Cathy Lehman Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Simi Valley, Ca, Us

Simi Valley, Ca, Us

Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, Gb

Glendale, Ca, Us

Galway, Ie

• Manage development of new product group of antennas for global aerospace & defense applications. • Manage value add products such as box builds & harness assemblies. • Responsible for developing & delivering product forecast, revenue growth & margin targets. • Develop new customers and projects with current customers• work with a team to build quotations for products to meet customer requirements. Requires understanding of customer needs for their application, incorporate customer specification and drawing requirements into the material construction and verify these requirements can be met with company processes and equipment. Multiple quotations created ranging in value of hundreds of dollars to over a million. • Product manager reviewing and approving new opportunity assessments, new product development and introduction, defects of products and returns as well as maintaining product brochures. • Coordinates with sales personnel, engineering, customer support, procurement, project management, operations, quality and legal.

Irvine, California, Us

• Manages multimillion dollar business group manufacturing materials primarily used for aerospace thermal control in multilayer insulation (MLI) blankets. Other applications include commercial thermal control and medical such as thermal protection of the driver in Formula 1 cars and in transducers of ultrasound machines.• Develops new customers and projects with current customers• Responsible for all contract review. Contract review of Terms and Conditions (T&Cs) and Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs). The T&Cs contracts include commercial and non-commercial contracts. Responsible for reviewing and coordinating with legal to ensure risk and liability is minimized and intellectual property (IP) is protected.• Builds quotations for materials to meet customer requirements. Requires understanding of customer needs for their application, incorporate customer specification and drawing requirements into the material construction and verify these requirements can be met with company processes and equipment. Multiple quotations created per week ranging in value of hundreds of dollars to over a million dollars.• Responsible for program management of all projects current and new with complexity requiring such management. Projects managed to date ranging in value of several hundred thousand dollars to over one million dollars in revenue. Coordinate with customer and internally with engineering, production and quality to ensure requirements are understood and implemented on schedule. Lead regular working group meetings, technical interchange meetings, design reviews, readiness reviews and failure review.• Product manager reviewing and approving new opportunity assessments, new product development and introduction, defects of products and returns as well as maintaining product bulletins.• Coordinates with other supporting sales personnel, engineering, customer support, procurement, production, quality and legal.

El Segundo, California, Us

Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) Space Program Office• Primary payload lead, EMI/EMC technical specialist and parts, material and processes (PM&P) technical specialist• Responsible for the assembly, integration and test (AI&T) though all phases including box level, payload level and spacecraft level testing over all environments• Functioned as the customer representative to working group meetings, technical interchange meetings (TIMs), design reviews and Failure Review Boards (FRB) meetings• Lead teams of up to 10 engineering specialists that investigated 15-20 anomalies during payload and satellite level level testing. Investigation findings allowed for an assessment of low risk to use-as-is, saving the government $3-4 million/day and preserving the satellite launch date.• Discovered a vulnerability in a critical monitoring system. Lack of the monitoring and protection would have been unknown until it was too late to prevent damage to the hardware resulting in a loss of system capacity.• Lead team during investigation of industry wide failure of RF attenuators. Coordinated with The Aerospace Parts, Materials & Processes department to gain an industry wide consensus of perceptive testing to screen out un-flight worthy parts

El Segundo, California, Us

Space Tracking and Surveillance System (STSS) Block 06 Space Program Office• RF communications payload lead, EMI/EMC technical specialist and parts, materials and processes (PM&P) technical specialist• Daily interaction with the contractor and customer, weekly written technical updates• Coordination and management of engineering specialty matrix support resources• Lead teams of 5-10 engineering specialists to solve several technical challenges at box and subsystem level• NTIA compliance expert coordinating with Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) Frequency Management, contractor and customer• Significantly improved test becoming test like you fly (TLYF) with a slight alteration to a planned test• Expert at all aspects of requirements generation, tailoring, flow down, tracking and verification

