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Torrance, Ca, Us

Reston, Va, Us

Provide technical leadership and program management support to USSF senior leadership (O5/O6) on space systems programs and acquisition at the Los Angeles Space Force Base, El Segundo, CA. Responsible for reviewing all work products and designs generated by program contractors. Act as interface and liaison for the USSF to contractor program managers.

Arlington, Va, Us

Program Manager (Director 1) for defense industry space systems. Responsible for 200 member development team on program capture effort.

Laurel, Maryland, Us

Lead JHU/APL technical support to U.S.A.F. programs at SMC (Space and Missile Systems Center).

Falls Church, Va, Us

Program Manager for multi-sector space systems/sensor program, contract value >$350M. Responsible for all cost, schedule, and technical content of proposal and program, including over $125M of subcontracts. This included being capture and proposal lead through win.SV Lead for NGAS restricted proposal. Generated technical offering, created tech description document, developed subcontractor relationships, and developed SC costs.Program Management for Landsat 9 study for NASA GSFC. Lead development of SC concept for NASA for next Landsat mission, including costs for SC, I&T, launch campaign and subcontracts.Chief Engineer to the VP PM on large space system program for the USG, responsible for technical solution of the program and to give the PM recommendations on technical decisions to ensure program success. Vice President relied on ability to discern which areas need review, expose gaps in program execution, and facilitate path forward to close those gapsChief Engineer Reviewer for SBIRS High for ROM effort and program Deep Dive review for VP of Space Systems at Azusa site. Performed scrub of baseline SBIRS 5/6 production contract to support negotiations of customer.

Arlington, Va, Us

Manager, EO Integration, Verification and Validation, responsible for leading organization of 115 engineers in the build, assembly, integration, and testing across all Raytheon SAS Electro-Optical products for cross-regional org. Included development of all IV&V processes to ensure success on programs, development of strategies with Raytheon Chief Engineers, final approval for IV&V work products and proposal content, and developing career paths for team members. Final approval for all subcontracted content in I&T organization. Regularly brief Raytheon leadership team on project statuses, development of new processes, and strategic alignment with Raytheon corporate goals.

Falls Church, Va, Us

James Webb ST, SC Manager (>$450M), responsible for leading SC team in development, build, and test of all SC hardware and software. Includes tech leadership of team of 100 engineers and support personnel, management of cost and schedule, leading all systems engineering efforts, use of EV system, milestone tracking through IMS, and interfacing and developing plans with program partners and customers. Also managed 20 subcontracts valued at $75M, with 6 from European vendors. Direct interface lead to European Launch Vehicle vendor.Director, SC Technology Development, managed all IRAD and CRAD activities, with IRAD budget of $11.5M, and CRADs value of $69.6M. Included several propulsion programs for NASA, including the Orbital Express on orbit refueling flight experiment, NASA advanced liquid engine development, and automated rendezvous and docking IRADs.SV Manager Military SATCOM, lead SV for Comms restricted program, including both HW and SW engineers, all budgets and schedule. Lead SV top level trades, requirements flowdown, comm payload I/F’s, and LV trades. Responsible for SV costs, I&T plans development, configuration, and best value process. Managed SC bus subcontract, including all budgets, negotiations, and required subcontractor SOW.

SEIT Dept Mgr, responsible for over 25 SEs, worked staffing issues, reviewing SE products and processes, and performance appraisals. Provided SEIT inputs (technical and pricing) to programs, proposals and studies, including technology standards for architecture development.Lead, Integrated Concept Development Facility (ICDF): led design team through rapid development exercises for studies and proposals. Included requirements flow, leading all technical work, develop I&T flows, lead pricing efforts, develop program schedules, and brief results to managers and VPs. Typical turn-around of designs and costs was two weeks.Lead for the ISS PM Boost Study, lead evaluation of Boeing design for NASA, led redesign and subsystem design efforts, generated program schedule, lead pricing efforts, interfaced and briefed NASA MSFC Director.Lead SV engineer for number of proposals, studies, and BD opportunities for the DOD, NASA, and IC. Lead for several design efforts in ICDF (design, SE, costs, analysis) for proposals. Regularly required briefing VPs and managers on proposed programs and studies.Science Module Chief Engineer for Chandra (X-Ray) Space Telescope: Ensured that all design and interface requirements were met by subcontractor and science instrument teams, reviewed designs and ICDs, oversaw testing, coordinated engineer efforts between program team members and customer, and interface with subcontractors to ensure on time deliveries. Led development of I&T flow and build of high fidelity mockups to conduct I&T practice runs.Program SE, Odyssey (Commercial SATCOM), responsible for technical development of the overall telecommunication system, generation of the end user requirements and ICDs, presentations to Odyssey industrial partners worldwide, FCC licensing support, lead design of the SC, systems engineering, IRAD coordination, I&T development, payload integration, mass and power budgets, LV integration, and SV system requirements and analysis.

Master’S Degree, Aerospace, Aeronautical And Astronautical Engineering

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Technology Management & Business

Bachelor’S Degree, Aerospace, Aeronautical And Astronautical Engineering