Mary Anne Wassenberg 6682 Colonnades Drive Warrenton, VA 20187 (703) 819-1317 mary.anne@wassenberg.com

Keywords: Entrepreneurial Coaching Business Development  Project Management  Systems Engineering

• Facilitate entrepreneurial empowerment solutions for individuals and organizations, capitalizing and expanding clients' core competencies to seize business opportunities and increase affluence.
  

• Enhance client personal growth, life balance, and leadership opportunities through mentoring, introspective exercises, real-world examples, structured courses, techniques, and challenges.
  

• Coordinated web site and database development for small businesses and organizations including Pearmund Cellars Winery, the Snow Hill Homeowners Association, and Get The Edge Toastmasters.
  

• As Product Manager for electronic Inventory Management Order (eIMO) and Alternate Product Manager for i-GIVELIFE, lead multi-location, collaborative efforts to specify requirements, design architectures, build databases, develop software, integration test systems, market benefits, and support web-based, data-driven blood-ordering and sponsored-recruitment systems for American Red Cross customers.
• Analyzed National Blood Computer System and related products for compliance with 21 CFR Part 11  (electronic-signature security and mission-critical quality assurance) regulations.

• Supported civilian, defense, and commercial business development efforts via technically-advanced oral and written communication, achieving 52% win rate.
• Transitioned viable, innovative proposals into top-quality, rapid-start programs that utilized business process reengineering, contingency planning, critical infrastructure protection, enterprise continuity, asset management, independent verification and validation, and other techniques to provide maximum return on customer investment.
• Performed program management, team selection, and FEA (functional economic analysis) functions for Year 2000 assessment and validation teams that averaged 50% margins for civilian, defense, and commercial markets.
• Led requirements analysis and design tasks for GETS (Government Emergency Telecommunications Service), DIMSS (Defense Switched Network Integrated Management Support System), and other complex systems.
• Acted as Product Development Manager for MedTAS, a medical outcomes analysis and prediction tool that capitalized on peacetime use of military intelligence techniques for analyzing complex data streams.
• Led research into privacy/security, network management, data mining, telemedicine, dynamic domain modeling, and emerging technologies in collaboration with the Koop Foundation, US Navy, FAA, Oracle, and other groups.
• Improved the division's ISO9001-registered task management, technical marketing, project staffing, systems engineering, OOA (object-oriented analysis), OOD (object-oriented design), and Internet/intranet processes.

• Designed and tested worldwide, networked permission subsystems for the JWIS (Joint WWMCCS Information System)/JOPES (Joint Operations Planning and Execution System) software engineering group. Previously, evaluated screens and system requirements to produce the system architecture.
• Produced a distributed architecture definition and three-tiered prototype for the RCAS (Reserve Component Automation System) database team and developed an Advanced Software Methods Handbook that described computer-aided software and systems engineering techniques available to project managers.
• Led the real-time analysis of multiple secure communication interfaces and designed protocol-oriented subsystems for the IIR (Interim IEMATS Replacement) systems engineering group.
• Performed enterprise modeling/requirements analysis and integrated information engineering/computer aided software engineering (CASE) tools for the AFC2S (Air Force Command and Control System) core team.

• Investigated new technologies to improve the technical excellence of communications products and services.
• Developed rapid prototyping, software design, and reusability techniques to reduce time to market.
• Scripted switching software functionality for use in defense and commercial environments.
• Specified data-level and applications-level protocols for the first integrated voice/data (burst) switch.
• Designed and implemented software for distributed-control, integrated networks.
• Performed message-level testing and integration of complex embedded system software.
• In 1999, assisted in burst switch induction ceremonies at the Smithsonian Institution.

• Performed traffic analysis and simulation modeling for the GTD-5 EAX, GTD-3 EAX, and No. 2 EAX.
• Measured CPU (real-time) utilization of software functions to identify improvement opportunities.
• Developed post-processing programs to analyze and enhance telecommunication system efficiency.
• Formulated capacity models to determine the sizing, location, and connectivity of switches.

Programming Languages: Ada, Assembler (8086 and M68000), "C", HTML, Javascript, JCL, Pascal, PL/1, SCL, and SLAM.

Methodologies: BPR, FEA, IDEF, OMT (Object Modeling Technique), OOA, OOD, ROOM (Real-time Object-Oriented Modeling,  RUP (Rational Unified Process), and other techniques.

Tools: CASE tools including Meta Software Design/IDEF and Rational Analyst Studio; UNIX tools including YACC, LEX, and M4; SQL tools for Oracle, Microsoft Access, and other databases; office automation tools including Clarify Front Office, Microsoft Project, PowerPoint, Excel, Visio, and Word; simulator/emulator tools including Teledyne Brown and EZ-PRO; web development tools such as Atomz, Linkbot, Net Mechanic, W3e2000, and Website Garage.

Bachelor of Science, Mathematics/Psychology, University of Notre Dame, 1979

Awards: GTE Excellence Awards for IY2KCC, CIOSP, ISO, OSCAR, GETS, AFC2S, and JWIS

Societies: IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Communications Society, Women In Technology (Mentoring Committee, Web Development Chair), Toastmasters International (Area Governor)

Languages: English, French, learning German and Hungarian

Clearance: Secret, Inactive Since March 2000