25+ years of hands-on engineering design and sr. leadership responsibilities coupled with a broad base of cross-functional experience in high technology businesses. Wide range of experience at many levels in successful start-up companies as well as large defense contractors Northrop Grumman, L-3 Communications and GE. Most recently, at Mercury Systems, I own driving program activities, resulting from M&A purchases, dealing with for all aspects of seamless integration of new technology companies into Mercury to achieve business goals. Prior at Mercury, I drove special projects for Open Architecture standards, Open Source products, HPEC QRC solutions (using OpenVPX technologies) that benefit our war fighters. In addition, I have led proposals for HPEC and high performance ISR applications and led various customer focused programs.Previous positions include VP Engineering, VP Sales and Business Development, various cross functional Director-level positions (w/P+L) , Product Manager, Engineering Manager and Systems Design Engineer Specialties: Solving business problems, Executing Solutions with C-level management teams, Leading Strategic Program Initiatives; Business Planning and Proposal Development; Open Systems Architecture Standards; System Integration; Business Development and Program Management, Team Building, P-ISR solutions.