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Sarasota, Florida, United States

Program manager for major customers: Boeing and the Defense Logistics agency (DLA).Lead program manager for the development of an electric generator and generator control unit (GCU) for customer General Atomics. Generator and GCU are to be utilized in new Air Force combat drone.Manager for transfer of certain manufacturing operations from Sarasota Florida to Chihuahua Mexico.As program manager duties include schedule development, managing cross functional teams to meet milestones and KPIs, risk management, and direct communication with customers and management on progress.

Sarasota, Florida, United States

STEM, Computer Science, Math, and Physics TeacherTaught students ranging from 7th grade to 12th grade.

Lakewood Ranch

Served as main point of contact for all incoming customer technical support questions.Led new product development projects from early concept to product release. Duties included leading cross functional teams, generating the schedule, maintaining progress per the schedule, managing the project budget, and reporting progress to upper management.Led large scale work transfer projects. SAFRAN Power Division was consolidating facilities and the Sarasota plant was taking over this business. Managed the logistics and personnel needed to take on these new businesses.

Developed multiple processes to improve safety, efficiency, accountability, and reporting. Managed equipment and personnel in the 3 test labs within the facility.Improved overall safety and efficiency for all test operations.

Sarasota, Florida

Developed a set of metrics to manage the group and promote accountability and improved performance. Performed strategic planning for the department consisting of organization structure, performance metrics, resource planning, new product roadmaps, and developing business plans to support customer bid activity.Member of the plant leadership team and held an active role guiding the plant to improved performance levels in areas such as product cost out, quality control, and continuous improvement.

Sarasota, Florida

Supported major development programs; for example cockpit circuit breaker panels with electronics designed for circuit breaker status monitoring, voltage sensing, and current sensing the Bombardier C-Series aircraft.Led test lab improvements involving 5S, capital expenditures to improve the facility and equipment, and made major strides in testing a backlog of military re-qualification requirements on all product lines (circuit breakers, contactors, and switches).

Sarasota, Florida

Supported major development programs; for example cockpit circuit breaker panels with electronics designed for circuit breaker status monitoring, voltage sensing, and current sensing the Bombardier C-Series aircraft.Led test lab improvements involving 5S, capital expenditures to improve the facility and equipment, and made major strides in testing a backlog of military re-qualification requirements on all product lines (circuit breakers, contactors, and switches).

Palm Bay, Florida

Product manager responsible for the management of all phases of product lifecycle (concept – verification – market introduction – end of life).Led multiple development projects interfacing with engineers, marketing, and fabrication foundries across the globe. Functioned as the central resource with design, manufacturing, quality, and test.  Worked hand-in-hand with test engineering on the test plan and test requirements needed to satisfy the product datasheet and customers applications.Managed the process to make sure all testing was completed to satisfy reliability and quality requirements.

Master Of Business Administration, 2006

Bachelor Of Science, Electrical Engineering

Associate Of Arts