▶ 18 Years Building Innovative Systems in Aerospace as an Engineer, Technical & Operational Leader, & Adviser• Contributed to the engineering of 7 new ground-breaking aircraft prototypes including a supersonic civilian airplane, supersonic spaceplane, commercial aircraft, the world’s largest aircraft, the first manned EVTOL to transition from vertical to forward flight, and other proprietary airplanes.• Leveraging high business acumen to advise 5 early startups on fundraising, technical diligence for VC funding, team building, and engineering operations (3 aerospace startups, a non-profit, and a transportation logistics company).▶ Program Operations and Continuous Improvement• Manages and leads teams to control risks and optimize performance to meet critical program performance metrics and customer needs. • Builds engineering and business systems to effectively manage large $MM technical projects.• Manages $MM budgets across multiple programs.▶ Team Building and/or Cross-Functional Collaboration• “When faced with a performance challenge on my team, I find it most effective to start with ‘How are you feeling?’ to understand the root cause.” Have led diverse teams of up to 37 direct and indirect employees as a change leader asked to improve an existing team’s performance.• Cultivated a broad and diverse network of talented individuals and has a keen eye to identify talent honed over 60+ hires, 600 interview impressions, and multiple company-driven team re-organizations.▶ Data Driven Decision Making • Converted a team of engineers and technicians from task-based tracking to earned valve metrics enabling a 33% reduction predicted and actual in time to complete the project.• Spearheaded the vehicle system requirements generation process, creating 250 requirements that inter-linked with 45 planned analysis and test activities in a relational database.• Manages and reports key performance metrics of the company to senior leadership on a weekly, monthly, and quarterly basis.▶ Promotes a Culture of Safety • Led and instilled the culture of safety through coordinated safety efforts implementing the Systems Safety Analysis (SSAs) and the fault tree analysis (FTAs) across multiple engineering disciplines.• Writes Safety Response Plans and puts together the processes and procedures for safe operations.