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Scottsdale Arizona

BMS Engineering is a matrix organization of over 800 engineers and a department budget of $169.6M that supports the business. Organized into ten Sections and three offices we support the business by providing the engineering staff to execute projects, proposals, and IR&D efforts. As the Director of Engineering, I provide the engineering vision, strategy, and leadership to the Chief Engineers and Section Managers and develop/implement plans to improve the engineering organization knowledge, skills and abilities, to be able to compete and win. In my role, I review and approve all ROMs, NTEs, and proposals with engineering content and attend/approve proposals at the division Final Management Review. Major accomplishments during this period are:• 48% growth in engineering staff to support 37% growth in sales• Implementation of SharePoint within engineer to support collaboration of sections, offices and projects• Implementation of enterprise metric systems that is SharePoint enabled and connected to the engineering tools/data through data adapters. Project data/metrics are transparent and can be reviewed at all levels of the organization• Improvement in engineering tools such as ClearCase/ClearQuest. Integration of tools such as Rhapsody/Doors – or ReqPro. Benchmarking of next generation tools such as RTC.• Sponsor of next generation virtualization environments to reduce cost and improve cycle time• Implementation of Human Center Design training and creation of the Foundry.• Cost reductions within engineering achieving a 30% decrease in overhead, while increasing training, awards/recognition, and improvements through Engineering Sponsored Programs.

Phoenix, Arizona Area

Program Manager Prophet Block II/II – BMSThe Prophet Program is SIGINT system and is an adjacent market win for BMS. Responsible for the management of 3 major subcontracts. In 2009 BMS was award the competitive Prophet IDIQ contract with a ceiling of $866M. To date the program has delivered 46 systems on an accelerated schedule and has orders for 14 additional systems.Program Manager – Business Process IntegrationIn this role, I am responsible for the development/implementation of program management processes and practices and continuous improvement. Responsible for developing the top-level division strategies to improving our Program Manager’s performance and work with the division staff to ensure we have an integrated plan across Engineering, Contracts, Finance and Program Management to improve.

Phoenix, Arizona Area

Chief Engineer Project ManagementAs Chief of Project Management, I was responsible for the development of the ISSP Project Managers and charter to improve their knowledge, skills, and abilities in the development of proposal, project planning, execution, and monitoring of projects and change management. Accomplishments include:• Development of the processes, practices, checklist, and review templates for proposals, ROMs, and NTEs • Development of scatter charts metrics to enable the review of proposal to past efforts• Developed and implemented project management training (~ 50hrs) presented by the leadership with the division• Implemented standards in project reviews and metrics• Mentoring of Section Managers

Phoenix, Arizona Area

Engineering Section ManagerThe Advance Systems Division mission is to create the next generation constellation of low earth orbiting and geostationary satellite communication system (Celestri/Teledesic) to provide high data rate communications anywhere on the globe. Responsibilities include:• Hiring and staffing of the engineering organization, salary planning and performance management• Development of the over-all cost, schedule, and work breakdown structure of the Celestri program• Development of partners/investors during the architecture and system design phase of the system.• Responsible for the development of department budget, tracking and taking corrective action as required.

Phoenix, Arizona Area

Manager Proposal Development Center This was a special assignment to design/develop and implement a proposal center to improve the proposal process and practices, deliver world-class proposals, and improve the win rate of the organization. Accomplishments included:• Developing the process, practices and tools that support the development of proposals• Physical build out of a proposal center• Hiring and mentoring of a proposal center staff including graphic artist, technical publication, and proposal coordinators• Improving the proposal win rate from 50% to 85%• Dramatic improvement in the proposal qualityIn this role, I was also responsible for the Technical Publication, Reproduction, and Central Data Management departments for the organization.

Phoenix, Arizona Area

In 1982, I returned to Motorola after obtaining a BSEE from ASU. Working in the Aerospace organization my first assignments were in RF module performance modeling, and alignment/test of Hi-Rel assemblies. Later assignments were Task Leader for:• Special Test Equipment on the Receiver Subsystem Program• 2-4 GHz 16x4 switch module Receiver Subsystem Program• Converter Modules Receiver Subsystem ProgramLater assignments included promotion to Project Manager and led the following programs:• Receiver Subsystem Program Converter Switch Assembly• Low Burst Rate Ground Station MODEM for the NASA Advance Communications Technology Satellite Program.• Joint STARS Block I ground stations –deployed early to support Desert Storm

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Electrical Engineering

Associate Of Arts (A.A.), Electrical And Electronics Engineering