David Rupp

Experience

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  US Army

  Jun 1976 - Mar 1982

  U.S. Army Officer

  Unit Commander responsible for leadership, management, operations, training, and health and welfare for all unit personnel.

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  Sperry Corporation

  Mar 1982 - Mar 1985

  Senior Engineer

  Senior Engineer for DoD systems integration and systems engineering management programs

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  Unisys

  Mar 1985 - Jan 1999

  Program Manager for several key Public SafetyPrograms Principal Engineer for DoD systems integration, systems engineering, and construction management programs Senior Engineer for systems engineering, testing, and for construction and facilities management on DoD systems integration programs

  • Program Manager

    Jan 1994 - Jan 1999

  • Principal Engineer

    Jan 1990 - Jan 1994

  • Senior Engineer

    Mar 1985 - Jan 1990
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  TRW

  Jan 1999 - Sept 2000

  Program Manager

  TRW, Reston, VA 1999-2000 Program Manager, City of Baltimore, Maryland Radio and CAD System Project Managed $18.5M systems integration contract consisting of approximately 5 personnel and 6 subcontractors for successful implementation of a Public Safety Dispatch Center * Worked daily with the Baltimore Police, Fire, and Department of Public Works * Responsible for the Phase 2 primary Emergency Communications Center construction and system integration and implementation project effort* Built out the existing LAN and provided new technologies for the Dispatch Center* Provided new upgraded CAD system for Police, Fire, EMS, and Public Works* Improved customer relationship with Motorola the prime to an excellent reference* Supported the City and grew the contract through the addition of Y2K work* Simultaneously performed warranty and maintenance service work for the 9 Radio System Repeater Sites, the Alternate Communications Center, the installed LAN, Large Screen Displays, Logging Recorders, as well as the Fire Department CAD. Show less

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  Northrop Grumman/TRW

  Sept 2000 - Jan 2004

  Program Manager

  Northrop Grumman/TRW, Montgomery County, MD PS 2000 Project 2000 – 2004Managed $60M systems integration contract consisting of 25 personnel and 3 key subcontractors to successful implementation of a Public Safety Dispatch Center * Upon contract award was appointed Program Manager and built full organization* Led the program team through the design, development, integration, installation, implementation, test, transition, cutover and acceptance phases.* Provided consulting support for facility construction and new radio system installation.* Implemented, tested, and trained new systems which included CAD, MIS, GIS, AVL, and Mobile computers. Implemented small integrated teams to improve test time. * Developed requested Engineering Change Proposals and increased contract value. Show less

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  Northrop Grumman Corporation

  Jan 2004 - Aug 2013

  Program Manager, Navy Emergency Response Management System 2008 – 2013 Managed a $30M systems integration program; led the contract consisting of 20 personnel and a 7 subcontractor team to successful implementation, acceptance, and operation for two (2) major Navy Emergency Regional Dispatch Centers. Supported information assurance process and work. * Successfully supported the customer through challenging implementation and transition to the automation of dispatch operations* New technology introduced included Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD),Management Information System (MIS), Geographic Information System (GIS) , Automatic Vehicle Locator (AVL), and Mobile computers. * Transformed customer relationship from confrontational to an excellent reference* Grew the contract by an additional $10M for new work performed to improve customer operations and through maintenance support activities for 5 dispatch centers.* Supported large international proposal for a year during this period that was recently awarded Show less Program Manager/Deputy Program Manager, Navy LInX Program 2005 – 2008 Managed the NCIS Law Enforcement Information Exchange (LInX) Program; Responsible for leading 45 Northrop Grumman and subcontractor personnel on a daily basis to create an operational data warehouse for the collection and sharing of criminal and law enforcement information supplied by federal, state, and local agencies that are strategically located near key Naval assets and facilities. * Upon appointment re-organized and re-built the existing team into an effective organization. Introduced new processes and technology to increase efficiency and productivity to meet the increased volume demanded and short schedule * Fielded three (3) new regional systems and assumed control and responsibility for other competitor’s regional system to improve performance and gain consistency* Successfully grew contract through an added $4M contract and led proposal team effort to $47M Re-compete win in early 2007* Improved processes and successfully deployed two (2) additional regional systems* Grew size of law enforcement data shared, number of agencies participating, and increased the number of sworn officers with access to criminal data to further protect naval resources * Led the effort to create new task order work through the Navy and through new contracts with key law enforcement agencies. Show less

  • Senior Program Manager

    Aug 2008 - Aug 2013

  • Senior Program Manager

    Aug 2005 - Aug 2008

  • Program Manager

    Jan 2004 - Aug 2005
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  CSC

  Jan 2014 - Mar 2014

  Principal: Program Management

  Provided PMO support for Medicaid Enterprise Restructuring (MERP) Project - worked within PMO and project technical team, contracts, and QA to monitor, support, and report on contract deliverables. Redirected to newly awarded large federal government program to provide needed program management support.

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  CSRA Inc

  Mar 2014 - Mar 2018

  Performed early program management work for a new personnel management system program for implementation in the Cloud with data migration for a large government organization. Tasks included:• Working with the technical teams and obtaining subcontractor quotes• Working with CSRA procurement to order program software and services• Documenting meeting minutes and participating in program schedule reviews• Supporting CDRL review and updates• Coordinating SharePoint organization and folder development work• Tracking software delivery, reporting status, plus other assorted management tasks.Provided Transition support to 6 agency specific large proposals over six month period. Supported the stand-up of the FEMA National Emergency Call Center Project through screening hundreds of potential call taker candidates security Entry On Duty (EOD) forms and coordinating fingerprinting with CSRA Team and FEMA representatives. The primary goal was to obtain qualified personnel as soon as possible to be trained and then support FEMA in responding to families in need due to the impact of the 2017 hurricanes. Over 2.5 million calls for FEMA support have been taken by this Call Center Team. Nominated by management and completed the Winning Solutions for Solution Architects (SA) Course. The course included best practices instruction and team exercises for the purpose of assisting Solution Architects to develop focused solution development strategies, pursue design activities to achieve wins, and prepare a technical story that will best present the solution to meet customer complex problems. Attended Program Launch Methodology Orientation Training related to program transition technical implementation Show less PM for IT Operations and Maintenance contract with federal government agency. Primary responsibilities include leading and managing integrated project teams from project inception through design, implementation, test, transition to operations, and project closure using Project Server. * Managed approximately 18 different IT infrastructure projects during a 3 year period. Projects were implemented through a strict Change Control Board (CCB) process and rigid Rational Unified Process (RUP) using Project Server and ServiceNow.* The vCloud Project designed and implemented a high quality product that was tested and put to use immediately. Numerous internal customers added improvements at key points in the project to gain the maximum use of the vCloud tool. The project product and processes developed are reliable efficient tools used in the production of new virtual servers. * Three critical projects managed were the Mainframe OS Upgrade Project, the CICS Upgrade Project for Mainframe, and the Control-M Upgrade Project. These projects required managing project team resources across seven different business units, and through the different development, test, QA and Production environments. Testing and production implementation required precise orchestration and coordination of a large number of disparate users and testers representing approximately 40+ different business applications. The three projects were implemented with no user impact. Many written compliments were received from multiple customers across the organization.* The Digital Rights Management Project and system was designed, developed, built, and tested in the development and production environments within 2 months using the approved RUP process. Pilot project users were trained and outfitted with the application software for trial use. Results achieved provided insight to future planning and implementation for document protection. Show less

  • Principal: Program Management

    Jun 2017 - Mar 2018

  • Principal: Program Management

    Mar 2014 - Jun 2017