I’ve led Aging Aircraft Solutions business development to be listed on the Inc. 5000 fastest growing private companies in the United States in 2023. I have successfully won DoD Phase I, II and phase III SBIR R&D awards, as well as engineering and analysis based services work.I am an experienced engineering leader with strong analytical skills and significant finance, operations and program management leadership experience, including P&L responsibility. I lead customer engagements to deliver business value from technology. I have experience leading teams to develop NLP and GenAI products to solve customer problems.My technical background enables me to lead engineers and technical teams to successful project outcomes and translate technical solutions into business value. My interpersonal skills and diplomatic approach allow me to effectively manage customer relationships, lead teams and build positive, productive relationships.I have experience leading engineering teams to build challenging new software products using discrete event simulation, natural language processing (NLP) and generative AI technologies. We built a NLP based semantic search technology for the U.S. Air Force. We have also built a retrieval augmented generation (RAG) GenAI product focused on DoD users.I thrive in environments where I can lead others to achieve strategic business goals while overcoming challenges by developing creative solutions to problems along the way. I enjoy building teams and working with teams.I have a strong interest in using statistical analysis and finance to understand the stories behind the numbers, and how systems and business is performing. This information can be used to drive system and business performance by making data-driven decisions.Finally, I have a global perspective having attended high school in England. I have traveled extensively throughout the world including Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South America. There are still many places I would like to explore. I continue to enjoy travel and searching for new experiences that can help me broaden my perspective and understand the world.Specialties: leadership, customer engagement, customer success, engineering projects, NLP product development, GenAI product development, aerospace and defense, project & program Management, P&L Management, analytics, statistics. Financial Management, Financial Reporting, Modeling and Forecasting.