Vincent Lopez

Colorado Springs

Summary

Dynamic professional with over 20 years of extensive experience in Configuration Management, software licensing, asset management, and risk management. Proven success in planning, prioritizing, and negotiating software and hardware support renewals for government teams, while effectively implementing ITIL methodologies to ensure software compliance and adherence to contract renewal guidelines. Primary point of contact for Configuration Management on the government Enterprise platform with expertise in supporting development, documentation, and configuration management of Data Center architecture. Strong communicator adept at leveraging technical, business, and financial insights to engage stakeholders effectively, with a solid background in safe agile and project management methodologies that consistently deliver high-quality results within established timelines and budget constraints.

Overview

2027

years of professional experience

Certification

Work History

Senior Personnel Security Specialist

KBR

Colorado Springs, CO

06.2024 - Current

Security professional to support personnel security (PERSEC) functions for Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) and Special Access Programs (SAP) in direct support of various United States Space Force Space Systems Command (USSF/SSC) initiatives.
Process and track SCI and SAP access requests and nomination packages in accordance with applicable security regulations.
Conduct collateral SCI and SAP indoctrinations, briefings, training, and debriefing, ensuring proper documentation and access are current and updated in the appropriate system of record.
Maintain personnel security records, access rosters, and metrics ensuring accuracy, audit readiness, and other status reporting.
Support personnel security inspections and self-inspections including artifact preparation and corrective action tracking.

IT Senior Configuration Management

KBR

01.2018 - 01.2024

Configuration Management (CM) Specialist with focus in Software with Supply Chain Management to support the Space and Missile Systems Center’s Enterprise Ground Services Program (EGS). EGS is an agile program that delivers Tactical Satellite Ops C2 capabilities through a federated suite of services.
Track COTS software throughout the end-to-end supply chain, from origination point to destination point, using manual and automated processes and tools.
Subject Matter Expert in configuration management tools (e.g., Device 42, Insight, ServiceNow) to store, track, and manage configuration items.
Provide Audit documentation from planning, delivery, deployment, of hardware and software assets in the following locations at Buckley Air Force Base (BAFB), Schriever Air Force Base (SAFB), the Space Management Battle Lab (SMBL), the MITRE facility (factory).
Leverage Software government Joint Enterprise License Agreement (JELA) and associated contracts.
Consolidate all software inventories to generate a cost view of all the mission including the software license and support cost. This view will be used to generate a better forecast view for sustainment and mission forecasting.
Continue to consolidate inventories into Master software Inventory listing, cataloged over 1,000-line items.
Register and track all software license keys and support documentation for EGS. All license keys are registered in the vendor sites and stored in our master software list.
The vendors include Cameo, Leostream, Luna, Teradici, Commvault, MongoDB, Gitlab, Forcepoint, Grafana, VMware, HPE, Red Hat, Gigamon, Cisco, Palo Alto, Elastic, Free Flyer, Microsoft, Red Hat, Splunk, VMware and RSA.
Review hardware and software lists with understanding of FAR, DFAR, USSF supply / acquisition and procurement regulations, security regulations, etc.
Created a brief plan to establish an EGS software lifecycle management program. The Lifecycle is based on a ITIL based framework which consist of 5 phases of service strategy, design, transition, operation, and improvement. The first phase strategy includes an improved software onboarding process to enable software delivery via online only.
Established Change Process is used for Engineering Artifacts including drawings.
Saved Millions to the government in Software contracts and unused software.
Participate in agile scrum processes and ceremonies.

Configuration Management Specialist

Verizon

2005 - 01.2018

Develop and maintain a standard software catalog within Verizon’s technology footprint. Managing enterprise-wide software Entitlement Management Program, partnered with a Software Asset Management (SAM) program to determine compliance position and prevent audit risk.
Define processes and tools best suited to each application team. Moved between agile and waterfall approaches depending on internal customer specifics goals, creating detailed road maps, plans, and work breakdown structures.
Eliminate the inclusion of redundant software and introduce new software solutions by implementing a technical team including representation from IT security, legal and finance that generates meaningful technical collaboration.
Implement software rationalization via promotions of open-source software or alternative software solutions to replace old and expense commercial offered software solutions.
Managed several critical software-based suppliers (Red Hat, VMware, AWS, HP, Rocket Software, and others) focused on cost reduction and product validation.
Contributed to the success of the company by saving a combined cost of $30 million per year.
Assigned several software and hardware suppliers to ensure compliance using various asset management tools.
Planned, prioritized, and negotiated upcoming software renewals for application and infrastructure teams deemed to be critical to the success of Verizon.
Software vendor management, including software audits, evaluation, and assessment of licensing agreements.
Cost analysis and annual budgeting for software agreements.
Interfaced between clients, software engineers, attorneys, IT security and executives.
Developed requirements of hardware and software assets tracking database (SQL database).
Develop high level, detailed reports that reflect consistent metrics to entitlements and contract agreements.
Mitigated risk factors through careful analysis of financial and statistical data. Anticipated and managed change effectively in rapidly evolving global business environments.
Established a cloud compliance strategy including evaluating software titles for future cloud use.
Cloud Enablement to optimize and reduce CPU, memory, and storage requirements, thereby reducing cost.
Promoted the adoption of Open-Source Software (OSS) within Verizon by selecting tools that were vetted by security and passed the required license obligations set by legal.

Education

Master of Science (MS) - Computer Information Technology with Emphasis in Systems Engineering, Security and Database Administration

Regis University

Denver, CO

Bachelor of Arts (BA) - Business Marketing

Assumption College

Worcester, MA

Skills

Project Management: Collaboration and Communication, Database Support (SQL), Systems Engineering, System Migrations/Integrations, Enterprise-wide Implementations, Data Analytics (Tableau, Qlik & Visio), Software Discovery (Service Now, Device 42, Flexera, SCCM), Agile Scrum Certified
IT Project Lifecycle: Requirements Analysis, ROI Analysis, Costing & Budgeting, Knowledge Service Now, Knowledge ITIL & ITAM, Knowledge BDNA & Technopedia, Knowledge Device 42

Value-Added Leadership: Cross-Functional Supervision, Team Building & Mentoring, Client Relations & Presentations, Business & IT Planning, Vendor Management, Good Research Skills, Good Communication Skills

Affiliations

American Management Association (AMA), Negotiation to Win, Project Management, Time Management