SMEI's Senior Program Manager brings more than 20 years of leadership and management experience in both the government and commercial business. She currently provides oversight for the development of federal budgeting systems, systems development, geographic information systems (GIS), consulting services, business solutions, corporate operations, task performance, client management and other key SMEI projects. As a corporate officer, she is responsible for corporate operations and human resources and she is one of the internal corporate directors. In her position overseeing all of program management, Barbara is responsible for the success of multiple concurrent tasks on multiple contract vehicles. She manages a technical staff of analysts and programmers that conduct full life cycle development activities for the SMEI?s client which include the U.S. Navy?s Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Air National Guard Readiness Center, US Army, as well as commercial customers. Her government experience also includes managing projects with the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Consumer Products Safety Commission (CPSC), the Department of Justice's System Technology Staff, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Executive Office for U.S, Trustees, the Telecommunications Services Staff, and Financial Management Services of the Department of Treasury. Activities included monitoring task progress and schedule adherence, quality assurance, preparing management reports, developing technical and cost proposals for time and material (T&M) tasks, staffing, marketing, and extensive client interaction. With experience as Group Manager for General Services Administration (GSA) Capital Zone Contract, she has had profit and loss and management responsibility for task order contracts for up to one million dollars in value, developed task proposals, negotiated with government contract officers, staffed and managed each task order, negotiated and made decisions on behalf of the corporation. Managed firm fixed price (FFP) and time and material (T&M) task orders, monthly contract reporting, financial tracking, managing staff resources, marketing and client interface. Contract tasks included mainframe and PC design specifications, software development, documentation, and training. She has managed the financial tracking and reporting for her contracts, development of budget forecasts, and development and implementation of financial models as well as providing continuing support for on going tasks. The financial models provided data for managing task blends. She developed contractual reports to improve financial reporting efficiency and effectiveness. She also has an extensive background in the commercial arena in the banking community where she managed consulting services for banking software and for mergers and acquisitions and she brings a strong financial background for the systems development and applications support for deposits, customer information, branch automation, item processing, telephone bill payer and automated clearing house systems; she participated in software evaluations and recommendations, prepared and controlled a budget of approximately $1,000,000, developed five year strategic plans and tactical staffing models, and participated in development and implementation of project management methodology and systems development life cycle. She was part of a core team that managed the sale of bank branches, working from the initial sales contacts through the transfer of account data.