Brad Cason Email & Phone Number

Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

Project management including contract review, scheduling, work order creation, operations, and quality. Program manager for aerospace, space, military and medical products. Scaled a small composite satellite program from 48 parts per year to 300+ per month utilizing multiple manufacturing locations and designing hardware to facilitate production. Reinstated a previously closed, highly regulated program that ran for 13 months producing approx. 5,000 composite pieces. Led the process to source large unique composite mandrels with tight machining tolerances. Instilled continuous improvement processes on a private unmanned program that led to increased sales and a continuation of the contract.

Greater Salt Lake City Area

Program/Project Manager for technical, composite based projects for large aerospace contracts.  Program Manager on 34 projects, specializing in high tech production tooling for military aircraft. Final decision maker for all project engineering. Accountable for financial project performance including: cost and profitability utilizing EVM.  Accountable for physical project performance including: scope, deliverables and testing.  Work intimately with all aspects of project completion: design, engineering, acquisition, manufacturing, QA buyoff, Initial Acceptance Test, delivery and onsite Factory Acceptance Test. Work closely with Sales to contribute to the definition and review of technical scope, requirements, deliverables and hour estimates prior to issuance of contracts/proposals. Experience with Waterfall, Agile and Hybrid project methodologies. Excellent customer interaction from project start to completion. HR responsibility for 3 direct reports. 2021 NAM award winner for “Engineering and Production Technology” with Lockheed Martin for an F-35 aircraft composite curing system.https://www.manufacturingleadershipcouncil.com/leadership-awards/manufacturing-leadership-award-winners-archive/.

Cedar Park, Tx

Project Management and problem solving for Alpha rocket manufacturing/design with a specialty in structural composites.  Worked on solving manufacturing needs on the Alpha rocket, ex. COPV’s, design review, quality control, and process implementation.

Austin, Tx

KirkLee The highlight of this role is taking a product from concept to market and establish the business as one of the “best in its class” within two years. This project required establishing the budget and practices for all essential business channels including as Sales, Marketing, Finance, and Operations. Results:• Selected as a finalists for Bicycling Magazines Editors Choice for "Dream Road Bike" in 2010.• We have built bikes for Olympic and National Champions. • Published in multiple national/international cycling magazines.• Sold/shipped custom KirkLee frames around the world.

Las Vegas, Nv

A leadership role with Hilti tools responsible for business operations in Las Vegas and Southern Utah. Responsible for the operations of 7 Hilti businesses in Las Vegas and Southern Utah.  HR responsibility for 9 direct reports

Repaired and maintained hydraulic/pneumatic components on aircraft to ensure 100% mission readiness.

Masters, Business

Engineering, Industrial Distribuition

Bachelor Of Science, Industrial Distribution

2005 Mba