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Capture Team Project Manager Lead-Successfully bid the engineering work required for customer proposals with a range of worth between between $10K - $1B.-Manage technical requirements and review engineering Basis Of Estimates including schedule, labor, scope, Government Furnished Equipment, data rights, technical evaluations, risk identification, and negotiation support-Lead supplier requirements Statement of Work (SOW) development, and host cross-company technical discussions as necessary-Lead cross-functional reviews of proposal aspects between multi-disciplinary teams including engineering, supply chain management, & production operations.-Develop presentations for VP engineering and program management gate reviews-Provide oversight and guidance to team members as a team lead

Diminished Manufacturing Sources-Recovered $182MM of former non-liquidating FEAs: worked cross functionally with finance and supply chain to identify and rectify inventory and account balances-Managed proper liquidation of $2.1MM of last time buy Financial Exposure Authorizations (FEAs)-Coordinated with suppliers and LMA engineering to identify 48 obsolete components and Class II engineering solutions affecting over 25 systems-Mitigated future aircraft production gaps reducing downtime risk for a five-year $5.3 billion multi-year contract due to parts obsolescence, ensuring on time delivery and associated milestone payments

Diagnostic/Prognostic Health Management

-Lead for 8 aircraft systems to revise current fault isolation manuals for the newly developed commercial version aircraft -Validated new streamlined procedures maintained full diagnostic coverage using lab testing

Reliability & Maintainability Design & Analysis

-Collaborated with Lockheed Martin’s global sustainment division and with vendor to establish list of 5 suspect components, spanning over 1,100 avionics units associated with over 170 aircraft-Led effort to identify and replace potentially unapproved vendor components, and to determine affected reliability to ensure safety and reliability of all currently active aircraft -Compiled data and presented quarterly results directly to United States Government concerning affected aircraft and continued monitoring to ensure current fleet remains uncompromised by suspect components-Supervised development of maintenance manual and presented all impacts and changes at program meeting-Collected and organized proposals for cost-cutting initiative review panel pilot, contributing to development of improved cost benefit analysis tool to reduce aircraft maintenance costs-Reviewed and refined cost benefit analyses, and prepared presentations for management

Fire Control Systems

Tested diagnostic hardware used to test faulty tank line replaceable units to support tank maintenance

Communication Systems Division

Tested and assisted in development team of a propriety program used in ITT military radios

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Business Administration And Management, General

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Electrical Engineering

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