Systems Engineering, Integration and Test (SEI&T) Manager, energizing, mentoring and coaching a team of 25+ engineers to provide exemplary performance to both internal and external customers while advancing team efforts with a focus on Digital Transformation initiatives. Responsibilities include:> Executing program SEI&T tasks focusing on end user performance needs and customer satisfaction > Sustaining an environment that enables all team members to understand their contributions, to reach their highest potential and to own their career development> Supporting Program Management and Engineering Leadership to align the SEI&T efforts with the program’s strategic objectives, providing labor resources to meet program needs> Performing as the site System Safety subject matter expert, interfacing with safety leads from other locations and lines of businessKey Results:> SEI&T team driving innovation across the program and performing with excellence that supported the program’s exceptional customer reviews> Evolution of SEI&T processes to improve the Agile/DevSecOps environment and the SEI&T team earning prominent roles in the program’s Agile Product Team leadership > Growth of the SEI&T department in key skill areas, extending the overall team capabilities and opportunities, and building bench strength

Multi-faceted role within C6ISR and Undersea Warfare (USW) programs, including:> System Safety subject matter expert and System Safety lead engineer for USW programs; primary System Safety liaison with the Navy customer and optimizing safety solutions, mitigating safety hazards and providing risk resolution to gain Navy Principal for Safety (PFS) approval> Interim Systems Engineering lead, managing task completion and providing guidance to the SE team. > Interim Test Team lead to ensure successful and on-time test program task completionSystem Safety subject matter expert and System Safety lead engineer. System Safety liaison with the Navy customer, optimizing safety solutions for the customer while ensuring Lockheed Martin goals are met. Interim Systems Engineering and Test Engineering lead, managing task completion and ensuring on-time performance. Responsibilities include:> Leading all system safety efforts, including hardware and software safety hazard mitigation and risk resolution to gain Navy Principal for Safety (PFS) approval and Major Program Manager acceptance> Instituting and managing a MIL-STD-882 safety program, producing multiple functional, subsystem and system analyses with a focus on weapon control hazards and risks> Directing the effort to obtain Secret Defense Research and Engineering Network (SDREN) connectivity, including component install and security certification effortsKey Results:> Achievedsafety certification from the Weapon System Explosives Safety Review Board, and closed pre-existing open findings> Earned additional safety responsibility for Lockheed Martin and became a trusted advisor to the PFS> Completed SDREN installation and certification, paving the way for future distributed testing using program assets that will allow for improved schedule and cost performance

Multi-disciplined engineering Integrated Product Team (IPT) Lead for DoD Acquisition Category I program, managing the IPT $9M budget with concurrent focus on technical quality, multi-location team leadership, and control account management. Responsibilities include: Leading problem-solving, risk definition and risk closure across the IPT and subcontractors, communicating plans and resolutions with customer to maintain trust. Providing continual IPT earned value management, integrating subcontractor performance and defining corrective actions to resolve performance issues. Delivering discipline-specific program plans and test plans, establishing schedules, labor needs, requisite support materials, and subcontractor/customer support efforts. Supporting subcontract management by defining subcontractor requirements, providing technical oversight and grading subcontractor performance. Briefing customer at program baseline reviews with presentations detailing team schedule and cost planning and to-date performance relative to overall program goals Delivered 27 total program plans, analysis reports, test plans & procedures, and test reportsKey Results: Team earned customer final acceptance for all IPT document deliveries Team earned DoD Contractor Performance Assessment Report “Purple” ratings from customer Team awarded additional 30% budget for expanded program technical and contractual responsibilities Completed all team activities meeting cost targets, with CPI = 1.03

Participated in mission system engineering efforts, including proposal preparation, new program definition, and independent research & development, and leading engineering team activities. Responsibilities included: Traveled to customer to understand work applications and end-user personal abilities and responsibilities, designing systems to best align with customer performance requirements.  Lead engineering team for product reliability, safety and human performance, coordinating design details with hardware and software teams while maintaining cost and schedule performance. Performed human system integration activities, including ergonomic analyses, identifying unsafe working conditions, developing quick-turn solutions and implementing of hazard mitigations.  Authored multiple proposal estimates in role on proposal capture teams, developing schedule, cost and labor projections, and negotiated final contract budgets with Navy customer. Supported F-16 processor environmental testing, authoring and delivering test reports to customer.Key Results: Customer commendation for building human-system design baseline based on customer intimacy  Technology solutions developed in IR&D activities were used as future proposal discriminators Earned additional work in areas of human modeling & analyses for new proposals and work projects

Lead structural design teams on concept definition, formal design, and hardware build and assembly. Developed integrated schedules aligning part design, subcontractor builds, and final assembly. Completed numerous mechanical structure designs and managed design teams for aerospace launch vehicle definition while optimizing task, budget and schedule performance.Responsibilities include: Directing design teams in completion of vehicle designs and first article builds. Evaluating, correcting, and approving engineering designs and drawings from team engineers. Performing hardware supplier selection, reviewing manufacturing abilities, quality and cost methods. Managing the design and manufacture of wind-tunnel test models, including subcontractor selection and oversight; gained management approval for 3D CAD model-driven component production. Completing 3D CAD engineering modeling for External Tank accident investigation and developed new structure and insulation concepts.  Leading engineering team activity for propellant storage design, providing expertise to customer study investigating new propulsion methodology for deep space missions. Supporting customer next-generation vehicle requirements definition for top-level, structures, and propulsion systems.Key Results: Earned $55 million follow-on build and vehicle assembly scope from customer Coupled new design methods and subcontractor manufacturing capability, reducing delivery schedule by half and providing 25% cost savings for non-recurring engineering and manufacturing External Tank redesign concepts implemented into future production Requirements development results used by customer for distribution across all industry teams