NICHOLAS BATSON

NICHOLASFURYBATSON@GMAIL.COM

WORK EXPERIENCE

PROGRAM ENGINEER – NCCT PMO | 2019 – PRESENT

CALVERT SYSTEMS ENGINEERING

+ Operate in the Customer Program Management Office (PMO) for a Government program of record

+ Responsible for cost estimates and analysis, creating program roadmaps, defining and managing program visions, monitoring, and driving progress

+ Leading program DevSecOps and Agile process and procedure guidance and monitoring

+ Lead program in developing a CI/CD pipeline with government approved Continuous Authority to Operate

+ Responsible for the research and acquisition of existing and evolving technologies for architecture design and development

+ Evaluate contractor proposals and Statement of Works (SOW) execution for technical adequacy, level of effort projections, schedule, material requirements, and Period of Performance

+ Streamline technical exchanges of vendor proposals and approves site specific contractual requirements including authorizations to access, authority to proceed, and funding requests

+ Prepare and demonstrate technical presentations

+ Provide direct operational feedback into vendor development life cycle as well as sustained operator touch points for vendor connection to field feedback

+ Support security monitoring of program processes and updates


PRODUCT MANAGER | 2016 - 2019

RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES

Product Manager | May 2019 – December 2019

Scrum Master | January 2018 – May 2019

Software Engineer | February 2016 – January 2018

+ Demonstrated features & capabilities to customers

+ Managed & coordinated large multidisciplinary teams in an agile environment

+ Created epics, features, user stories & worked with the development teams to provide value to our customers

+ Organized & planned software program increments & sprints

+ Designed, developed, & tested software & architecture


LEAD NETWORK ENGINEER | 2014 – 2016

RISE BROADBAND

+ Managed connectivity, hardware, and applications on a large-scale LAN/WAN network environment

+ Integrated network capabilities such as firewalls, routers, switches, wireless radios, and terminal servers

EDUCATION

MBA | GRADUATED WITH HONORS

SOUTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY

BS: COMPUTER SCIENCE |

SOUTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY

CERTIFICATIONS

SAFe 5 PRODUCT OWNER/PRODUCT MANAGER

SCRUM ALLIANCE SCRUM MASTER (CSM)

SKILLS

MANAGEMENT

+ Managing programs with performance monitoring tools and executing multiple responsibilities with the utilization of prioritization, delegation, & planning

+ Coordinating projects & interdependencies between multiple programs while managing schedules, costs, & other quality elements

+ Creating & managing program roadmaps & visions

+ Leading an agile environment utilizing DevSecOps

+ Demonstrate excellent business, organizational, written, & communication skills

+ Patient, self-driven, works efficiently independently & with others

+ Cross-cultural communication, stakeholder management, & vendor management

+ Strong process & change management

+ Strong negotiation, problem solving, & interpersonal skills

+ Strategic & Business Management skills utilizing product, marketing, human resource, & financial strategy

ENGINEERING

+ Full Stack software development

+ Software Development Life-cycle management

+ Administer & configuring NiFi, Jenkins, Central Authentication Services, & Lucene Databases

+ Managing software container deployments

+ Deploying, configuring, & integrating streaming framework clusters

+ Managing wide-scale wireless & wired networks

+ Creating & implementing automated tests