Kenneth Comer Email & Phone Number

Huntsville, Alabama, United States

Huntsville, Alabama, United States

Senior leadership experience in Business Development as a Capture Manager / Proposal Manager leading competitive proposal teams for U.S. Government customers. Responsible for new business pursuits requiring me to develop capture strategies, plan and execute customer engagement, conduct competitive analysis, perform price-to-win analysis, and manage proposal teams. I developed and executed successful strategies to meet the operational and financial performance goals of our company. My proven track record of leading successful pursuit campaigns contributed significantly to my company’s growth from a $200-million-dollar company in 2003 to a $2-billion-dollar company in 2024. I led and won multiple campaigns through gathering first-hand knowledge of the customer’s needs, assessing emerging market potentials, and establishing relationships with decision makers within the customer community. My engineering background allows me to understand the customer’s technical needs and develop complex solutions for current and potential programs. • My experience and formal training as a Capture Manager / Proposal Manager, along with my knowledge of the U.S. Government’s acquisitions process and the customer’s needs, allow me to identify key business opportunities and conduct campaign planning for strategic business targets. I have extensive successful experience with leading/managing complete pursuit campaigns from identifying opportunities to proposal submittal. I am highly skilled in each stage of the campaign from developing pursuit strategies and forecasting budgets to capture management to managing the proposal/functional teams, writing proposals, and leading color team reviews. My experience allows me to develop cohesive strategies to successfully secure new business while maintaining alignment to my company’s strategic plan. • Shipley-trained Capture Manager/Proposal Manager

Fort Worth, Texas, United States

Fort Worth, Texas, United States

Fort Worth, Texas, United States

Developed system requirements, defined display requirements, and interfaced for display formats. Designed interface and functional partitioning for Electronic Warfare Weapons System Targeting Display. Designed and debugged Heads-Up Display (HUD) symbols development software tool. Created written test procedures to evaluate component and system performance. Developed functional description of Avionics Suite. Designed Avionics Hardware, applied partitioning rationale of functions to hardware, and described resultant functional partitioning.

Fort Worth, Texas, United States

Partnered with vendors, procurement, and lab technicians and worked as liaison to Installation Design Group. Led team of engineers for purpose of achieving system safety requirements. Directed teams of engineers in performing common mode analysis. Conducted system safety analysis on power and fuel systems, fire detection / external systems, cockpit lighting system, and landing gear.

Fort Worth, Texas, United States

Developed functional description of Avionics Suite and Avionics Hardware and applied partitioning rationale of functions to hardware. Created functional design of Fiber Optic Fiber Channel (FOFC) and Fabric Switch. Coordinated Fabric Switch port assignments and determined Fiber Optic Switched topology providing rationale for assignments. Specified Fabric Switch initialization mechanization. Designed how system would accommodate changes to architecture due to subsystems entering or exiting functional status while system was operational.

Altus, Oklahoma, United States

Honorable Discharge, 1987-1991. Performed repair, troubleshooting, and modifications to avionics systems used in navigation, auto pilot, fuel systems, and instrumentation systems on C-141B Star lifter and C-5A, C-5B Galaxy aircrafts. Performed board component level repair. Conducted on-the-job training for lesser qualified specialists and supervised teams of specialists. Performed quality assurance inspection on FSAS systems, Fuel Quantity systems, Navigation systems, Flight Instrumentation, Auto Pilot and Flight systems computers.