• Close coordination with partners in Brazil to identify, and negotiate commodities contracts• Identify buying and selling sources worldwide to meet buyers requirements for commodities• Led a multi-million dollar engineering effort for a DX-rated Department of Defense program. All design and test milestones met on an extremely challenging 24-month schedule required to support an urgent procurement of five ship-sets for the Missile Defense Agency.• Led an engineering team for the parachute recovery system as part of the NASA Langley Max Launch Abort System program that culminated in a successful test. NASA required program execution under extremely challenging schedule constraints to support the NASA Constellation Program requirements (click to view the MLAS test).• Successfully directed a Kaizen Lean Enterprise team that addressed bid & proposal process improvements resulting in reducing the response time to customer by 50%, and significant proposal preparation cost-savings. • Championed the implementation and training within the Engineering Division of the first company-wide Management Information System that resulted in significant efficiency gains.• Key member of the team creating & implementing ISO9001 procedures for initial successful company accreditation Member of internal quality audit team for all subsequent (and successful) re-certifications.• Proposal Manager for the successful award of several major aerospace contracts from major international corporationsSpecialties: • Sourcing commodities that meet buyers price and