Experience

Raytheon Technologies

• United States
• Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Associate Director / Product Team Leader

  • Oct 2020 - Present

  Responsible for development and deployment of factory infrastructure to support full rate production of AAS systems to include card-level and box-level test equipment, system-level integration lab enhancements, and unique support equipment and tooling for movement of hardware through the factory. Direct a matrixed team of more than 40 engineering and business professionals on a range of projects and initiatives. Responsible for development and deployment of factory infrastructure to support full rate production of AAS systems to include card-level and box-level test equipment, system-level integration lab enhancements, and unique support equipment and tooling for movement of hardware through the factory. Direct a matrixed team of more than 40 engineering and business professionals on a range of projects and initiatives.



Boeing

• United States
• Aviation & Aerospace
• 700 & Above Employee

• Program Manager / Senior Manager

  • Jun 2018 - Oct 2020

  Program Manager for 12 months responsible for stand up of the cabin network product line. Directed a multi-disciplined team of 45 professionals over a geographic footprint that spanned Plano, TX, Everett, WA, Gdansk, Poland, and Bangalore, India. Senior Manager for 17 months leading a multi-discipline software engineering team if 75 employees that developed avionics software requirements, software implementation, test, and integration across an enterprise - geographically dispersed team (So. Cal, St. Louis, North TX, and India).

• Program Manager

  • Mar 2017 - Jun 2018

  Managed the heavy maintenance and modification efforts in San Antonio, TX for the Executive 747 platform. In this role Chad provided oversight of program activities and a team of over 200 personnel in operations, engineering, program management, and supply chain to ensure seamless execution and on-time delivery to the Air Force.

• Program Manager

  • Jul 2009 - Mar 2017

  From 2009 to 2017, Chad was the Program Manager for Special Projects Dallas Legacy Programs and Training Systems. Chad's responsibilities included the development, integration, test and sustainment of fielded mission systems and services for the Littoral Surveillance Radar System (LSRS) as well as development of high fidelity training systems for the Advanced Airborne Sensor (AAS) program. While in this role, Chad led an organization of more than 130 individuals and major subcontractors to execute a multi-year development effort, delivering a suite of high-fidelity training simulators and training curriculum on time and within budget to the Navy in 2016. Also in this assignment, he led a sustainment contract effort for the fielded LSRS mission system that exceeded availability requirements within budget every year. In parallel with the sustainment contract, he oversaw a modification program for the LSRS mission computing architecture that had a successful first flight in early 2017.

• Deputy Product Manager & Chief Engineer

  • Apr 2006 - Jul 2009

  From 2006 to 2009, Chad was the deputy product manager and chief engineer for the Centralized Controller Device (CCD) on the Army’s Future Combat Systems (FCS) program, responsible for capability development and integration of the CCD prime item with manned systems, unmanned systems, and the dismounted soldier within the Army's future brigade structure. He led a multi-disciplined design team and subcontractor through critical design and successful prototype testing in 2009.

• Systems Engineer

  • Jan 1999 - Apr 2006

  Chad began his career in 1999 joining Boeing as a systems engineer with the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense program. In the years that followed, he held various engineering and management positions of increasing responsibility in Boeing’s Missile Defense Systems and Combat Systems divisions working in Huntsville, AL, Arlington, VA, and St. Louis, MO. Chad holds a Master of Science in Systems Engineering from the University of Southern California; and a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Chad completed the Executive MBA program at Southern Methodist University in 2014 and is a graduate of the Defense Acquisition University Program Manager’s Course at Ft. Belvoir, VA.



Amiri Engineering Corp.

• Civil Engineering
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Field Engineer

  • Jun 1998 - Jan 1999