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Kansas City, MO, US

Kansas City, Missouri, United States

• Leading a team of over 20 scientists, engineers and technicians, responsible for the safe and effective operations of over $15M in laboratory capital equipment. The team’s analyses have contributed to scrap avoidance.
• Oversee the performance of a variety of tests and analyses using a wide variety of electronic optics and computed tomography (CT) technologies, supporting product acceptance, failure analysis, and research and.
• Manage surface characterization and failure analyses on multiple material types and products, using the following technologies: Auger and Scanning Electron Microscopy, Confocal and Optical Microscopy, X-ray Diffraction.

Kansas City, Missouri Area

• Managed a $300M project comprised of multiple engineering subprojects, with a very aggressive, high-risk timeline. Interfaced with customers, engineers, buyers and executive management to resolve a continuous stream of.
• On a previous $100M project, negotiated schedule recovery agreements with other organizations internally and externally to achieve on-time delivery. Regularly briefed customers and executive management on project.
• Recognized expert in Earned Value Management System and Project Controls. Developed and managed an EVMS/Project Controls training program. Mentored both project managers and analysts.

Bellevue, Nebraska

• Key strategic and technical contributor to the development of a comprehensive operational test plan that addresses all business centers and organizational workspaces, ensuring US Strategic Command's ability to defend.
• Analyzing project schedules associated with construction, IT infrastructure, cyber security, and physical workforce transition - all to develop an integrated and realistic test schedule.
• Developed a methodology to assess budget cost growth and risks levels for a $0.5B+ construction budget, in accordance with a strategic business initiatives, helping the customer acquire additional funding from Congress.
• Built dozens of highly-detailed operational readiness checklists for all control and work centers within a new 3,500-person nuclear command facility.
• Faced with an aggressive and lagging implementation timeline, with millions of dollars of “late penalties” looming, I re-vectored a mission-critical, $13M system upgrade, comprised of six sub-projects. I restructured.

Bellevue, Nebraska

• Brought in to resurrect an enterprise operating system upgrade project in which the customer was at great risk for major security regulation non-compliance, I used my excellent communications and organizational skills.
• Given a mission-critical $3M data center upgrade project that was faced with extremely tight financial, time and licensing constraints, I influenced the team to stay focused on our joint goals and objectives, resulting.
• During a financially-troubled project requiring a high-level of cooperation with our customer, my company was accused of contract violations. I collected supporting data and catalogued formal communications that.
• Successfully managed multiple cross functional, enterprise implementation projects, simultaneously.
• Led a successful enterprise-level Oracle hardware and software modernization project for a client’s command and control infrastructure, to include hardware installation, software installation and configuration.
• Led development of a business continuity / disaster recovery solution for a major defense client, including data replication, de-confliction and alerting features, and site failover/failback plans and procedures.

Ashland, Nebraska

• Inherited a situation in which the company supplier status was reduced to “provisional” due to excessive returns by its #1 customer. Implemented new continuous improvement processes, collected data from the customer.
• Upon reporting as the Engineering Manager, I quickly identified deviations from engineering and supply chain management best practices. I envisioned, developed and implemented several new business and engineering.
• Established project management processes for the first time in the company’s history, setting the standard on how projects were approved, scoped and executed. Managed up to 18 concurrent engineering projects/efforts.
• Implemented and trained the engineering staff on project management tools and processes, as it was essentially absent upon my arrival. This allowed me to delegate the management of many project details to the.
• After inheriting a new product line development project that was months behind schedule, I refocused the team, fast-tracked priorities, and strengthened the supply chain, meeting the new release schedule and.

Bellevue, NE

• Provided expertise on nuclear weapons and their supporting infrastructure in preparations for U.S. Strategic Command’s participation in a Nuclear Posture Review. Researched nuclear weapon lifecycle management issues.

Omaha, Nebraska

• Spearheaded team’s progress through a technically detailed validation, verification, and accreditation process, resulting in the first DoD-accredited electronic and cyber warfare computer models.
• To enable quicker warfare decisions that save money and lives, I led a discovery effort with several military experts, used systems engineering techniques to model real-world targets, used prototype simulations to.

Bellevue, Nebraska

• Led U.S. Strategic Command’s development of a robust replacement for its nuclear warfare casualty estimation simulation, culling a diverse set of requirements from multiple internal teams, prioritizing those.
• To enable executive staff to grasp complex methodology improvements in a new nuclear effects simulation, I researched the physics underlying the old and new simulations, conducted dozens of data comparisons, and.
• After a vendor delivered a software beta release full of catastrophic bugs, putting my customer’s timeline at great risk, I worked hand-in-glove with the vendor’s testing team to develop and execute a successful test.

Bellevue, NE

• Same as Nuclear Simulation Project Manager with Northrop Grumman.

Various Locations

• Served as the lead plant manager for operations and maintenance of a nuclear power and propulsion plant for four years. Qualified as a Nuclear Engineer within the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program demonstrating intimate.
• Successfully supervised life-endangering maintenance projects on a regular basis, in an industrial shipyard environment, with no safety incidents. Responsible for adhering to strict nuclear quality assurance processes.
• As a captain’s lieutenant, directed submarine operations and was responsible for the safety of over 120 sailors and $2 billion of equipment.
• Led teams of highly-trained and experienced technicians, with expertise in varying areas to include electricians, mechanics, communication system technicians, and nuclear reactor safety technicians.

Bs, Electrical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Naval ROTC, Cornfield Navy Yacht Club, Lacrosse Club, Tau Beta PiFocus on communications and signal processing

Mba, Business Administration

Focus on entreprenuership and new venture creation