As a Product Manager at McKinsey & Company, I lead the development and delivery of a scalable, secure cloud environment that supports advanced data analytics. This platform enables real-time analytics integration for sensitive data, ensuring robust data protection while meeting stringent regulatory requirements.Key Strengths & Achievements: • Strategic Product Leadership: Define and execute the strategic vision for a cutting-edge data and analytics platform in collaboration with key partners. Spearhead the development of secure, high-performance environments optimized for advanced analytics use cases. • Agile Product Management: Lead cross-functional teams through agile development cycles, focusing on delivering results aligned with the product roadmap. Successfully launched a high-availability platform on time, ensuring optimal performance and security. • Innovative Market Scanning Tool Deployment: Recently led the development of a generative AI-powered market scanning tool, enabling users to research ongoing government programs, intellectual property and innovation trends, and market competitiveness. This marked one of the first uses of generative AI in this practice at the firm. • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with security, legal, UX, and business teams to prioritize initiatives and align quarterly plans. Ensure seamless communication and alignment among stakeholders to drive platform success. • Customer-Centric Development: Leverage customer insights to develop a prioritized product backlog, ensuring the platform addresses key customer pain points and provides innovative, user-friendly solutions. • Operational and Financial Planning: Manage platform budgeting, cost optimization, and pricing strategies to support sustainable growth and profitability, ensuring a balance between operational efficiency and product scalability.

Leading Development of BroadbandLab to Bridge the Digital DivideAs the Product Manager for McKinsey’s BroadbandLab, I lead the development of a cutting-edge geospatial analytics application aimed at mapping and providing cost analytics insights for underserved populations across the United States. This initiative is designed to support efforts in bridging the digital divide by enabling effective broadband infrastructure projects.Key Achievements and Responsibilities: • Feature Roadmap Development: Responsible for the end-to-end development and prioritization of the feature roadmap, ensuring that each release aligns with our strategic objectives and user needs. • Agile Implementation: Successfully launched BroadbandLab from proof of concept to initial product release by implementing an agile development process. This included establishing agile ceremonies, conducting stakeholder demonstrations, and collaboratively defining epics, user stories, and tasks. • User Acceptance Testing: Oversee rigorous user acceptance testing to ensure high-quality product releases that meet user requirements and expectations. • Stakeholder Collaboration: Work closely with internal and external stakeholders to gather insights and inform the future direction of the product. This collaborative approach ensures that BroadbandLab delivers maximum value to end users, supporting the successful implementation of broadband infrastructure projects.

Special Missions Software Capability lead for Upgrades of the A/H/MC-130J AircraftAs the Staff Project Engineer at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics, I led the development and coordination of special missions software capability upgrades for the C-130J aircraft, focusing on delivering critical enhancements to support the U.S. Air Force Special Operations community.Key Achievements and Responsibilities: • Software Sustainment Leadership: Served as the project manager for software sustainment, driving the growth of Lockheed’s services and support for fielded products used by the Special Operations community. Developed and defined the product strategy and roadmap to ensure ongoing relevance and effectiveness. • Agile Demonstrations: Conducted Agile demonstrations to identify and implement product improvements and opportunities. This iterative process ensured continuous enhancement of software capabilities. • Cross-functional Collaboration: Worked closely with engineering, design, and product operations teams to expand the sustainment business. This collaboration was key to integrating new features and maintaining the high performance of the C-130J’s special missions software. • Team Coordination and Customer Relations: Coordinated efforts across various teams and maintained strong relationships with customers, ensuring that the delivered solutions met their operational needs and expectations. Engaged in business development activities to align new capabilities with customer requirements and strategic objectives.

