Program Management Consulting is dedicated to driving excellence and fostering growth in small businesses. . Program Advisory: Provide strategic guidance to cross-functional teams to ensure the successful management of cost, schedule, and technical performance for production and product development programs. Execution Optimization: Advise on best practices for delivering programs on time and within budget while meeting contractual and technical requirements, leveraging tools like Earned Value Management (EVM). Business Development Support: Assist in strategic planning, proposal development, and capture strategies to secure new domestic and international opportunities.. Customer Relationship Building: Guide efforts to strengthen client relationships, enabling deeper collaboration and the identification of growth opportunities. Support the preparation and delivery of stakeholder presentations to align objectives.. Risk and Opportunity Management: Provide frameworks and recommendations for identifying, mitigating, and leveraging risks and opportunities to enhance program outcomes.. Supplier Coordination: Offer insights on managing supplier performance to align with program objectives and schedules.. Leadership Development: Mentor program managers and Integrated Program Teams (IPTs) to enhance team effectiveness and ensure alignment with performance goals. Compliance and Standards: Ensure adherence to internal policies, industry standards, and contractual obligations through the establishment of robust processes. Technical Expertise: Provide recommendations for optimizing product design, integration, and manufacturability for systems. Contract Management Oversight: Support contract negotiations, change management, and the development of business plans, work statements, and financial structures.

Responsible for the successful technical, schedule, and cost performance of major programs in accordance with contract requirements and company policies, procedures and guidelines.Hired for experience in engineering development Aerospace & Defense programsResponsible for $100+ million-dollar, multi-year restricted programRecent accomplishments:• Executed program, resource, and risk management plan for 3 NPD programs with combined budget of $95 M• Managed tools procurement of $26M • Supervised timely delivery of invoices to Customers worth $21M• Created, maintained yearly $17M Spend Plan that managed program financial dynamics.• Managed a cross functional team of 20+ engineers, financial analysts, procurement, operations, and contract personnel• Reported out quarterly program revenue forecast on weekly basis to President, CEO, and other Executive Leadership Team• Drove efforts to increase businesses on assigned programs by 50% Standard Tasks• Work with customers to negotiate contracts, change orders, program issues, and to identify opportunities for new funded project scope• Lead and support pricing, program finance, financial planning and analysis activities• Track program/project against its schedule and budget, and against phase review objectives.• Lead and support proposal efforts• Monitor contract, subcontract, and funding; prepare forecasts of program financial performance• Develop and deliver required contract, departmental, project and/or financial reports• Demonstrates in-depth knowledge and understanding of the labor category activities required to meet mission requirements

Accomplishments• Executed program, resource, and risk management plan for 2 NPD programs with combined budget of $21M • Matured the PMO office with streamlined processes and policies which saved the organization $260K• Developed 3-year strategic program plans to meet yearly business objectives of $210M revenue• Used stage gate methodology to execute programs which accelerated schedule by 30 % • Managed 12 + cross-functional program teams in matrix setting to exceed performance objectives.Standard Tasks• Drove Stage Gate New Product Development process to ensure introduction success• Set up PMO office for the Organization• Drove organizational change to support an adaptive, results-oriented culture• Drove strategies for establishing and implementing milestones, program plans, schedules, and budgets for complex programs to ensure that organization's objectives are achieved• Defined, acquired, and allocated budget, staff, and other resources necessary to accomplish the goals and/or objectives of the program group/function• Exercised judgment and delegated authority for planning, directing, coordinating, administering, and executing routine and complex projects/programs• Ran Pre-sales activities by providing input and guidance on contract terms and conditions, acceptability of customer flow downs, and supported detailed Work Breakdown Schedules• Supported business unit reporting and submissions for both internal and external deliverables, including but not limited to monthly program ETC and profitability metrics, Small Business Sourcing plan and reporting, program status and project mitigation plans• Worked with the segment program analyst and business unit finance teams, supporting implementation and use of integrated program management tools as needed.• Made project trade-off decisions within the boundaries of the approved project contract

Accomplishments• Led Honeywell team to bring in the following funding: U.S. Govt. (Navy and AFRL) $42M and Prime Contractor (Lockheed Martin): $11M• Developed new business opportunities of $30M through long term strategic planning, capture planning, and development of proposals and business plan.• Worked with customer to find an alternate sponsor for pulled Phase 2 funding due to COVID 19 uncertainties; led internal team to write new proposal that won $18M• Led protracted negotiations with customer and internal stakeholder to modify a contract eliminating shipping restrictions; generated $1.5M additional revenue for the fiscal year.• Due to the late winning of a contract, led effort with factory, production, and planning team to accelerate production to meet year-end deadline; efforts saved $3M of potentially lost revenue for the fiscal year.• Led efforts to bring new businesses with potential Revenue of $6MStandard Tasks• Managed multiple development and production programs funded by US Govt. as a Prime Contractor • Managed development and production programs as a Sub-contractor to US Govt. Prime Contractors• Executed ASIC / MRAM NRE development and production programs within schedule and budget• Communicated directly with customers to determine requirements• Led a cross-functional team of design, test, and manufacturing engineers to complete tasks• Worked closely with an assigned Program Planning Controller who manages EVMS metrics• Reported revenue projections to Finance• Briefed executive management as required• Represented Honeywell in the customer community and led the program team• Led functional organizations to achieve program objectives while managing risks and opportunities• Led and managed proposal preparation and contractual activities• Delivered of all contractual requirements on cost and schedule, while achieving all technical • requirements

