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Mckinney, Tx, Us

Dallas, Texas, United States

San Antonio, Texas

Washington D.C. Metro Area

- Chair, Space Industrial Base Working Group (SIBWG)/Space Critical Technology Working Group (CTWG)- Portfolio/Program Management of 10 strategic technology risk mitigation projects, typically executed under the Defense Production Act (DPA) Title III and Industrial Base Analysis and Sustainment (IBAS) programs, to secure critical technologies for the Defense Industrial Base.- National Security Innovation Base engagement- Defense Industrial Base analysis/assessment- Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) case review- Merger & Acquisition review - Hart-Scott-Rodino Act review for DoD equities- Policy analysis

Greater Los Angeles Area

Led 150 member joint team to certify new launch systems to place National Security Space (NSS) payloads in orbit for the Department of Defense- Lead for all aspect Air Force certification of the SpaceX Falcon 9 launch system.- Planning and execution of 2.8K task plan/integrated master schedule for Falcon 9 certification.-- 21 major subsystem engineering review boards-- 500+ factory audits-- Qualification and Acceptance Test-- Preliminary and Critical Design Reviews-- Chair for final System Verification Review- Oversaw development of 1,100-step Launch Verification Matrix, mission assurance tool for "go/no-go" certification/launch decisions.- Brokered Air Force, National Reconnaissance Office, and NASA certification data exchange plan.- On-console analysis of over 10 SpaceX Falcon 9 launches for compliance with NSS mission/system requirements and payload integration standards.- Led critical renegotiation of SpaceX certification plan allowing for potential contract awards while simultaneously closing out identified engineering, testing, and manufacturing issues.-- Created joint issue resolution process, mapping technical mitigations with clear burn down plans- Assessment of other EELV new entrant launch vehicles: -- United Launch Alliance - Vulcan-- SpaceX - Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy-- Orbital-- ATK-- Lockheed MartinEELV - Evolved Expendable Launch Vehiclehttp://www.losangeles.af.mil/library/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=6808

Greater Los Angeles Area

- Oversaw $2.4B launch vehicle production contracts for United Launch Alliance Atlas V and Delta IV launch systems, including 3,000+ contractors at over 80 sites.- Led 145 member team responsible for review of 4,000+ hardware components, including flight critical components, supporting flight readiness determination for National Security Space missions.- Implemented 30 quality initiatives, reducing hardware failures by 9%, and scrap and rework costs by 29%.- Performed 164 reviews of critical launch vehicle hardware resulting in launches of over $3B worth of satellites now on-orbit.- Identified supply chain gaps and contractor inefficiencies resulting in development of action plans for up to 25% increase in national security launch vehicle production.http://www.losangeles.af.mil/library/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=6808

Washington D.C. Metro Area

- Led Headquarters Air Force (HAF) Forward Operating Agency (FOA) responsible for airlift, administration, logistics, finance and manning supporting worldwide operations of 32 organizations.

Kandahar/Kabul, Afghanistan

OCSDC was stood up with a mission to manage the programmatic drawdown of contracts, the contractor workforce and associated equipment in the Combined Joint Operations Area-Afghanistan (CJOA-A).- Led first forward deployed team tasked with US retrograde/drawdown of contractor support for 3 of 6 Regional Commands.- As part of initial cadre, authored Concept of Operations for initial capability and basis for doctrinal foundation of future contract drawdown operations in contingency environments.- Authored first Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) contractor drawdown orders for International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) Joint Command (IJC) and 1st Sustainment Command (Theater) (1st TSC) directing the Winter Logistics Campaign plan, including identification of all contractor services by base/region and identifying excess equipment. - Catalyzed the Kandahar Air Field (KAF) Garrison Command and CENTCOM Materiel Recovery Element (CMRE) to dramatically reduce the contractor footprint on Afghanistan's largest NATO base, lowering the strategic risk for drawdown of U.S. Forces while achieving 100 percent accountability of over 11,000 containers of materiel. Dubbed KAF Operation Clean Sweep, this effort divided the base up into eight sectors, covering 78 tenant units and over 500 different contract companies, mobilizing multiple retrograde teams over the course of 5 months and creating operational space for the closure of 71 additional bases.- Facilitated contractor drawdown on 67 bases, including identification of systemic over manning leading to a theater-wide review of contract-to-force levels.- Located over 400 containers of equipment stalled in the redistribution process. Coordinated with local stakeholders to alter processes/prevent recurrence, facilitating disposition to requiring units and freeing the land for reallocation of use.

San Antonio, Texas Area

- Program manager for portfolio of advanced science and technology projects in support of Air Force, Department of Defense, National, and multiagency customers.-- Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance-- Information Operations-- Human Systems Integration-- Bioeffects-- Directed Energy-- Aerospace sensors

San Antonio, Texas Area

Colorado Springs, Colorado Area

- Space and Missile System Center command lead, on-site technical director, and senior acquisition advisor to Chief of Staff Air Force (CSAF) directed Space Battlelab.-- Directed program oversight of 15+ space innovation projects, providing recommendation for and instituting contracting stategy on all Space Battlelab initiations, ensuring coordinated transition from concept development, to demonstration, to program office adoption.- Technical and acquisition project management for rapid prototype development and demonstration of technologies for transition to operational forces.- Instructed and trained acquisition best practices.

Colorado Springs, Colorado Area

- Responsible for acquisition project management, engineering, configuration management, financial management, and contract management of of over 15 individual rapid prototype/advanced technology systems (C2, Imaging, Space Surveiillance, Space Weather) utilizing national capabilities/intelligence to support quick reaction joint warfighting requirements.- Acquisition project manager:-- Brought initial version of Space Battle Management Core Systems (SBMCS) online, providing space force/surveillance status, navigational accuracy, space environment impact, and production of space tasking orders.-- Acquisition management of the Space Surveillance Network Analysis Model (SSNAM), allowing for Space Surveillance Network (SSN) assessment and design, orbital catalogue (object) maintenance, predictive/preventative analysis, and special event tracking.-- Development/Integration/Test of first hyperspectral sensor system onto the Predator UAV.

Dayton, Ohio Area

- Managed Embedded Global Position System/Inertial Navigation System portion of Atlantic Command's Navigation Warfare (NAVWAR) Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration (ACTD).- Technical Management and Integration of GPS Receiver Application Module (GRAM) and Select Availability Anti-Spoofing Module (SAASM) capabilities into Embedded GPS/INS systems supporting the F-15, B-1, AH-64, and other platforms for secure position, navigation, and timing (PNT).

Dayton, Ohio Area

- Managed facility construction, security, and communication network establishment for Aeronautical Systems Center's modeling and simulation hub in compliance with DoD High Performance Computing initiative.-- SIMAF is tasked by the United States Air Force (USAF) to provide a real-time, high-fidelity, virtual and constructive synthetic battle space analysis capability to evaluate strategies, Concepts of Operation (CONOPS) & Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs); Human Systems Interfaces; Network Enabled Warfighting Capabilities; Weapon systems; and Emerging Technologies.-- SIMAF is a state-of-the-art U.S. Air Force facility specializing in high-fidelity, virtual (manned), distributed simulation to support acquisition and test located at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. The SIMAF is charged with supporting capability planning, development, and integration in support of Air Force and Department of Defense acquisition program objectives. Key areas of emphasis include capability development and integration, network-centric system-of-systems development, and electronic warfare.

Mba, Technology, Operations And Production Management

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Physics

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