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Castaic, Ca, Us

El Segundo, Ca

Camarillo, Ca

Camarillo, Ca

Santa Clarita, Ca

Valencia, California

Woodland Hills, California

Leading developer, manufacturer, integrator, and supporter of a variety of advanced electronic and maritime systems for U.S. and international customers for national security and non-defense applications. SENIOR MANAGER, MANUFACTURINGOversaw manufacturing operations for the space program directorate, supervised day-to-day activities to ensure optimal levels of productivity and functionality. Possessed full personnel management responsibility for employees within program operations and assembly of inertial reference units. Resolved technical issues in close collaboration with engineering, mission assurance, and other cross-functional teams to secure approval authority on failure and material review boards. Reduced cycle-time 20%, further enabling team to meet schedule commitments by leveraging statistics to uncover and remediate major bottlenecks.  Increased on-time delivery rate from 7% to 50% by applying lean methodology and implementing root cause and corrective action resolution plans. Generated cost savings while simultaneously increasing throughput and improving performance metrics from a Performance Index (PI) of 1.7 to 1.3.  Assured timely and accurate delivery for critical missile defense program, administering supplier oversight for major sub-component manufacturer.

El Segundo, California

Raytheon Space & Airborne Systems – El Segundo, CA 2004 to 2010Leader in designing and developing advanced, integrated systems for crucial missions. SENIOR MANAGER, MANUFACTURING (2004 to 2010)Directed strategic development efforts for El Segundo-based manufacturing center with $7M capital budget dispersed throughout five manufacturing locations in addition to overseeing operations for GPS/Navigations systems division. Allocated 300K square feet of manufacturing space encompassing metal fabrication, circuit card assembly, and airborne/space sensor integration. Led teams as large as 50 direct reports composed of seasoned professionals, technicians, operations managers, and manufacturing engineers.  Maximized product output and reduced manufacturing space 10% by consolidating existing operations and applying lean principles.  Drove business development, instrumental in securing $25M worth of new contracts serving as Operations Lead for proposals in pursuit of new business.  Assured successful missile defense agency audit with zero findings and directly affected division performance via capital reductions and equipment usage analysis.  Reduced proposal effort from several weeks to several days by innovating more efficient approach to basics of estimate creation and proposal drafting.

El Segundo, California

Boeing Satellite Systems – El Segundo, CA 1996 to 2004Major business unit of Defense, Space & Security unit responsible for defense and aerospace products and services. FACTORY MANAGER/MANUFACTURING ENGINEERSpearheaded circuit card assembly operations to support space applications, directing team composed of 40 professionals, driving daily productivity. Interfaced with other departments, representing manufacturing unit on several design teams charged with uncovering most effective design plans.  Lowered unique part numbers from 20K to 800, improving inventory and capital expenses, reducing product costs by leveraging common part paradigm.  Accelerated status report generation process and improved accuracy with development/deployment of new product status system. Streamlined production, utilizing lean manufacturing techniques and Six Sigma methodology to enable area to consistently execute cycle time of two weeks for circuit card assembly.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Business Administration And Management, General

Bachelor'S In Science, Industrial Technology/Technician