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Systems Engineering Section Manager for airborne ISR systems. Responsible for team leadership and management, systems engineering work products, and product line staffing. Work with Business Development, Operational Unit Directors and engineering managers with the goal of fostering collaboration across programs. SE Evangelist, encouraging innovation within the product line and the engineering disciplines.

Responsible for ensuring all aspects of the Satellite Program and philosophy are planned and executed. Primary focus on design assurance, product quality, and technical compliance throughout the development life cycle. Provide executive management with independent assessment of program performance and executability. Perform technical reviews of test articles and technical compliance of major deliverables prior to delivery. Review and approve deviations and waivers, acceptance test results, data reviews and all major anomaly conditions. Required signatory for the Failure Review Board (FRB). Manage the Risk & Opportunity program to identify risks to program executability and strategies to manage them.

Reported to the director of Systems Engineering. Responsible for Internal Research and Development (IRAD) initiatives, process improvement initiatives, training budgets, and SW tool procurements and training. Responsible for researching industry, government and academic literature for SE best practices and performing gap analyses of multiple business unit processes throughout the sector to establish common Systems Engineering processes, procedures, tools, manuals and training materials.Established an advanced systems engineering group, promoted its charter, and created vision for lean SE processes. Established a model-based SE practice using the Department of Defense Architecture framework (DoDAF) approach to ensure an integrated set of work products in SysML and IDEF languages.

SEIT lead for the Global Hawk Maritime Demonstration Program and other unmanned Systems. Deputy PM for the BQM 74E/F with all the responsibilities for meeting technical, cost and schedule objectives. Ensured technical requirements were implemented and verified across design teams. Responsible for Technical Performance Measure planning and reporting, Cost, Schedule and earned value reporting, and Risk Management.

Project Engineer for B2, F/A-18 E/F and C/D Variants:Managed new business proposals, technical estimating and statements of work. Managed subcontractor statements of work, design reviews, cost and schedule performance, FRBs, and deviations and waivers in accordance with the contract.Prepared and submitted Deviations and Waivers along with corrective action plans; proposed retrofits, and other replenishment scenarios.

Responsible for, reliability analysis, and productivity improvement for a diverse family of Electro-Optical/Infrared Sensor Programs. Integrated new products into existing production.

Responsible for the development of a hand-held Radar for small marine craft. Responsibilities include hiring and managing several subject matter experts in the areas of signal processing and manufacturing techniques. Responsible for hiring assembly workers to perform circuit board design and assembly. Responsible for payroll and performance reviews. Marketing and Product demonstrations to potential customers.

Computer Systems Technician for a product line of high capacity memory drives. Some circuit board and cable design as well as cost reduction studies.