• Provided engineering leadership in support of two US Navy aircraft carrier programs, managed team of 11 engineers including 2 chief engineers, 2 engineering team leads, 4 design engineers and 3 test engineers.• Developed long term program road maps and provided structure for day-to-day activities with regular briefings to senior leadership. Tracked progress and budget using earned value metrics and proactively managed risk through monthly program status reviews. Created staffing efficiency aligned with employee growth objective resulting in engineering labor savings of 187K and implemented two process improvements with projected 1600+ hours of labor savings in production.• Created a rigorous and efficient documentation driven process for conducting factory acceptance testing and performed 37 tests in 10 months resulting in completion of 6 customer deliverables. Provided leadership and facilitated collaboration for engineering/operations/manufacturing/quality teams in support of factory acceptance testing. Implemented standard processes for test procedure development & modification, tracking of hardware configuration changes, conduct of test readiness reviews for every test and post-test lessons learned discussions resulting in continuous feedback and improvement of test processes.• Led efforts with customer to renegotiate two contract deliverables resulting in reduced requirements and completion of those deliverables.• Primary engineering POC for interfacing with suppliers and vendors. Developed strong relationship with local vendor for critical repair service and provided revised SOW resulting in streamlined requirements, expedited timelines and reduced shipping time.• Provided leadership for a Northrop Grumman Employee Resource Group, increasing employee morale, promoting leadership development, and facilitating networking opportunities. Organized 7 events with total attendance of 492 employees.

• Engineering team leader for US Navy aircraft carrier main reduction gear production and testing. Provided leadership for 3 engineers and cross-functional operations/manufacturing/quality teams in support of 58 product nonconformances and 11 test issues. • Developed and implemented 4 process improvements with focus on standard procedures, documentation standards and communication guidelines resulting in reduced churn per nonconformance by 34% and improved priority 1 nonconformance closure time by 48%.• Provided technical baseline oversight during production phase including quality and deficiency tracking. Drove collaboration across program teams to track action items/POCs/deadlines to senior leadership. Created a collaborative work environment with emphasis on conducting effective meetings, stakeholder representation, data sharing, and cross-functional team problem solving.• Ensured team coverage of 24/7 operations during production and factory acceptance testing. Created team synergy by developing training, bench depth and rotating coverage for daily tasks.• Engineering team leader for major program root cause corrective action event, providing technical oversight, tracking daily action items and providing regular status briefings to senior leadership. Stood up a 6-person engineering team and developed test systems and procedures in 4 weeks for tactical/fleet limit switch testing resulting in capability to test 40 limit switches per day with minimal hardware investment.

• Founded a Real Estate sales and renovation company and provided leadership for 3-6 employees, managed all aspects of business including day-to-day operations, business strategy/growth, employee development, financial management, and human resources. Generated $1.75M revenue (2021-2022).• Increased seller transaction volume by 120% by deploying new methods of advertising and messaging. Improved the “Referrals MVP” program which resulted in an increase from 1 transaction in 2020 to 13 transactions in 2022. Established standard operating procedures to define business processes with scripts, checklists and lessons learned trackers. Tracked all progress with metrics and well defined intermediate KPIs and utilized data to drive continuous improvement.• Created a YouTube channel resulting in 19 closed transactions for $453,000 total revenue (2021-2022), published 145 videos, achieved 200,000+ views. Built a standard process utilizing contract labor for video editing, batch production for video shoots, data driven search engine optimization, A/B testing of media with advanced analytics to maximize content reach.• Established KPIs for all employees, created individual daily goals based on weekly and quarterly metrics building up to annual business goals, utilized easy to read dashboards to track progress, conducted weekly peer review sessions and quarterly performance reviews.

• Purchased, renovated and sold 5 single-family homes, led teams of architects, engineers and contractors through construction process while in compliance with building code.• Utilized project management framework to manage construction projects with focus on scope, schedule, cost, quality and risk, created easy to use dashboards to visualize and share data with all stakeholders and provided regular status updates.• Successfully led business fundraising efforts, raising over $5.3M from investors.

• Managed a team of 16 employees and a total budget of $2.3M over 22 months to configure, test and deliver 10,000+ units of a battery-powered microcontroller-driven product with sensors and wireless radios. Facilitated 2 on-time and on-budget product launches in 2016 & 2017 to National Guard client, delivered the FlexTrain Soldier Training System and trained over 40,000 soldiers in preparation to deploy.• Created stability in a complex hardware and software product by utilizing Agile and SCRUM techniques to direct day-to-day work with 2-week sprints, integrating lean principles resulting in manufacturing efficiencies and cost savings, and overcoming major challenges by providing technical oversight and directing cross-functional team collaboration. Built framework of metrics and KPIs to monitor progress at all levels, set standard procedures for program and team communications, set schedule and cadence of meetings to maximize communication speed and flow to all relevant stakeholders.• Created system for employee development and growth, resulting in promotion of 3 direct reports. Provided training/education opportunities, diversified and improved skill sets, tracked progress with quarterly and yearly reviews to establish goals, milestones, and timelines.• Champion for multi-year system feature roadmap, prioritized customer issues and feature requests to the change control board, produced labor and cost estimates for 100+ features each year, successfully integrated 25+ new features each year in 2016 & 2017 and led engineering production team through product launch and delivery to client.

• Provided engineering team leadership for new feature development, production and final delivery of software and hardware system. Proactively identified technical and business challenges including moderating a stakeholder forum to develop and deliver new software features resulting in increased customer satisfaction and improved product driven by customer feedback.• Instituted digital RMA system for product failures and maintenance records, utilized this data to determine a manufacturing flaw traced back to the vendor resulting in $100K of hardware replaced at no cost.• Responsible for vendor contract management and negotiation, RFP/RFQ, SOW, PO and supervision through delivery of products and services, fostered vendor maturation and built strong professional relationships resulting in greater capability and created implementation efficiencies with cost reduction of up to 20%.

• Developed and implemented robust hardware & software test plans, led teams of 2-3 engineers to conduct annual testing and delivery of 2,500+ units in several product lines• Managed technical teams of 7-20 employees to support 50-day, off-site deployments of the FlexTrain Soldier Training System; organized schedules, shifts and personnel to provide 24-hour continuous system up-time, utilized Linux servers, UNIX, Java, C, JIRA, networking, security• Created and conducted detailed test plans to validate functionality based on test measurements for a variety of government owned RF devices (900MHz, VHF, UHF, 2.4/5GHz) and associated hardware, utilized signal generators, spectrum analyzers, Bird Watt-Meter, and other RF measurement tools• Improved RF site survey procedures by utilizing a spectrum analyzer to characterize local interference while we travelled to military bases across the US• Produced 1,000+ pages of system documentation, authored training courses and manuals

• Developed a compact GPS tracking device utilizing 3G cellular phone data networks and 802.11 to transmit live position data to a control center; deployed 20 tracking units in support of a disaster training event (Python)• Produced a high reliability audio recording system capable of interfacing with US Army SINCGARS radios; facilitated the design process from prototype to client delivery of 8 full systems (Java)