Proven leader with extensive Aerospace and Defense Industry experience encompassing engineering and program management. Demonstrated successes in reorganizing departments, program execution, and management of technically challenging development and production programs.Exceptional talent for building effective teams and managing engineers of all disciplines to achieve creative product design solutions, on-time and within budget. Restructured engineering departments, leading to significant reductions in design cycle time. Effective leadership skills to motivate, coach, evaluate and assess talent. Creates culture of continuous improvement of engineering processes and infrastructure.Maintains a focus on critical details to ensure proposal accuracy, favorable contract negotiations and successful project implementation. Experience with a wide variety of contract types (FFP, FPIF, CPFF, CPAF, T&M, LOE) and structures direct to the US Government, Foreign Military Sales, as subcontractor to major defense companies and commercial................................................Technologies/Skills.................................................Electro-Optical Systems & Sensors................Cross-functional Team LeadershipLaser System Design............................................Organizational LeadershipStabilized Platforms..............................................Risk ManagementSATCOM/SIGINT....................................................Design for Size, Weight & PowerComposite Structures..........................................Six Sigma; WBS; EVMS; ISO; ERP
Listed skills include Program Management, Earned Value Management, Engineering Management, Systems Engineering, and 46 others.