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Denver, Colorado, United States

Executive leader and portfolio program manager for the next phase of Trident II D5 system evolution. Leading a rapidly growing team to develop relevant and credible deterrence for our future.

Executive leader with a team of over 140 talented engineers and account managers focused on supporting the continued and future success of the Trident II D5 program. Our organization is accountable for technical reliability, strategic vision, and program management of a very large portfolio. We're also focused on accelerating the future through model based engineering and advanced manufacturing.

Greater Denver Area

The functional and deployed senior manager for a technically diverse team of 45+ engineers (including 6 engineering team leads and 4 front-line managers) across multiple sites with contract responsibility in excess of $100M annually; $380M on contract. Managing deployed missile systems as well emerging programs and multiple research and development contracts. The team is also responsible for technical and programmatic oversight of 10 major engineering suppliers.

Sunnyvale, Ca

As Manager of the mechanical controls engineering group, I am responsible for the technical, functional, and budgetary oversight of over 20 engineers. Our products support propulsion thrust vector control and include solid gas generators, gas hydraulic assemblies, and servo actuators. The team is also responsible a wide range of ordnance components, small solid gas thruster systems, and aerodynamic control mechanisms.

Sunnyvale, Ca

Serving as the Technical Assistant to the VP and General Manager of the Strategic & Missile Defense line of business at Lockheed Martin SSC, I was responsible for maintaining the business rhythm of the LOB such as operational reviews, strategic planning, quarterly leadership summits, program management reviews, site visits and protocol, and all-hands employee communications. I also developed and managed the employee engagement team and lead initiatives which champion the VP’s vision for the LOB.

Sunnyvale, Ca

As a functional manager in the liquid subsystems propulsion group, I provide oversight for multiple direct reports in Sunnyvale Special Programs. The propulsion functional organization serves the strategic business goals of the LMSSC Central Engineering directorate. As a member of central engineering management, I serve on independent review teams for failure review boards, technical knowledge management, personnel performance appraisals, and talent management and acquisition. In addition to my leadership role, I am the certified principal engineer (project manager) for the propellant isolation valves and CPE delegate for the reaction control and orbit adjust thrusters. In these roles, I provide cost, schedule, and technical oversight for multiple suppliers on multi-million dollar contracts while managing systems requirements, acceptance and qualification test planning, and product certification.

Sunnyvale, Ca

For my three years as a senior mechanical engineer in Space Systems Company in Sunnyvale, CA, I worked as a propulsion subsystem analyst on multiple programs. One program, GeoEye-2, is a hydrazine monopropellant blowdown system with a diaphragm slosh control device. My responsibilities on this program included blowdown performance, slosh control, feed system pressure characterization, propellant mass gauging uncertainty and some work on propellant loading analysis. On the program which I currently work I have had a full scope of propulsion design and analysis activates. I’ve completed a full feed system water hammer model. I have designed a complete subsystem simulator with a very advanced reaction control system control model with an integrated mass gauging algorithm. I also led a comprehensive study on slosh disturbance using in house test data and over 2000 Flow3D slosh simulations. Over the last 2 years I’ve also been a university recruiter for Lockheed. I’ve attended job fairs and performed interviews at Purdue University, Stanford University, University of Michigan, and University of Washington

Houston, Texas Area

Between 2008 and 2010 I worked on the Orion crew exploration vehicle (now the Multi Purpose Crew Vehicle) as a propulsion subsystem analyst. The MPCV is a human spaceflight vehicle designed to carry humans beyond low Earth orbit. During my two years on this program I performed many analyses including topics on fault detection, slosh mitigation, feed system pressure drop, mass gauging uncertainty, ferric nitrate contamination mitigation, and subsystem filter sizing. Most of my experience was on the service module propulsion subsystem which is a regulated NTO/MMH bipropellant system.

Reston, Va

During the summer of 2006 I was an intern at AIAA in Reston, VA. My position at AIAA was in the government relations group. While there I drafted press releases on aerospace topics, contacted AIAA industry partners, attended congressional committee meetings, and helped organize staffer events. Since the majority of my experiences up to 2006 were highly technical in nature, this was an opportunity to learn more about the business/relationship side of the aerospace field. It was also a chance to learn more about AIAA.

Master Of Science (M.S.), Aerospace, Aeronautical And Astronautical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Purdue Student Pugwash: Served as President, Vice President, and Director of Advancement for this student.

Master Of Science (M.S.), Space Systems Engineering

Obtained a Master's certificate in Space Systems Engineering with continued work toward a full Master's degree.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Aerospace, Aeronautical And Astronautical/Space Engineering

Activities and Societies: Purdue University Student Pugwash, NASA Microgravity University, Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship