Senior Executive leading overall strategic planning, corporate communications, day-to-day operating procedures, implementing and revising operational policies and guidelines; and improving business processes.− Introduced a growth-oriented strategy to the senior TechMastery Executive Team; leading to first new contract outside of the IC in over 15 years; solidified company direction with new company mission and vision statements reflecting shared values emphasizing company’s distinct advantages in Federal contracting.− Developed and implemented new employee-centric policies for recruiting, retirement, health care, timekeeping, education, training and leave management to accommodate a growing and diverse workforce. Formulated billing rates for new-hire employees. Implemented a fair performance evaluation plan to maintain a quality workforce. − Established and led a strategic partnership with a prominent science and engineering services provider within the broader DoD S&T RDT&E community; better positioning the company to realize employee growth and revenue goals; enhanced company marketing capabilities by pursuing opportunities on two large task order contracts. − Developed the vision, strategy, and roadmaps to leverage human capital to achieve company goals and business strategy to attain growth and profit for the business. − Developed realistic and achievable execution plans that accurately reflect business needs while remaining cognizant of future budget constraints — significantly reducing oversight.− Introduced more assertive management style with higher risk tolerances to achieve more qualitative results and be more adaptive to changing business needs while being less dependent stakeholder risk aversion.− Led a customer effort to develop and implement an alternative data dissemination path for a new overhead asset; new data path was operational in less than 6 months, earning our team a Team of the Year award in 2020.

Senior Contract Program Manager for a 5-year, $120M Science, Engineering and Financial services prime contract vested with the authority to commit necessary resources to successfully execute all task orders awarded to ECS.− Primary customer point of contact for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) Defense Science Office (DSO) Science, Engineering, Technical, and Administrative (SETA) services IDIQ contract.− Developed strategic plans for effective customer engagement; identified customer staffing requirements and developed solid interpersonal relationships with existing and new customers; anticipated emerging customer requirements; proactively generated personnel requisitions maximizing competitive advantage; recruited and hired quality candidates to fill open personnel billets.− Developed and implemented program management plans for all projects spanning contract award to final delivery; performed all planning and control activities required to allocate budgets and manage contract execution. − Co-authored ECS’ proposal for a 5-year, $210M for DARPA’s Strategic Technology Office (STO) SETA IDIQ RFP. ECS’ proposal was selected for award with the highest possible rating of ‘Outstanding’ and declared the ‘Best’ proposal received by the Government. Developed the win strategy and authored four subsequent task order proposals for RPFs released under the new IDIQ contract – winning all four task orders for ~30 FTEs. − Recruited and approved new IDIQ subcontractors; established technical and financial reporting procedures; negotiated billing rates; evaluated and approved subcontractor candidates, flowed-down requirements, schedules and budgets, monitored and directed subcontractors; evaluated products and deliverables; tracked subcontractor cost, schedule, and technical performance as a part of the Prime contract reporting requirements.

Program Engineer and Task Order Lead for numerous DARPA programs and task orders within several technology offices. Achieved excellent results by earning respect as a trusted customer advocate and leveraging exceptional management techniques, strong negotiation skills, expectation management, and effective communication.

Principal science and technical adviser to the U.S. Army CECOM Ultra-Lightweight Camouflage Net System (ULCANS) Program Management Office.

Research scientist creating and evaluating novel infrared and RADAR signature management products, conducting representative field testing, and collaborating with other Government laboratories to standardize procedures.

Junior Engineer supporting tiered information system user support, operations, and maintenance.