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Torrance, California, United States

Andover, Ma, Us

Melbourne, Florida, Us

Oversee and manage a portfolio of 8 projects, ensuring alignment with business objectives and timely delivery.Lead cross-functional teams, including engineering, operations, and product management, to execute projects within established scope, schedule, and budget.Develop and maintain program roadmaps, resource plans, and key performance indicators (KPIs) to monitor program success.Collaborate with senior leadership and stakeholders to define program goals, objectives, and priorities.Mitigate risks and resolve project roadblocks through proactive risk management and stakeholder engagement.Implement continuous process improvement initiatives to enhance program efficiency and effectiveness.

Torrance, California, Us

Responsible for managing and leading program management team to drive execution, capture new business and adjudicate potential conflicts.Effective oversight of interconnected programs with a proactive approach identifying and mitigating risk to prevent problem from cascading into each other.Managing proposal activities for new product development projects by composing management/technical volumes, creating costing estimates and schedule.Developing and monitoring management operating system to help drive continuous process improvements.Driving business P&L goals through program execution using EVMS metric and identifying opportunities within the customer requirements for future captures.Overseeing of IDIQ production contracts and executing obsolescence identification and redesign.

Torrance, California, Us

Responsible for program capture, performance, financial adherence, scheduling and product delivery. Owning New Product Introduction (NPI) development programs with certification level meeting DO254 and DO178C standards.Managing proposal development for government research grants related to phase I/II and NPI NRE and RE projects capture resulting in a number of awarded contracts.Leading technical engineering teams by driving system architecture designs from prototype through qualification to First Article Inspection production.Driving process improvements directives as well as encouraging a culture shift from research and development to production-based productsServes as single point of contact between the customer by providing program oversight, cost, risk, scheduling and technical execution.Develop risk, issue and opportunity plan that help drive successful program execution through monitoring and mitigation.

Melbourne, Florida, Us

Responsible for total end to end technical program performance, financial adherence, scheduling and product delivery. Serves as single point of contact between Engineering program management, project team and customer engineering team overseeing cost, risk, scheduling, technical execution using EVMS principles.Managing complex development and IRAD projects in excess of $20M while maintaining company profit goal by identifying hidden opportunities.Developed and implemented department mechanisms to improve processes while driving group acceptance.Mentored and developed fellow Project Engineers performance through analytics and coaching.

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

Responsible for total end to end program performance, P&L, financial objectives, sales, cash flow and product delivery. Managed program cost, schedule, quality, performance, processes and subcontract activities. Employed EVMS metrics, risk management and project management methodologies to ensure successful execution.Worked with all functional areas from Engineering, Certification, Contracts, Manufacturing, Quality, Export, Customer Support and Third party Vendors to met all customer project requirementsResults oriented with 100% Major milestone fidelity with 2-4 yearly project closures. Increased customer base by 110% annually which drive new opportunity identification creating $8-10M in Aftermarket sale.Led successful technical proposal campaigns that identified key customer requirements which enabled identification of new supplier and sub-contractors.Drove across the board improvement to effectivity and functionality over the products lifecycle generating $100M in new product sales. Established and maintained peer recognized leadership role in product development process.

Arlington, Va, Us

Research and develop complex electrical distribution circuits for converting airplane configurationsEvaluate routing and distribution standards to create wire assembly drawings which results in reduction of weight for addition revenue generation.Support the translation from abstract concepts to functional products creating opportunities to use on new platforms.Create Engineering Orders to drive the drawing changes necessary for configuration changes.Collaborated with multiple disciplinary teams to quickly resolve technician complaint with appropriate action.

Thousand Oaks, Ca, Us

Responsible for managing 6 experienced Support Engineer insuring best engineering practices.Created proposals and maintained support agreement that resulted in 100% revenue coverage.Supported BGA market industry conferences which created new opportunities to drive growth and revenue through new product release and development.Mentored Support Engineer in career growth and knowledge development which resulted in a strong, cohesive team.Maintained CRM database to track customer inquiries to create knowledge-based tools.

Thousand Oaks, Ca, Us

Collaborated with project managers in project optimization process to ensure specification compliance.Created and maintained specification documents and test procedures that give engineering or test group instructions to maintain product compliance.Support FAA certification requirements for repair test fixture, procedures and aircraft installation with adherence tight deadlines.Analyzed and resolved complex technical issues pertaining to critical communication products from infancy to released production units.Routinely provided on site product support for existing product to identify system failure and develop root cause, corrective actions.Trained and mentored 6 Support Engineer by providing them with the technical knowledge to support the end customer usability.