Kerry Mcintosh, Phd Email & Phone Number

California, United States

Alameda, California, Us

Kairos Power is a mission-driven engineering company focused on the delivery of a clean, affordable and safe energy solution through the integrated design, licensing and demonstration of advanced reactor technology.

Exploring clean energy, renewables, carbon capture and other technologies. After a short sabbatical to reset and recharge, my goal is to join a company directly addressing climate change. Onward!

Alameda, California, Us

There are so many exciting opportunities at Astra! I'm diving in to Supply Chain management, making sure we have what we need to build and ship our rockets. Never stop learning!• Defining and optimizing critical cross-functional processes to ensure business continuity, with stakeholders in Finance, Accounting, Supply Chain, Logistics, Production, R&D Engineering and Business Operations.• Driving supply chain processes during high growth, leveraging trusted relationships to remove blocks and increase efficiency.• Collaborating across organizations to solve process issues, providing critical support for finance functions while ensuring regulatory compliance.

Alameda, California, Us

Astra’s mission is to launch a new generation of space services to improve life on earth, accomplishing this by making space more accessible through affordable, regular launches.• Quickly integrated into the company, becoming a trusted advisor to the CEO and leadership team.• Supported preparation for the Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC) merger, including coordinating with multiple financial, legal and investor bodies, and ensuring all action items were completed.• Drove hiring for critical positions, optimizing recruiting processes across the company, and agency engagement.• Managed critical processes as an interim measure while the company hired key personnel, including internal communications, HR activities, defining strategy and OKRs, leadership team sprints and off-sites.• Triaged issues for the CEO and executive team, prioritized areas for focused discussion, built agendas for weekly meetings and off-sites.• Supported growth from 100 employees to over 200 employees in 6 months, and the successful SPAC merger resulting with the public listing on the Nasdaq exchange.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

• Developed a trusted advisor relationship with CTO, and leadership role within his organization of over 150 people, providing counsel, acting as proxy and point of contact, making sure the success of leadership and the team.• Tracking an operating budget of over $42M, resources, staff hiring, HR processes and operations.• Set priorities for a challenging organization transition, managing communications and governance for the organization.• Established cohort of Chief Software Architects to address strategic, cross-organization technology issues.• Hired and managed resources for internal, executive and external communications.• Collaborated with the Chiefs of Staff supporting the C Suite, aligned on strategic programs.• Held leadership accountable to professional standards of behavior, proactively addressed challenging team dynamics.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Chief of Staff for the VP of Manufacturing at Autodesk, including Generative, Simulation and Factory.Kerry was promoted to Chief of Staff for the VP of Manufacturing after proving herself while reporting to the Sr Director of Engineering (see previous position below). The highest priority is ensuring the success of the VP and the team. Responsibilities include: • Understanding the priorities and challenges of the VP, anticipating his needs and acting as a proxy and point of contact. • Be a trusted adviser to the VP, giving advice and providing perspectives and feedback• Ensuring preparations for meetings and presentations are done in advance• Driving planning for staff meetings, including cadence, agendas, and participants• Driving prioritization and communication of those priorities to the broader team• Liaising with Business Partners, including HR, Legal and Finance• Tracking budget, resources, hiring, HR processes (focal, etc), operations• Setting up a process for internal Product Reviews to increase for team visibility, highlight progress• Planning and driving Communications, including preparation for All Hands and crafting emails from the VP• Optimizing processes to ensure efficiency and effectiveness by including input from the broader organization• Ensuring the VP is connected to the global teams by establishing relationships in each geo• Managing a small team of project managers and mentoring junior staff• Collaborating with Chiefs of Staff from other MFG orgs to ensure alignment on goals, communications, processes

San Francisco, Ca, Us

This position supported the Senior Director of Engineering for Generative, Simulation and Factory in Manufacturing, who lead a large group of software engineers and scientists across the globe. The role required keeping teams aligned, anticipating issues, ensuring effective communication and proactively solving problems. Responsibilities included: • Guiding staff meetings to ensure pressing topics are discussed and appropriate follow up occurred• Driving communications to ensure teams had adequate information on strategy and goals, as well as encouraging internal marketing of progress• Driving special projects and programs• Ensuring processes are efficient and effective• Building a trusted network within the group and across the Manufacturing organization• Identifying and highlighting risks which have potential to impede progress towards goals• Ensuring teams aligned to the overall Autodesk and MFG strategy• Serving as internal spokesperson for select programs/projects. Planning content and delivering program communications to the appropriate audiences• Managing a small team of researchers and mentored junior employees• Tracking budget and liaising with Finance Business Partner

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Program Manager for the ReMake Product Group, which focus on Photogrammetry and Reality Capture. Responsibilities include overall Program Management for the ReMake Product team, as well as Program Management for REAL2016, the second annual Reality Capture conference being held at Fort Mason.http://remake.autodesk.com/abouthttp://real2016.com/

San Francisco, Ca, Us

• Managing overall program implementation for Marketing Automation Platform• Project management of technical implementation of Marketing System

San Francisco, Ca, Us

• Preparation for the REAL2015 conference, including website development and marketing.• Onsite support during the conference, including liaison with speakers and support for VIPs.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

• Owner of the overall Customer Engagement Platform Roadmap and Governance process.• Product Manager for Customer Messaging • Product Manager for eCommerce

San Francisco, Ca, Us

• Managed geographically distributed scrum teams including internal and external engineering resources• Incorporated UX design input into the software development processes• Provided appropriate updates to a wide audience of stakeholders

Haifa, Il

Developed algorithms and applications in a multinational project on data integration, utilizing digital photogrammetry and laser altimetry. • Responsibilities included project management, algorithm development and implementation, data visualization, web site development for presentation of information and project results. • Published four academic papers and presented results at national and international conferences.

Phd, Digital Photogrammetry

B. App. Sci, Surveying