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Washington, DC

Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States

Assisted with team leadership, management, and customer interfaces.

Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States

• Led a team of twelve project engineers and collaborated with operations on long term projectplanning and priorities
• Performed quality assurance and oversight of team as well as supported critical project tasks such aslife safety analysis of a new high explosives building
• Created and led a training program for the qualified PE position. Offered introductory training,weekly topics, and overhauled the qualification guide. Worked collaboratively as a PE expert tooversee improvements to.
• Supported division goals of creating estimates and schedules in P6 for all projects

Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States

• Scoped requirements with stakeholder input and supported schedule creation for over 29infrastructure projects, ranging from $1M - $34M total project cost
• Engaged extensively with Project Managers and stakeholders and prioritized projects while workingsimultaneously on up to 15 projects
• Led coordination of internally and externally designed infrastructure projects including managingscope, schedule, and budget, design coordination, and design support through construction. Projectsincluded a large.
• Worked extensively on high explosive and other hazardous occupancy buildings. Experienced inIBC, NFPA, and other building codes.
• Managed design review teams and facilitated reviews to ensure all stakeholders were able toprovide input on the design process, leading to requirements validation and increased quality
• Wrote subcontract documents and managed external design subcontractors

Arlington, VA

• Managed over $10M in budget for Net-Centric Integration and Demonstration (NCID) that included labor, material, subcontracts, capital projects and over eighty inter-company subcontracts by initiating new items.
• Eliminated several million in under run by analyzing fiscal and technical performance of each project and then working in conjunction with technical leads and management to determine funding plan for the remaining.
• Implemented schedule templates across the NCID portfolio via Microsoft Project and assisted portfolio leads in creating schedules for their projects. Standardized process for schedule and budget approvals as well as.

Herndon, VA

• Supported Vice President of IS&GS National Advanced Programs (AP) and Vice President of IS&GS National Performance Excellence (PE) as their Technical Assistant by facilitating business rhythms including Monthly.
• Managed PE’s overhead budgets, program risk assessments, and self-assessment reporting. Developed the performance metrics for PE to measure 2012 commitments and developed an integrated master schedule to coordinating.
• Managed AP’s business development budgets, reporting, and documentation. Supported three simultaneous strategic $900 million ceiling IDIQ capture teams, contributing to the technical, small business and cost volume.

Virginia

• Provided on-site support, maintenance, trending and analysis of satellite/spacecraft assets. Analyzed daily state-of-health data to quickly identify any leading indicators of issues and minimize any impacts to the.
• Acted as group lead on multiple anomalous situations, providing analysis of problems, mitigations, and path-forward to customers for highly critical areas in time sensitive situations. In a high impact situation where.
• Developed and provided innovative solutions to improve existing procedures and performance of assets using systems engineering approach to create the highest value to the customer. For example, worked in a technical.
• Performed in-depth technical reviews and systems analysis of hardware changes, associated software database changes, and initialization procedures to successfully launch a new asset. Found and worked to completion.

Virginia

• Developed and performed detailed plans and procedures to provide maximum mission support in areas such as system dynamics, asset performance analysis and command and control of assets
• Implemented process improvements by updating and expanding existing procedures which reduced the rate of operator errors and minimized mission down time
• Certified as a top level operator in two systems and served as senior team member and trainer

Baton Rouge, Louisiana Area

• Evaluated pressure vessels including towers, pipes, and heat exchangers to determine maintenance needs and to meet safety regulation validation. Found a previously unreported corrosion issue with the 100 foot.

Pontiac, Michigan

• Developed a testing plan for four developmental detection systems for airbag suppression at the proving grounds and collected and evaluated the data for purchasing and integration considerations
• Analyzed and amended airbag suppression testing requirements using experimental data to improve quality of testing and ensure testing standards were compliant with federal regulations

Graduate Certificate, Systems Engineering

M.Eng., Systems Engineering

Accelerated Systems Engineering Masters at the University of Virginia's School of Engineering and Applied Science and the Darden Graduate.

B.S., Mechanical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Aikido Club, Pep Band, Ski Club, Jazz Ensemble