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Texas, United States

Santa Clara, California, Us

Acting as a trusted strategic partner to business group leaders and their teams, to proactively and effectively influence portfolio strategy, portfolio investment decisions and critical execution needs. Responsible for ensuring a market- and customer-backed perspective, robust financial assessment, and cross-functional alignment to fully unleash transformational and innovative growth opportunities.

Basking Ridge, Nj, Us

Architected and implemented comprehensive strategies to accelerate the growth and adoption of Verizon's private networks, 5G, MEC, A.I, API’s, Cloud and SaaS business area. Led development and installation with our customer, cross-functional teams and end client to develop end-to-end solutions delivering high-impact solutions that addressed gaps and business case ROI. Leveraged international footprint and digital strategy to ensure successful market penetration and customer engagement to achieve revenue goals. ● Initiated and closed companies first global Go-To-Market agreement with fortune 500 global company with a projected value of over $100M.● Responsible for architecting and implementing IT infrastructures, cyber security, Digital Transformation capabilities and enterprise resiliency plans for enhanced business performance and optimization. ● Led engineering and sales team to architect high-value solutions that solved critical end-customer business challenges. Industry 4.0 focus leveraging A.I, IoT, 5G, SaaS and other connected sensor solutions.● Develop product strategies, technical roadmaps, business case opportunities and presented to Senior Leadership and C-Suite Executives.● Develop partnership models with the Systems Integrators, Hyperscalers, and International Accounts leveraging a multi model approach Sell with/Sell through go-to-market models

Arlington, Va, Us

Executive leadership role directly supporting Mission Area (MA) Presidents for Air Power and Land warfare & Air Defense responsible for strategy development and execution of a $8B growth portfolio. Coordinating with my peers and leadership team to aid in growth in total company portfolio driving effective culture change and business transformation. My other responsibilities include:● Offering tactical guidance, professional coaching, and training and development in support of targeted product areas across the organization, while managing complex cross-functional business units and strategic initiatives. ● Disseminating key data and conducting an in-depth analysis of the competitive market space to shape MA leadership decisions and guide to appropriate investment solutions. ● Defining and executing short and long-term business strategic plans and roadmaps that affect the top and bottom-line growth, while addressing opportunities and gaps through mergers and acquisitions, strategic partnerships and collaborations. ● Driving both internal and external strategic innovations to the MA that enable high-performing programs and business growth in current and adjacent markets, shaping near-term operational strategy and a longer-range outlook that shapes portfolios and investments to position RMD outside of the five-year plan.

Melbourne, Florida, Us

Acted as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of the Military Training Sector, where my primary directive was to creatively lead the development of advanced technology and growth strategies with the intention to drive overall business growth and facilitating the introduction of new product solutions for military and commercial applications. ● Served as the Head of Research and Development department, overseeing a multidisciplinary team of over 100 engineers and engineering fellows. Demonstrated exceptional leadership skills in strategically expanding the R&D budget from $5 million to $20 million while securing a remarkable $160 million in program revenue.● Developed a mixed reality high-fidelity F-16 flight training system with a low footprint for ship-based operations. Incorporating AI/ML where we collected over 1000 hours of flight test data for real-time adaptive learning, and biometric sensors providing holistic representation of pilot performance.● Led development for the IDEAtion Center a high-fidelity, physics-based modeling & simulation capabilities lab for Joint all-domain command and control missions. Incorporated a cloud based collaborative environment to support Live-Virtual-Constructive (LVC) training & simulation environments creating a digital twin of the earth for multi-domain environments.● Maintaining accountability for developing business and technology roadmaps, while verifying their alignment with existing processes in collaboration with business development activities within the scope of the DoD Research and Development budget.● Spearheading the transition of offerings from concept to solutions, while growing and developing the organization through effective hiring, coaching, and development of a world-class technology team. ● Creating relationships with Science and Technology labs (AFRL, DARPA, Academic, etc.) and preparing and presenting briefings to senior leadership and key stakeholder, while managing the corporate IP portfolio.

Bethesda, Md, Us

As Innovation Sr. Manager I provide project leadership in support of Corporate Engineering, Technology & Operations (CETO) Technology Strategy, Intelligence and Innovation (TSI2) organization. The primary point of contact for the cross enterprise TSI2 innovation seedling portfolio and responsible for supporting the implementation of the corporate technology strategy through open internal and external innovation challenges. Responsible for execution of all projects and activities within the CETO Innovation portfolio, to include: Collaboration across CETO, and Corporate Strategy and Business Development (CSBD) to identify and fill customer needs, Implement innovation initiatives to address technology gaps and emerging and disruptive technologies across the enterprise, Mature the physical and virtual cross business area collaboration ecosystem, Implement the seedling process to generate an optimized portfolio, Provide effective communication of innovation initiatives across the enterprise, Support external innovation activities, and represent Lockheed Martin as an innovation thought leader at external innovation forums, Collect, analyze and report innovation metrics to executive Leadership. Act as innovation seedling Principal Program Manager to develop detailed statements of work, allocate funding to participating LOBs, Creating cross-BA teams, oversee the execution of the innovation activities and will monitor/track the progress.

Bethesda, Md, Us

In my current role in Technology Strategy & Innovation I serve as the Innovation lead managing all Missile and Fire Control Innovation efforts consisting of: develop the MFC Technical Strategy, construction and staffing of Lockheed martins MFC Innovation Lab in Dallas and Orlando, technical lead for patent review and licensing and perform technology road mapping, HR forecasting for critical skill needs, perform tech studies and tech scouting analysis, managing and funding R&D proof of concept projects and transitioning emerging technology to our Lines of Business to enhance our current core technologies.

Bethesda, Md, Us

Manages technical planning, system integration, verification and validation, cost and risk, and supportability and effectiveness analyses for total systems. Ensures analyses are performed at all levels of total system product to include: concept, design, fabrication, test, installation, operation, maintenance and disposal. Directs the logical and systematic conversion of customer or product requirements into total systems solutions that acknowledge technical, schedule, and cost constraints.

Arlington, Va, Us

Primary responsibilities were to perform Flight Test in a flying testbed, radar system integration, research, design, development and test in lab and field environment. Participated in hardware design reviews, analyzed and/or defined hardware test specifications and requirements. Participated in proposal activities and provided recommendations as to best test approach and methodology. Provided interface between multiple radar programs and departments. Provide test direction and oversight for other advanced radar lab facilities. Wrote test plans, preformed root cause analysis, detailed test procedures and test reports.

Master Of Science - Ms, Systems Engineering

Certification, Systems Engineering

Bachelor'S Degree, Electrical And Electronics Engineering