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Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

Manager of 25 project and systems engineers, responsible for design and project execution for all ground based of the Sensors, Guidance and Navigation Center of Excellence Defense end markets.Responsible for Operational Excellence by coaching, hiring, performance and development, Skill gap mitigation, approving rewards, writing recognition, and executing team building events for department.Responsible for project execution by analyzing program demand, assessing talent supply vs work loads, interviewing/hiring, reviewing proposal technical baselines, and approving bids.Responsible for Enhancing Competitive Intelligence as an active member of the Product Action Committee, setting customer and product roadmap strategies, supporting teardowns or market analyses, and building technical influence via Technical conference presentations.

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

Manager of 25 analog and digital electrical design engineers, responsible for circuit card design and project execution for most of the Sensors, Guidance and Navigation Center of Excellence, supporting Commercial, Space, and Defense end markets, while managing people across MN, FL, and PR locations.Responsible for Operational Excellence by coaching, hiring, performance and development, Skill gap mitigation, approving rewards, writing recognition, and executing team building events for department.Actually grew the department even during COVID which impacted commercial aerospace negatively.Responsible for project execution by analyzing program demand, assessing talent supply vs work loads, interviewing/hiring, reviewing proposal technical baselines, and approving bids for over ~$5.1M of EE effort across contracts in excess of $100M.Responsible for Enhancing Competitive Intelligence as an active member of the Product Action Committee, setting customer and product roadmap strategies, supporting teardowns or market analyses, and building technical influence via Technical conference presentations.

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

Space Restricted and New Product Introductions Technical Manager overseeing ARSA, IMU, MIRU, and SPIRIT Product lines. Manager of 10 project and systems engineers, responsible for project execution including staffing, hiring, performance and development, product roadmap development.Added Space Sensor SME ISAT role, reviewing and voting member of Accelerometer and Ring Laser Gyro Product Health Teams for Space. Supported Product Change Notification review and sign off as Space Chief Delegate. Failure investigation board member on a the accelerometer supplier failure investigation, helping to pull Defense data from hypothesis through generating the systems test plan that verified the hypothesis as root cause of Ionic contamination.Led several SPIRIT proposals totaling $60M, for 4 space missions.Led and won $5M Interferometer Optical Chip sustainment government proposal.Developed, reviewed, and led and won the $32M LMSSC next gen Space FOG design proposal.

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

Led SPIRIT product line as Technical Director.Led program for design update and qualification of SPIRIT for High Performance variant.Led and won $5M High Performance SPIRIT space proposal with Ball.Led ARSA proposal of $800k for Fiber Optic Gyro component sustainment. Led and won $450k post delivery support contract on Space Fiber system with LMSS. Led $300k Thermal analyses scope add-on proposal to verify new SPIRIT radiative thermal environment.Re-baselined MIRU by adding and removing scope based on quarterly RDE budget changes.Led delivery of GPSIII Space Vehicle 9-10 units.Led all Failure investigations and Root Cause Corrective Actions on ARSA, GPS3, & SPIRIT HP programs to garner successful customer approvals.Mentored a pair of Systems engineers through Lead Systems Engineers and then onto Project Engineers.

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

• Successful delivery of all ship-sets of hardware of National Space Fiber Optic and Ring Laser Gyro IMUs, earning the highest customer incentive awards on the $60M contract, where I was responsible for all technical work including generation of systems documents, specification verification, design TEM meetings, and validation.• Delivered and garnered customer approval of requirements verification matrixes.• Generate content for monthly cost, schedule, and technical Eng reviews.• Generate content for weekly cost, schedule, and technical manager reviews.• Led cross functional and cross site team at Glendale, Deer Valley, and Puerto Rico, to generate content for and present at weekly customer cost, schedule, and technical meetings.• Mentoring System Engineers on Inertial Guidance hardware, and Test Managers on EVM and getting results.• As a Program Lead often provide feedback for Managers via Honeywell Performance & Development system for program team members at both Mid-year and End of Year.• Utilizing good baseline management led completion for a customer ROM on prep to ship activates, and won the add on scope proposal of $2M.• Accepted Project Engineering role of SPIRIT Product Line, including multiple satellites like GPSIII. Led Build and Test of Space Vehicles 7-8 and procurement of SV 9-10.• Successfully led closure of multiple Failure Investigations and garnered customer approval for recovery plans.• Led proposal that successfully won new customer for next generation Spirit High Performance Inertial Reference Unit.• Led proposal for prime competitive procurement of 7 SPIRIT systems contacts exceeding $20M.

