• Grew a scalable 350+ person global operations organization that drives revenue and profit growth• Developed operational excellence strategy enabling higher margins and lowering cost of goods sold• Managed global partnerships across multiple areas, exceeding YOY realized and secured savings.• Designed and executed operational business case supporting the acquisition of a €250M market competitor, exceeding cost synergy targets by $20M• Addressed customer satisfaction and engagement issues, delivering annual increases in revenue growth; developed C-Level engagement with strategic customers increasing market awareness • Drove vision and introduction of new revenue streams, expanding offerings portfolio and mitigating business risks • Full P&L responsibility for the successful operation of a European-based manufacturing facility – attained manufacturing center of excellence awards, delivered Aero industry certifications to increase revenues via providing third party manufacturing and aligning strategy to high value markets. • CIO/CISO responsibilities, increasing efficiency and improving global security posture; leading the integration consolidation of redundant tools and systems post-acquisition• P&L responsibility for $40m+ global service organization.• Negotiated $10m+ savings on single facilities contract with additional $6m back in incentives through life of contract

Dean Buckley is the senior vice president of operations at VT iDirect where he is responsible for the effective operations of the customer success, quality, manufacturing engineering, and global supply chain organizations. He is driving a global initiative to launch high-quality products and support services maintaining VT iDirect’s leading position and meeting market demands.Buckley has over 23 years in the satellite and radio communications field, with over 13 years at VT iDirect, where he grew his role from senior manager to SVP. He has been responsible for multiple departments within VT iDirect, driving continuous improvement and growth initiatives. Prior to his tenure at VT iDirect, he was a senior engineer at SIAE Microelettronica where he was a lead engineer in the U.K. responsible for system design, deployment and support. He also worked as a communications engineer within the British Army’s Royal Corps of Signals where he was deployed on multiple operational tours, and became an RF and satellite communications instructor. Buckley was awarded the Distinguished Operational Service Commendation for his service in Sierra Leone.

Engaged to create a culture of customer success throughout the organization.Directly responsible for multiple departments plus working across all other company functions, Transforming support and engagement models to meet client and company needs. • Developed industry leading global client support organization• Defined customer success within sales leadership, focus on improving awareness and responsiveness • Attracting high performance leaders and developing career paths for all team members• Created product integrity department delivering immediate a measurable product quality enhancements across software and hardware platforms• Developed client success managers for strategic accounts

Tasked with providing strategic thought leadership to global supply chain organization and partners. Focused on optimized inventory strategies and positioning the supply chain to support future business strategies.• Identified and implemented best practices for global manufacturing partner management.• Worked across senior leadership to ensure all objectives were aligned - implementing shared knowledge and S&OP procedures.• Delivered both direct and indirect savings strategies culminating in excess of $5m cost savings in first year.o $3.5m in direct cost reductiono $1.5m in cost avoidance• Provided full global supply chain mapping analytics to drive business strategy. Analytics from original tier supplier through end product delivery by region, country, client market etc.• Delivered low cost RF product solution saving over 50% per unit savings on large volume antenna and electronic partner components through two channels – new manufacturer introduction and creating new partnerships between suppliers and managing integration.• Directly managed senior directors and leaders in: Sourcing, Procurement, NPI Procurement, Contract Manufacturing Management, Global Manufacturing Operations, Product Development Program Management

Responsible for all operational aspects of global product realization and sustained production. Successfully integrated multiple departments to develop a single high performance, high value organization.• Restructured multiple departments, revamped poor operational practices, eliminated inefficiencies resulting in the operational support for product realization moving from the critical path of only three concurrent developments to successfully managing 11 concurrent developments. All achieved with zero additional headcount and a year on year reduction in operational cost.• Head of three departments: New Product Introduction, Global Manufacturing Engineering and Production Test Engineering – Ultimate responsibility for all operational aspects of product development and realization as well as technical and quality ownership of our global contract manufacturing base.• Replaced ineffective management structure, successfully reorganizing the teams with both internal and external hiring for managers and contributors.• Developed inter departmental process and communication structures for efficient product realization• Created Supply Chain and Operations product development processes and procedures from the ground up

Tasked by Vice President Global Supply and Operations to create new product development operations department.Integrating all supply chain and operational best practices into product development and delivery.• Creation and integration of manufacturing engineering discipline throughout early product design• Created and staffed new product development purchasing team• Created the product delivery procedure based on a stage gate approach with defined success criteria at each stage per department to enable solid business decisions

Ownership of all field services from implementations and on site service delivery, including all global projects, responsible for the development and growth of professional services.Leading cross functional departments including Implementations, global program management, post sales regional support teams in Europe, Africa, South America, Russia and CIS.Senior Management responsibilities with group management teams as direct reports.

Built the regional post sales services team from the ground up, identified requirements, created goals and objectives of group, hired and executed to plan.Created a value add department of service engineers based in multiple locations: Russia, Spain, Belgium, South Africa, Dubai and Egypt.Managed all EMEA customer post sales needs including Training, Installations, upgrade programs.

Senior engineer looking after installations, support and design of wireless networks including IP network design.

Mobile satellite engineer. Instructor on Satcoms, RF, HF.

Worked as a systems engineer on satellite communications equipment, deployed on multiple operational tours.Completed service as an instructor on satellite communications principles, SHF, HF and RF principals and equipment.