Mike Riha

About Mike Riha

Dynamic leader, over 30 years of experience facilitating people, programs, projects, and tools for industry, military, Federal Government, and university. Experience includes many professional services areas, computing facilities, networks, and software development. Piloted numerous project start-ups building stakeholder trust in new technologies, process, and procedures: Engaged collateral partners and facilitated relationships with clients through leadership and experiential education and training. Understands Federal Government and Military processes, procedures, objectives, timelines, standards, Federal Acquisition Regulation, North American Industry Classification System, and eGovernment tools.Specialities: Transformational leadership, facilitating, building long-term relationships, negotiating, strategic thought, contracting, programming languages, operating systems, social networking, systems engineering, software development

Experience

1. Senior Program Manager, Major Capability Acquisition

   Compass, Inc.

   Jun 2019 — Present · Alexandria, VA, US

   Provided acquisition strategies and program management services to senior management of over $1B major capability acquisition programs. Worked across customer directorates to coordinate development of new and enhanced capabilities. Supplied program management guidance in service-centric frameworks and models, agile engineering processes, and industry best practices.• Catalyzed change, broke through roadblocks for several prior stalled efforts with processes, negotiated priorities, and connected 15 counterpart organizations to construct new approaches• Led 8-member subcontractor team; onboarded, kudos from prime on monthly activity reports• Oversaw integrated product team (IPT), 12 working IPTs, coached team start-ups and headings• Guided many statements of capabilities and required performance metrics discussions, vectored teams on intelligence, warfighter, and emergent needs to inform decision-makers• Reviewed, compared, and contrasted 21 new and updated Department of Defense (DoD) with 5 Intelligence Community (IC) 800 and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) acquisition series instructions, directives, and standards to inform team with options and considerations for adaptive acquisition framework • Assessed program progress derived phase A activities from acquisition decision memorandum and approved program docs and architected day in life of requirement for performance status• Saved hundreds of staff hours reorienting off-track activity and shared GAO best practices and lessons learned from other major capability acquisition programs to rectify efforts and progress

Education

• Strayer University

  Master of Business Administration - MBA

  2019 — 2020

• Iowa State University

  BS, Computer Science

  1980 — 1984

• Golden Gate University

  MS, Human Resource Management

  1985 — 1988

Skills

• Information Assurance
• Command
• Analysis
• Maneuver Federal Acquisition
• Security Clearance
• Knowledge Management
• Army
• Cloud Computing
• Proposal Writing
• Networking
• Program Management
• IT Strategy
• Pattern Recognition
• Security
• Shaping Opportunities
• Negotiation
• Operating Systems
• Social Networking
• Business Process Improvement
• Government
• Computer Security
• Programming Languages
• Transformational Leadership
• Defense
• Dod