Andrew Otwell Resume
Senior IT Leader/PM | PMP, CSM, ITIL, OCI AI
work@otwell.us
PROFILE
Proven IT Leader and Senior Project Manager with 25 years' experience implementing IT solutions. Performed small, medium, and large‐scale transformations for business and technical solutions in Traditional Waterfall, Agile/Scrum, and Hybrid environments. Led cross‐functional teams through planning, budgeting, design, development, and implementation of mission‐critical systems. Formerly held Active Top Secret Security clearance and DoD Level 3 FM Certification.
PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS
- Certified PMI PMP, delivering industry best‐practices and standards through systems modernization projects using Waterfall, Agile, or Hybrid.
- Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), applying Agile and Scrum methodologies to improve quality, velocity, collaboration, and consistent product delivery. Also studied XP and Kanban.
- Certified ITIL 4 Foundation, Axelos/PeopleCert, IT Service Management, Maximizing Value/Continuous Improvement
- Certified Lean Six Sigma Green Belt, DFAS PMCOE
- Three (3) Oracle professional certifications in Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), Vector Search (VS), and Data Science (DS), demonstrating advanced analytical and automation expertise using Python, RAG, LLMs, and other advanced AI features.
- Foundations certificates in Java Programming and Oracle APEX.
US PATENTS
8688507, 8170902, 7937319 (All for Financial Transaction Integrity Checks through early AI)
CLIENTELE
Defense Finance and Accounting Service (US Dept. of War/Defense), PNC Bank, SAIC, Grant Thornton, DEC/Compaq/HP, L3 Communications, American Management Systems, Oversight Systems, Cox Communications, IBM Internet Security Systems, Vigilinx
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
April 2026 through Present
Lead DevSecOps Developer for DFAS DNA - Cleveland, OH
Key Achievements & Responsibilities- Lead enterprise software modernization initiative for DFAS DNA system (COBOL to Java Spring Boot). Leveraging DevSecOps CI/CD lifecycle and tools such as GitLab, Jira, Confluence, and ServiceNow.
- Scrum Master (CSM) experience facilitating sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives. Proficient in Agile, Scrum, XP, and Kanban methodologies with strong backlog management (Epics, Features, User Stories, Tasks, Bugs, Defects). Also instructed programmer staff with Java and Spring Boot content.
- Also support application deployment, operations, and audit compliance initiatives such as U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) Federal Information System Controls Audit Manual (FISCAM) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Risk Management Framework (RMF). This also included SFIS compliance and supporting the DoD ADVANA centralized repository of Universe of Transaction (UoT) for financial statement reconciliations and ETL services.
- Hands‐on contribution in Java Spring Boot using Thymeleaf, HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, Oracle DB PL/SQL, and Perl.
January 2026 through April 2026
Senior Project Manager Consultant for Apidel Technologies - Strongsville, OH
Key Achievements & Responsibilities- Provide professional consulting services to PNC Bank with assistance merging the FirstBank Lending products into the PNC environment.
- Coordinate activity planning, sequencing, dependencies, and risks.
- Leveraged MS-365 tools, SharePoint, Confluence, and Jira.
- Also built extensive and sustainable reporting capabilities used for near real-time information and management reporting.
January 2010 through September 2025
IT Leadership, Senior Project Manager, and Finance Division Manager, DFAS ‐ Cleveland, OH
Key Achievements & Responsibilities- Extensive Project Management and Leadership experience with IT and Finance professionals across geographic regions, environments (onsite/remote), nationalities, skills/experience levels, and age groups with proven interpersonal communications skills using best practice methods, strategies, and styles to maximize value in products, services, and results.
- Led critical enterprise software modernization initiatives for 18 cumulative legacy DFAS systems. One COBOL financial system called DNA, was modernized to Java Spring Boot framework by managing teams of federal employees and contractors through DevSecOps CI/CD lifecycle leveraging GitLab, Jira, Confluence, and ServiceNow.
- Fluent utilization of Microsoft Project, SharePoint, Planner, OneNote, Visio, Atlassian Jira/Confluence for Agile program tracking, and Java + Oracle DB for enterprise software delivery.
