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Santa Clarita, CA, US

Delaware, United States

• Founder and Executive:
• Business Founder: Launched Horizon 51, a tech-sector startup, establishing comprehensive legal, accounting, financial, certification, and compliance structures across Federal, State, and Local levels.
• Chief Information Officer: Led the architecture and implementation of scalable IT infrastructure, including domain, email, collaboration, and business-to-business systems, driving efficient, professional operations for.
• AI Architect: Created and deployed 'CxO in a Box,' a secure generative AI platform that serves as a virtual C-suite, enhancing executive decision-making. This AI, trained on regulatory frameworks and industry best.
• Chief Operating Officer: Spearheaded the development of business processes, contracts, Statements of Work (SOWs), and proposals for private and government sectors. Negotiated with Executive and C-suite clients. Forged.
• Tailored Training & Consulting: Crafting and delivering specialized training and solutions in project management, cybersecurity, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Augmented/Virtual/Extended Reality (AR/VR/XR), and trade.

Pasadena, California, United States

• Optimized Investment Impact: Orchestrated tools, teams, and processes to coordinate and monitor progress across NASA JPL's strategic Executive Imperative Activities and enterprise OKRs, ensuring high-impact investments.
• Investment Alignment & Risk Mitigation: Established and led the enterprise Portfolio Management Office (ePMO), implementing risk-based assessments for over 200 investments, with advanced scheduling and workforce.
• Resource and Cost Efficiency: Achieved a 66% reduction in resources required for PMO service development and deployment by leveraging AI tools for technical development, documentation, automation, and analysis.
• Revealing True Costs & Benefits: Accelerated executive decision-making by delivering BI-driven dashboards in just 4 weeks—a 70% improvement—enhancing portfolio selection, demand management, and infrastructure.
• Data-as-a-Service Innovation: Pioneered a data availability and governance framework for enterprise metrics, reporting, and KPIs, initiating a pilot for real-time telemetry from the Deep Space Network (DSN) to public.
• Strategic Portfolio Leadership: Led data-driven investment analysis for a $50M high-stakes portfolio, enabling executive leadership to maintain progress, ensure alignment, and perform robust risk-based assessments.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Enterprise Systems Engineering & Architecture: Partnered with top executive and front-line leaders to design and implement innovative frameworks for evaluating, selecting, and prioritizing high-impact enterprise change.
• Charted enterprise strategy and developed a set of domain and capability maps utilizing tailored enterprise architecture models.
• Constructed a model of the enterprise as well as an implementation plan for transformation and governance

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Ensure JPL maintains its leadership position in space exploration through bold innovation, creation and adoption of new processes and technologies, and shifts towards a continuously transformative culture.
• Mission Goal Optimization: Conducted comprehensive reviews of enterprise strategies to identify key opportunities capable of driving at least a tenfold improvement in measurable strategic outcomes.
• Innovative Telerobotics Implementation: Launched a mobile telepresence robot program during COVID-19, ensuring critical "presence" in laboratory and manufacturing environments, maintaining operational continuity.
• Augmented Reality Integration: Pioneered the introduction of Microsoft HoloLens for fabrication and planetary protection, potentially reducing schedule conflicts and travel costs by up to 60%.
• Operational Efficiency Enhancement: Achieved significant cost savings by reducing desktop expenses for 3,000 employees through the implementation of secure, network-shared resources.
• Strategic Cross-Agency Partnerships: Engaged in collaboration with NASA and other federal agencies to develop innovative solutions for shared challenges, driving impactful outcomes across multiple organizations.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Reported directly to JPL's CTO for IT. Dual Role concurrent with Assistant Chief Technology Officer for IT
• Advanced Data Analytics: Utilized Power BI and other analytics tools to deliver actionable insights on usage statistics, cost recovery, and precise planning for reserved instances (RI) across 50-100 concurrent IT.
• External Collaboration: Extended advisory and user groups to include external partners such as MIT, John Hopkins University, and Aerospace Corp., fostering greater collaboration and innovation.
• Mission Resource Optimizations: Led detailed analyses resulting in optimized mission resource utilization (e.g. projected savings of $180K per month for a single spacecraft).
• IT Engineering Leadership: Directed 9 teams in building robust target architectures for networking, directory services, storage, cloud computing, high-performance computing, cybersecurity, and more, ensuring continuous.

