Richard Kohut Email & Phone Number

Malvern PA

Program Manager to lead the fast paced team supporting Vanguard’s Global Financial Reconciliation Technologies. Providing senior level IT program management for software, middleware, and hardware deliverables and working closely with the Fund Financial Services business to deliver new global capabilities supporting interaction in the financial markets.

SRA International

• Senior Director - Program Manager for a large SAP customer relationship and supply chain management solution to manage orders valued at $3.5B annually and 6000+ users
• Responsibility for $33M program budget and 75+ staff including initiating, planning, staffing, and delivering of SAP functionality and customized applications.
• Responsibility included PMO and process development, mapping of business processes and resolution of impacts, Data center and N+1 landscape changes (PaaS, cloud). Included hardware virtualization, SAP application.
• Lead the Program Management Office team of 10 professionals providing SOW, risk management, scheduling, earned value management, staffing, quality assurance, configuration management, configuration control, financial.
• Identify, building and maintaining operational metrics, dashboards and reporting conducting operational readiness exercises.
• Responsible for planning and execution of all integration, performance and users acceptance testing, training, Go-Live, postproduction and O&M support

• Provided overall leadership and technical direction including coaching and mentoring of PMs. Developed organization change and approach that met customer technical, schedule, and cost constraints
• Responsible and accountable for all PMO planning, coordination and management of multiple related projects including engineering, business development, quality, finance and human resources while working with the.
• Stood up PMO office and managed team of 6 program managers.
• Identified and tracked emerging technologies relevant to the business unit and application to programs
• Led team of Business Development Professionals, Capture Managers, and Proposal Managers pursuing $100m+ Civil Government and Commercial opportunities.
• Served as a focal point and SME providing Capture Management leadership. Responsibilities included strategic development, teaming agreements, technical solutions, and establishing target pricing

Complete P&L responsibility for $20M 3GPP WCDMA HW and S/W development program. Provided Technical Direction to 150+ cross function teams and development staff. Development responsibility for WCDMA air interface technology for baseline JTRS MUOS Waveform. Provided on-going technical guidance and support for customer optimization between SW and HW.

Managed Group of 85 highly technical team of systems engineers and architects on a large complex. Responsible for Requirements, Traceability, Operations, System Performance, Risk Management, Validation and Verification. Managed $22 million dollar budget and overall SE program schedule and deliverables. Organization successfully achieved SEI-CMM 4 during.

Account Manager. Led numerous planning and business development projects for a diverse set of customers in the pharmaceutical and financial business area. Tasks included assessment of client requirements, determination of technical and strategic fit of capabilities, Return on Investment (ROI) assessments, managing of vendor relations, 3rd party software.

on numerous Information Technology and Telecommunication projects for a diverse set of customers in the health care and financial business area. Experience in capture and leading complex projects involving changing technology across multiple departments, functions and locations. PM and performed overall requirements analysis, architecture trades, ROI.

Led and coordinated activities of 35 chief engineers, architects, and scientist, on a large distributed client/server system. Responsible for requirements, design, risk mitigation delivery and customer acceptance testing.. Responsible for $3M dollar budget and schedule. Developed technical resources to provide an effective organization to meet program.

Led and coordinated activities of 35 chief engineers, architects, and scientist, on a large distributed client/server system. Responsible for requirements, design, risk mitigation delivery and customer acceptance testing.. Responsible for $3M dollar budget and schedule. Developed technical resources to provide an effective organization to meet program.

Corporate focus for systems engineering productivity methodology and tools. Improved engineering productivity by 30% over 3 years. Instrumental in achieving multi-million dollar cost savings across the corporation. Corporate focus for all system engineer tool contract negotiations and implementation.Successful capture manager for follow-on $30 million.

Responsible Engineer and Technical Lead on multiple mobile satellite communication systems projects. Defined system architecture for satellite communications Internet access network. Working knowledge of all GSM cellular protocols architectures and interfaces.

responsible for software architecture design, functional definition, development of network-based distributed real-time 3MLOC process control system. High quality "C", Pascal, and Assembly language software developed and tested.

Masters Of Business Administration; Masters Of Science; Engineering Sciencebachelor Of Science, 2009; Electrical Engineering

MBA

Masters Of Business Administration; Masters Of Science; Engineering Sciencebachelor Of Science, 2009; Electrical Engineering

Emba, Business

Msesc, Enginering And Computer Science

Engineering

Bsee, Electrical Engineering

Engineering

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Electrical And Electronics Engineering