Dan Kessler Email & Phone Number

Phoenix, AZ, US

Avondale, Arizona, US

We know buildings!Criterium-Kessler Engineers was founded in 2016 and we expanded into Las Vegas in 2021. We provide critical consulting engineering services utilizing licensed professional engineers with structural and civil engineering expertise and highly qualified engineering field technicians. Our clients can be anyone who is purchasing, owns, or is.

New York, NY, US

• AIAC Overview:AIAC is a group of 61 manufacturing locations with 9,500+ employees in 15 countries with annual revenues exceeding $1.5B. We are privately owned with no limited partners or institutional investors so we.
• Industry Sectors: Defense, space, automotive, manufacturing, appliances, rail, and oil & gas
• EBITDA: + / -
• Geographies: United States and Europe (primarily)
• Deal Types: Corporate carve-outs and private companies

Bethesda, MD, US

• Track and understand employee workload across more than 400 programs with project budgets as large as $20M and total sales revenues of approximately $1B. Managing Director virtually leading a geographically and.
• Led complete restructuring of complex technical operations and engineering entities resulting in improved affordability (dropped overhead rate utilization by 21%), fewer management layers, and significantly enhanced.
• Developed & implemented consistent business processes for expectations, staffing, and talent growth
• Dropped lost sales as a result of staffing from > $10M/year to $265k
• Established and implemented architecture document covering all aspects of directorate operations

Bethesda, MD, US

• Managing Director leading a virtual, high-performing, geographically dispersed engineering matrix of 275 leaders and 5,000+ engineers to ensure performance on critical programs of national strategic value.
• Restructured team to improve affordability and efficiency—53% cut to overhead budget utilization while improving against organizational objectives and expanding some capabilities
• Developed/implemented new talent identification and preservation process—enhanced placement of highly skilled employees to key positions and reduced attrition for top talent by 20%
• Created and deployed a proactive staffing process across all sites that resulted in a 99.99%+ staffing rate; reduced annual lost sales from $10M to $100K across a $440M labor pool
• Champion for Full-Spectrum Leadership expectations and hiring practices across LMC
• Implemented consistent business processes for financial actions, operations, hiring practices, OT, etc.

Bethesda, MD, US

• Engineering matrix senior leader for 700+ engineers and $10M budget across multiple southwest region locations to include meeting/exceeding program technical requirements, development and implementation of business.
• Completely restructured and reselected the 1st and 2nd line managers—streamlined the structure to reduce costs, improve employee interfaces, and enhance program performance
• Developed detailed performance appraisal process to ensure Site consistency—process adopted across up-line organizations and full implementation included real-time video address to 800+ leaders
• Led and developed the Full Spectrum Leadership interview & processes for Lockheed Martin
• Robust communication plan developed/implemented across all departments; included the creation of a weekly communications—outstanding sustained success significantly altered the AZ Site culture
• Reduced overhead charging by 75% in <2 years through proactive engagement of leaders/employees

Bethesda, MD, US

• Led successful development/implementation of a $25M proprietary software tool for a new customer with an on-time, on-budget deployment that exceeded customer technical expectations and resulted in follow-on task orders
• Assumed leadership on a new program with a new customer and cutting edge technology that was failing. Immediately implemented unique solution to drive down cost by 50% and ultimately achieve on-time on-budget delivery.

Bethesda, MD, US

- Intelligence Community Knowledge Management Lead- Project Engineer- Senior Operations Project Engineer- Lead Customer Application Instructor- Analytical Intelligence Lead

Randolph AFB, TX, US

Researched, analyzed, and coordinated complex intelligence issues - direct support to the warfighter and national intelligence processes, activities, and organizations.Interpretation, analysis, exploitation of national imagery products, wrote daily intelligence reports and developed long-term significant and impactful intelligence products on a wide range.

Bachelor'S Degree, Business Management

Associate'S Degree, Imagery Analysis / Remote Sensing