You use digital assistants at home (Alexa, Google Home, Siri, etc.) to make your personal life easier, so why not use that same technology to improve your effectiveness at work? Our start-up company takes all that cool cloud technology and makes it real... from creating an app to improve the efficiency of a large city's 311 non-emergency service to speaking to an unmanned aircraft the same way you speak to manned aircraft today. I apply Design Thinking theory and my experience in Developmental Test and Evaluation to ensure Intrinsic’s engineering solutions meet the needs of end users in the demanding aerospace environment. I specialize in the development of the Speech-to-Text voice recognition and Text-to-Speech voice synthesis components of these AI digital assistants. www.intrinsic.ventures

I use my APMG Change Management Practitioner certification to leverage my diverse Federal government and Fortune 100 company experience to solve life's biggest, most meaningful challenges and help others be successful. I specialize in Strategy, Change Leadership, the practical application of Systems Thinking, and collaborative problem solving.

Research & Development division leader on executive team totally re-vamping engineering organization, methodology, and culture for 23,000+ engineers who develop products for government defense, space, intelligence, and security customers in the United States.• Facilitated and coached practical application of Systems Thinking theory, resulting in a radically different engineering system structure enabling a double-digit improvement in engineering productivity

Established new organization operating five virtual reality facilities conducting quantitative analyses and experiments involving up to 100 live customers interacting in a highly accurate virtual world with thousands of simulated entities—creating ‘windows to the future’ through which to discover customer needs years in advance.• Created agile planning process that doubled the number of experiments per year, while reducing costs 14%• Re-aligned organization structure to support shift in company's strategic direction—created 20% more customer opportunities than planned and reduced labor costs 10%

Responsible for integrating the company’s distributed simulation facilities to include operation of a secure laboratory network connecting over 50 laboratory entities across the US and overseas. Also, led operation of two virtual prototyping centers, one on each coast.• Implemented process improvements that raised network capacity 30%, while reducing operating costs 20%• Led development of a hand-held mobile prototyping capability that connected virtual prototypes to their simulated operational environment from any location with connectivity to the Internet—an industry first

Laid collaborative groundwork for successful stand-up of new cross-division organization supporting a 2,500-engineer modeling & simulation (M&S) community in 54 different organizations across the country. Formed and led virtual teams of geographically dispersed subject matter experts from those organizations to identify company-level M&S technical needs and deployment of collaboration capabilities.• Developed first full-featured collaboration portal in the company—in its first week, the portal automatically connected a geographically remote team to critical help needed in just hours—formerly a days’ long effort• Formed and facilitated eight Communities of Practice to maximize M&S learning across the enterprise—just one activity in one community alone documented $30M in cost avoidance through this collaboration

Spearheaded software development that transformed a customer engagement center from merely a theater showing recordings of products in action, to an advanced virtual prototyping facility providing customers hands-on interaction with software products immersed in their simulated operational environment.• Unscripted nature of demonstrations increased customer trust and doubled customer engagement events

Commanding officer for the developmental test wing at Edwards Air Force Base. A 4,500-person organization conducting over 200 individual test programs world-wide at any time, ranging from simple subsystem tests to the initial development, simulation, and analysis of highly complex systems such as the F-22 fighter aircraft. $900M total obligation authority.• Instituted new financial model focused on reducing fixed costs—most hourly rates decreased about 10%• Re-engineered processes—reduced bid & proposal process cycle time by 75%—from 2 months to 2 weeks

Leader of 130-person graduate-level educational organization delivering an 11-month technical curriculum spanning all aspects of aerospace technology from Human Factors to Avionics and Sensors to Aerodynamics.• Re-built entire course—raised technical education to state of the art and reduced cost per student 15%• Acquired the most advanced variable stability aircraft at any military test pilot school—led to recognition as a premier military test pilot school—only school providing hands-on training for advanced avionics testing