Accountable and responsible for managing execution of a $20M USG program on time and within ROS goals, while meeting technical and quality requirements in a fast paced and dynamic environment.● Manage and empower an interdisciplinary team, including engineering, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, business, schedule management from program startup to closure. Direct resources to minimize delays, solve technical and supply chain issues, manage staffing, and proactively oversee risks and opportunities. ● Single point of accountability to clearly status leadership and customer on program performance. Manage Statement of Work scope, proposals, schedules and EVMS. ● Champion process improvement by leveraging lessons learned across Cryocooler Operating Unit.

Provide guidance to IPT, minimize execution risk, and prioritize several competing work packages for cryocooler fluid and mechanical hardware within a challenging and agile environment. Qualify products and deliver manufactured, subcontracted, and IWO assemblies, exceeding technical and schedule requirements.● RDE and IPT Lead. Manage daily planning with manufacturing team, quality engineers and technicians, including staff supervision, work assignments, schedule management and data analysis. Monitor work operations, actively assist and provide direction to team, collaborate with co-located Customer. Manage all phases of hardware element from design, manufacturing, testing, post-delivery and higher level activities. Author, approve and support closure of drawings, test procedures, test reports, work orders, system engineering level documentation, status reports, FRBs, MRRs, Design Reviews, MRBs, Tiger Teams.● IWO and SMT Lead. Main focal point and manager of subcontractor, SBU, manufacturing team. Author and approve equipment specifications, drawings, Work Orders, Statements of Work, and SDRLs. Lead post-delivery test programs and post-integration support. Cultivate sustainable subcontractor and SBU relationships. Counseled executive legal team during supplier-Customer relationship challenges.● Accelerate aggressive program schedule and minimize costs by managing multi-shift, six to seven day work schedules over eight months, minimizing scope creep with program and Customer, anticipating reach across tasks, and optimizing workflows.

Propulsion Products SME and product line manager within GSC and Subcontracts. Responsible and accountable for delivery of hundreds of units to multiple programs, within cost and schedule. Saved several $M by leveraging product expertise, negotiating skills, standardization and minimizing non-value added requirements.● Provide excellent problem solving, leadership, and communication experience in establishing and leading multidisciplinary product team. Intimate knowledge of propulsion product suite and industry supplier base. Develop sourcing strategies, specifications, statements of work, product line quality and M&P requirements. Creatively navigate conflicting and ambiguous requirements to arrive at optimum solution for customer.● Drive affordability initiatives and optimize subcontract performance. Collaborate with supplier base and internal organizations to provide a standard product suite across multiple programs, maximizing commonality, value and performance while minimizing cost and schedule. Develop consistent requirements and processes across all subcontracts to standardize product, reduce NRE, manage synergies, navigate competing program requirements and achieve economies of scale. Cultivate sustainable subcontractor and team relationships. Institute lessons learned across product line.● Manage subcontractor and deliver products to programs, from RFP generation, competition and source selection, proposal analysis, and negotiation through management of subcontract teams and delivery to program. Primary focal point with supplier in a high leverage, high visibility position. Direct and manage cost, schedule, and technical performance of development, repeat buy, technical service, and multi-program subcontracts, broad responsibility for all aspects of subcontract performance. Technical subcontract manager for valve, filter, pressure transducer, propellant and pressurant tank, regulator, flow sensor, quick disconnect and pump subcontracts.

Managed hardware and subsystem design, subcontract project management, spacecraft integration, subsystem testing, and spacecraft flight support.● Supported delivery of numerous fluid systems, including blowdown monopropellant, regulated bi-propellant, and complex pump-driven autonomous fluid re-supply systems● Spacecraft flight support, from early orbit operations to end of life disposal, on-orbit anomaly detection and resolution, data analysis and authoring final report● Coordinated Subsystem design and integration activities with thermal, stress, materials & processes, quality, and design engineering● Chaired Propulsion & Fluid Products Center at Preventative Action Board meetings, managed quality concerns for Propulsion center at directorate level