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Managed technical, schedule and budget aspects of a multinational agile cross-functional team for a $105M spacecraft advanced state-of-the-art ASIC based digital payload development. Defined scope, requirements, success criteria, full-scale project plan, critical milestones and budget allocations.• Anticipated and identified opportunities and solved challenges within the project team – escalated barriers and recommendations to executive leadership resulting in the creation of hardware and software elements that were pivotal to the award of the highest capacity satellite every built by SSL.• Partnered with executive leadership and stakeholders to analyze ROI and Business Development projections to adjust and drive strategic vision of future payload systems and customer proposal bid offers.• Led design of a new high volume Design for Manufacturing facility for “Small-Sat” payloads and buses that increase production line efficiency, minimize costs, and optimize operational processes.

Greater Denver Area

• Project manager and architect for the development of a customer’s Integrated Budget Management Framework to analyze, prioritize and allocate $200M+ annually in resources across multiple codependent large scale processing systems , which resulted in the alignment of requirements, resources (financial, physical, and people) and priorities for managing daily operations and predicting future allocations, impacts and risks.• Engineering project lead for a 200,000 sqft customer ground station facility expansion.• Chief Engineer for developing the architecture, methodology and requirements for a customer’s Enterprise Architecture framework and process workflow automation, resulting in complete capture of the facility’s technical baseline to optimize directed maintenance and new capability expansion, while minimizing both operational cost and service outages.

Greater Denver Area

• Chief Systems Engineer for Spacecraft Command & Control / Ground-Terminal systems. Development of CONOPs; trade studies; multi-segment requirements and interface development; performance analysis; monitoring / advising contractors throughout their development cycles; design reviews; factory test and verification; site installation / integration / test; criteria for operational acceptance; post acceptance O&M activities.• Chief Systems Integrator for a customer’s space constellation and ground resource scheduling & control HW/SW platform to support replacing outdated systems and expanding operational resources while minimizing impacts to in-service operations.• Architecture construct and integration of multiple codependent developments across multiple ground stations to improve and expand business operations. Orchestrated requirements process and product review boards, trade study results, and provide recommendations to customers. Developed agile integration and verification concepts to minimize deployment schedule and cost while minimizing risk.

Master Of Engineering - Meng, Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering