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Arlington, Virginia, United States

South Bend, Indiana, United States

Product owner of two mutli-million-dollar government contracts, developing cloud based scheduling solutions for the most dynamic US military aviation units. Leading a DevOps team by executing key priorities in an agile product cycle, as well as creating and updating critical contracted deliverables.

South Bend, Indiana, United States

Wrightstown, New Jersey, United States

Supervised squadron's 1,500 mishap free flight hours as a graduate of US Naval Aviation Safety School; results include implementing monthly flight safety protocols, while subsequently being Project Manager of four Class B/C safety mishap investigationsDirected and supervised multiple high performance cross-functional technical teams through three full squadron aviation maintenance inspections. Increased product efficiency over all three inspections by 40%.Evaluated, mentored, and supervised the performance of 95 technical professionals spread between 5 specialty fields, resulting in the successful completion and inspection of over 10,000 production processes for 14 multi-million-dollar aircraft.Lead Flight Evaluator and Standardization Officer for initial aircraft qualification and recertification of 27 senior squadron pilots; developed five assistant instructors, two functional check pilots, and three aircraft commanders

San Diego, California, United States

Supervised operational resources to certify over 400 daily and weekly flight schedules to ensure 100% mission readiness at all times, maintained highest pilot instructor qualifications while evaluating and mentoring the syllabus progression of 40 peer-level pilots.Completed Marine Aviation Weapons and Tactics School (MAWTS-1); achieved highest and most senior flight leadership qualifications earned by less than 10% of all USMC Naval Aviators.Organized an Aviation Mishap Investigation as a subject matter expert, resulting in detailed and correct diagnosis of a $350M CH-53E Class A helicopter crash, directly leading to permanent changes impacting all US Marine Corps aviation units globally.Completed a three-month tour as sole US Marine Corps aviation consultant to the Canadian Air Force. Instructed implementation of advanced aviation tactics with Canadian, French, Danish, and Italian forces.

San Diego, California, United States

Commanded transitional team responsible for Quality Assurance testing and acquisition of aircraft from South Korea (initial delivery), wrote direct reports on 13 Marines, accomplished on-time delivery of aircraft over two international boarders.Project Manager for the forecasting and operational capacity planning for 19 long-term named operations for a full squadron of 315 Marines and 14 aircraft, resulting in two major deployments to Okinawa, Japan and embarked with 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit.

Pensacola, Florida, United States

Ranked in top 20% of 330 Lieutenants at nation's premier leadership school. Graduated second in US Naval Flight School class, earning Naval Aviator Wings. Completed military and civilian pilot licenses in both fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Supply Chain & Operations Management

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Biology, General