USDA-NRCSWeb Project Manager
Oct. 2012 - Oct. 2021Part of new USDA agency to provide support to three USDA agencies (NRCS, FSA, RMA). • Subject-matter expert for NRCS websites, serve as FPAC-NRCS expert for Akamai web delivery and IT Security, and SME for NRCS website work with government contractors
• Saved FPAC-NRCS 94,000 on HCL/IBM Portal licensing costs (2021) by identifying unneeded environments
• Government lead on completed Drupal proof-of-concept project for NRCS website, using farmers.gov/18Fspecfications (2019) • Manage IBM Connections communications for key NRCS of the Future initiative, and currently serving as the lead for the decommission of IBM Connections and use of Microsoft SharePoint and Teams for the IBM Connections data. Business owner of NRCS public and internal websites to include
-- All nrcs.usda.gov websites
-- NRCS intranet using IBM Connections (USDA Connect)
-- SharePoint Highlights include: Leader of migration and consolidation of more than 60 NRCS websites from Microsoft Front Page to an Oracle web content management system. Continue to manage, train employees, and support this project. Saved NRCS $980,000 in 2013 by decommissioning legacy intranet and moving to IBM Connections, called USDA Connect for USDA, while bringing a $7.5 million return on investment from 2013-2016. Supported migration of NRCS SharePoint sites from SP2007 to SP2010 and continue to lead this project from a business perspective Current/new project is an Enterprise Content Management (ECM) project, which in the initial phase will include a suite of IBM software (web content management, file net, navigator), and Media Beacon for all web related needs.