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

• Successfully led Requirements Verification Technical Exchange Meetings and Test Readiness Reviews for Space Fiber Optic and Ring Laser Gyro based IMU Programs as Lead Systems Engineer.• Systems Engineering lifecycle data product generation of; Requirements Verification Plans, Requirements Verification Matrix (RVM), generated RVM artifacts for requirement buy off• Worked to review and update the test procedures to meet systems requirements in support of successful TRR customer approval.• Completed goals of delivering MIMU flight hardware to multiple national & international customers and led obsolescence redesign, build of Qual Engineering Development Unit (EDU) and Qualification testing of MIMU Block 3.2.• MIMU Project Engineer responsible for all aspects of program including specification verification and validation and post-delivery support.• Led multiple Failure investigations closure to support On Time To Requested Deliveries• MIMU Systems Engineer support in generation of systems documents, specification generation, and test verification of prototype block 3.2 EDU Qualification units.

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

• Ran Failure Investigations to support on time delivery of Ring Laser Gyro based IMU's for production and Obsolescence redesign contracts.• Generated and presented Failure Investigation content at weekly and quarterly customer meetings.• Hardware sign-off authority that corrective actions for manufacturing, test, or design improvements were incorporated.• Performed reliability data items updates to the derating, predictions, and FMECA.• Work package manager of $2M FRACAS account.• Review and generated impact analysis responses to GIDEP and mission success bulletins.• Create and review EO releases for Reliability on the Control Change Board prior to PDM vaulting.• Supported successful proposal of Lot 4-5 production follow on contract.• Support STARMU Preliminary Design review with derating and failure prediction analyses/• Performed Reliability data item derating analysis for of the new MEMs Gyro IMU design.

Riverview, Florida, Us

Designed Rockwell Collins PLC and HMI, simulated, and field commissioned very large scale automation projects for industrial food and beverage customers.Project duties include: Engineer design and modify drawing packages, program PLCs, design and create HMIs, design simulations to test programs, run demonstrations and Factory Acceptance Tests, oversee electrical installation, and personally commission Automation equipment and systems. Examples from 20k liquid sugar delivery system, to heat recovery/chilling systems, powdered or concentrate juice mixing. From low voltage sensor closed loop systems up through PID controlled medium voltage boilers and pumping systems.

• Managed electrical systems design, fabrication, and testing for multiple Govt. ONR contracts to build prototype water from air units. Completed three phases, producing pre-production models, the last a mobile unit that produced nominal 250GPD from 480Vac, utilizing NI FPGA compact RIO, HVAC components, sensors, and controls.• Designed, built, and supported the data acquisition systems for multiple Oil & Gas and Industrial Water projects, using NI Labview software, and various COTS controllers, sensors, actuators, pumps, mixers, and motors.• Designed, built, and integrated a safety system using PLC’s programmed in ladder logic to ensure a safe workplace, and add to reliability during long experimental runs.• Managed facilities power upgrades, and oversaw electricians and installation

Gainesville, Florida, Us

Senior Design TA teaching Senior BSEE grads how to design layout and build printed circuit card assemblies.• Supervised PCB layout, designed through Protel (Altium), and milled two layer boards for student projects.• Monitored the development of multiple projects, provided input to Weekly Activity Reports and kept track of status of the project through notebook progress. • Analyzed and troubleshot problems in lab with design and implementation of circuit boards.

Master Of Engineering - Meng, Electrical And Electronics Engineering

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Electrical And Electronics Engineering