Lead Technical Project Engineer for CNS/ATM Upgrades on HC Block 7.0/8.1As a Senior Project Engineer at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics, I spearheaded the technical product management and project engineering for the HC Block 7.0/8.1 capability upgrade, addressing critical Communication, Navigation, Surveillance, and Air Traffic Management (CNS/ATM) requirements.Key Achievements and Responsibilities: • Technical Product Management: Led the development and integration of CNS/ATM upgrades, ensuring compliance with stringent aviation standards and enhancing the operational capabilities of the HC Block 7.0/8.1. • Program Coordination: Successfully coordinated the program through various phases of testing, including Formal Qualification Testing (FQT), Failure Modes Effects Testing (FMET), and both ground and flight regression testing. This comprehensive testing regimen ensured the reliability and effectiveness of the upgrades. • Cross-functional Leadership: Collaborated with multiple engineering teams to oversee the end-to-end project lifecycle, from requirements definition to final implementation. This cross-functional approach was pivotal in meeting project milestones and delivering high-quality outcomes. • Compliance and Quality Assurance: Ensured all upgrades met regulatory requirements and internal quality standards, providing thorough documentation and reporting throughout the project phases.

As the Capability Lead - System/Software Design Engineer at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics, I was responsible for spearheading system and software requirements development, ensuring the successful integration of new capabilities through rigorous design and collaborative processes.Key Achievements and Responsibilities: • Agile Methodology Implementation: Led the implementation of new software development processes by merging Agile methodologies with traditional Systems Engineering processes. This approach enhanced development efficiency and adaptability. • Requirements Development: Created detailed requirements work packages, managed signal interfaces, and maintained file configurations. Authored system and subsystem design documents for multiple software blocks, ensuring clarity and precision in development specifications. • Collaboration and Communication: Facilitated internal and external collaboration through technical interchange meetings with customers and suppliers. This collaborative effort was essential for aligning project objectives and resolving technical challenges. • Evaluation and Configuration Management: Participated in software product evaluation reviews and software change configuration boards. Investigated and resolved software product anomaly reports, maintaining high standards of quality and reliability.

Leading Public-Private Partnership for Rocket Engine DevelopmentAs the Deputy Project Manager for the United States Air Force, I led an integrated product team in a $61 million public-private partnership aimed at transitioning the U.S. off non-allied rocket engines by developing and successfully testing a prototype rocket engine within the first year.Key Achievements and Responsibilities: • Project Management: Directed the project management of a high-stakes initiative, overseeing contract execution, status reporting, and relationship building to ensure program success and alignment with strategic objectives. • Technical Reviews: Collaborated with various business functions to conduct major technical reviews, including preliminary and critical design reviews. These reviews were crucial for identifying and mitigating design shortfalls, thereby preventing unnecessary program expenditures. • Stakeholder Collaboration: Built strong relationships with industry partners and internal stakeholders, facilitating seamless communication and coordination across the integrated product team. • Contract Negotiations: Led successful negotiations that maintained original agreement cost limits while expanding program scope and reducing the project schedule by six months. These efforts secured continued investment and interest in the program.

Acquisition strategy development and source selection team memberAs a Program Planning Administrator for the United States Air Force, I played a pivotal role in organizing work efforts, conducting business case analyses, and communicating strategic initiatives to support technology maturation and risk reduction in rocket engine technology, thereby enhancing market competition in the Defense Space industry.Key Achievements and Responsibilities: • RFP Management: Ensured contractor responsiveness to Government Requests for Proposal (RFP), supporting the advancement of technology maturation and risk reduction efforts for rocket engine technology. This work furthered market competition within the Defense Space sector. • Source Selection Oversight: Collaborated with government teams to conduct source selection competitions, ensuring fairness and adherence to regulations, requirements, processes, and technical specifications. This oversight helped prevent potential contractor protests. • Executive Interface: Interfaced with executive leadership and Department of Defense officials to develop acquisition strategies and manage RFP development efforts, ensuring alignment with strategic goals and regulatory requirements. • Reporting and Communication: Expedited and delivered accurate program schedules and cost reports to the Secretary of the Air Force. These reports were instrumental in defending the program before the House Armed Services Committee. • Strategic Analysis: Authored the Air Force’s launch vehicle case analysis, outlining development and procurement strategies for future investments in national security launch systems. This analysis leveraged extensive market research and simulation to support informed decision-making.