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San Francisco, CA, US

Sausalito, CA, US

○ USD $4M in funding through USSF SpaceWERX and USAF AFWERX SBIR and STTR funding in Space Domain Awareness and In-Space Servicing. ○ Built and led an R&D team of 15 to develop advanced aerospace and computing technologies to enable real-time decisions between incompatible networks, unmanned surface vehicles, unmanned aircraft systems, controllers for.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US

• Strengthened the company from one-two technologies to a multi-million-dollar technology fund with a portfolio including in-house renewable and sustainable energy technologies.
• Fundraised $15M with CTO through 6 winning Department of Energy (DOE) grants for a suite of renewable energy technologies.
• Raised $1.15M from the Department of Energy and led a team to develop 4 MW wave energy device by partnering with world experts, University Research Labs, NREL, and DoD to achieve funding and execution to Technology.
• Responded to Deepwater Horizon Oil spill in 2010 by working with UC Santa Barbara team members and contributed to patent a deep underwater oil leak containment system and containment and convective transfer vessel.

• Worked with US Venture Partners, a $600M fund to lead and vet their solar thermal business plan.
• Generated a 200% increase in leads in the food processing sector while researching and redefining market, solution, and supply chain strategies.
• Traveled to customers in the food processing industry in Central California and suppliers overseas.
• Prepared detailed plans for the venture to take root and to scale rapidly.

• Oversaw Biz-Dev, solution delivery, and idea generation for new proposals, identifying a niche market for engineering services for power-generation OEMs. Fostered and managed relationships at C-level and senior.
• Generated revenue growth over 60% year-to-year by bootstrapping a services company and maximizing profitability from the get-go.
• Negotiated a three-year $6M outsourcing contract between the US, Germany, and India with Siemens for the design/development of advanced aero-derivative gas turbines.
• Reduced design-cycle time in half at Siemens by teaming with a global team of 20+ to identify detect causes and streamline the entire process using Six Sigma DFSS, resulting in saving $3M per turbine long-term.

Supply Chain Management, CRM and ecommerce solutions for manufacturing.

Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, US

Clients included: Solar Turbines, Pratt and Whitney, Sunstrand Hamilton, Allied SignalJet engine engineering services and product development company in the Aerospace IndustryPower Generation and PropulsionHelped install a new product innovation process based on stage gate system that was adopted company wide. Developed a highly complex yet automated.

Plano, TX, US

Positions held at formerly known SDRC:1996-1997: Implementation Engineer- Sheetmetal Modeling, Product Lifecycle Management Training and Automation at Cisco Systems working on the first BFR Router, Rockwell Int'l 1994: Technical Consultant at SDRC Japan KK-First and only female engineer sent to Japan office. Structural Analysis for Toyota.1992-1995.

Atlanta, Georgia, US

Worked with team of research engineers on Jet Noise Reduction Experiments and Pneumatically-controlled Helmholtz Resonators

Mba, Finance

B.A.E., Aerospace Engineering