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Kirkland, Wa, Us

Poulsbo, Wa, Us

The North Kitsap School District is a nationally recognized school district with a budget of $87MM and 1,000 teaching and support staff serving 5,500+ students. • Budget Management: Provided transparency in planning, budgeting, and monitoring district-wide operational budget of $87MM+ including multiple local, state, and federal funding sources with categorical and non-categorical spending limitations.• Labor Resource Management: Led district though rightsizing staffing challenge collaborating with HR to avoid potential forced staffing reductions.• Labor Relations Strategy: Teamed with district leaders to successfully bargain new labor contracts with multiple employee union groups.• Funding Strategy: Designed Capital and Operational levy funding strategies and supported the informational levy campaign leading to two simultaneous successful levy passages at over 62%.• Leadership Collaboration: Primary advisor to the Superintendent in all matters of business, financial and operational aspects of the school district including forecasting financial and bargaining agreement impacts during K-12 funding legislative changes.

Poulsbo, Wa, Us

• Personnel Leadership: Through thoughtful leadership, gained confidence and repaired trust with Facility Department Staff morale issues.• Budget Management: Discovered and corrected discrepancies in facilities maintenance department labor budgets and staffing. Directly managed $6MM facilities budget. • Strategic Planning | Program Management: Designed the framework for multiple future capital modernization and facilities sustainment and stewardship programs.• Technical Competence: Investigated facility obsolescence and material deficiency issues allowing consolidated pricing estimates to support capital levy campaign.• Adaptability: Demonstrated ability to quickly learn new systems with proficiency and accuracy while using sound judgment and good decision making leading to an internal promotion to Executive Director.

Seattle, Washington, Us

The Foss Seattle Shipyard provides full service, from naval architecture and marine engineering to vessel design, construction, and repair. With over 200 experienced craftspeople it provides cost-effective vessel repairs, major conversions, vessel construction, and routine maintenance to commercial and recreational vessels producing annual revenues of $60MM+. • Technical Leadership: Assumed leadership of a troubled, mission-critical, $52MM project upon major customer request. • Strategic Project Management: Directed the final design and build of a 2-boat Fireboat $52MM project, leveraging project management support staff, shipyard craft personnel, and multiple major subcontracted vendors to minimize the deleterious effects to the project. Conducted a full strategic re-planning of the technical construction sequence to achieve a more cost-efficient project.• Technical Project Management: Led and managed a complete engine repower project on Alaska Marine Highway Ferry CHENEGA resulting in on-time delivery and improving project financial margin by 27% (equivalent to approx. $3MM) compared to similar previous projects. • Adaptability: Flexibly and successfully performed several short-term duties such as emergent Project Manager on the Tug STALWART, Naval Architecture, and Project Management support for the Motor Yacht ICE BEAR, and as acting Shipyard Production Manager for a $60MM+ annual revenue shipyard.• Project Leadership: Led and managed repair project for State of Alaska patrol Vessel. Successfully delivered project 22 days ahead of schedule and doubled the bid project margin while receiving extremely positive feedback from all State of Alaska stakeholders.• Technical Coordination: Resolved technical coordination issues between multiple subcontractors leading to customer approvals of new construction production drawings directly resulting in breaking down critical path road blocks.

Virginia Beach, Va, Us

Q.E.D. Systems is a small disadvantaged business providing government contracting services to multiple topic areas in geographically diverse offices. The Bremerton office focuses chiefly on ship repair. With a small workforce of over 20 experienced craftspeople it provides cost-effective vessel repairs to military vessels with annual revenues $9MM+. • Project Management: Coordinated the successful management of multiple ship repair projects with annual budget of $9MM+ across a variety of government vessels including Navy Aircraft Carriers, Destroyers, Frigates, Coast Guard Ice Breakers, and Military Sealift Command Roll-On/Roll-Off ships.• Process Improvement: Initiated the use of an Earned Value Management System (EVMS) and Resource Loaded Technically tied schedules using MS Project to track project performance.• Productivity: Enhanced deckplate worker productivity by 11% by marrying personnel qualifications and available production tooling to minimize worker wait times and equipment transfers.