- Scrum Master (CSM) experience facilitating sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives. Proficient in Agile, Scrum, XP, and Kanban methodologies with strong backlog management (Epics, Features, User Stories, Tasks, Bugs, Defects). Also instructed programmer staff with Java and Spring Boot content.
- Led Information Technology (IT) applications development, systems operational management, and audit compliance such as U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) Federal Information System Controls Audit Manual (FISCAM) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Risk Management Framework (RMF). This also included SFIS compliance and supporting the DoD ADVANA centralized repository of Universe of Transaction (UoT) for financial statement reconciliations and ETL services.
- Hands‐on contribution completing a full‐scale code migration of a 25,000‐line PHP 8.3.x application to Java Spring Boot 4.0.0 using Thymeleaf, HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, and MySQL database modernizing the platform and enhancing performance.
- Recruited, hired, and managed performance for hundreds of technical professionals across multiple disciplines and contract types.
- Championed business process improvement initiatives that reduced costs, increased automation, streamlined financial operations, and enhanced reporting accuracy and visibility.
Prior to 2010
Senior Software Architect & Developer, Primo Microsystems, LLC ‐ Atlanta, GA
Key Responsibilities & Achievements- Provided early applied sciences of coding rules‐based decision support system (precursor to full Artificial Intelligence) and SaaS (Web/DB hosting) into an enterprise architecture and software hosting/delivery endpoint across financial, healthcare, and telecommunications sectors.
- Built extensive extraction, translating, and loading (ETL) service pipelines for ingesting large volumes of data into a unified and later, normalized data structures.
- Cox Communications (2009‐2010): Served as Senior MySQL Database Specialist supporting residential broadband metric collection.
- ClearLink Partners & Spectrum Oversight Advisors (2007‐2009): Engineered healthcare revenue collection systems using J2EE (JSP/JDBC) and MySQL. Designed stored procedure business rules, integrated TransUnion credit data with hospital self‐pay records, and built web‐based user analysis workbenches.
- Grant Thornton LLP (2008): Functioned as Senior Architect, Development Consultant, and Project Manager (PM) for a multinational team delivering an enterprise forms automation solution for the Iraq Ministry of Finance as a full‐stack Java solution with Oracle Database integrating ETL Services, Adobe PDF parsing, and XML transformations for ultimate REST endpoints.
- Oversight Systems, Inc. / AMS / Internet Security Systems (2003‐2007): Managed multiple data center and appliance deployment projects, including RedHat Linux appliance design, product management, and change control process. Ensured highest quality standards of service delivery to maximize company resources and profits. Also designed and deployed Linux‐based appliances that the GA Tech Institute security experts could not detect nor penetrate.
ACCREDITED COLLEGE UNIVERSITY EDUCATION
Clayton State University (Morrow, GA period Jun 1993‐Jan 1997)
- B.B.A. Major in Computer/Information Systems, graduated 1997
ADDITIONAL TRAINING
- Extensive Leadership training over 15 years (inc. Executive Coaching)
- PMI approved PMP training over 15 years
- Scrum Alliance approved Scrum Master training
- Axelos/PeopleCert approved ITIL 4 Foundation training
- Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Training and Management of a large enterprise project portfolio
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure training in AI, Vector Search, Data Science, Python, PySpark, RAG, LLMs, Java, APEX, Oracle DB, and MySQL
- DevSecOps, Agile/Scrum, XP, Kanban, and Java Spring Boot training for hands‐on experience
- Dept. of Defense (DoD) Financial Management (FM) Level 3 training
- ITIL Foundations Training
CERTIFICATION LINKS
- https://www.pmi.org/certifications/project-management-pmp
- https://www.scrumalliance.org/get-certified/scrum-master-track/certified-scrummaster
- https://www.peoplecert.org/browse-certifications/it-governance-and-service-management
- https://www.oracle.com/artificial-intelligence
- https://www.oracle.com/java (Foundations)
- https://www.oracle.com/apex (Foundations)