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Syracuse, New York

Rome, New York

Led 28-person team across a portfolio of multiple cybersecurity programs for various Defense agencies. Single point for administration of all program and functional responsibilities of all staff. Delegated assignments for staff growth, development, and sense of ownership. Led by example and was actively involved in day-to-day operations. Worked collaboratively with all team to ensure program success and future business growth.• Program VX: DARPA contract of $1.4M over 4 years with responsibility for all schedule, budget, deliverables, and subcontractors• Program OR: Air Force contract worth $850K over the course of 2.5 years with responsibility for all schedule, budget, and deliverables• Project FM: Air Force contract worth $500K over 1 year with responsibility for all schedule, budget, deliverables, and subcontractors• Capture manager for all proposal efforts being pursued within group• Interface to all supporting groups (finance, contracts, security) to ensure information was accurate and complete• Developed process for forecasting, budgeting, and training plans for group to executive team• Performed functional duties including task assignments, mentoring, performance reviews, training plans for all staff within group

Watertown, New York

Manager of 10-person team consisting of 6 system test engineers and 4 test technicians to accomplish testing of all systems prior to release to end user. Interfaced with sales, development, and program office teams to ensure customer needs are met.• Reviewing all test artifacts, ensuring compliance with System Test Process, and that all test results are acceptable for release• Created test processes for the test and verification team across multiple sites• Part of effort transitioning company into the Agile Scrum method• Created metrics to track performance and identify opportunities for improvement• Supported audits toward receiving a CMMI level 2 appraisal

Syracuse, New York Area

Managed multi-disciplined engineering team on development programs from proposal through system deployment across various sites. Interfaced directly with customer to ensure the product met their needs and was within scope of the contract.• Built customer confidence in team to secure additional work increasing sales over 50% (over $15M), more than double the original effort• Improved process by integrating customer into product reviews allowing us to identify areas of concern while decreasing cost, reducing risk, and delivering product earlier, exceeding customer expectations and increasing sales by 8% (over $.5M)• Resolved issue with customer software to meet the product delivery date and prevent penalties of over $.25M and fostering trust for future work• Managed programs during transition periods between program managers preventing schedule and cost impacts• Managed all aspects of engineering teams including budget, schedule, and tasking keeping multi-million dollar programs on schedule and within cost• Created and presented program reviews for earned value, design, technical solutions, and process improvement to internal and external management• Directed engineering team through many design reviews while empowering junior engineers to present directly to customer to gain experience• Delegated tasks, encouraged open communication, and provided stretch assignments to team members to help them grow their knowledge and provide them with responsibility• Cultivated a team approach with customer and program office providing an atmosphere of trust and openness

Syracuse, New York Area

Lead multi-disciplined product team to successful design, development, and test of a software product to be integrated into the overall system. • Led teams in on-board installation and at-sea trials• Provided field support for customer (requested by name) for various test events• Managed on-site team at a competitor company (teammates for contract) to complete testing of product and meet milestone deliveries• Built product team with balance of experienced engineers and junior engineers to ensure success of product while balancing cost and team members opportunities for responsibility and growth

Syracuse, New York Area

Developed multiple software products including requirements, design, implementation, unit test, integration and sub-system/system test.• Awarded Department of US Navy Certificate of Recognition• Established direct interface with unhappy customer to ensure concerns were addressed maintaining side-by-side link during test events• Managed small development team to evaluate and update internal software package to replace vendor delivered package

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Computer Science

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