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Denver, Colorado, United States

Centennial, Colorado, United States

Aurora, Colorado, United States

Greater Denver Area

• Oversee assembly and test operations, test engineering, manufacturing engineering, and both electrical and mechanical ground support equipment, as well as all launch-site integration activities.• Manage $20M budget in products and $3M in equipment and facilities in addition to $2.5M in material values.• Direct 31 employees, including test engineers, production engineers, material planners, certified test conductors, transportation/logistics, and technicians.• Set up and maintain 5 concurrently running programs at various locations across US.• Oversee operations organization of Space Protection Programs (SPP), including required tracking of manpower needs, integrated master schedule (IMS) development, long-range planning, required compliance training, timecards, disciplinary actions, and staff meetings.• Support ongoing proposal activities by interfacing with programs, customers, and consultants with regard to all aspects of production/test operations and test systems development/sustainment.• Secured follow-on program after thoroughly meeting customer expectations in assembling and testing newly designed spacecraft as leader of assembly test and launch operations group.• Added 6 technicians and 5 test engineers, which enabled program to pursue aggressive schedule, by identifying list of recruiters who sourced candidates with high-level clearance, building relationships that resulted in first look at resumes.

Greater Denver Area

• Oversaw 15 personnel and 4 satellites in 150,000 SF production facility. • Set up assembly and test operations portion and transitioned GPS 3 program from Newtown, PA to Denver, CO.• Ensured on-time delivery of next-generation GPS satellites through management of all floor operations.• Directed operations organization of GPS III, including required tracking of manpower needs, day-to-day work assignments, required compliance training, timecards, disciplinary actions, and staff meetings.• Successfully developed Manufacturing Readiness Reviews, Test Readiness Reviews, and associated products that were required for both.• Ensured facility readiness and maintenance.• Contributed to development of new theories and methods to enhance productivity and efficiency, solicit input, and optimize solutions.• Ensured projects were completed on time and within assigned budgets.

Greater Denver Area

• Supported 5 proposals with technical and cost volumes that went to 5 customers, which included interfacing with program, customers, and consultants with regard to all aspects of production/test operations and test systems development/sustainment.• Defined new program test requirements, establishing plans and test sequences in which they were performed for all components, subsystems, and system-level testing. • Reduced assembly-line time 50% and allowed for easy rework and retest via development of several ground support tools.• Reduced required mechanical ground support equipment needed to assemble and test flight articles through collaboration with design engineering to develop several flight designs.• Wrote and modified system test procedures based on new and modified high-level requirements.

Greater Denver Area

• Supported 7 launch-site integration activities.• Built, tested, and supported testing of many complex mechanical assemblies, such as solar array and antenna gimbles and experimental communication booms.• Saved company and customers $14 million by allowing technicians to remove 1 RF slice and cables on payload deck at a time versing having to disconnect all cables.• Designed and built numerous pieces of test equipment and cabling used to test precision high-value hardware, such as gimbles, deployment mechanisms, flight harnesses, and sensors, both as technician and as manufacturing engineer. • Performed electrical manufacturing engineer duties supporting multiple programs by writing assembly plans and BOM structuring and working with vendors to ensure products were correctly delivered on time and within budget.• Participated in all aspects of testing as technician, test conductor, test engineer, and lead engineer working upfront planning of test requirements.• Applied continuous-improvement methods, such as lean manufacturing, to enhance manufacturing quality, reliability, and cost-effectiveness.• Identified opportunities to improve products and reduce costs using knowledge of fabrication processes, tooling and production equipment, assembly methods, quality control standards, product design, materials, and parts.• Incorporated new methods and processes to improve existing operations.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Applied Management, 3.92

Associate Of Science - As, Micro Computer Technology, 3.9