Brian Bate Email & Phone Number

Results-oriented seasoned professional with thirty-nine years of diverse leadership and business process improvement experience. Demonstrated expertise in successfully leading teams on hardware programs and implementing enterprise software solutions to enhance program execution performance, customer confidence, and compliance. Proven program execution track record across various roles, including: program management, project management, systems engineering, manufacturing management, and new business/proposal support. Adept at studying tool and process trends across the Aerospace and Defense industry, evaluating software tools and technologies maturity and industry trends.Key Skills:Leadership: Successfully led large cross-functional teams on highly visible programs, achieving amazing results on extremely challenging programs.Business Process Improvement: Implemented numerous program execution and departmental process improvements to enhance efficiency, effectiveness, capture best practices/lessons learned.Software Tools and Technologies: Thirty+ years of experience studying Aerospace and Defense tool and process trends, evaluating software tools, technologies, industry standards to develop technology roadmaps to secure funding for implementing new capabilities to increase efficiencies and address improvement opportunities and managing organizational change management activities to access impacts and ensure successful adoption of new tools and associated processes.Leadership Experience Highlights:Agile Space Process and Tools Manager: Led the evaluation and implementation of a dedicated toolset for Agile Space and managed business process development in support of new hybrid/proliferated space initiative.Mechanical Engineering Process and Tool Manager: Implement tool and process changes for the mechanical engineering department including: standing up a process change approval board, streamlining business process documentation, material properties management system, standard notes database and agile development methodologies.ITS Engineering Domain Manager: Managed department of ITS professionals supporting 1,500 engineers across multiple disciplines, leading large-scale enterprise tool selection, evaluation, implementation and integration projects for commercial and custom developed software tools supporting unclassified and classified programs.Recognition:Manufacturing Leadership ML100 Award recipient eleven consecutive years recognized for outstanding leadership implementing breakthrough process improvement projects.

Listed skills include Aerospace, Integration, Systems Engineering, Engineering Management, and 17 others.

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  Sr Manager

  Ball Aerospace

  Jan 1985 - Present - Boulder, Colorado, United States

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  Colorado State University