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Denver, CO, US

Louisville, Colorado (CO), US

• Oversee lifecycle performance metrics across cost, schedule, and technical milestones
• Lead interdisciplinary teams for rapid development aligned with "Quick Start" mandates
• Drive innovations using LEAP concepts to design scalable, resilient satellite constellations
• Ensure program alignment with national security requirements and evolving threat landscape

Louisville, Colorado (CO), US

• As Deputy Program Manager, I played a pivotal role in establishing and maintaining program baselines, ensuring compliance, and optimizing reporting processes. Key accomplishments include:
• Led the development and baseline of the Integrated Master Schedule at program award.
• Built the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), WBS Dictionary, Control Account, and Work Package structure to support program baseline.
• Established the Estimate at Complete (EAC) and Estimate to Complete (ETC) baseline and updating process, including variance reporting procedures and cost-schedule integration.
• Implemented earned value reporting standards.
• Developed and optimized the program battle rhythm to align with enterprise reporting schema.

Louisville, Colorado (CO), US

• As the SEIT IPT Leader, I oversee the Systems Engineering, Flight Sciences, Vehicle Performance, and Integrated Vehicle Testing organizations. I led initiatives to solve complex problems across technical and.
• Maintaining and improving Requirements Management Tools, System Engineering Management Plan, and Configuration Management Plan.
• Managing cost and schedule performance for a $250M+ budget.
• Leading quarterly budget planning, overseeing budget matters, and responding to external financial audits.
• Planning and maintaining schedules, ensuring task-level accountability, and using Agile and waterfall methodologies for timely product delivery.
• Reporting cost, schedule, and technical performance metrics to the C-suite weekly and Board of Directors quarterly.

Englewood, Colorado, US

• Starting as the 4th employee of this highly dynamic startup, served as both a technical and people leader in various roles throughout growth from 4 to 160.
• Operations: Conceptualized, architected, and built the engineering systems to empower the $MM technical development of the first civilian supersonic jet airplane. Information Management: Standardized and unified G.
• P&L: Handles both hardware and human resources budgeting, forecasting, quarterly planning, and annual budget reconciliation.
• Leadership: Established the technical direction to deploy federated aircraft systems and leadership structure of Responsible Engineers with select Integrated Product Teams.Talent Acquisition: In 5 months, recruited.
• Subsystem Architectures: Owned preliminary subsystem architectures and integration for Flight Controls, Hydraulics, Avionics, Electrical Power, Environmental Controls, Powerplant, and Fuel.
• Suppliers & Partnerships: Deployed an early company supplier engagement strategy to unlock key technologies traditionally reserved for government acquisition programs (F-18 Air-Cycle Machine, Advance Navigation.

Palo Alto, CA, US

• Responsible for final assembly and deployment of the company's first $MM manned aircraft and the first manned EVTOL to perform a vertical takeoff, cruise transition, and vertical landing.
• Leadership: Led the integrated product team of 12 electrical, mechanical, and flight test engineers and technicians.
• Senior Flight Test Engineer: Responsible for coordination of operations at the north base facility of Edwards Airforce base.
• Operations: Performed multiple flight missions, flight safety reviews, data reviews, and conducted a safe and successful flight demonstration campaign.

Mojave, California, US

• Individual technical contributor of the design, analysis, and testing of mission and flight-critical aircraft systems.
• Analysis Tools: Developed in-flight and post-flight flutter analysis tools utilizing them as a flight test engineer, flying on WhiteKnightTwo during envelope expansion test profiles.
• Aeroelastic: Acted as Flutter Flight Test Engineer for SpaceShipTwo, a $B civilian supersonic spaceplane. Performed a technical deep dive of aeroelastic coupling of jet exhaust and nozzle structural components.
• Systems Integrator: Integrator and focal for the simulation team for Stratolaunch, an orbital air-launch aircraft. o Developed completely in the air and on-ground flight dynamics model with a full pilot in-the-loop.

Arlington, VA, US

• Validated autopilot mode logic for approach navigation and in-flight mode switching using aircraft simulation tools in a Unix environment in support of the 787 auto-flight development.
• Technical Deliverables: o Developed low visibility takeoff gain schedules for the new system architecture on the 787.o Performed systems stability and performance analysis for the autopilot and flight management.
• Management: Coordinated the development of simulation functionality to allow for aircraft derivative switching capability.

Master Of Science (M.S.), Mechanical Engineering

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Mechanical Engineering