Andrew Leighner

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(386) 825-5501
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States, US
Languages
  • Japanese Limited working proficiency

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Credentials

  • Professional Scrum Product Owner™ II (PSPO II)
    Scrum.org
    Apr, 2022
    - Nov, 2024
  • Certified Cyber Software Developer
    U.S. Cyber Command
    Oct, 2021
    - Nov, 2024
  • DoD Engineering Level I
    Defense Acquisition University
    Oct, 2021
    - Nov, 2024
  • Professional Scrum Product Owner™ I (PSPO I)
    Scrum.org
    Oct, 2021
    - Nov, 2024
  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
    Amazon Web Services (AWS)
    Oct, 2023
    - Nov, 2024
  • Cloud Digital Leader
    Google
    Sep, 2023
    - Nov, 2024
  • DoD Program Management Level II
    Defense Acquisition University

Experience

  • BreakLine Education
    • United States
    • Education Administration Programs
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • BreakLine Participant
      • Sep 2023 - Present

      BreakLine is an education and hiring initiative designed to prepare high performers from all backgrounds for careers in technology. The program combines intensive, graduate-level classroom instruction with hands-on workshops and professional networking. BreakLine is an education and hiring initiative designed to prepare high performers from all backgrounds for careers in technology. The program combines intensive, graduate-level classroom instruction with hands-on workshops and professional networking.

  • Shadow's Edge Software
    • United States
    • Software Development
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Director of Product Management
      • Sep 2021 - Present

      Product delivery director for the Air Force’s premier offensive malware development organization. • Prioritizes new development requirements and provides quality assurance for 20 XFN agile teams comprising 200+ developers and 50+ product launches annually. • Manages career growth and training for 14 product managers. Trained eight new junior PM hires, and mentored four engineers/junior employees into senior PM roles. • Maintains and updates a portfolio of 300+ existing malware products for rapid deployment in wartime scenario. • Leads business intelligence analytics efforts. Identified requirements and programmed a fully automated analytics engine. Reports generated regularly drive national security decision making at the US Congressional level. Show less

  • Japan Ministry of Defense
    • Tokyo, Japan
    • Research Fellow, AI/Robotics
      • Feb 2019 - Aug 2021

      US Government appointed international exchange engineer to Japan’s top defense research agency. • Collaborated with cross-cultural teams at the highest levels of government to coordinate international research projects. • Initiated and executed computer vision-based AI/ML autonomous UAV program as lead researcher. Leveraged UnrealEngine, ROS, AirSim, and OS neural-nets to develop, train and evaluate performance in a simulated environment. • Test planner and robotics engineer for Japan’s High Mobility Powered Exoskeleton prototype. • Spearheaded 3D printing program to supply in-the-field replacement parts to humanitarian mission support equipment. Show less

  • National Reconnaissance Office (NRO)
    • United States
    • Defense and Space Manufacturing
    • 300 - 400 Employee
    • Senior Program Manager, Chief of Research
      • May 2015 - Feb 2019

      Chief of research and senior program manager for Advanced Programs branch with $70M+ budget. • Directed multi-billion dollar organization’s AI data processing portfolio. Solicited and reviewed hundreds of AI/ML-based R&D proposals. Led six efforts to integrate successful proposals into operational architecture. • Pioneered the DoD’s first AI/ML pipeline for satellite imagery classification. Initiated and delivered new products including: data labeling tools, a synthetic training data generation platform, and a cloud-based engine for scalable AI automated target recognition. The pipeline runs 70+ AI models and produces 10,000+ detections/day. • Established global customer engagement program for national satellite requirements. Established 12 technical roles in six countries supporting 20+ sites to ensure proper product employment and feedback capture. • Led the development of the DoD’s preferred classified chat web-app. Redesigned the UX, transitioned to the cloud, launched cross-platform to three classified domains, and implemented 100s of user features. Increased MAUs from 200 to 16,000+. Show less

Education

  • U.S. Air Force Institute of Technology
    Master's degree, Computer Engineering
    2013 - 2015
  • United States Air Force Academy
    Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering
    2009 - 2013

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