Experienced Engineering and Program Manager with over 20 years of Program and Project Management experience. Success oriented, experienced in people management and all aspects of product lifecycle management. Mr. Searles is a strong communicator, experienced at influencing and working through diverging organizational priorities while building solid internal and external stakeholder relationships. As a detail-oriented, high energy leader, he instills a “can do, never quit” team mindset. He is a problem solver. Mr. Searles is currently a Systems Engineering Manager supporting product development, manufacturing, and field support of Positive Train Control Intelligent Control Wayside and Onboard Systems. He has extensive experience in the design, development, and manufacturing of IC3 and reconnaissance technologies. He provides a background in computer programming in both embedded applications, and client server, and web based distributed system.Mr. Searles retired from the US Air Force and pocesses Master of Science Degree in System Engineering and an Bachelors of Science degree in Computer Engineering.