Aerospace Executive Program Manager with 25+ years Technical, Financial, Program Management and New Business expertise. Broad experience in managing multi-million dollar performance-based IDIQ Service and Firm Fixed Price product based Contracts.Extensive experience in setting up Engineering and Manufacturing facilities / separate business units for growing both service and product end-item business for Defense, Civil and Commercial businesses. Well documented track record of translating technical knowledge, supervising employees and managing programs for bottom-line customer, technical and financial results. Expertise in managing multi-faceted design and manufacturing phases of space hardware for NASA GSFC programs such as XTE, TRMM, EO-1, GPM, MMS, LRO, HST Repair Missions and JWST. Program Manager for the Johnson Space Center Space to Space Communication Radio and UHF antenna programs. Site Manager Executive lead the successful design and development of NASA’s X-37 power system. Lead the capture and successful design and manufacturing of the Air Force SBIRS High Power Instrument Control systems. Responsible for forging teaming relationships with Spacecraft primes for “national asset” NASA and Defense programs. Avionics lead in early Air Force “Responsive Space” initiative programs integrating active payloads with spacecraft primes.In early 1990’s lead the cooperative research development program between Litton Industries and the University of Maryland’s Computer Aided Life Cycle Engineering (CALCE) for the hi-reliability design and manufacturing of surface mount technology “SMT” for space and airborne avionics. Expertise in the design, packaging and manufacturing of space flight electronic hardware.
Listed skills include Program Management, Proposal Writing, Requirements Analysis, Business Development, and 16 others.