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Responsible for a $46.2M portfolio while providing administrative and technical direction of the assigned staff to ensure consistent performance and exceptional quality of deliverables across multiple programs. Coordinate a team of professionals providing engineering and technical services in areas of software development, integration, hardware repair, and sustainment cross the Identification Friend or Foe (IFF) Product Line. • Exercises authority with the full range of managerial responsibilities while working closely with technical leadership, and Raytheon Management.• Establish milestones while monitoring adherence to master plan cost and schedule, direct resource allocations, coordinate contractual changes, identify problems and solutions for meeting cost constraints.• Coordinate meetings with personnel matrixed to the program from technical, business, manufacturing, and administrative departments to formulate strategy, and execute planned activities.• Manage risk and subcontractor oversight.• Communicate new ideas and concepts, manage priorities, and participate in meetings with customers representing the academic, business, industry, and military communities.• Prepare proposals, business plans, Foreign Disclosure and Export authorizations, Basis of Estimate calculations, Test and Evaluation Analysis reports, statements of work, and operating budgets. • Initiates, plans, develops, executes and tracks contract strategies, documentation, awards and performance.• Develops long-range organizational concepts and plans.• Prepares issue documentation and maintains status of decisions on program.

Provide project and data management support expertise to a team of professionals in support of the F-35 Radar Sustainment Program. • Budget control, contracts facilitation, proposal management, data analysis, and repair activities planning / reporting. • Facilitates the development of rules, regulations, standards, programs, policies, and procedures as they relate to operations and integration of repair hardware into the processing cycle.• Plans and conducts a wide variety of studies, projects, surveys, and evaluations.• Advise on short and long-range resource requirements and strategic planning while providing advice from an operational standpoint on execution of tasks and capacity analysis. • Apply evaluative techniques to study efficiency and effectiveness of program operations.• Conduct detailed studies and analyses of complex functions and work processes of the program to include value stream mapping and cost benefit analysis.• Perform analysis of long-range data. • Analyze project plans, resource expenditures, and risk assessment data in order to assess the project's ability to meet stated and desired objectives from both a program and a company-wide perspective.• Participating in special studies and working group meetings with program managers, analysts, and technical SMEs that identify project problems and/or opportunities.• Monitor program status and develop performance measures to support management.• Recommend and implement strategies to ensure the program is allocated efficiently and economically.

Plans, organizes, evaluates, manages, and directs work to be accomplished by a team of engineers to facilitate the development of technical documentation for producible Integration and Test benches on the GATOR program.• Sets priorities and prepares work schedules for completion of program goals in accordance with the Integrated Master Schedule.

• Responsible for administrative and technical direction of the assigned staff to ensure consistent performance and exceptional quality of deliverables across multiple AWACS programs. Coordinate a team of professionals providing engineering and technical services in areas of software development, integration, hardware repair, and sustainment. • Exercises authority with the full range of managerial responsibilities while working closely with technical leadership, and Northrop Grumman Export Management.• Establish milestones while monitoring adherence to master plan cost and schedule, direct resource allocations, coordinate contractual changes, identify problems and solutions for meeting cost constraints.• Coordinate meetings with personnel matrixed to the program from technical, business, manufacturing, and administrative departments to formulate strategy, and execute planned activities.• Manage risk and subcontractor oversight associated with the Japan Post Delivery Support Program.• Act as Domestic and International customer contact for Japan and United Kingdom E-3 program activities within the AWACS community.• Communicate new ideas and concepts, manage priorities, and participate in meetings with customers representing the academic, business, industry, and military communities.• Prepare proposals, business plans, Foreign Disclosure and Export authorizations, Basis of Estimate calculations, Test and Evaluation Analysis reports, statements of work, and operating budgets. • Initiates, plans, develops, executes and tracks contract strategies, documentation, awards and performance.• Develops long-range organizational concepts and plans.• Prepares issue documentation and maintains status of decisions on program.

•Install, repair, and maintain electrical and electronic subassemblies for the E2-D product platform while operating incompliance with ISO 9000 standards for health, quality, and safety. • Plan, organize, direct, tailor and prepare programmatic strategies and documentation required to support the E2-D product platform.• Coordinate and perform integration and test activities within a classified lab to facilitate testing of production and spare hardware. • Support Failure Reporting, Analysis & Corrective Action System (FRACAS) Database for acquisition, entry, and analysis of hardware failures. Maintain, repair, and manage program test equipment. • Collaborate with senior technicians and system engineers in the troubleshooting and implementation of various design modifications for hardware repair and upgrade. Perform on-site interface and troubleshooting associated with customer hardware. • Prepare Statements of Work (Performance Work Statements) and evaluate proposals.• Generate test procedures and technical instructions used for internal and external handling and usage of program-specific hardware. Perform trusted downloads and other related data security functions as the designated Internal Security Officer within a Secret lab environment. • Qualify power processing hardware by utilizing circuit analysis, design, implementation, and verification techniques. Create documentation used for verification testing of major circuit modules in power processing electronics. • Utilize advanced techniques for more efficient hardware and test bench modifications. Assess the feasibility and soundness of proposed validation tests on expanded capabilities. Conduct and plan complex subsystem development and assessments on interfaces to ensure that overall objectives of the program are met. • Broad authority to represent NGC on technical and programmatic issues at internal reviews. •

• Generate automated software programs on NSI, FORTRAN, and Visual C platforms for data acquisition in Anechoic Chambers, Compact Ranges, and Far-field Test Range environments. Data Acquisition and evaluation across S, X, and Ku frequency bands.• Train engineers and certified technicians in the use of Antenna software and controls.• Design and integrate new upgrades for testing equipment. Generate automated programs to control radar array platforms for testing / troubleshooting and provide Electrical Engineering support. • Plan and manage Antenna Range activities across multiple programs to include qualification testing, production testing, budgets, and schedules. • Provide maintenance, supervision, and troubleshooting of range equipment. Implementation of all aspects of operational efficiencies.

• Generation and application of theories, principles, practical concepts, processes, and systems relating to: the properties of matter and energy in the investigation of electrical phenomena; electrical circuits, circuit elements, equipment, and systems and advanced mathematics and economics. • Effectively coordinating the efforts of a wide range of technical experts in multiple disciplines to translate customer requirements into software and hardware products for APG-66/68 programs. • Develops and defines systems concept and manages Systems Engineering of designed high power analog test fixtures using Mentor graphics schematic capture tool. • Designed multi-bus digital communication backplane using: PCI bus, Common bus, VME Bus, and LVDS bus signal communications. • Created voltage regulator circuit to limit the amount of current applied to production boards. Created Lab Windows/CVI Graphical User Interface (GUI) to generate semi-automated test controls. • JTAG software generation of Xilinx and Altera microchips for both boundary scan and functional programming. • Developed software driver for high voltage Lambda source to facilitate test set functionality. Identifies problems requiring further study and develops engineering design policy relating to electrical requirements. • Able to work as a member of a team, accept and give constructive criticism, and contribute to research and analysis of future concepts for product generation.