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Courtland, Alabama, United States

Oversaw multiple spacecraft harness fabrication programs within Courtland’s cable and harness shop. - Created and established process for onboarding new work into the cable shop. Improved customer satisfaction resulted due to the cable shop’s ability to better manage labor resource planning and meet schedules.- Created and maintained facility work authorization documents.- Updated customer program build status methods resulting in better visibility of production barriers.- Established and maintained strong working relationships with all disciplines including engineering, support staff, senior management and technicians.- Directed MRP’s generation of project schedules that effectively balanced customer needs with shop resource availability. Drove functional areas within the cable and harness facility to meet these schedule and cost goals. - Prepared and presented manufacturing readiness review documentation.- Mentored junior project engineers.

Huntsville, Alabama, United States

Designed and released engineering drawings for ground support test equipment in support of a major DoD program. Assembled and managed a team of over 22 mechanical and electrical engineers across multiple Lockheed Martin (LM) sites, that released producible designs on schedule and within budget. - Created and maintained drawing release delivery schedule in MS Project.- Provided weekly EV status for hardware and software design activities as well as production tasks. - Provided procurement, programmatic, technical and production direction to sub-contract manufacturers.

Huntsville, Alabama, United States

Liaison between LM Development Director and Missile Defense Agency (MDA) program office. Briefed at executive level development status and EV status to both LM and US Army MDA leadership.- Supported new business development by reviewing proposal Statements of Work. - Partnered with MDA program office in the development of deployment plans to field major software upgrades.

Huntsville, Alabama, United States

Chief technical point of contact for the Huntsville Repair Depot on multiple contracts. - Established milestone planning with senior management Lockheed Martin, US Navy and suppliers.- Prepared labor, schedule and material estimates typically valued at $10M each. - Resolved complex technical issues arising from obsolete engineering drawings. - Provided programmatic and technical direction to production control, shipping/receiving, and lead assembly/test technicians. Served as control account manager (CAM).

Orlando, Florida, United States

Provided engineering hardware design drawings for multiple products and customers (US Air Force, US Marines, Royal Australian Air Force). Supported System Requirements Reviews (SRR). - Assembled and managed a team of mechanical and electrical engineers that provided engineering drawings for hardware fabrication.- Prepared and briefed engineering baseline at Preliminary and Critical Design Reviews (PDR & CDR). - Provided labor and schedule basis of estimates (BOE) for electrical and mechanical engineering design development and drawing releases. - Followed up drawing releases with procurement tracking and drawing interpretation direction to the manufacturing floor- As the hardware engineering control account manager (CAM), provided regular EV status to program management.

Huntsville, Alabama, United States

Responsible for prioritizing a team of Manufacturing Engineers supporting multiple programs providing both day-to-day and long-range work assignments. - Was the go-to engineer for manufacturing floor analysis including floor layout, capital equipment justification and process flow and production tooling specification and procurement.- Selected to design and integrate an advanced production assembly line that decreased production time by 40%.- Provided written work instructions for mechanical assemblies and wiring harnesses based on drawings, wire run lists and interconnect diagrams.- Selected for a temporary stretch assignment as Lead Mechanical Integrator on a major DoD hardware build.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Mechanical Engineering

Associate Of Science - As, Pre-Engineering