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Qualified Opportunity Zone (QOZ) Partner and Hospitality Owner

• Senior software engineering manager overseeing a 105+ person team comprised of engineers, product managers and software developers responsible for in-house scientific software, simulation and optimization.Responsible.
• Technical Leadership - 2023 Recognition / Cash Award for the development of an introductory data analytics, AI and ML course in partnership with the University of Washington, awarded by VP/Functional Chief Engineer.

• Chief engineer responsible for bridging the gap between the OEM and supplier dispositioning propulsion systems qualification test RCCA findings in support of certification efforts.AWARDS
• Leadership and Working Together - 2021 Recognition / Cash Award for leading a 777-9 system design / certification development recovery effort. Awarded by Supply Chain Leadership.

• Strategic leader and chief engineer responsible for BCA Landing Gear design, development and fleet support needs over a 6.5-year period encompassing all B7X7 series aircraft and future programs. Special Project: Boeing.
• Extraordinary Customer Support - 2019 Recognition / Cash Award for making an emergent solo trip to China to successfully mitigate an airlines technical product concern. Awarded by Customer Engineering.
• Exceeding Performance and Affordability Targets - 2017 Recognition / Cash Award for exceeding design targets by balancing product optimization against diminishing returns. Awarded by 777X Wing IPT.
• Integration Leadership - 2014 Recognition / Cash Award for successfully standing up a new production startup / work transfer. Awarded by 777 VP Chief Project Eng. and Director of Engineering.

Leadership over a team of 36 structural fuselage engineers responsible for engineering product management including compliance of type design, disposition of non-conformance, change requests, trade studies, etc.

Developed a prototype data acquisition and analytics tool used by Microsoft’s Sales and Marketing team. AWARDSMicrosoft's 2012 Excellence Award runner up for Microsoft’s Global Sales & Marketing Anti-Privacy tool.

Principal System Analyst integrating a new front-end user activation / provisioning system with asynchronous backend systems. Responsible for solution delivery, change management, technical inquiries, and issue resolution while ensuring the highest level of customer satisfaction.

Fostered a strategic partnership between the business and technical stakeholders aligning IT activities with company priorities in support of T-Mobile's Retail Transformation. Led system prototyping, field trials, and the development of digital portals and enhanced provisioning/activation systems.

Enabling new innovative mobile products and services through IT system development and enhancement. Defined use cases and built technology solutions leveraging Agile and Waterfall SDLC frameworks.

Successfully served as the National "Emergency 911" Program Manager, overseeing the deployment of 1st generation location-based technology across T-Mobile's wireless network within FCC Enforcement Bureau mandated timelines.

Successfully led wireless network and associated business systems merger and acquisition (M&A) integration activities in markets such as the New England area, Indianapolis and the San Francisco Bay Area.

• Numerical Simulation / Engineering Lead
• Engineering Software Developer (C-Shell, Fortran, C, Scripts, etc.)
• Graduate Research Assistant at the Minnesota Supercomputer Institute
• UNIX System Admin for the University of Minnesota Aerospace Engineering Department

Master Of Science, Numerical Methods (Computational Methods)

Activities and Societies: Research Assistant at the Minnesota Super Computer Institute, System Admin. for Department of Aerospace.

Master, Engineering Management, “Technology And Operations Research Based Mba”

Bachelor Of Science, Aerospace Engineering & Applied Mechanics