Staci Ray-Turner

About Staci Ray-Turner

Staci Ray-Turner has 20 years of IT Program Management total experience, to include financial business management (portfolio management averaging at $120M with DHA and over $700M for DISA MHS portfolio), risk management, schedule management, contract management (knowledge base on various contract types across multiple contract vehicles), proposal development/management (at the corporate level), system management and quality assurance management with ensuring exceptional results on every program. Her rich experience as a Program Manager includes a keen knowledge in various areas within the IT arena to include software development (both traditional and agile-based), network related implementations, modernizations (cloud computing and virtualization) and sustainment over large scale systems. She has successfully managed critical/complex programs as the direct interface to executive leadership for multiple government agencies, and has received awards/commendation letters for successful completion of each program effort. Other areas of expertise include an exceptional ability to develop and implement standardized processes for organizations, strategy management, and policy development at the executive level (i.e. MOU/MOAs) for process improvement.

Experience

1. Dod Client Executive

   AT&T

   Jun 2015 — Present

   Manages direct/matrix reports to ensure projects/programs are completed on time and on budget (manages contracts, engineering, financial/pricing, product and legal teams).• Manages the Portfolio budget/P&L for various Department of Defense verticals (Defense Health Agency-DHA, Defense Media Activity-DMA, Defense Threat Reduction Agency-DTRA, Defense Security Cooperation Agency-DSCA amongst other DoD entities) to ensure budget held a healthy/solid posture. • Interfaces with executive level clients on a routine basis to ensure all expectations are being met.• Works to broaden AT & T’s capabilities (i.e. Biometric Shirts- IoT) and marketed these capabilities to build business with the Defense Health Agency and other DoD entities.• Strategic planning, work in conjunction with executive leadership in setting division strategy and tactical plans with expected revenue of over $80M. • Oversees performance and directly interfaces with government/customer to ensure monthly performance reviews and associated deliverables meet needs of the customer. • Manages division program portfolio and PMO strategy including processes used, risk management, resource management (both direct and matrix-based teams), communication methodologies and high-level project timelines for management tracking.• Enforces project scope limitations to the project team level to ensure projects remain on schedule. • Holds excellent verbal and written communication skills, effective and diplomatic mediation, problem solving, good judgment in decision making, good time management, organization, effective partnerships with non co-located teams.

Education

• University of Pittsburgh

  Bachelor’s Degree, Behavioral Science

  1992 — 1996

• University of Phoenix

  Master's Degree, MBA

  2006 — 2008

Skills

• Dod
• Quality Assurance
• Information Assurance
• Program Management
• IT Management
• Business Process
• Integration
• Testing
• Requirements Analysis
• Systems Engineering
• Government
• Sdlc
• U.s. Department of Defense
• Security Clearance
• Enterprise Architecture
• Pmo
• Leadership
• Project Management
• Strategy Implementation
• Military
• Proposal Writing
• Strategy Execution
• Process Improvement
• Configuration Management