Senior Systems Engineer & Project Lead Professional
Results-focused and highly accomplished Senior Systems Engineer and Project Lead Professional with an excellent track record in large DoD and NASA programs.
Core Skills in Systems, Change & Reliability Engineering & Project Management
Systems Engineering including requirements development, analysis and allocation; requirements verification and validation; risk assessment and management.
Change Engineering developing and processing detailed and integrated technical change packages and briefings of major program engineering changes through both engineering and management change boards.
Subcontract Management of several major NASA subcontracts, including development, release and maintenance of supplier Statements of Work (SSOW) and envelope drawings (requirements document) and subcontractor oversight.
Task Instruction (TI) project lead including overall TI process management, developing Task Plans, schedules and budgets and successful TI proposal development and execution.
Site activation strategic and integrated planning including document development, release and maintenance.
Reliability engineering including reliability analysis, allocations, predictions, and failure modes and effects analysis (FMECA) and subcontractor oversight of reliability programs, plans and testing.
Highly effective at leading multifunctional working teams within schedules and budgets.
Outstanding oral, briefing and written communication skills including detailed technical briefings to all levels of management.
Very effective at developing excellent working relationships with Government customers, subcontractors and other team members.
Excellent proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Project etc.) and various proposal and engineering change software tools (e.g. TEMDB, CMT, CPES).
Professional History
Class I Change Engineer (CE) & Task Instruction Project Lead, Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) , Boeing-HSV 2008-2012
Provided Change Engineering technical, high-level systems analysis, evaluation, integration to successfully process GMD Class I engineering changes.
Developed integrated technical change packages and briefed senior technical and program management change boards (Brown Rooms and CCB) with a +98% first time approval success rate.
Lead CE for all GMD Interceptor team proposal packages due to extensive interceptor technical knowledge and experience.
Utilized engineering tools, including Technical Engineering Master Data Base (TEMDB), Change Processing and Estimating System (CPES) and Change Management Tool (CMT), to develop, process, and track engineering changes.
Appointed as Project Lead for Task Instructions (TI) for the GMD program; headed technical scope, schedule and cost inputs planning to convert customer requirements into clear task instruction, scope of work, and task plans per the Boeing BR-11 task instruction process.
Provided mentoring and coaching to junior tech leads on TI task plan development, risk assessment and TI execution.
Spearheaded the development and implementation of several process improvements to the TI proposal development process to streamline and reduce TI proposal processing time and response; ensured +50 TI proposals over 3 years were submitted well within the 15-day time limit as required by the Government; ensured all TIs over a three year period were executed within established budgets through systematic budget and schedule oversight and task instruction overall management.
Thule Radar Project & Tech Lead, GMD, Boeing-HSV 2006-2008
Successfully managed the $1.5 million Thule task plan budget for over 18 months through the execution of effective project management, technical competency, and best practice implementation.
Led the development and integration of the Boeing Thule Radar task instruction technical plans, requirements, risk assessment and work scope within budget and schedule regarding the installation of Boeing GMD hardware at the Thule radar site.
Effectively supervised a multifunctional Boeing & subcontractor team; developed and maintained an excellent working relationships with both the Gov customer and major subcontractor personnel.
Prepared project status reports and effectively communicated results to GMD senior management and Government Customers.
Served as the Deputy Technical Lead for the ECP0375 Thule Radar proposal effort; chiefly responsible for performing proposal work estimates and major subcontractor proposal technical evaluations.
Provided guidance and mentoring to junior TI team members throughout the TI execution phase.
Deployment and Site Activation Planning Team Lead, GMD, Boeing-HSV 2002-2006
Selected as Project Lead for the site activation planning and integration process; managed the Capstone Site Activation Plan (CSAP) document set (17 documents) and led the CSAP Peer Review process to ensure an integrated strategic site activation planning across all GMD missile, sensor and command & control sites.
Proactively developed and implemented several process improvements to the CSAP document revision process to ensure both technical accuracy for the final document set product and early submittals against CDRL due dates.
Provided immediate on-site project and systems engineering, military construction oversight, and site activation leadership and support for GMD sites at Ft. Greely, AK (ordnance assessment); Beale AFB, CA (site planning); Vandenberg AFB, CA (construction oversight) and Eareckson AFS, AK (site planning), including GMD Acting Site Activation Manager at VAFB.
Equipment Manager, International Space Station (ISS), Boeing-HSV 1998-2002
Provided technical oversight of the ISS Honeywell, TBE & Orbital subcontracts.
Developed and maintained the subcontractor's Statement of Work and envelope drawing, subcontractor technical plan, risk assessment and manag...
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