Terrell (Terry) Chandler Resume:

EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATES

• Program Management Professional, Program Management Institute, 2009 – 2023
• Certified SAFe 5 Agilist, 2021
• Certified Agile Scrum Master, 2013-2022
• Post Doctorate, Georgia Institute of Technology, College of Computing 1991 - 1994
• Ph. D. (Curriculum and Instruction), University of Oregon 1990
• M.S. (Computer and Information Science), University of Oregon 1990
• M.S. (Computer Science Education), University of Oregon 1986
• B.A. (Biology, Philosophy), Denison University 1978

VOLUNTEER

• Wildlife Rescue League - transporter
• World Wildlife Fund Panda Ambassador – plastics reduction project
• Denison Homestead Alumni Volunteer – building sustainable communities.

CONTINUING EDUCATION

• Environmental Systems Research Institute Vector Focused Geographic Information Systems (ESRI ArcGIS) online courses:

• GIS for Climate Action: In Progress, completion scheduled December 2023
• Spatial Data Science: The New Frontier in Analytics, Certificate 2023 o GIS Basics, Certificate 2023
• Getting Started with Arc GIS, completed 2014.

• George Mason University

• Estuarine Coastal Ecology Spring 2013
• Waterscape Ecology and Management Fall 2013

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

ECS, Independent Contractor, January 2022, through May 2023.

• Subject Matter Expert Financial Management Business Transformation (FMBT) for VA Office of Information Technology (OIT) Compliance Risk Remediation (CRR) FMBT Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) Program.

ERPi, Director, November 2016 to December 2021

• Subject Matter Expert FMBT for VHA Procurement and Logistics Office (PL&O) Clinically Enabling Requirements Management (CERM).

• Program Manager for Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Financial Management Business Transformation (FMBT) Executive Team and VHA Office of Finance Program Management Office (PMO).

• Program and Contract Management: Managed the finance of two task orders totaling $10,867,884 over 4 years. Oversaw 17 personnel that included five subcontracts.
• PMO: Led the Program Management Office (PMO) for Veterans Health Administrations’ Office of Finance in support of the Deputy Chief Financial Officer (DCFO) and three Associate Chief Financial Officers (ACFO). Oversaw daily operations for planning, process improvements, standard operating procedures (SOP), change management, and training in support of policy, budget, and financial oversight including: VHA audit, Payment Integrity Information Act (PIIA), Statement of Assurance, high risk list for resources, financial monitoring, and data analytics.
• FMBT: Led the 18-member Government and Contractor VHA Executive Team who supported the Deputy Chief Financial Officer in VHA’s adoption of the new integrated Financial and Acquisition Management System. Terry was the primary interface with VA FMBT Team coordinating daily activities between VA and VHA. Managed the task area leads for VHA’s policy, business process reengineering, data management, organizational change management, communications, training, accounting classification structure (ACS), risk management and testing.

SRA, Senior Principal, June 2005 to November 2016

• Senior Member System Integration Team for Defense Threat Reduction Agency’s (DTRA) Constellation Program. Established Analysis of Alternatives (AOA) board, Created V1.0 of the enterprise architecture, configured IBM Rational Rose configuration management system, established testing plan, environment and conducted initial testing of system; created, and conducted initial demonstration of system.

• Deputy Program Manager for Veterans Affairs, Veteran Relationship Management (VRM) Military Services Data Sharing. Ran the daily operations for a critical middleware service the Military Service Data Sharing (MSDS) Veteran Information Eligibility Reporting System (VIERS). Brought in to turn a troubled project team into a high performing project team.

• Program Manager for Veterans Administration Labor Management Relations Training. Managed the $7.4 million dollar program for three years with ten full time staff and three subcontractors. The team developed six concurrent blended learning tasks, four joint labor management tasks, and nine Web-based training courses delivering these to 160 VA Facilities across the United States; contributed to the team receiving perfect scores on all VA LMR customer satisfaction surveys.

• Deputy Program Manager for VA Career Employee Development Directorate. Managed the daily operations of three subcontractors for nine training videos and two web-based training projects in 9 months; recipient of a Marcom Gold award for best use of video for learning and two Telly awards for best online training.

• Technical Director for Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA). Oversaw the daily operations of a $15 million dollar program over 4 years; ran multiple IT projects concurrently that included administration of ten Web servers spanning four classified and unclassified local and remote networks; was the primary point of contact for all clients at the SES and GS 15 levels and the individual responsible for all aspects of the DTRA program; oversaw the daily operations of 24 people in four locations across four major tasks.

• Project Manager for Children’s National Medical Center. Oversaw daily financial, staffing and performance for R&D 2nd Life project to explore the utility of advanced simulation education technologies in a Pediatric Clinical Setting.

• Led SRA’s Technical Operation’s Modeling and Simulation Community of Practice.

Galaxy Scientific Corporation, Technical Director, 1994 to 2005

• Technical Director for Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) Program. See above.
• Director Galaxy Internal Research and Development. Knowledge management center for field inspectors and application development tools.
• Project Manager and Technical Lead Department of Justice Immigration and Naturalization Service: Voice recognition and intelligent scenario-based job specific Spanish training.
• Project Manager and Technical Lead Naval Air Systems Command: H60 maintenance simulation trainers.
• Project Manager and Technical Lead Federal Aviation Administration Human Factors Aviation Maintenance and Inspection (HFAMI) Program: Internet-based Distance Education, R&D Website, Multimedia Scenario-based Instruction and performance support.
• Project Manager and Technical Analysis USMC Distance Learning Center.
• Project Manager and Technical Analysis DOD Advanced Distributed Learning Co-Lab: ADL SCORM Prototypes.