El Segundo, California, Us

Baseline Space Program Office (November 2005 - July 2006)• Assembly, integration and test (AI&T) lead• Expert at all aspects of requirements generation, tailoring, flow down, tracking, verification and evaluation of contractor responses to a request for proposal (RFP)• Assessed the impact of parts obsolescence on integration and test• Lead teams of up to 5 engineering specialists for anomaly resolution• Designed and tested alternative solution utilizing parallel path implementation to a subsystem integration design issue which impacted spacecraft level integration minimizing impact to design, schedule and cost while significantly buying down riskProgram 1 Space Program Office (January 2005 (Officially June 2005) - November 2005)• Spacecraft test director responsible for assembly, integration and test (AI&T)• Daily interaction with the contractors and customer, weekly written updates to the customer• Evaluated the plan and current status of the bus and space vehicle levels of AI&T for potential problems and how best to mitigate• Determine which technical engineering specialties from matrix support would best benefit the program needs

El Segundo, California, Us

Electrical and Electronic Systems Department• EMI/EMC technical specialist• Supported up to 15 programs per year• EMI/EMC requirements, design and implementation expert• Worked with the contractors to make the various levels of integration testing as flight like as possible and to improve the fidelity of the tests with negligible impact to cost and schedule• Worked with the contractors to resolve issues with interfaces and cable harnesses• Designed and performed test to validate a shielding concept for a program being supported• Created an EMI/EMC test automation software package that is compliant with test methods defined by MIL-STD-461C/E using LabVIEW as the source code language.

Arlington, Va, Us

• Managed all aspects of antenna delivery for the Anik F2 702 program• Responsibilities included: tracking procurement, testing piece parts, assembly, delivery to antenna subsystem test, antenna subsystem test, delivery to satellite integration and data sell off to the customer within cost, schedule and technical performance.

Arlington, Va, Us

• Designed all aspects of the test automation for the Spaceway Downlink Antenna Active Array Field Aperture Probe and near-field testing using LabVIEW as the source code- Determined how to implement the test requirements, optimized for the program, yet modular enough to be used on other similar programs- Integrated the test software, test equipment, antenna hardware and other special test equipment, optimized for speed and reliability at ka band- Trained the technicians and engineers to use the automated system• Designed a test procedure for Field Aperture Probe testing of the large antenna array on the Thurya program using FORTRAN as the source code- Determined the repeatability and reliability of the testing procedure and hardware- Trained the test engineers how to use the automated program• Managed procurement, assembly and test of antenna feed components for the Astra 2C program- Successfully completed within cost, schedule and technical performance- Supervised up to 5 technicians throughout production cycle

Arlington, Va, Us

• Technical analysis, design and support of satellite antenna systems for new business campaigns and proposals• Designed, reviewed and approved of all electrical designs and analysis used on antenna systems• Accountable for technical write-ups of the antenna subsystem sections for proposals

Arlington, Va, Us

• Parts survivability expert• Performed analysis of sensitive parts to determine whether or not they would survive the radiation environment• Modeled the spacecraft layout from panels down to the IC layout in the boards of individual units• Devised possible solutions with minimal impact on the design and weight if the analysis showed that the parts would not survive

Ames, Iowa, Us

• Supported the Solid State Theory Group• Wrote computer code that worked as an interface to an existing main computer code

Troy, Ny, Us

• Duties included taking data at the 12-meter radio telescope in Kitt Peak, Arizona, data reduction, analysis and discussion of the results with advisor• Presented results at the American Astronomical Society (AAS) meeting

Charlottesville, Virginia, Us

Very Large Array (VLA)• Research consisted of analysis of Magellanic type galaxies in the radio spectrum• Presented final data to technical staff and scientists at the VLA• Published in the Astronomical Journal (AJ)

Master'S Degree, Electrical Engineering

Bachelor'S Degree, Physics