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PMP with expertise in sensors and system integration

Middletown, Ri

Rhode Island, United States

Middletown, Ri

Direct high technology inertial sensing product line pipelines and enterprise strategy for new product launches in Inertial Navigation business line. Own Fiber Optic Gyro product line and management, processes ,and NPI executions that link innovation strategy to business results. Maintain product line pipeline/funnel, and lead multi-site teams for new product launches to global industrial, aerospace, and defense markets. Direct research for new FOG products, product enhancements, and product redesign and sustaining activities.Product Owner for Fiber Optic Gyro line responsible for maximizing the return on investment (ROI) of product development efforts in a Scrum management framework. Set the product vision, prioritize Product Backlog and release plans, arbitrate requirements and authorize product incremental releases. Communicate the market, customer, and stakeholder interests to the organization.

Middletown, Ri

New product development program manager for $30M/y Guidance and Stabilization (G&S) product lines. Develop and launch new Inertial Measurement Units and Fiber Optic Gyroscope products to achieve high sales and profit growth objectives. Create strategic product and technology roadmaps focused on photonics, signal processing, inertial / tactical navigation, and sensor architecture improvements. Markets include robotics, surveying, armored vehicles, and remote weapons to commercial/international and defense OEMs and system integrators.

Portsmouth, Ri

Organized and lead teams across 6 business organizations within $21B/yr business for award winning, high growth, $100M C4ISR product/business line. Led Counter-Narco Terrorism C4ISR deployments to international Partner Nations and USG Agencies for enterprise level computing systems, data centers, WANs/LANs, remote sensor networks (radar, cameras, sonar, tracking devices). Developed C4ISR software for SOA systems, joint operation centers, and supported 24/7 mission centers. Sr. Principal Engineer on DDG-21 system architecture team for shipboard engineering controls.

Hudson, Ma

Led core business line and R&D operations developing hi-performance (KW-MW) permanent magnet electric machines, power converters, drives, and DSP based control products. Successfully developed new products for ship electric propulsion, wind turbines, and power dense motors/generators. Directed $120M Ship Electric Drive program and capital budgets across 3 operating units. Lead functional line business planning and successfully achieved post-merger business unit integration. Strategic plans and analyses identified competitive initiatives, alliances, organizational restructuring, and product offerings to turn-around electromagnetics R&D business line and capture/executed $1-100M R&D programs for electric machine solutions to defense, oil and gas, energy, and transportation markets.

Newport, Ri

Marine Survey Systems and Software Manager for mapping, geodesy, and charting products and services to US Government, marine telcom, scientific, and mapping agencies. Directed development of new oceanographic and environmental science products, mapping software, computer imaging and environmental sensor products, integrated systems, and enterprise solutions. Co-inventor of a patented, award-winning hyperspectral imaging sensor for in-situ chemical analysis. Developed portable navigation, data acquisition, and visualization systems for LIDAR and sonar mapping and imagery, data processing, data management, and charting.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Bsme, Mechanical Engineering