Jim Fogarty

Experience

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  United States Marine Corps

  Jan 1973 - Jan 1994

  Senior Technical Analyst

  Senior Analyst; Technical Occupation Field (OccFld) Specialist; Chief, Marine Corps Liaison Office at a National Agency; Provided Concept of Operations, technical requirements, and training needs for USMC participation in the U.S. Regional Operation Centers, Radio Battalions, and Marine Support Battalion: Jim was responsible for improving mission based opportunities and realignment of Occupation Field resources needed to meet operational support efforts.

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  BTG plc

  Apr 1997 - Apr 2000

  Project Manager / Senior Systems Engineer

  Project Manager, Senior Systems Engineer, Field Support Engineer, Network Administrator, and Certified Instructor responsible for the delivery, formal acceptance testing, and training of a complex tactical ground networking system. Supervised and performed the safe installation, operation, sustainment, and training of networking technologies in very diverse field settings. Successfully negotiated with the customer complex SOW, upgrades, and program changes on new requirements. Responsible for the definition, design and formal acceptance testing and training of a complex Ground COMINT networking system. Authored Core training materials, technical manuals and was lead instructor and author of two week customer training that was part of Acceptance of new COMINT system. Provided guidance and work leadership to less-experienced engineers. Show less

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  Raytheon

  Apr 2000 - Jul 2005

  Principal Systems Engineer

  Principal Systems Engineer, SME on technical services and Mission Dominance platforms; responsible for the successful Project Management and Engineering focused activities to include:• Integration, Verification, and Validation Testing, installing, operation and sustainment of complex networking technologies• Providing requirement, opportunity, development, integration, and risk gate reviews• Directing "agile" baseline changes for new functions and capabilities• Developing engineering documentation on new systems. Show less

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  Drc

  Jul 2005 - Apr 2006

  Program Operations and Sustainment Manager

  Program Manager with strong change and incident management skills that improved system performance and program to customer collaboration: Jim conceived and setup the Configuration Control Board (CCB), performing as the CCB Chairman, he successfully integrated, ensured testing, and configuration control of new applications and changes for System Operations and Sustainment. Focused manager with strong management and system engineering skills that provided value focused performance, change management, , meaningful tearing of incidents and problems that met risk management considerations of mission focused information technologies in high threat supporting missions in diverse environments. Show less

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  Booz Allen Hamilton

  Apr 2006 - Sept 2008

  Project Management Professional, Principal Systems Engineer

  Project Manager, Senior Principal Systems Engineer, Core Services Manager for Problems, Releases, Performance, Requirements, Risks and Opportunities; Jim developed, implemented, and chaired an Agency level Problem Management Working Group and was a Key Stakeholder on an agency performance management working group; Responsible for root cause analysis, identification, and resolution of major and reoccurring system incidents / problems for a multi-billion-dollar IT program. Jim’s projects were awarded for innovation and excellence in mission and program support that was based on best practices, standards, research, and reporting services using IC software, applications and tools. Jim developed a management role using best practices and personal experience leveraging a team of 32 highly educated and certified professionals; He achieved critical operations service performance that surpassed requirements. Show less

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  Absolute Consulting Solutions, LLC

  Jul 2008 - Nov 2019

  President and Senior Principal Managed Services Consultant

  Absolute Consulting Solutions (ACS) is a Management Services company located in Alexandria, VA. We use multidisciplinary approaches to focus on growing the business by maturing overlapping management and business services needed to grow services and systems, improve quality, and control costs. We provide Project Management Professionals (PMP) with extensive Senior Principal Managed Services / Systems Engineering experience. We are experienced Business Development and IT Managed Services Consultants of New, Innovative and Changing Services. Our experts, under my leadership experience:- Align existing goals and plans with performance to improve profitability- Use capabilities and improve on shortfalls to meet schedule and performance- Improve business processes to cause dependable quality and improve customer satisfaction of systems and services- Provide “Success Driven & Experienced Professionals“ for the quickest path to value and improved results- Integrate, Verify and Validate responsive, agile, and dependable services, systems, and environments- Facilitate and Support a network-centric information-sharing environment for access ready collaboration- Support program and technical reviews and audits to lower risks and deliver a cost effective business environment- Lead the way so others may follow in delivering strategic vision, value innovation, quality products and services, and tactical mission repeatabilityJim is an execution expert with versatile experiences in managing product and engineering services over many Information Systems and supported business areas. He strategically leads disruptions to business services, offering innovative solutions that span: Requirement / New Business Assessments and Definition, Functional Service Design and Development, Functional and Capability Integration, Testing (Verification and Validation), and Operations and Sustainment. Show less

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  Gartner

  Sept 2008 - Oct 2009

  Director

  Director Core Consulting and Bench-marking for government, Intelligence Community, DoD and Industry Partners: Jim provided executive and technical stakeholder consulting services for a Joint Senior Executive Forum that led to new Consulting Services, Customer Surveys, Bench-marking, audits, white papers, and interviews. Jim expertly leveraged client subject matter expertise to improve customer satisfaction and system/service performance. Jim developed an IT Service Management Model Concept of Operations (CONOPS) for several enterprise architectures. Show less

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  United States Marine Corps

  Dec 2019 - now

  US Marine, Retired