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Led seven Project Managers in $50M legacy app open source modernization. Defined vision, product strategy, plans. business requirements, and product roadmap.Mentored 30 team members as Technical Program Manager in the execution of Scrum, Kanban, Kaizen, and Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Established quarterly cadence and iterative reporting structure, decreased meetings by 75%.Initiated an Agile transformation from Project Management to Product Management on five product lines. Aligned products with business initiatives, initial MVP delivery set for technology demonstration at the end of 2022.Validated technical requirements documentation with cross-functional teams and prioritized the Product Backlog with key external customers, ruthlessly prioritized technical debt vs. new feature prioritization.Established Merger and Acquisition due diligence of the procured organization. Guided 500 employees transfer, reviewed strategy, vision, operations, assets, finance, and legal aspects. Ensured a smooth 6-month transition.

Established the office of User Experience/User Interface (UX/UI). Led 20 members in the User-Centered Design (UCD) process improving customer experience across six geographically separated design teams and scaled Scrum across multiple organizations.Negotiated UI Toolkit consistency contract for a Design System library (Invision), ensured a consistent design language across three product teams and 200 development stakeholders.

Coordinated portfolio across 297 programs and projects, reporting consistency up to the Secretary of the Air Force for AcquisitionDelivered a $10M project management app development contract resulting in a unified reporting dashboard leveraged by 5,000 employees

Negotiated multiple internal stakeholders in the contract creation. Led the award of a $10M annual Commercial Space Situational Awareness contract which increased 10 million optical measurements per month.Developed Data as a Service (DaaS) contract across three geographically separated software development environments, follow-on efforts lead to DaaS evolution leveraging Palantir data platform.Wrote a $100M Software Systems Engineering contract and evaluated subcontractor proposals. Additionally oversaw the contract execution as third-party vendor manager for 50 software subject matter experts.

Orchestrated satellite vehicle test management on $2.5 Billion satellite specs ensuring hardware test spec and software tests were cleared for launch, satellite currently in Geosynchronous orbit.Verified Launch and Early Orbit Testing (LEOT) as satellite optics lead during a one-month on-orbit operational test. Supported 24-hour shifts during space vehicle burns and provided hourly updates to senior executives.Cleared 300 safety of flight satellite orbital launch risks, $2.5 Billion satellite on orbit with no loss of mission.

Managed and mentored 12 direct report junior intelligence professionals, delivered intelligence summaries to 20 member executive board impacting 5,400 military personnel.Executed infrastructure decommission program, oversaw the secure destruction of Top Secret obsolete computer hardware.

Volunteered for 8 months in Kandahar Air Base as Senior Intelligence Officer (SIO) briefed 100+ aircrew daily threat reports and coordinated 24-hour shifts of 5 direct reports.Oversaw physical and information security as Security Manager for 200 person squadron, culminating in physical infrastructure decommission of multi-million dollar Top Secret facility with zero incidents.