Pasadena, California, United States

• Technology Transformation and Efficiency: Championed cutting-edge innovations across NASA, including campus-wide digital signage, desktop 3D printing, integrated conference-room technology, data analytics, IoT devices.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Enterprise Cloud Transformation: Spearheaded the introduction of cloud computing services at NASA JPL, establishing the first enterprise cloud and hybrid cloud infrastructures and revolutionizing mission, science, and.
• World-Class Cloud Services Team Formation: Established and led a high-performance team dedicated to supporting JPL's Cloud First computing policy, delivering top-tier cloud services.
• Cloud Infrastructure Leadership: Oversaw the management of JPL’s Cloud Infrastructure Services, including private, commercial, and hybrid cloud deployments, ensuring seamless integration and optimal performance.
• Strategic Cost Optimization: Achieved substantial cost savings (~15%, approximately $2.2M annually) by leveraging cloud-based COTS toolsets, skilled teams, and advanced data analytics for predictive modeling and.
• Comprehensive Cloud Services: Delivered a wide array of cloud services, including Amazon AWS, OpenStack, CloudCheckr, orchestration, automation, consulting, and training, alongside analytics and governance for.

• IT PMO Founding Leadership: Established and led the IT Project Management Office (PMO), directly reporting to JPL's CIO, laying the foundation for strategic project management excellence and comprehensive visibility.
• Cross-Organizational Change Leadership: Successfully implemented process improvements across 400+ IT employees spanning multiple departments by leveraging organizational change management and targeted training.
• Policy and Process Stewardship: Defined and maintained IT Project Management and System Engineering policies, processes, and procedures, ensuring operational consistency and excellence.

• Career Development Initiatives: Initiated the implementation of career pathways and mentoring programs, including "Mission: IT," which strengthened the connection between IT personnel and customers in flight/mission.
• Strategic Organizational Leadership: Directed 120-250 direct and contract employees, ensuring the successful execution of projects with a combined budget exceeding $30M.
• Transition to Operations: During a major restructuring, managed existing operational facilities and directed their successful transition to dedicated operations organizations or external providers.
• Comprehensive Leadership: Developed and guided the Systems Engineering, SQA, Technology and Innovation, and Development Practices teams, driving consistent project success.
• Engineering Expertise: Served as Lead Technologist and Lead Engineer for IT Development, delivering innovative solutions and engineering excellence during a critical transition period.

Lead two sections of four groups - approximately 200-250 IT professionals - in delivering IT solutions, consulting, and custom development to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Leadership in Complex, Cross-Organizational Projects: Directed multiple high-impact projects, including the Lessons Learned Knowledge Network, Enterprise Collaboration, Software Repository, and Records Management Initiatives. Managed day-to-day operations, budgets, and schedules, ensuring seamless end-to-end functionality and system integration from design.

Manage the coordination and deployment of IT and CIO resources on JPL Flight Projects. Act as the Mars Science Lander-CIO Project Liaison for NASA's MSL Mars Rover. Manage 5 cost accounts for PLM and enterprise tool services. As section architect, work to create and deploy a standard IT development framework (JUMP - the JPL Unified Methodology Process)..

Manage diverse set of Enterprise level PLM tools including Problem Reporting, Anomaly Reporting, Document Management, Collaborative Engineering, and Product Data Management. Manage phase-out and replacement of Enterprise Problem Reporting and PDM tools. Architect and implement a standards-based Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) to integrate with other.

Technical Group Supervisor IMSDG (Information Management Systems Development Group). Managed 20+ JPL and Contract employees working on PDMS (Sherpa and Teamcenter Enterprise), Teamcenter Community, and Xerox Docushare. Formed pro-active Hardware, Software, Customer Support, and Operations Teams. Architected and implemented a scalable and robust Hardware.

Technical Group Supervisor for the PDMS group. Managed the implementation of the Teamcenter PDM system. In addition to supervisory responsibilities: developed requirements, managed multi-million dollar budget, led development and maintenance teams, coordinated help-desk and system administration, and worked with consultants to meet project deliverables..

Technical Group Supervisor for the PDMIG (Product Data Management Implementation Group). Supervised 29 programmers, administrators, and assorted support personnel. Group functions included the JPL Configuration Management/PDM System (PDMS), the Computer-Aided Design (CAD) Tool Services Accounting System, the Engineering Data Management Group (EDMG, the JPL.

Technical Lead for the Lab-Wide PDMS (Project Data Management System) project. Coordinate teams of programmers to develop PC and Unix based systems for Configuration Management and ISO-9000 compliance. Design cross platform support and multi-tiered architecture to implement a scalable PDM system. Define and design APIs that provide a secure yet open.

Pasadena, CA

Began as a co-op student. Became a full time, Member of the Computer Operations Group within the Mechanical Design section. Tasked with programming and design for the EDMS/PDMS system - JPL's PLM (Product Lifecycle Management System).

Master Of Engineering - Meng, Computer And Systems Engineering

Activities and Societies: Chi Phi

Part 107 Remote Pilot, Unmanned Aircraft Systems (Uas) Operations

Completed training and certification to obtain the FAA Part 107 Remote Pilot License, specializing in safe and legal operation of small.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer And Systems Engineering

Minor in Cognitive Psychology