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Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

El Segundo, California, United States

• Led team of 35 field engineers across 5 countries, 7 time zones, and 4 programs, ensuring team performance met contractual requirements and reinforced customer satisfaction
• Utilized predictive program management methods to manage program risks, opportunities, successfully keeping programs on targeted $14M budget
• Employed organizational and prioritization skills to author and submit 5 basis-of-estimates for proposals on-time in 13 months, bidding $88M in potential future sales
• Managed staffing requirements, hiring new team members to ensure staffing met contractual requirements
• Developed innovative forecasting Excel program, reducing time to baseline new programs and complete end of month Earned Value Management Systems (EVMS) analysis by 50%
• Led field engineering team through beginning of COVID-19 pandemic, developing response plan using CDC and WHO guidelines that mitigated employee health, resulting in 100% logistical/operational effectiveness

Anderson AFB, Guam/Beale AFB, CA

• Influenced mission and logistical decisions by building customer trust, enabling the Air Force to achieve intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance (ISR) mission objectives
• Developed GPS repeater hood and troubleshooting database, providing customer with more operational capabilities, and improving synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and EO/IR sensor troubleshooting capabilities
• Facilitated operational readiness for deployments to Japan and UAE, allowing customer to maintain sensor availability of 97% while deployed

El Segundo, California

• Collaborated cross-functionally to update diminishing manufacturing sources list, enabling the program to place lifetime buys on high-risk components
• Designed improvements for a thermal vacuum chamber and supporting test equipment, increasing safety and accuracy of focus testing efforts on EO/IR sensor units
• Led the integration, verification, and validation of EO/IR sensor units through the using of thermal vacuum chambers, vibration tables, and collimators

El Segundo, California

• Collaborated cross-functionally to update diminishing manufacturing sources list, enabling program to place lifetime buys on high-risk components
• Designed improvements for thermal vacuum chamber and supporting test equipment, eliminating 3 OSHA safety hazards and improving accuracy of EO/IR sensor unit focus testing efforts
• Authored pressure drop test procedure for two out-of-tolerance coldwalls, saving program $140k in scrap material
• Collaborated with company vendors, successfully qualifying brazing manufacturing processes
• Authored radar circulator design guide, decreasing time of implementing new circulator designs by 25%

Indianapolis, Indiana

Managed product audits to ensure robust manufacturing processes.

Lafayette, Indiana

Assisted with R&D efforts, and led efforts in improving part quality by reducing product scrap and defects.

Lafayette, Indiana

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Business Analytics And Supply Chain & Operations, Entrepreneurship & Corporate Innovation Minor

B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering Concentration, Anthropology Minor

Activities and Societies: Football, Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity

Education record

Activities and Societies: National Honors Society, Epics Club, Senior Leadership Group, Chess Club, Project Lead the Way, Football, Baseball