Bremerton, Wa, Us

Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility (PSNS & IMF) provides our Navy with high quality, on-time maintenance, modernization, recycling and support that helps assure America's dominance at sea. PSNS & IMF has permanent sites in Bremerton, Bangor, and Everett, Washington; in San Diego, California.; and at Commander, Fleet Activities Yokosuka, Japan. The shipyard in Bremerton is the Pacific Northwest's largest Naval shore facility and one of Washington state's largest industrial installations. With a workforce of over 14,000 experienced craftspeople it has an operational budget of over $2.1B. • Project Management: Coordinated the successful management of cost, schedule, performance, and safety of three aircraft carrier overhaul projects with budgets of $91MM, $74MM, and $139MM respectively. Led integrated project management teams of 150+ government shipyard workers, military, and contractor partners as well as a production workforce of over 1,100 government and 700 contracted employees from project initiation and planning to execution and closeout.• Contracting: Performed contract oversight for $5MM of service contacts ensuring contractual quality and schedule requirements. Developed Request for Proposal (RFP) on new work outside the original project scope.• Leadership | Adaptability: Periodically assumed duties as the Shipyard Chief Operations Officer cognizant over multiple competing projects in a labor constrained environment for an annual $2.1B industrial ship repair facility. Balanced budgetary, personnel, and technical constraints across the Aircraft Carrier, Submarine and Shipyard Inactivation, Recycle & Reactor Compartment Disposal Programs.• Project Team Building: Facilitated communication and cooperation between segments of cross-functional project teams overcoming technical and management obstacles to achieve on-time project completion.

Washington, Dc, Us

U.S.S. Ronald Reagan (CVN-76) is a Nimitz-class, nuclear-powered supercarrier in the service of the US Navy. Aircraft carriers are the centerpiece of America's Naval forces that support and operate aircraft that engage in attacks on airborne, afloat, and ashore targets that threaten free use of the sea and engage in sustained power projection operations in support of U.S. and coalition forces. When deployed an aircraft carrier is staffed with 5,000+ personnel. • Technical Leadership: Led 140+ personnel in the training, operations, and maintenance of electrical and electronic equipment for two nuclear powered marine propulsion plants.• Leading Results: Successfully managed training, preventative maintenance, and quality assurance programs leading to two successful reactor safety certification examinations.• Technical Partnering: Liaised with shipyard and repair facilities to accomplish major overseas repairs to electrical generation equipment restoring the aircraft carrier’s ability to meet all worldwide tasking in support of national security.• Technical Competence: Discovered two technical design errors and one installation error in the marine propulsion plant, developed proposal for resolution, and liaised with technical authority to institute design, operational, and troubleshooting guidance resulting in 19% increased propulsion plant reliability. • Root Cause Analysis: Expert in root cause analysis to analyze unplanned events due to system failure or personnel error.• Technical Expertise: Experience in electrical safety program management as well as electrical distribution and protection systems up to 4160 volts allowing safe and reliable electric power distribution throughout the aircraft carrier.• Leading Innovation: Instituted Machinery Vibration Analysis monitoring program to detect machinery degradation before unplanned failure resulting in increased operational reliability for aircraft carrier systems.

Bremerton, Wa, Us

• Project Management: Coordinated the successful management of cost, schedule and performance of a $148MM overhaul project for an aircraft carrier integrating engineering, production & manufacturing, and quality assurance.• Special Event Leader: Led and coordinated all aspects of the aircraft carrier undocking and sea trials leading to project completion.• LEAN implementation: Oversaw the completion of the shipyard’s largest LEAN improvement project leading to the quadrupling of maintenance completion throughput for critically coated storage tank preservation.• Qualification: Qualified as an Engineering Duty Officer technical and business leaders experience in Navy Aircraft Carriers, Submarines, Destroyers, and PSNS ship Inactivation, Recycle, and Reactor Compartment Disposal program.

Bremerton, Wa, Us

• Technical Leader: Managed the installation of new electrical shipboard enhancements and improvements leading to on-time successful completion of electrical alterations in a complex technically integrated schedule during a $179 million maintenance project.

U.S.S. Dwight D. EISENHOWER is a Nimitz-class, nuclear-powered supercarrier in the service of the US Navy. Aircraft carriers are the centerpiece of America's Naval forces that support and operate aircraft that engage in attacks on airborne, afloat, and ashore targets that threaten free use of the sea and engage in sustained power projection operations in support of U.S. and coalition forces. When deployed an aircraft carrier is staffed with 5,000+ personnel. • Personnel Leadership: Led 60+ personnel in the training, operations and maintenance of reactor and steam plant mechanical systems.• Results: Successfully managed training, preventative maintenance, and quality assurance programs leading to successful reactor safety and support system certification examinations.

U.S.S. HUE City is a Nimitz-class is a Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser serving in the United States Navy. As a multi-role warship, it has capabilities in air, surface, undersea and strike missile warfare. It’s multi-mission flexibility allows to operate as elements of carrier battle groups or amphibious ready groups, as well as performing missions such as interdiction or escort.• Personnel Leadership: Led 30+ personnel in the training, operations and maintenance of sonar systems and torpedo weapons systems.• Complex Coordination: Led a multi-national task force coordinating multiple naval units in the successful execution of submersible vehicle detection exercises.

Master Of Science (M.S.), Naval Architecture And Marine Engineering, Civil Engineering

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Nuclear Engineering, Materials Science & Engineering

Executive Mba