Chief Systems Engineer for an electro-optical satellite payload program, leading the technical solution across mechanical, optical, electronics and electrical, software, and integration and test disciplines. Also group manager for several L3Harris systems engineers.

• Chief Marketing Officer for the organization, leading the planning and coordination of day–to-day and special project marketing activities including creating marketing plans, target audience analysis, understanding and disseminating voice of the customer, and contract management.• Twelve years of experience conducting strategic and tactical planning to meet organizational objectives: understand the situation; understand the end state; determine the gap; formulate objectives, strategies, and tactics; communicate the vision and plan; lead the plan’s execution.• Experienced with analyzing and segmenting target audiences across geographic and cultural boundaries.• Educate the organization as to the benefits of marketing and advertising activities for meeting objectives.• As an account executive-equivalent, planned and coordinated multiple media channels (print, radio, face-to-face, social media, out-of-home, promotional activities) to increase support for the Government of Afghanistan in Southwest Asia.• Increased Afghan civilian participation in a tip-line program by 200% through a marketing and advertising program in Afghanistan with a $4 million budget and a combination of traditional and modern media channels. • Developed and implemented metrics for marketing programs in Afghanistan.

• Program director for all bilateral and multilateral partner events from senior leader meetings through large scale exercises. Managed direct reports in four different planning groups to plan, budget, and assess events.• Conducted organizational strategic and near-term planning for foreign-partner events within eight Middle East countries. • Conducted quantitative and qualitative assessment of events and activities, building metrics to inform leadership of progress against the plan.• Coordinated with U.S. embassies and other stakeholder organizations throughout the Middle East and the U.S. to ensure the plan nested with stakeholder objectives.

• Introduced the VersaSync and VersaPNT position, navigation, and timing network appliances for networking systems requiring GPS resiliency. This represented a new market segment with domestic and international customers in B2C, B2B, and B2G. • Managed the SARBE satellite-enabled aviation rescue beacon product line and begin introduction of a ground segment military rescue beacon product line.• Responsible for product line P&L for revenue, gross margin, and EBITA targets; provided performance metrics and input for annual operations and five-year strategic plans.• Product Owner for the Versa and SARBE products. Utilized both Agile and spiral development models as required to meet market needs. Coordinated with other product owners to effectively use matrixed development teams across several product lines.• Assisted with proposal development for opportunities requiring robust timing precision in mission-critical networks. • Gathered, analyzed, and presented competitive and market intelligence using primary and secondary research to develop product and business strategies; resulted in the decision to move the Versa line from commercial to a program-driven sales model.• Collaborated with marketing managers to build customer personas and targeted marketing programs using thought-leadership writing pieces, media advertisements, online social media, and email campaigns; assisted with marketing performance metric development.• Supported domestic and international sales and program teams for customers across the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia with remote and in-person sales meetings, customer visits, and product presentations.• Leveraged product lines to support company ISO9001 certification.

• Responsible for full product life-cycle execution for software defined networking-radio product lines and related accessories for domestic and international customers. • Managed annual spiral-development projects for several product lines simultaneously. Annual budgets ranged from $100k to $2 million.• Assisted marketing managers with customer personas and market research for print and digital campaigns.• Lead cross-functional teams totaling over sixty people in multiple development disciplines.• Improved gross margins by 5% with product improvements and effective value pricing plans. • Led introduction of GUI-based network configuration applications for networking radio products.• Led the introduction of products from an acquired company into the Harris catalog, enabling positive revenue generation within a year of acquisition.• Managed and developed direct report product support specialists to improve customer-facing support of the product lines.• Conducted competitive and market research and led make-buy-partner decisions.• Leveraged financial modeling and competitive intelligence to support the go/no-go decision for a professional service offering.

• Performed system design and government accreditation of a software-defined radio cryptographic system. • Assisted with writing and performing software security assistance test plans.• Ensured the design met all information security requirements (over 200 requirements).

• Conducted market research and planning for multiple global regions in support of U.S. operations.• Worked with numerous media channel types advertising to wildly diverse customer audiences.• Synchronized marketing activities into the larger organization's planning and execution.• Trained and informed the full organization of marketing's synergistic benefits to overall success.• Responsible for planning and analyzing marketing metrics.

- Primary market researcher and marketing activity planner for U.S. Army activities in eastern Afghanistan.- Integrated multiple marketing plans into larger organizational activities using print, out-of-home, radio, social media, and word of mouth tactics.- Developed and implemented marketing metrics to improve the impact of marketing activities.

• Led hardware and software product development of the first successful and widely fielded ruggedized PDA device in US Army operations.• Increased contract awards by $3 million of follow-on work as the Project Manager for two United States Army communications programs.• Assisted with CMMI Level 4 accreditation of the software development department.• Led a team of direct reports to provide facility and IT security management to a US Army program office.

- Initially responsible for technical calculations for a field artillery platoon.- Chosen to lead two field artillery platoons (~50 people each), ensuring the groups were trained and cared for.- Attained the position of Battalion Fire Direction Officer, responsible for technical direction of three field artillery platoons.