Accomplishment• Worked with testing lab team to implement plan to fix offsite test chamber issue within 24 hours to ensure schedule stayed on target; completed project on time and on budget, saving ~ $200K program cost.• Negotiated new schedule/budget with customer to rectify a test failure of new product due to new requirements; completed on time and saved ~ $400K in time needed to debug original test failures. Standard Tasks• Managed Programs for multiple datacenter-based server designs for Fortune 500 customers including Xbox Server program for Microsoft Project xCloud.• Drove programs from concept through product launch phase • Led technical issue discussion with internal teams, end customers, and/or partner ODM• Drove test plan development, results review, and process improvements• Involved in high level decision making with upper management for future and current programs• Collaborated with peers and managers to improve department processes and drove efficiency.• Managed multiple projects in the development or sustaining lifecycle • Managed requirement definition planning, development, and launch• Maintained product compliance to ISO and Industry standards and quality requirements• Implemented and supported the use of project management and team collaboration technologies• Led frequent stand-up meetings leveraging Agile methodologies• Ran action-log meetings to assure that manufacturing tasks had been assigned, there were due- dates, and there were checkpoints for moving forward• Managed Requirement & Fulfillment, Planning and Estimation• Scheduled and resource-loaded critical path analysis• Managed SOW, Cost and Financials

• Managed SSD Performance Testing during Qualification with major OEM Customers. • Engaged with Seagate teams and provided critical performance data to achieve Customer wins and grow business within Tier 1 & 2 OEM customers.• Executed test plan to qualify SAS, SATA and NVMe SSD product at Tier 1 & 2 OEM Customers• Engaged with Customer teams, Sales, Marketing and Design teams with critical performance data with goal to achieve wins and qualify SSD into Tier 1 & 2 OEM Customers• Managed SSD performance requirement by engaging with engineering team• Performed performance gap analysis and worked with engineering teams to bridge the gap• Executed test plan for competitive analysis and published score card and dashboard for internal Seagate teams and customers • Debugged performance issues to root cause failures• Provided pro-active technical support to internal engineering team and external Customers• Generated technical notes as per customer requirements• Engaged with PLM team to understand marketing requirements and align it with Customer requirements and bridge gaps if warranted.• Procured test systems and hardware to set up lab space for Performance testing• Skills - Cloud Computing, AWS, MS Azure, Facebook Cloud, Google Cloud, SCRUM, AGILE

• Managed product validation and qualification project with major OEM/Channel Customer account. • Managed reliability and quality of electrical hardware design and PCB layout with complex mechanical, thermal, and electrical constraints in OEM/Channel Customer Server environment. • Managed communications with various stakeholders.• Resolved Customer issues, provided on-site support and built strategic Customer relationship.• Successfully created and executed test plans to ensure thermal, power, electrical, signal and software quality/reliability of devices in Customer server systems• Managed debugging effort of system level quality issues in Customer server systems environment• Managed component failure analysis, thermal characterization, and hardware/software issues• Provided technical input on supply, quality, Customer qualifications, and engineering changes • Managed operational technical readiness for all phases of product life cycle which included driving contract manufacturer preparation for pre-production builds• Managed and owned key operational metrics to ensure complete ramp readiness• Responsible for planning, initiating, monitoring, tracking and/or prioritizing engineering team's product development programs or projects and facilitating successful, on-time and within budget execution. • Worked closely with cross-functional teams to evaluate, develop, and manage the design and construction of engineering projects to ensure delivery of a product or computer-based system through the design process, and into a finished state for external customers.

Worked as TCM- Quality and Applications Engineer with primary interface between the customer and the design center on new product qualification and quality issues throughout the product life-cycle (new product qualification, customer integration, and long term field reliability). Played a customer-facing role that requires the ability to work with both internal and customer teams to qualify and support Seagate key OEM customers. Focal point during the new product qualification process, with the responsibility to coordinate and communicate failure analysis, root cause determination and corrective action related to customer qualification failures.• Monitored customer integration and field quality, worked with the field and factory quality organizations to achieve customer targets, and developed and implemented quality improvement plans directed at achieving Best-in-Class status.• Focal point for all customer specific qualification issues and quality escalations, drove the actions to completion and coordinated results with the field quality organization to close the escalation.• Championed unique customer requirements by being the liaison between our key OEM customers, internal design engineers, and internal core teams. • Drove customer unique requirements into the design center which involved hands-on characterization, qualification and troubleshooting of customer systems.• Worked on problems of remarkably diverse scope and requires the ability to solve complex customer issues during and after new product qualifications.• Managed customer escalations by driving priorities on issue resolution-closure-corrective action and fix effectiveness.Cert: Brown Belt for DesignKnowledge of specific commodities like chemicals and metalsknowledge of DMAIC, Minitab, Six Sigma, DOEs, SPC, FMEA, CAPA and 8DExperience working with Mil and Aero spec, ISO 9000 and other regulated spec