- Develop, maintain, and communicate the scope, budget, schedule, and product development activities for aerostructure internal/external stakeholders.- Monitor program schedule commitments and direct appropriate personnel of possible impacts(s) or change(s) which includes arranging, attending and chairing program reviews, technical - coordination meetings and design reviews as required.- Own execution and completion of multiple projects in parallel.- Identify resource requirements and highlight gaps across various stages of projects.- Set goals, track deliverables, identify risk and drive mitigation across all stages of projects.- Own report-outs for all projects, highlighting status, risks, mitigation, and opportunities across all levels of management.- Work collaboratively with technical stakeholders on all stages of projects: Requirements & concept development, engineering integration & design, manufacturing, testing, and qualification.- Support Supply Chain with management of external suppliers.- Manage roadmap of projects within the framework of overall company objectives.

- Develop manufacturing build plans for prototype vehicles and transition them into a production.- Heavily involved in the design and fabrication of all vehicle types, working with: airframe design, tooling, and process development teams,- Support the fabrication efforts for prototype and flight test vehicles.- Development of manufacturing standard practices and procedures.- Provide strong technical support to the airframe design teams using DFM.

Develop schedules, internal milestones, and resource demands to scale from development, to LRIP, to production.Audit existing practices and processes to forecast multi-year resource demands and budgets.Identify and relieve both internal and external bottlenecks to ensure schedule adherence.Update senior leadership weekly/monthly on current program risks, risk reduction paths, and budget burn progress.Utilize ERP system and ECO process to manage vehicle level BOM’s & inventory management.Maximize JIT inventory to support build rates while minimizing carrying costs, overhead and WIP.

Manufacturing roles for large composite structures & assemblies, including:- Swift 021 UAS Project Manager (Structures)- Boeing Echo Voyager UUV Program Manager- NGC BAT UAS, Block Upgrade Chief Engineer- Boeing JMR Defiant Design EngineerResource allocation & manpower schedule loading personnel resources within manufacturing, engineering, assembly and quality control. Assigning weekly scheduled work, multiple shift support, and overall program schedule maintenance.Subcontractor management, scope/WBS definition and contract negotiation. Integrating critical path item schedules and delivery dates with overall program schedule.Externally interfacing with OEM customers to manage risk, create mitigation strategies and prevent scope creep with change orders to protect budgets. Internally managing UAS stakeholder technical requirements including system/subsystem weight bogeys, CG definition, flight performance envelopes, interface control definition and mission payloads.Providing senior design/manufacturing review and guidance in support of composite aircraft design, tooling design, flight hardware specification, design for manufacturability, drawing and model based definition approval. Coordinating assembly approaches with DFM, aerospace hardware procurement, and adhesive usage definition with assembly personnel. Bond gap control, galvanic corrosion mitigation, laser tracking and match assembly techniques during hardware integration.

Lead Engineer - “Low Cost Rotorcraft Cabin Floor Structure” for US Army ManTech. Conceptual design, risk reduction, and tooling plan for thermoset press molded seat pans.Manufacturing Engineer for RQ-7 Shadow composite components.Lead composites manufacturing authority on Ply Shaping, Ply Cutting equipment, Laser Projector setup, Tooling Design, Material Selection and Material Tracking.Utilize Ply Laminate Theory and laminate failure criteria to predict static/dynamic behaviors and perform optimization studies. Coordinated and prepared technical proposals for new business opportunities, lead $2 million capital improvement program to add manufacturing capabilities, provided technical training and support to other company personnel, and performed application engineering support across other business areas.