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Program Management "Chief" providing subject matter expertise to a team of ~50 program managers leading Space and Defense research, development, and production efforts. Oversight to $400M annual NRE and production deliveries generating over $1.5B revenue.

Program Management responsibility (Proposal, Design, Development, Test, Certification, In-Service Support) for radio, satcom, inertial refrence, transponder, and lighting products and applications supporting Boeing Commercial Aerospace platforms, including 787, 777, and 737.Products include Navigation Radios: Automatic Direction Finder (ADF), Distance.

Lynnwood, Washington, US

Site Program Manager for Crane Aerospace and Electronics, Chandler, AZ. Manager NRE development programs for microwave technology aero and space applications. Provide PMO oversight for Production and RMA activities, supporting US DoD and Prime Contractor customers.

Fort Collins, CO, US

• Program Manager for Large Engine Valve and Actuator technology development platforms, and new product introduction projects. Responsible for the development and production release of products exceeding a total value of.
• Management of the Large Engine Valve & Actuator Program, a multi-year technology development program, with over $20M in Non-Recoverable Engineering budget.
• Successfully lead the development and release of over 15 derivative prototypes for strategic customers.
• Helped to introduce PMI/ANSI best practice to Woodward PMO. I lead initiatives to formalize process around program estimating (Basis of Estimates), Software IDIQ Development Methodology, Risk/Opportunity Management.
• As Program Manager, lead the release of products directly resulted in the award of contracts anticipated to exceed $25M in mature annual volume sales, at > 50% margin.

Bethesda, MD, US

• Program Manager for Unit Level Bridge to Unit Command and Control (UL/UC2), a 6-year/ $32.8M IDIQ software development program. An additional $15M+ CV, $1.2M P&L annually on other DoD contracts.
• Management of a $32.8M execution budget, coordinating a team of ~20 FTE; P&L of $3.6M.
• Excellent program performance resulted in $7M in competitive USAF SW development procurements being cancelled in favor of sole-source awards to Lockheed Martin in 2011, and $5M in 2012.
• Successfully negotiated base $3.9M UL/UC2 12-month contract to nearly $33M over four years, via performance-based ECPs, resulting in exceeding OSP commitments each year from 2009 thru 2012.
• Upon successful completion of base contract development work, UL/UC2 received a first performance assessment in April, 2010. The CPAR score is 4.2 with dark-blue/purple rankings in 10 of 11 areas.
• NETCENTS Capture Manager on over 500 product RFQ responses in 2009, resulting in over $8.7M in orders and sales. Program Manager of successful service task orders generating $2.2M in orders/sales.

Bethesda, MD, US

• Deputy Proposal Manager for Global Combat Support System-Air Force 2 (GCSS-AF2), a 7-year/ $750M “Corporate Focus” program.
• Oversight of a $5.5M B&P budget, covering a team of ~30FTE, and managing it to 2008 fiscal spend target despite several customer delays. (Program awarded to LM in August 2011.)
• Authored several Management Volume and Cost Volume sections, and developed their associated artifacts, successfully meeting baseline and threshold review targets (e.g. Red Team, 50% BL.)

Bethesda, MD, US

• Primary interface between the Engineering and Program Finance functions of a $230M/year business unit.
• Identified opportunity for, and successfully integrated, the GCSS-AF program’s EVM system (Artemis) and technical workflow/status tool. An extensive 2008 DCMA audit specifically recognized the process improvement as a.
• Successful Cost Account Manager for projects with budgets totaling more than $10M annually, contributing to an all “Blue” CPAR and 98.33% award fee, highest in GCSS-AF’s 12-year history.
• Developed business case for the Enterprise System Life Cycle Management Support (ELMS) proposal. LM won the initial $15M FDA contract in QTR2 2009. Potential contract value over 10 years is $2B.

Bethesda, MD, US

• Program planning, metrics development, and cost/schedule analysis, on a $30M/year DoD IDIQ contract.
• Provided analysis to Program Management resulting in $0 VAC and customer award fees of 94-97%.
• Developed and implemented an MS Access-based automated labor allocation process to improve cost reporting efficiency and accuracy on an IDIQ, task-order based contract (GCSS-AF.) Customer savings exceeded $100k.

Bethesda, MD, US

• Program Control Lead on several FMS Radar programs (Croatia, Jordan, Korea, Taiwan, Brazil, MEADS), responsible for the program IMP and IMS, Earned Value Management, and Risk/Opportunity Management.
• Guided several programs from “Yellow/Red” status to “Green” as program Risk/Opportunity Manager.
• Created the work breakdown structure and 10,000-line, resource loaded master schedule, for a $250M radar proposal, resulting ultimately in the successful contract award (MEADS.)

Bethesda, MD, US

• Managed G&A and Overhead budgets for all MS2 – Syracuse operations. Responsibilities included LRP development, budget allocations, reconciliations, and approval authority over all related site expenses.
• Managed $75M worth of overhead and G&A budgets, associated with multiple functional disciplines such as Legal, Communications, and Business Development, with no significant cost variances.
• Managed financial aspects of consolidating operations from three other LM locations to Syracuse, NY.

Bethesda, MD, US

• Customer-facing assignment focused on the development of technical documents, training, and parametric cost modeling for life-cycle cost analysis on sonar, minehunting, & electronic warfare systems.
• Developed life-cycle cost models for US Navy and UK MoD Minehunting systems (WLD-1, HUNT.)
• Provided training to US Navy personnel on complex electronic warfare systems (AN/BLQ-10.)

Systems Engineering Master'S Certificate, Systems Engineering

Mba, Finance, Entrepreneurship

Ba, European History, Political Science

Certificate, Graphic Design