Responsible for supervising 12+ direct reports with various engineering backgrounds (software, electrical, mechanical, systems, technicians) while also assisting those engineers in successfully completing their assigned tasks. Other management duties included contributing to department technical initiatives, business capture / project estimation, assisting with project planning and execution, and management of the assigned workforce.

Engineering Manager / Cost Account Manager / Technical Lead of a multidisciplinary team for a multiple year army test system upgrade, Tasked to lead software and hardware development and upgrades to multiple Army depot level test stations.

I was deployed to I fill holes on a $22M Air Force Quick Reaction Capability program. Here I implemented a Scrum process to reduce software development and integration time and to ensure on-time hardware and software deliveries. I managed and assigned lab/program resources to a cross-functional engineering team. I tested, verified, and signed off software builds and I prepared and delivered design reviews to our Air Force customer. Additionally, I executed acceptance tests on all deliverable products. Finally, I was rewarded with the opportunity to train and educated warfighters on-site on how the deliverable products.

I led the Systems Engineering Team (2008-2010) on a $29 million maritime antenna development program. I managed, staffed, and was answerable for Systems Engineering cost, schedule, and technical performance. As a manager, I coordinated design reviews, contractual deliveries, customer and supplier meetings, and planned technical interchanges with customer. I implemented and negotiated multiple shifts to compress schedule 3 months to achieve an on-time delivery and customer acceptance of the prototype system.In a concurrent role I was the Systems Engineering Manager (2006-2011) for an $11 million antenna production program. Here I created, reviewed, and approved engineering change orders. Additionally I prepared and led customer design reviews. I managed product configuration, documentation, and lessons learned. Technically, I computed RF performance parameters (transfer gain, SNR, intercept and compression points) to selloff antenna systems and I Implemented root cause analysis efforts for failed systems and components. I was a critical contributor for capturing an additional $4 million in follow-on repair, requalification, and research efforts. I was also a cost account manager and technical lead (2007-2008) for a sonar signal processor and recording system. I managed the cost, schedule, and technical performance of cross-functional team on a $323k labor budget. I reduced the hardware and software design complexity and finished $250k under budget.During this period I was the recipient of multiple service awards for outstanding performance and cost reduction efforts.

During my three years as an ELDP participant I completed rotations in Electrical, Software, and Systems Engineering. During an Electrical rotation I worked in BAE’s Microelectronics Center. In BAE’s foundry I developed modular One Touch Wafer Test software. This modular RF measurement application could utilize multiple test instrument configurations and perform multiple measurements such as insertion loss, return loss, Small Signal Gain (SSG), 1dB Compression, Noise Figure (NF), and S Parameters measurements. The software improves yields and reduces test times by over 10%. In another Electrical rotation I developed firmware for automating brushless DC motors for a reel-out reel-in (RORI) RF countermeasure system. I led platform integration and flight test activities.During my Software rotations I reduced the runtime from 44 minutes to 2 minutes for a Matlab based Direction Finding (DF) and Geolocation (GEO) Matlab algorithms by converting code blocks to C++ MEX files. I won a Quarterly Engineering Award for creating an application called Winlock which enabled multiuser password protection while viewing application running in the background.Finally, in a Systems rotation I supported software development, test case design, and verification of a multi-algorithm RF emitter detection, identification, and DF signal processing system. I supported development of headless software utilities such that test cases could be executed autonomously. This permitted completion of the effort prior to the cutoff date.As an ELDP I learned that titles are opaque when the work definition is clear – just add value when and where you can.

My function was to acquire oil and gas well formation properties using pipe conveyed logging equipment in wells up to six miles deep. I supported around-the-clock drilling operations with pressure modulated telemetry tooling. I conveyed directional survey and log data to geologists and drilling engineers to ensure accurate well placements.