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Elmwood Park, IL, US

• Lead product management of multiple fleet management platforms for the transportation, construction, and delivery industries, driving innovation in connected vehicle technology and compliance solutions.
• Oversee fleet compliance solutions (ELD, DVIR, IFTA reporting)
• Lead development of an IoT telematics device for Class 1 through Class 8 vehicles, enhancing real-time fleet tracking and monitoring capabilities across multiple vehicle types
• Integrated IoT asset tracking devices to create an all in one platform experience

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Leadership team member responsible for determining company vision and project priorities. Managed the product life cycle from ideation through tactical execution to ensure alignment with the broader company goals.
• Led a cross-functional team in the product development of a web and Android based local fleet platform
• Managed product life cycle from product ideation and planning through tactical execution for a web and Android based platform.
• Collaborated with the sales, customer success, design, and engineering teams to ensure a consistent vision through all phases of development.
• Led webapp product development through a complete redesign, introduction of 18 major new features, and 300 other enhancements.
• Led Android product development through three major and 15 minor version updates of a driver facing application used for communication and workflow management.

Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States

• PROJECT ENGINEER
• Led development of an automated satellite command transmission and telemetry verification system. The software reduced on console man hours by approximately 1500 hours annually allowing for reallocating personnel to.
• Led development of satellite anomaly solutions to streamline recovery efforts, reduce recovery times, and reduce user outages. The team produced 44 Anomaly Response Plans and developed an anomaly first responder.
• Provided technical analysis of DoD Request for Information and Request for Proposals to increase business expansion through future proposals.
• Member of two U.S. Navy Launch Teams responsible for all launch and low Earth transfer orbit operations.TEST ENGINEER
• Lead Test Engineer at the NAVSOC backup Satellite Operations Center.

Pt Mugu, CA

• PROJECT ENGINEER
• Legacy Programs Lead Engineer for the NAVSOC On Orbit Engineering Support Contract.
• Supervised eleven team members responsible for operational control of three Navy owned satellite constellations valued at approximately $2.1 billion.
• Developed and implemented operational strategies that increased the operational life of the constellations by approximately 6 years.
• Developed and implemented process improvements for mission planning, data analysis, telemetry verification, and command execution to automate and streamline the satellite operational tasks.
• Led development and training of the government Engineering Technicians program. The new training program allowed for the transfer of operational responsibilities reducing engineering man hours by approximately 1300.