Business Development, Marketing and Sales for the Aerospace and Defense Sector

Turnaround of Burtek, complex structures small business. Sales were increased 50%, profitability doubled and backlog was tripled. The customer base was increased four-fold. Best-In-Class customer recognition was achieved and operational excellence with all customers demonstrated. Special Advisor to the President and Provost of the Stevens Institute of Technology included Systems Engineering, Supply Chain Management and Cyber Technology excellence.Various pro bono assignments for small business strategy and advisory roles including Counter Improvised Explosive Devices, Medical Devices and Cyber Security.

Honorable Dr. Finley served the Country as the Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology, having been nominated by President G.W. Bush and unanimously confirmed by the Senate. He provided governance and oversight for all DoD Services and Agencies for Program Management, Systems Engineering, Procurement, Contracting, Strategic Sourcing, Industrial Policy, Small Business Programs, the Defense Acquisition University, the Defense Contracting Management Agency and Joint Advanced Concepts. Transformation was accelerated with a sense of urgency to reduce cycle time, increase competition and broaden communication. A broad set of strategic and operational initiatives were accomplished. Vectors for change were established and a highly recognized and respected management team was built and transitioned to the next Administration.

Variety of growth and turnaround management positions with General Electric, Singer, Lear Siegler, United Technologies and General Dynamics, where he was a Corporate Officer, President of Information Systems and Chair of the Corporate Business Development Council. His business experience spans Air, Land, Sea, Space and C4ISR programs and includes LEO constellation design and development, Federal Aviation Administration’s automatic surface detection radar systems and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Space Shuttle Program. Systems and subsystems experience includes CONOPS, mission analysis, requirements definition, design, development, integration and deployment of weapon delivery, flight control, navigation, information management, battle space management and chemical/biological defense systems. He has over two decades of Information Centric and Joint DoD program experience including: Air/Land demonstrations integrating the Airborne Warning and Control System with 9th ID ground radar systems leading to Joint C4, utilizing the Joint Tactical Information Distribution System; deployment of the Joint Surveillance and Target Attack Radar System to Desert Storm leading to the tracking of critical mobile targets and the “Mother of all Retreats”; the DARPA System-of-Systems Battlefield Awareness and Data Dissemination program leading to information centric warfare demonstrations and doctrine changes for joint operations. Expatriate turnaround assignment that included resolution of computer issues for grounded JA-37 flight test program in Sweden.