· Mentor, motivate and manage cost estimating (5 team members).· Part of VACCO Industries' ERP transition team changing updating from WDS to SAP leading pricing groups portion.

· Mentor, motivate and manage cost estimating (5 team members) and program finance (1 team member). Review and approve all cost sections of proposals. Support customer, DCAA and DCMA audits· Finance and Contracts representative for new Gated process initiative providing a rigorous methodology for making informed decisions throughout a program’s development lifecycle on a cross functional team.· Implementing a new procedure comparing and analyzing actuals vs budget variances to improve cost estimating department’s accuracy.· Improved Risk/Opportunity/Assumptions identification in proposals.

· Led and coordinated support for all financial proposal activity at VACCO and provide financial support for major programs including a Boeing aerospace program.· Delivered monthly financial reports to NASA and Lockheed Martin.· Successfully interfaced and motivated cross functional teams (Sales, Program Management, Engineering, Operations, Quality, Supply chain) while improving operational processes such as decreasing a component’s cost by 10% and supporting CFO’s multiple projects such as smoothly adding programs into EVMS.· Built strong relationships throughout organization that enables real time responses to corporate’s last second requests.· Drove improved efficiencies.· Advanced Pricing Team’s efficiency via top down analysis.· Decreased lead times from 3 days to 2 hours by creating standard costs for common parts.· Actively sought input and commitment from all functional groups, ensuring accountability.· Strengthened relationship while holding procurement accountable, which decreased late quotes to my group.

· Prepares cost proposals in response to customer solicitations.· Analyzes and estimates all costs required to satisfy quote specifications.· Evaluates historical data and utilizes input from other functional areas to develop final proposal pricing.· Monitors major program performance through earned value and other analyses.

• Supported monthly forecasts to Corporate Headquarters with monthly and quarterly forecasts, including detailed walks, variance analysis and detailed explanations of opportunities and risks for Raytheon’s Technical Services Company (RTSC) which had revenue and bookings over $3B. • Supported all ad-hoc Corporate requests for the division in a team of 3.• Responsible for maintaining bookings database and all attributes for RTSC.• Supported 2010 and 2011 Annual Operating Plans and 5 Year planning process.• Provided financial support to Business Development, Contracts, Supply Chain Management and Operations.

• Supervised team of 8 which was responsible for responding to a portion of the Material Management and Accounting System audit for the Space and Airborne Systems (SAS) which had an annual revenue of $4.6B. Managed the creation of a procedure to ensure the government was billed for material in a reasonable amount of time. • Developed and reported metrics to Finance’s and Supply Chain Management’s senior leadership to measure progress on Working Capital Initiative. • Managed change management policies affecting early material and surplus/excess material worth over $200M.• Created the financial portion of the Divisions’ process to disposition surplus inventory. Disposition efforts resulted in over $5M worth of working capital improvements in the short term with additional savings expected in the long term.• Co-managed creation of policy to align delivery schedules with development schedules and created worksheets to compare costs savings from discounted pricing for early material to holding costs.• Created business cases and got funding for company investments worth $7M and $437K.

• Drove finance team’s ability to regain creditability by increasing accuracy and dependability of deliverables of a struggling program. • Helped transfer institutional knowledge between 3 different managers and helped train new team. Created work instructions to help standardize reports.•Analyzed and forecasted program’s bookings, sales, profit, cash, expenses and earned value.•Created project forecasts using earned value management measuring project performance and progress.

•Led financial efforts on a high profile international proposal with a short turn-around worth in excess of $60M. Compiled and examined supporting evidence for bid. Received Spot Award for outstanding performance.•Supported budget forecasts of contracts. •Developed and documented a process to close out completed programs.•Led weekly status updates of contract closures with team of 5.

•Performed price to win analysis evaluating the main competitor’s previous bids and strategic objectives to identify potential investment levels. •Reviewed variance analysis and implemented changes to reports to improve accuracy and clarity of data. •Collaborated on a multi-disciplined team to deliver cost forecasts and identified various cost savings, risks and opportunities to senior management. •Calculated return on investments, completed sensitivity analysis and recommended boundary conditions.

Designed, programmed, tested, fixed and maintained development and production Line Replaceable Modules.