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Los Angeles, CA, US

• Responsible for program execution, financial profit/loss performance, strategic planning, internal investment, new business development, and customer and supplier relationships for Northrop's high energy laser business.
• Exceeded revenue target by more than 10% in in both full years in role.
• Developed and maintained relationships with key customer decision makers at Office of Under Secretary of Defense, Army, Navy, Air Force, Missile Defense Agency, DARPA, etc.
• Shaped new directed energy business strategy based on customers’ stated mission objectives and published US government budgets.
• Created technology roadmaps to ensure maturation of required technology to meet customer requirements and timelines.
• Managed multimillion dollar internal investment budget in support of both technology development and capital improvements.

• Partnered with client leadership teams to develop strategy and planning and guide execution of strategic initiatives including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, organizational design, and business transformations.
• Launched and led multiple integration and separation project governance and management efforts across various acquisitions and divestitures ranging from private equity portfolio transactions to Fortune 500 strategic.
• Partnered with CFO and CHRO to direct the integration planning and execution of complex three company merger, including organizational design, value-driving initiatives, and quick-win synergies.
• Advised CHRO and managed the HR, change management, and communications strategy and execution of a $600M divestiture of a semiconductor business.
• Guided business unit executives through comprehensive separation strategy assessment and planning process in preparation for $5B+ planned divestiture of IT services business.
• Led contracts workstream focused on disposition and separation of both vendor and customer/commercial agreements for $2B divestiture of digital marketing business.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Led multidisciplinary engineering teams to execute complex air- and space-based programs and regularly interfaced with government customers to communicate program status and resolve technical issues.
• Managed a department of 30 fluid systems engineers in design, development, manufacture and test of space-based propulsion and thermal systems.
• Led the system test requirements development and planning for a $2B spacecraft program, including requirement documentation and tracking in DOORS and test procedure development.
• Conducted joint-failure review board involving internal and customer management and technical experts to resolve very high-risk technical component issue on $6B spacecraft program. Successful resolution was commended.
• Partnered with NASA engineering and leadership team to plan and successfully execute cryocooler subsystem testing to meet spacecraft program integration and test critical path timeline.
• Directed the redesign and verification of a critical path $4M technical component subcontract, partnered closely with subcontract team to save several months and millions of dollars from overall program schedule.

• Delivered engineering expertise to a variety of air, space, and technology programs, including leading technical teams and directly interfacing with customers.
• Coordinated with Air Force Test Directors and multi-company test team at Edwards Air Force Base to ensure safe and successful system test of technically complex and potentially hazardous airborne laser system.
• Managed scheduling, work planning, and integration of chemical fluid systems onto airborne laser platform to safely meet critical program need dates.
• Partnered with Air Force customer as onsite design liaison to ensure successful integration between Northrop Grumman and Boeing hardware at a remote integration facility.
• Led a multi-company team of engineers in the generation and approval of over 300 integration drawings and plans to meet a major program milestone with associated contract incentive fee.
• Executed systems engineering and test activities on aircraft and spacecraft programs, verifying requirements were fulfilled and hardware was flight-ready.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.)

Activities and Honors: Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society Dean's List Marshall Consulting and Strategy Club Challenge4Charity Volunteer.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Engineering

Activities and Honors: Dean's List Varsity Basketball Student Government Volunteer leader for new student orientation