Sherida Whindleton

  

Biography:

Security Clearance: Top Secret Clearance

Work Experience: 8.1 years

Work Experience:

  • Project Manager with 13+ years of proven experience overseeing development, testing, vendor management, and budget execution.
  • Respected leader with excellent communications and interpersonal skills and experience building teams and relationships across multiple disciplines
  • Earned Master of Science degree in Procurement and Acquisitions Management

Military Service:

  • Rank: Lieutenant Colonel

    Branch/Position: Army

    Period: December 2000 - present

    Occupation: 51Z - Acquisition - 51Z

    Security Clearance: Top Secret Clearance

    Duties Description:
    Broad acquisition knowledge and experience; identifies positions which deal with general acquisition and do not fulfill experience requirements for a specific acquisition career field; must have a thorough knowledge of the Concepts Based Requirements System, the Life Cycle Systems Management Model, the Planning, Programming, Budgeting and Execution System and their use in program management and contract management.

Work history:

  • Job Title: Deputy Director

    Company: Army Small Business Innovation Research

    Period: July 2022 - present

    Role Description:
    • Manage a $300M annual budget focused on integrating small business technologies to fulfill Army capability gaps
    • Manage topic development solicitation and source selection processes
    • Respond to governmental, public, and congressional inquiries, legal issues and protests
    • Lead marketing efforts to educate the small business community and private sector on Army small business technology endeavors

  • Job Title: Product Manager

    Company: Program Executive Office for Command, Control and Communications-Tactical

    Period: July 2019 - July 2022

    Role Description:
    • Led the waveform development and modernization for Department of Defense (or Led the development of current and future force common waveform software for the Department of Defense)
    • Supported integration of waveforms onto platforms across the Department of Defense
    • Managed and executed a budget over $29M
    • Led a workforce of over 35 military, Government civilian, and contractor professionals
    • Led the modernization effort to replace over 419,000 legacy Single Channel Ground and Airborne Radio Systems; increased overall annual budget by $100M to support modernization effort and awarded the contract ($6.1B) 13 months ahead of schedule - recognized as best practice for future contract actions

  • Job Title: Deputy Chief

    Company: Assistant Secretary of the Army Acquisition, Logistics and Technology

    Period: May 2018 - June 2019

    Role Description:
    • Synchronized the materiel fielding solutions for the Afghanistan theater of operations
    • Informed senior leadership of the 4-star headquaters on all Army acquisition requirements
    • Coordinated source solutions across all four regional commands, the theater operational NATO coalition command and Central Command
    • Assisted in the prioritization of operational needs across the theater
    • Identified five critical weapons systems scheduled for retrograde out of Iraq and leveraged those systems to fulfill an operational need in Afghanistan; reduced fielding by nine months and saved of $80M

  • Job Title: Army Test and Evaluation Command System Team Chair

    Company: Army Test and Evaluation Command

    Period: June 2016 - April 2018

    Role Description:
    • Served as the integrated base defense team lead and senior acquisition advisor
    • Managed test and evaluation portfolio of five program of record Army defense systems with a budget in excess of $13M
    • Integrated and synchronized the development, coordination, and execution of test and evaluation strategies, approaches, schedules, and resource requirements across organizations
    • Coordinated all test and evaluation planning for the portfolio
    • Led a team of 10 military

  • Job Title: Assistant Product Manager

    Company: Project Manager Department of Defense Biometrics

    Period: May 2014 - June 2016

    Role Description:
    • Managed the sustainment and development of the Department of Defense authoritative multimodal biometric repository with a budget of over $28M annually
    • Led a multidisciplinary team of over 50 government and contractor professionals
    • Led the planning, preparation, and successful execution of the operation testing and full deployment decision efforts to field the latest increment of the repository
    • Led the development and successful implementation of the new risk management framework; served as the pilot program for the 2-star organization
    • Led the timely award of an exigent bridge contract award; resulted in no lapse of service

Education:

  • Webster University

    Master's Degree – Procurement and Acquisitions Management

    Period: Invalid date

  • Troy University

    Master's Degree – International Relations/Global Studies

    Period: Invalid date

  • Old Dominion University

    Bachelor's Degree – Information Systems

    Period: Invalid date

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