Program
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Led programs through major design reviews while being accountable for overall cost, schedule, and quality of contractual deliverables.
- Managed classified programs in excess of $75M, with over $10M in incentive fee, from proposal stage through requirements, design, test, and delivery.
- Developed buy-to-packages for suppliers on production and modernization programs while ensuring a lean supply chain.
- Directly influenced strategic planning by succinctly briefing senior and executive management.
- Proactively managed risk, avoiding $23M in redesign and missed production costs by leveraging $6M of labor and materiel funds – a 72% cost avoidance.
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Research &
Development
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Managed R&D programs for start-up company from early technology readiness through development and subsystem insertion; maintained cost, schedules and technical targets throughout company acquisition.
- Took over stagnant $750k lithium-ion battery R&D program, successfully reached Phase I technical targets and won $1.6M Phase II follow-on; contract closed out on-budget and on-schedule, met customer expectations, and resulted in additional development and productization contracts.
- Successfully led integration of nanotechnology-enabled memory device with emerging FPGA technology that is consistently used as a demonstration vehicle in front of potential clients.
- Demonstrated feasibility of carbon nanotube chem/bio sensors utilizing manufacturable techniques.
- Speaker for state-of-the-art nanoelectronic devices at conferences such as Air Force Research Laboratory's Radiation Hardened Electronics Technology and Lockheed Martin's Anti-Tamper Symposium.
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Systems
Engineering
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Performed concurrent systems engineering on a distributed architecture.
- Led cross-company trade study team to validate $100M+ annual work-share agreement with contract partner; executive management still uses out-brief today to emphasize fidelity and value of product.
- Improved quality and validity of system requirements by instigating unified modeling language (UML) techniques and standard processes for requirements analysis and development.
- Identified cross-baseline and cross-architectural impacts, defined system interfaces, allocated subsystem requirements, and performed overall system integration, validation, and verification.
- Recruited to support requirements quality assessment for must-win programs with input directly increasing requirements quality metric.
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Software & Field
Engineering
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Developed, deployed, and operated classified quick response capabilities.
- Directed and executed prioritized plans for deployed systems around the world while successfully working with wide-ranging diversities and cultures in various nations.
- Designed and developed signals intelligence (SIGINT) tools for the latest wireless technologies.
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While in the field, integrated new software routines and manual procedures to reduce collection and analysis time from two hours to ten minutes on high priority mission system.
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