Army Materiel Command Experience Essay

When the Army Materiel Command (AMC) employed me, I served in a variety of roles one of which was the senior technical advisor for architecture and technology (ostensibly the CTO for the CIO). AMC, a 53 Billion dollar year logistics command that serves as the army version of amazon for the army’s current inventory of weapons, supplies and vehicles. I extensive experience in implementing IT and telecommunications technology including hardware, software, and systems design as well as a thorough and up-to-date knowledge of the IT industry and emerging technologies. This experience was gained through the direct the planning, developing and implementing of systems and allowed me as to gauge the capabilities and reasonableness of proposed solutions

Army Communications-Electronics Command (CECOM) and the Software Engineering Center. I served as the Program Manager for these elements and oversaw the planning, design, development, and implementation of an AMC wide enterprise architecture that addresses mission-critical objectives. I was successful in ensuring compliance with Federal Enterprise Architecture (EA), DOD and Army architecture principles and guidance. Successfully assessed the current technologies/architectures in use and develop strategies and implementation plans on transitioning the systems to meet the EA targets. I played a major enforcement role in ensuring sub components in the transition from the “As Is” to the “To Be” architecture. I developed documentation standards and produced an enterprise-wide set of policies and principles for integration of the AMC business, mission, application, information, and technology architectures. I also developed written enterprise architecture policies and procedures for acquisition, development and implementation of new systems and modification of existing systems in support of the commands enterprise