Highly adaptable and collaborative senior systems engineering manager with a proven track record in business capture and program management with a technical background in electro-optical, infrared, and LiDAR engineering, possessing effective leadership and interpersonal skills coupled with proven cost and schedule management abilities.Most recently, I've been responsible for the origination and growth of an entirely new business area, serving as a Business Area Manager for all of the company’s LiDAR programs. Led the capture and growth strategies as well as program execution for programs focused on near real time processing and feature extraction resulting in multiple contract awards.Additionally I acted as Program Manager for various special access SIGINT research and development programs (~$25 million). Responsible for continuous customer interaction on a technical and programmatic level. Additional responsibilities included proposal development, program budget and schedule development, technical program status review presentations to the Customer and President/CEO, and staffing and performance management of a team of up to 25 scientists and engineers. Technical applications include optical and RF engineering, digital signal and image processing, algorithm development, and all aspects of system and subsystem development to support the applications.I possess a strong, broad background in electro-optical systems development and test