Mr. McCullough is a Senior Project/Program Manager and Security Infrastructure Subject Matter Expert with over 20 years of network experience and expertise supporting IT Infrastructure, Networking, and Telecommunication projects from Scope creation through Procurement and closing. He brings extensive project management expertise supporting Network Infrastructure and Network/IT Security environments and he has developed and implemented network service strategic plans for multiple business groups. He is well-versed in IT Security, ITIL, Network Infrastructure technical terminology and has experience with technologies including VoIP Platforms, switches and routers, firewalls, communication protocols, and load balancers. Experience in customer-facing roles, experience managing large-scale projects and initiatives from start to finish with proven success, experience working collaboratively on cross-functional, and highly collaborative teams. Sterling has an extensive background in IT Security, architecture, data, database technologies, data loss prevention, vendor risk management and development. While working on Government Emergency Preparedness, Sterling managed projects that would reroute voice and data traffic in areas that would help with the mitigation of hazards, including earthquake, flood, hurricane and tornados. Sterling managed in startup environments and delivered projects with and without an SDLC component. He has mentored staff members on his expertise, and he is skilled at communicating effectively with Business Units, Managers, Directors and VPs. Sterling is a proven leader with strong organizational skills who can work effectively in a team environment or as an individual contributor. He has worked as an Delivery Manager, Implementation Manager and Technical Manager in some previous IT and Engineering roles. Experience utilizing a variety of Agile Project Management techniques (e.g. Scrum, SaFE, Kanban) using tools like Jira, Confluence, Bonita etc. of PM skills: * Serve as the day-to-day internal and external point of contact for the project. * Provided the overall management of the project direction as related to functionality, schedule, budget, staffing and contracts. * Led a team responsible for managing IAM Projects and created several transition plans for managing current and future state teams * Managed the transition of stakeholder's requirement management, created RACI, and held Detailed Knowledge Transition sessions including Architecture Reviews, Servers, IAM software component walk throughs and IAM integrations and dependency risk sessions. * Lead Transition shadow support, lead support, finalized SLA/SLO/KPI and supported current and future state support for SOW closure. * Managed the efforts across teams between all Security requirements, focusing on IAM requirements with business teams, architecture teams, build teams to ensure timely project delivery. * Lead all tracks of Threat Intelligence, IAM project starting with analysis, design, development, testing, implementation, Planning, Daily meetings, Status Reviews and Status Reporting * Managed IAM team shift matrix, support resources shift management * Managed IAM system operational (Level 2) and Enhancement (Level 3) daily tasks * Manage Change Management, Enhancement Requests, and additional Level 4 (minor enhancement) requests * Responsible for Steady State support delivery, reporting * Should Work in collaboration with Senior Managements, Architect Team, QA team, IT Security and clients to effectively deliver solutions in-time with quality * Performed computer security Incident Response activities for a site, coordinates with virtual security team to record and report incidents. * Provided security expertise in FISMA, OMB, NIST and federal government requirements to support IT Security and Privacy compliance. * Provided the overall management of the project direction as related to functionality, master schedule, budget, staffing and contracts. * Responsible for managing all elements of the project in accordance with the Project Lifecycle. * Tracked and measured progress on project deliverables (technology development, change management, training and test management) * Responsibilities included: Project Management: Project evaluation, definition/goal setting, project planning and identifying/securing appropriate resources, delegating work and managing deliverables, analyzing complex information, developing and presenting recommendations to leadership, sharing information with appropriate intern al/external constituents, * Delivery of improved performance measurement capabilities * Develop and manage relationships with cross-functional stakeholders, Manage teams responsible for several process improvement projects and/or activities, Overall responsibility for ensuring project implementation and/or support within scope of responsibility, to include activities such as process flow definition, operational readiness support, process documentation, communication, and/or project management.

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• Oracle
• Procurement
• Voice
• Infrastructure
• Back Office
• Engineering
• Information Technology
• Microsoft
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