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Wake Forest, Nc, Us

Lexington Park, Md

Responsible for defining and meeting corporate strategic and tactical objectives by creating and directing business sector plans while improving operational efficiency.• Examine and analyze current processes and develop frameworks and workflows to improve operational efficiencies.• Develop and present sector strategic plans focused on growth, people, and execution to the board of directors.• Manage company sector with a geographically dispersed workforce (Maryland, Virginia, Florida, and California) consisting of ~$40M in annual revenue and over 150 personnel.• Use strong decision-making ability to effectively oversee 30+ projects simultaneously that consist of program/project management, system and software engineering, financial and data analysis, risk management, integrated logistics, test and evaluation, information systems security, network and system administration, and communications support to government defense acquisition programs.• Manage programmatic aspects of all project activities with specifically focused responsibility for customer relationship, cost, schedule, and technical planning, tracking and reporting, technical execution, and ensuring overall program performance objectives are achieved.• Created program management curriculum to train essential sector personnel in project management principles and process development to improve overall program/project management skills and experience.• Created strategic management tool to identify a step by step, action by action, and decision by decision cumulative process that leads to sustained results. • Support business development initiatives through opportunity recognition, capture management, strength and weakness identification, and proposal development. • Develop, maintain, and enforce program and project management methodologies, standards, governance, and tools to achieve the clients' operational and financial and project quality goals.

Lexington Park, Md

Managed day-to-day execution of designated contracts, projects, or programs within the company’s portfolio to include cost, technical, and schedule performance, and employee management.• Mentored program managers in areas such as contract transition, personnel development, and managing issues.• Played significant role in company growing from ~80 to ~225 personnel over a seven-year period.• Managed Workforce Development and Training efforts resulting in development of more than 50 customer unique E-Learning and instructor led training courses and instruction of over a thousand classes to over tens of thousands of students at government and commercial client sites throughout the United States.• Managed Common Avionics Program Office Aviation Capabilities Integration Systems Team (ACIST) contract and 20 personnel providing project management, engineering, logistics, and lab support for multiple aircraft integration projects across the Naval Air Systems Command.• Ran multiple projects related to aircraft integration, software development, and technical improvements that consisted of strategy development, schedule creation, objective based planning, requirements management, development and test, and risk management that resulted in 20% cost underrun and delivery a year and a half ahead of schedule.

Lexington Park, Maryland, United States

Managed Common Avionics Program Office ACIST contract and 20 personnel providing project management, technical support, and logistics support.Managed Cost Estimating and Analysis contract and 5 personnel providing cost estimating and analysis support to multiple navy aviation program offices.Managed Program Support Activity Lab contract and 8 personnel providing project management, financial management and engineering and lab support.Ran multiple aircraft integration projects consisting of requirements management, development, strategy development, cost and schedule creation, objective based planning, and risk management that resulted in 20% cost underrun and delivery a year and a half ahead of schedule.Provided system engineering expertise during development, testing, and integration for fixed wing aircraft navigation projects such as GPS incorporation. Created statement of works, contract data requirements list, request for proposal inputs, and reviewed contractor proposals during contract negotiations for all navigation programs.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Industrial Engineering

Activities and Societies: Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity (Tau Chapter)

Master Of Science - Ms, Management