Professional Profile

Certified Project Management Professional with 34 years experience in aviation seeking position as Technical Program Manager or Technical Project Manager for an organization in the national defense, military, space, or commercial aerospace industries. Experience based on 11 years as Air Force Flight Instructor with combat experience and 23 years in Project Management and Life
Cycle product development.      Willing to relocate for this opportunity

Areas of Expertise

• PMP Certified
• Project Lifecycle Management
• Change Management
• International Sales
• 3D_CADD Design                       
• Product Development
• Component Design      
• Budgeting / Cost Control
• Contract Administration
• ITIL/Lean/Six Sigma Trained
• System Testing & Qualification

Career Highlights

• International Sales Engineer and Project Manager for International Space Station

Represented Phoenix Division of Honeywell Aerospace in a two year sales campaign with three Japanese contractors to establish the technical definition of environmental control components to be used in their design bid for Japan’s contribution to the International Space Station (ISS), known as the Japanese Experimental Module (JEM).

• Technical sales presentations made to all levels of management and design teams
• Concurrently responsible for managing four Integrated Product Development teams for the development of components for Japan in parallel with design effort for the American design for Boeing and NASA
• Sales effort resulted in preliminary design contracts of $3Million and space qualified contracts of $55Million. Equipment is currently flying on the ISS.

• Engineering Business Manager for Cost Monitoring and Contract Control on the International Space Station with Boeing and NASA

In parallel with the design effort for the ISS, accepted responsibility to create newly defined position of engineering business manager to monitor and control development cost within the Project Management Office (PMO) for engineering effort for Boeing contract with NASA.

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  Responsibility included monitoring all business, financial, and technical program activity as it related to accomplishment of Boeing's Statement of Work (SOW) and authorized budget
• Also included administration of changes to the SOW and budget in accordance with CSSR and CSCS/C regulations

• Engineering Program Manager for system design testing of Boeing 757 aircraft

Responsible for managing the system qualification test for the Environmental Control System for FAA acceptance of the Boeing 757 commercial aircraft design

• Qualification test required the integration of components from three separate design divisions into one single system test
• Management responsibility included design of division based components; preparation of test procedures; monitoring and controlling the test; design changes based on test results; and submittal of final qualification test reports for approval by Boeing and the FAA for flight certification.

Professional Experience

Officer, United States Air force 

Multiple Assignments – United States and the Pacific (11 Years)

• Senior Air Force Officer, Tactical Fighter Pilot with combat experience
• Flight Instructor responsible for managing 16 officers in training of advanced tactical aircraft,
• Rated pilot in six separate Air Force aircraft
• Fully qualified flight crew member in nuclear equipped aircraft while holding a top secret/crypto security clearance.
• Functioned as command post officer with nuclear aircraft launch authority.

Senior Engineer

Northrop, Aircraft Division, Hawthorne, CA (3 Years)                                                                 

• PMO staff engineer responsible for the design and manufacture of the Environmental Control and Fuel subsystems for F-18 tactical aircraft program

• OEM coordinator for systems component suppliers

• Change board representative for subsystem designs and logistics support analysis of the ECS design

Program manager / project Engineer for Product Development

AlliedSignal Aerospace, Tempe, AZ (16 Years)                                                                             

• Engineering project manager for the design and qualification of components for six separate aerospace programs

• Led all phases of Integrated Product Development (IPD) and Life Cycle development for control system components manufactured for multiple environments in both aviation and space related applications. Activity included all phases of proposal, design, development, test, qualification, and initial production

• Sales engineer and program manager for International sale of space components to Japan for the ISS

PROJECT ENGINEER / DESIGN ENGINEERING / MANUFACTURING 

Dukane Precast, Inc.  Naperville, IL (4 Years)  

• Project Engineer responsible for the preparation of production drawings for the manufacture of precast concrete products used in the construction of commercial and residential buildings
• Responsibilities included: The review of architectural plans, preparation of detail drawings for building erection planning, production piece/parts drawings, and production liaison with architectural and construction firms.
• Drawing preparation relied upon operational knowledge of AutoCAD design and three dimensional software applications

Security Clearance Information

Eligible for Secret Security Clearance based on SSBI review completed as member of the military service. During service held a Top Secret Crypto clearance as a qualified aircrew member authorized to fly and delivery nuclear weapons.   Post military career activity will not have a negative impact on re-acquiring a secret clearance for a new assignment.

Education / Training & Certifications

Education

• Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
• Aeronautical Pilot Rating, Webb AFB, United States Air Force, Big Spring, Texas
• Instructor Pilot Rating, Luke AFB, United States Air Force, Glendale, Arizona
• MBA degree program, Computer Information Systems, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
• Independent Studies, Architectural Design Software, Computer Network Design, Associate Degree Program, College of Dupage, Glenn Ellyn, Illinois

Technical Expertise

• AutoCAD - 2D & 3D Modeling Design       
• Inventor  – 2D & 3D Modeling Design
• Solid Works – 3D Modeling Design
• AutoCAD Architectural Desktop Design
• Autodesk  Revit 9 – For Architects and Parametric Designers          
• Technical Management Programs
• MS Project Software, MS Office Suite Software
• Comp TIA Internet Networking Systems

Management Training

• Project Management Professional (PMP)  
• Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)  
• Lean/Six Sigma, Chicago Deming Association, Naperville, IL
• Integrated Product Development (IPD) team procedures
• Total Quality Leadership (TQL)      
• ISO 9000/9001 Conversion Requirements for International markets.

Certifications

• Certified Project Management Professional (PMP / #1304678)
• Active Member of Project Management Institute (PMI), Chicago Chapter
• Licensed Commercial Pilot with Flight Engineer Certification