Colin Winchester

About Colin Winchester

Program Operations & Process Transformation: End-to-end program support, schedule management and deliverable coordination, process harmonization, KPI development and monitoring, risk-based decision-making, and scaling operational frameworks across distributed program portfolios. — Change Management & Adoption: Leading organizational process change initiatives, translating compliance and quality requirements into practical workflows, and driving sustained adoption across cross-functional teams. — Agile & Tool Administration: Agile delivery (Scrum/Kanban/SAFe), advanced proficiency in Jira and Confluence for program management and compliance integration, and GitHub for workflow configuration. — Data & Reporting: Requirements definition for automated reporting solutions, Power Platform dashboard development for executive visibility, statistical process control, root cause analysis, and defect removal efficiency analysis using Excel, Access, and Microsoft Power Platform. — Quality Systems & Governance: ISO internal auditing, software quality surveillance, nonconformance identification and CAPA tracking, SDLC quality gate reviews, objective evidence sampling, peer review compliance assessment, and program quality risk reporting. — Leadership: Direct management and mentoring of process engineering professionals, workload prioritization, performance feedback, and capability development.

Experience

1. Senior Associate, Quality Engineering

   KPMG US

   Aug 2021 — Present · Tysons Corner, VA, US

   Serve as quality systems lead for systems and software engineering QMS across 35+ federal technology advisory projects, providing quality oversight and ensuring adoption of ISO 9001, ISO ISO 27001, CMMI ML4, and NIST SSDF-aligned controls.– Conduct software quality surveillance across the SDLC, reviewing objective evidence at quality control gates including peer review compliance, defect logs, and release artifacts; apply statistical process control to validate defect removal efficiency and release metrics across lifecycle phases.– Identify, track, and verify closure of nonconformances and corrective actions from PPQA audits and compliance gaps; lead root cause analysis and causal analysis processes with quantitative measures of corrective action effectiveness.– Develop and deliver program quality risk assessments for leadership, evaluating compliance across project management, risk management, and quality management disciplines; lead Power Platform reporting initiative to automate quality metrics and improve executive visibility.– Own EPG program operations as deputy chair, including schedule management, deliverable coordination, and capability development for process engineering professionals across a distributed portfolio.

Education

• Adams State University

  Master of Science - MS, Kinesiology, Coaching

• George Mason University

  Bachelor's degree, Economics

  2011 — 2015

• MITx Courses

  MicroMasters® Program in Statistics and Data Science, Statistics and Data Science

Skills

• Sales
• Business Development
• Market Research
• Market Analysis
• Customer Relations
• Customer Service
• Telecommunications
• Territory Development
• Marketing Communications
• Financial Analysis
• Investments
• Data Analysis
• Data Modeling
• Sports
• Long Distance Running
• Microsoft Office
• Microsoft Word
• Powerpoint
• Microsoft Excel
• Time Management
• Training
• Public Speaking
• Leadership
• Configuration Management
• IT Infrastructure Management
• Gap Analysis
• Project Management
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Requirements Gathering
• Requirements Analysis
• Nist 800-53
• Capability Maturity Model Integration (Cmmi)
• Software Project Management
• Quality Assurance Review
• Quality Assurance Processes
• Quality Assurance
• Quality Control