Sandra Ryan Email & Phone Number

Palm Bay, Fl, Us

Melbourne, Florida, Us

Systems engineer for Space based deliverables.Leading 300+ talented Analog, RF and Antenna engineers.

Melbourne, Florida, Us

• Provides leadership for ~90 RF Engineers (Antenna, Electronics and RF Mechanical)• Actively engages with teams and across organizations to ensure effective product execution• Leads continuous improvement efforts for development and test processes of RF Designs, to improve cycle time and quality• Non-advocate and functional management reviewer of RF Designs • Collaborates across development and subsystem engineering to ensure effective communications and program execution• Collaborates across technical pyramids to ensure technical challenges are appropriately staffed• Collaborates with program chief engineers to effectively staff and re-prioritize personnel to solve challenges• Provides talent development for the department to minimize attrition• Responsible for ensuring the department is adequately staffed based on current business projections

• Responsible for P/L aspects for all projects and business functions.• Primary customer interface to ensure contractual requirements are met within cost and schedule.• Coordinate with existing customers to identify follow on opportunities.• Perform technical and programmatic risk analyses and mitigation planning on all programs accepted by Auburn SeeWolf.• Decompose and document System and Software Requirements which fulfill contractual requirements. • Develop algorithms required to support financial, scientific and manufacturing applications.• Develop highly reliable database infrastructures which support multi-faceted and multi-discipline applications.• Design and develop dynamic websites and e-Commerce applications with emphasis on Reliability, Availability and Security.• Develop database centric applications that support commercial and Government organizations.• Manage and maintain corporate data stores to ensure availability and integrity of information.• Maintain configuration management tools and software for efforts developed. • Maintain and manage software change requests and implementation status for all software projects.• Perform test and quality assurance functions for all software generated by Auburn SeeWolf.

Albuquerque, Nm, Us

• Perform predictive analysis on corporate data for actionable results• Create new business partnerships to increase the organization’s portfolio• Successfully plan and lead complex programs/projects which meet customer and corporate requirements.Primary leader to ‘rescue’ projects, ensure success and effective lead follow-on programs.• Responsible for developing program execution plan to successfully implement new solutions for business and technical applications• Develop strategic plans for Mission and non-mission programs• Develop and market business cases and technical proposals • Effectively translates business requirements into technical implementation requirements• Perform executive briefings on technical and programmatic programs• Provide leadership to software development and systems integration teams• Ensure effective management of projects using proven earned value techniques• Perform functional management for high performing department• Perform Program Management for >$5M of IT services• Identify and mitigate program and functional risks and issues• Develop IT systems architecture to meet customer requirements • Conceptualize the ‘big’ picture while articulating the information at the level necessary to get the job completed within the cost and schedule• Proven ability to quickly build a functioning team that addresses challenges and deploys on the agreed to schedule• Develop customer community that provides a win/win solution for the project o Provides for continual business relationships and facilitates success

• Program Manager responsible for P/L of $5M in sales. Duties included:o Team building and coordination effortso Executing programs with cost and schedule• Negotiation with functional management to ensure successful implementation• Decomposed System Requirements for both hardware and software engineering.• Developed System Design which met overall System Requirements. This included but not limited to:o Hardware and software architecture definitiono Validate and Verify system design• Generated and present proposals based on defined system architecture which met customer’s requirements.

Reston, Va, Us

• Provide leadership and team building for the application developers, systems administrator and desktop support staff.o Coordinated interfaces between SAIC teams and SAIC/Customer staff.o Program management responsibilities to ensure projects were performed with cost and schedule.• Provided technical leadership and support for integrating Oracle and Microsoft SQL based database client-server and web based applications.

Friedrichshafen, Baden-Württemberg, De

• Responsible for managing both technical and programmatic efforts of $20M in subcontracts.o Developed procurement specifications and statements of work for efforts requiredo Teamed with vendors to ensure a win-win relationshipo Managed vendors to ensure that cost and schedule reporting was accurate and within C-Spec requirementso Reported to TRW Corporate status of subcontractor s and any risks/abatements that were being performed.Lead Sr. Systems Engineer• Responsible for defining requirements, architecture development, performing trade-off analyzes and generating V&V documentation for a >$100M near real time signal processing remote controlled receiving system.• Implemented programs with C/Spec and CSSR requirements.• Developed infrastructure designs and specification• Primary technical interface with customer.• Managed work packages for over $40M of sales.• Managed and coordinated multi-discipline teams to integrate a distributed FDDI networked collection system.• Designed and coordinated software interfaces to multiple receiving subsystems for data analysis and reporting.

Washington, Dc, Us

• Contracting Officer Technical Representative for logistics, software and hardware modifications and fleet support.• Developed system requirements for ELINT signal processing systems.• Government engineer responsible for providing Verification and Validation of a near real-time signal processing system.• Developed Algorithms to test and verify accuracy of missile systems.

Master'S Degree, Physics

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Physics