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Clearfield, Utah, United States

Hill Afb, Ut

- Leads 6 Integrated Product Teams and supervises 30 military and civilians delivering the next generation $1B+ strategic-grade guidance program for the Sentinel Intercontinental Ballistic Missile program.- Forged Navy partnership to qualify Inertial Measurement Unit saving the government $30M and accelerating risk reduction testing by 2 years.- Crafted new acquisition strategy for $80B+ program shifting production contracting from Fixed Price to Cost Reimbursable and accelerating production decision–prevented 2 year delay to initial operational capability.- Led systems engineering delta-preliminary design review and integrated baseline review on 5 subsystems to establish technical/program management baseline on biggest Department of Defense program

Kirtland Afb, Nm

Supervised a 15 member team developing a $400M+ highly sensitive classified program for the Space Rapid Capabilities Office and delivering a first-of-a-kind capability for the United States Space Force.- Created $950M Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (ID/IQ) and awarded 11 contracts to establish Special Access Program pool of bidders for future programs- Initiated space control program, including writing Acquisition Strategy, Security Classification Guide, Program Protection Plan, Statement of Work, Weapon System Specification, Request for Proposal, and gained Undersecretary of Defense Milestone A-equivalent approval- Awarded three development contracts within ID/IQ for new program–6 months from Industry Day to Award

Pentagon, Washington Dc

Managed the planning, programming, budgeting, and execution of 6 acquisition programs ensuring stable funding and continued Congressional support.- Authored four Congressional reports and set policy for commercial use of demilitarized Intercontinental Ballistic Missile rocket motors- Represented programs to Congress; secured Congressional approval for $68M satellite communications program enabling protected tactical battlefield communications

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Managed National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA) $70M/yr program hosting 70 applications in Agile cloud services across 4 security levels supporting national decision makers and warfighters.- Led 12 member, $610M data center program office to provide IT managed services platform for 70 applications in Unclassified, Secret collateral, Top Secret SCI, and Compartmented security levels. Successfully transitioned all applications to Amazon cloud services- Provided operational support to Intelligence Community application system developers, Warfighters, & First Responders. Maintained 99.99 operational availability.- Operated 24/7 operations center to provide highly sensitive intelligence to Special Forces users worldwide; resolved 47 outages and increased available intelligence 15%.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Led the integration, test, launch, and on-orbit delivery of a TS//SCI National Reconnaissance Office satellite to operations - Led 95-member team to build, test, launch, and initialize the next-gen $2B+ satellite delivering new payload ensuring continued operations.- Completed 120 hours of certification training to serve as a Flight Director leading 60+ member operations team during satellite check-out; delivered spacecraft on orbit 73% faster.- Chaired technical issue resolution team; resolved 12 spacecraft issues in integration and test to prevent 6 month delay to start of operations

Greater Los Angeles Area

Led two multidisciplinary Integrated Product Teams to deliver 14 solid rocket motors and 8 liquid rocket engines in support of 14 launch campaigns- Served as on-console engineer for 6 government launches and led two multi-agency anomaly investigations to ensure safe operations- Led team of 15 Lockheed Martin, Pratt Whitney Rocketdyne, and government engineers to conduct quality audit of Russian rocket engine factory–supplier fully certified to US best practices- Conducted Range Safety qualification campaign for 90 new and existing ordnance devices leading to first ever Atlas V flight off Western Range

Master’S Degree, Aerospace, Aeronautical And Astronautical Engineering

Masters in Astronautical Engineering with a focus in structures and mechanics. Thesis on deployable structures for CubeSats.

Bachelor’S Degree, Aerospace, Aeronautical And Astronautical Engineering