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Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States

Senior Systems Engineer for the Advanced Battle Management System Digital Infrastructure Network Manager program.

Colorado, United States

Led team of 25 Data Analysts, Data Scientists, and Operations staff for the Chief Data Office. Oversaw delivery of executive and board of director financial, IT asset, procurement, HR, recruiting, and program execution dashboards. Managed enterprise tools stack, content, and servers for 40K users of Tableau, Alteryx, Denodo, Collibra, Alation, AWS, and Azure to provide consistent uptime for programs.• Developed and executed long-term strategy and multi-year product roadmap for corporate data analytics, reducing maintenance costs, increasing adoption rates, and adding capability for users.• Increased user engagement by 500% through low-cost, vendor supported training and user community outreach initiatives.• Negotiated license agreements with vendors to add capabilities while lowering per-user costs.

Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States

Led corporate initiative for digital transformation for modeling and simulation of military and civil space systems. Developed process for digital engineering in all phases of product lifecycle.• Deployed architecture integrating model-based systems engineering (MBSE) tools with simulations, enabling automated trade studies for business development and engineering design optimization.

Managed the research and development initiative to increase quality and fidelity of defense modeling and simulation. Conducted trade studies using mission-level models and simulations in support of international business development. Led cross-functional team of 80+ managers, engineers, software developers, graphic artists, and data analysts.• Developed cinematic-quality demonstrations of space systems, using engineering accurate simulations, to support business development activities awarding multiple space and missile defense contracts valued at $1.6B+.• Conducted trade studies using mission-level models and simulations, providing international business development staff hard data that improved quality of proposals• Tripled the budget and staff for R&D through providing custom high-quality simulations and analysis of defensive architectures for classified programs.

Provided technical leadership to business development staff, wrote winning proposals, and successfully executed new contracts.• Wrote 32% of the technical volume for a winning radar simulation proposal worth $3.7M.• Demonstrated a lifecycle cost model at the National Space Symposium to government stakeholders and acquisition personnel, improving our capture strategy and leading to a contract award worth $850M.

Awarded membership in the Systems Engineering Associates Program, a highly selective leadership development rotational program for engineers with outstanding potential. Supported four programs for six months each in systems engineering, satellite operations, R&D projects, and business development.• Developed satellite disposal plan and procedures, conforming to rigorous NASA standards, for a communications system that reached end-of-life, resulting in a safe and successful satellite disposal.• Implemented KPIs, metrics, and methods for analyzing the effectiveness of a cyber-attack, enabling data driven decision making for security leadership.

Systems engineering support to the Missile Defense Agency to develop models & simulations of the Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) and foreign missile threats.

Data Analytics

Four graduate level courses in Modeling and Simulation, Data Analytics, Machine Learning and AI

Bachelor'S Degree, Physics