources in a cross-functional environment
- Analyzed fiscal prioritization and presented recommendations to senior leadership
- Planned and implemented active portfolio reviews for the Warfighting Mission Area IT Portfolio resulting a 25% (77 to 58) reduction in the backlog in 6 months as well as increasing Army wide involvement
- Planned, coordinated, and initiated the domains registration in the Enterprise Data Services Catalog.
IT Project Manager
Snowcreek Consulting, LLC
01.2021 - 07.2021
- Responsible for developing and maintaining project plans and schedules in accordance with established Agile Development Life Cycle guidelines, conducting risk analyses, and developing mitigation strategies and plans
- Closed a lagging one-year project only 3 months after joining the Project Management Team
- Worked closely with customers to develop requirements for 5 separate projects, test and troubleshoot new systems.
IT Program Manager, Operations Research Systems Analyst (ORSA)
Department of The Army
11.2018 - 12.2020
- Responsible for defining project scope, requirements, and deliverables and consulting with project customers, working groups, and leading a cross functional project team
- Accountable for developing, modifying, or providing input to project plans, implementing project plans to meet objectives, coordinating, and integrating project activities
- Served as the lead data manager for the Force Development Directorate for current and emerging decision support systems in G-8 stakeholders
- Lead the development of an automated SharePoint based presentation tool that was projected to reduce the number of hours preparing for periodic programming executive level briefings by ~80% (30 to 7 days)
- Developed a project management database in Access used to provide periodic reports to leadership.
Engagement Manager
Amazon Web Services
09.2020 - 11.2020
- Responsible for collaborating across roles to understand a customer's mission objectives and define project goals
- Responsible for leading peers, small teams, and groups of teams made up of AWS members, customer Stakeholders/SMEs, and potentially other third parties to creating and executing a plan to achieve project goals
- Responsible for identifying and mitigating limitations to execution
- Conducted the initial analysis for the acquisition of project management software that would integrate with the current trouble ticket system
- This analysis led to the identification of inhouse tools that could result in the savings of millions of dollars in licenses and services
- Successfully completed the AWS Awesome Builder, a course in AWS fundamentals which includes a final presentation about AWS products and services.
Aviation Portfolio Manager, ORSA
Department of The Army
07.2017 - 11.2018
- Responsible for managerial oversight for analytical planning, resourcing, and integration for materiel requirements and materiel acquisition solutions, ensuring sound analytical underpinnings that support key Army and DoD decisions
- Planned the annual budget and distributed monetary requirements to analytical organizations based on portfolio priorities
- Provided key support for the senior leadership of the Army on the Analysis of Alternatives for several important Combat Aviation acquisition programs to include the multi-million-dollar Future Vertical Lift Program.
Sustainment Portfolio Analyst, ORSA
US Army Capabilities Integration Center (ARCIC), Studies and Analysis
05.2014 - 07.2017
- Responsible for the management, prioritization, oversight, and synchronization of ARCIC analysis activities, to include JCIDS and DODD 5000 acquisition analyses, experimentation, and studies
- Responsible for working closely with team members to deliver project requirements, developing solutions, and meeting deadlines
- Conducted analytical reviews, developed, and presented proposals for new investments
- Managed, prioritized, maintained oversight, and synchronized the organization's analysis activities.
Mission Analysis Division Chief, ORSA
US Army Recruiting Command, Mission and Analysis
08.2011 - 05.2014
- Responsible for using various analytical tools and techniques to develop the command's enlisted and special recruiting missions
- Responsible for conducting mission analysis to determine the optimal recruiter force requirements to support the CONUS and OCONUS recruiting locations and achieve the command's missions
- Lead the development and deployment of an improved recruiting goals database
- Used tools such as SPSS Modeler, Excel, and Access to conduct real-time mission analysis and forecasting for evaluating risk to mission as the recruiting requirements and markets changed.
Education
Master of Science - Information Systems Management
Strayer University
Washington, DC10.2013
Bachelor of Science - Business Management
Virginia State University
Ettrick, VA05.2001
Skills
- Agile Framework
- Risk Management
- Software Development Lifecycle
- Jira
- Microsoft Office Suite
- Portfolio Management
- Project Server
- Data Analysis
- Project tracking
- Resource Allocation
- Team Leadership
- Project Scheduling
- Cost Analysis
- Critical Path
Clearance
Active DoD Secret Clearance
Awards
- Received a letter of appreciation from the president of Cortek for support provided to Headquarters Department of the Army G-3/5/7., 09/01/22
- Received a $1200 cash reward from Cortek for developing a plan and executing the reduction of the backlog of requests for the Warfighting Mission Area Portfolio for Headquarters Department of the Army G-3/5/7., 02/01/22
Training
- PMI Project Management Certification Bootcamp with PMTraining, 2024
- How the Army Runs, 2017
- Army Action Officer Course, 2017
- Command and General Staff Officer Course, 2016
- Operations Research Systems Analyst Military Applications Course, 2010
- Combined Logistics Captain’s Career Course, 2005
Timeline
Senior Data Project Manager
Arrow Alliance Industries
05.2023 - Current
Lead Portfolio Analyst
Department of The Army
10.2022 - 04.2023
Lead Data Architect
Cortek / EM Key Solutions
07.2021 - 10.2022
IT Project Manager
Snowcreek Consulting, LLC
01.2021 - 07.2021
Engagement Manager
Amazon Web Services
09.2020 - 11.2020
IT Program Manager, Operations Research Systems Analyst (ORSA)
Department of The Army
11.2018 - 12.2020
Aviation Portfolio Manager, ORSA
Department of The Army
07.2017 - 11.2018
Sustainment Portfolio Analyst, ORSA
US Army Capabilities Integration Center (ARCIC), Studies and Analysis
05.2014 - 07.2017
Mission Analysis Division Chief, ORSA
US Army Recruiting Command, Mission and Analysis
08.2011 - 05.2014
Master of Science - Information Systems Management
Strayer University
Bachelor of Science - Business Management
Virginia State University
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