Bruce Dano

Experience

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  USS Wasp LHD-1

  Jan 1998 - Jan 2002

  Leading Chief Petty Officer / Leading Petty Officer

  Responsible for the training of 1 Chief Petty Officer and 32 Technicians to maintain and operate two Close in weapons Systems mounts, two NATO Seasparrow Surface Missile System mounts, two Rolling Airframe Missile System Mounts, MK 23 Target Acquisition System Radar, and Advanced Combat Direction suite.

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  Surface Warfare Development Group

  Sept 2002 - Sept 2005

  SSDS Tactics Officer

  Updated Tactics Manuals for the US Navy Fleet.

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  USS George Washington

  Sept 2005 - Dec 2008

  Leading Chief Petty Officer

  Combat Systems Weapons Division Officer for 10 months and Leading Chief Petty Officer for 2 ½ years. Responsible for the training of 4 Chief Petty Officers and 38 Technicians to maintain and operate two Close in weapons Systems mounts, two NATO Seasparrow Surface Missile System mounts, two Rolling Airframe Missile System Mounts, Ship's Self-defense System suite, and AN/SPQ-9B Radar System.

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  Training Support Center Hampton Roads

  Jan 2008 - Apr 2010

  Chief Petty Officer Senior Project Analyst

  Coordinated and Scheduled Projects for Classroom training.

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  US Navy

  Apr 2010 - Feb 2013

  Project Manager

  Broad project management experience, from identify sources of information and developing plans to overcome technical, cultural and administrative barriers, planning for requirements gathering and executing projects, budgeting, scheduling, testing, implementing, and briefing. Experiences focused on leading multiple employees augmented by contractor staff groups of a project team for the implementation, IT Systems Integration, preparing Technical Proposals, Statements of Work, Determining Facility Requirements, Network Architecture Design as well as state-of-the-art IT resources. Develop, implement and manage the MS project plans minimal impact on mission requirements. Developed the implementation plan of the release of hardware, software, and associated documentation for technology refresh projects. Assist in the development of policy, planning and procedures for enterprise configuration management to include lice cycle management. Working knowledge of information technology concepts, principles, and methods including requirements analysis, and systems life cycle development and configuration management, sufficient to plan and carry out organizations end goals. Excellent communication and presentation skills keeping all stakeholders apprised of progress and challenges. Equally capable of handling large, complex projects, as well as multitasking across a number of smaller ones, adapting management style to fit the situation. Oversees all contracted work performance is in accordance with the statement of work. Show less

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  US Army

  Feb 2013 - Mar 2021

  Serves as IT Project Manager for the Regional Network Enterprise Center (RNEC). Assures the overall management, coordination and preparation for execution of assigned projects. As the IT project manager, implements corporate decisions, guidance, laws, regulations and policies in the development of the project and intermediate products. Ensures that all NEC C4IM functions (i.e., planning, design, development, deployment, maintenance, etc.) are incorporated to cover sponsor/customer needs and other agencies' commitments in support of assigned IT projects into a comprehensive management plan. This plan integrates schedules, milestones, responsibilities of the participating team members. Performs liaison and coordination of IT projects with the RNEC Director, RNEC Deputy Director, Division/Branch Chiefs, project team members and other stakeholders on the Installation to negotiate services and agreements, obtain and coordinate resources, obtain support and approvals, and ensure the projects' goals are achieved. Maintains professional knowledge and skills in IT project management. Show less

  • Regional Configuration Manager

    Jun 2018 - Mar 2021

  • Project Manager

    Feb 2013 - Jun 2018
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  21st Signal Brigade

  Mar 2021 - now

  Change Manager

  Senior Information Technology (IT) Specialist, as the Brigade’s Change Manager with the S3 Directorate, DoDIN-A Support Division. Applies a broad knowledge of technical skills in project management with the ability yo plan, review and coordinate approval on Requests for Changes (RFC) in support and implementation of IT initiatives for the 7th Signal Command (Theater), Army Commands (ACOM), Army Service Component Commands (ASCC), subordinate Regional Network Enterprise Centers (RNEC) and Local Network Enterprise Centers (LNEC). Coordinates with subject matter experts, as needed, to resolve complex technical or administrative issues. Provides Change Management duties as it relates to the following functions: strategic, design, transition, operations and continual service improvement of existing or new fielding implementation of network initiatives. Show less