HRUCKUS LLC is a professional services company focused on project management, business analysis, change management, go to market strategies for clients in the Federal, DoD, and Intelligence communities. Professional responsibilities include:• Strategic Sourcing: For a large DoD client, serving as the engagement manager to develop and implement a Strategic Sourcing program to evoke savings across a $70B portfolio of commodity, engineering, logistic, and transportation service contracts.• Contract Analysis & Modeling: Created a database of historical and forecasted spend, combining multiple disparate data sources, resulting in an opportunity selection tool considering the factors of ease of implementation, expected return, and risk.• Business Development: Responsible for developing client relationships, identifying/generating business opportunities, staffing projects, and preparing technical and pricing volumes required for responding to proposal requests.

Management Consultant, specializing in the defense and public sectors. Representative experiences include:Conducted an independent cost savings and complexity reduction into fasteners (e.g., screws, nuts, bolts, etc.) used throughout US Navy ship construction. Analyses focused on identifying how prevailing specifications drove cost as well as reducing the total number of fasteners resulting in over a $1B savings across several DoD logistic agencies.Conducted an independent complexity reduction into welding and fabrication techniques, equipment, and best practices used in the construction, renovation, and repair of current and future US Navy ships. Performed four analyses to identify variation in welding operations, industry best practices and technologies, and potential specification/requirements reduction. The engagement included the creation of a model to break a notional ship into its most basic welds and materials in order to understand the type, quantity, and total length of ship welds. The model was scaled across the US Navy fleet, in order to quantify a $900M+ savings opportunity.Participated in an engagement to identify labor reductions as a US military research and development program transitioned from the design phases to low-rate, initial production. Responsible for baselining labor, interviewing stakeholders, and gathering data required to identify future cost savings. The engagement resulted in actionable recommendations allowing in the reduction in both the number of overall labor and the duration they performed over.Participated in an engagement to identify labor reductions in a legacy, low-volume, space satellite program. The analysis studied the internal program office and support structure maintained across the largest three suppliers. The team generated recommendations resulting in both the reduction in the number of overall support labor (FTE) as well as the duration they performed over.

Management Consultant focused on CIO-level IT Strategy in the Defense, Public Sector, and Commercial sectors. Representative experiences include:For the IT procurement division of a large federal agency, served as the project manager for a six month engagement leading two parallel teams on a DNS website security assessment and Go-to-Market (G2M) strategy related to datacenter, cloud computing, and hosted web services. Client satisfaction resulted in a subsequent six month engagement for a second G2M assessment, utilizing business analysis frameworks created in the first engagement, in the areas of computer security products and systems. Both G2M assessments required the baselining of the client portfolio as well as their competitors. Outcomes were detailed strategy and roadmap to increase market share, lower costs, and improve overall client satisfaction. For an A&D systems integrator, performed a detailed market assessment of Cross Domain Technology and Multi-Security systems across four potential market verticals. Conducted detailed analysis of the client’s product and the top five competitors across the four sets of detailed key buying features into order to determine which markets to target as well as provide strategy for market penetration.For a DoD IT organization, conducted an reorganization assessment. While assisting in the duties of project manager, conducted client interviews and performed detailed analysis of findings in order to document the current state as well as generate a target state, gap analysis, and road map to implementation.For a large federal agency, conducted a three month contract review to evaluate the competitive pricing of numerous large volume contracts. Assisted with data collection, analysis, and presentation of findings. Additionally, contributed to an agency sourcing maturity assessment providing a roadmap and detailed suggestions to eliminate redundant processes, forecast demand, and better compete in the market place.

As a ten year Naval Veteran, Stephen has over six years of sea duty and two years of dedicated Navy training which has allowed Stephen to become an expert in complex weapon systems, gas turbine propulsion, and tactical theory; just a few examples of complex, mathematically intense, concepts which have been proven crucial to the Navy’s continuous role in the role of National Defense and Homeland Security.Stephen has additional experience in crisis management, contract fulfillment, strategic planning, and training complex topics which translate seamlessly to the civil service. The highlight of Stephen’s Naval Career was being chosen as the United States Navy 2003 Surface Warfare Officer MBA Candidate. Stephen was 1 of 3 officers selected, from a talent pool of over 2000 Officers, to represent the US Navy at the Wharton School of Business-University of Pennsylvania.Stephen’s military services also resulted in the following skillsets: Strategic Analysis, Executive Briefing, Safety Programs, Risk Management, Project Management, Large Team Management, Quality Assurance, Contract Enforcement/Fulfillment, Training Teams, Assessment/Inspection Preparation, IT Management, Communications Management, Force Protection, Process Improvement, Weapons of Mass Destruction Response Training, Nuclear/Chemical/Biological Disaster Response Planning