Erik Lenke
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Experience
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Highwire
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United States
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Software Development
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1 - 100 Employee
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Product Manager
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Jun 2022 - Present
Highwire is leading the Partner Elevation movement for builders and owners of capital projects. The world's most admired organizations — including Skanska, Merck, and Bond Brothers — use Highwire to ensure their contracting partners deliver great work, on budget and on schedule, by collaborating with them to dynamically mitigate safety, financial, quality and sustainability risks throughout every project lifecycle. Originally started as an internal risk assessment system at Harvard University, Highwire is now an independent company championing the Partner Elevation movement. Show less
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United States Air Force
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United States
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Defense and Space Manufacturing
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700 & Above Employee
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Senior Program Manager
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Jan 2020 - Jun 2022
Lead Program Manager for B-2 Mission Planning software technologies. Under this role I lead and manage product development of secure software capabilities from the inception to phase-out in order to create customer value and deliver measurable user benefits. As lead of a cross-functional team, I determine what products, enhancements, and features are built in order to best meet the customer priorities. Fully accountable for end-to-end business success of the B-2 Mission Planning software program, driving development and integration into a multi-million dollar product portfolio.• Led engineering, contractual, financial, and security management for Aerospace & Defense programs through all phases of execution • Drove delivery of six mission planning software upgrades to a priority Air Force customer, all deliveries ahead of portfolio schedule• Oversaw quarterly review of development and test events across a 150 member cross-functional team, enabling quarterly product releases for integration into multi-million dollar mission planning software• Implemented strategic initiative to adopt agile methodologies across program, realigning executable processes for developers to more effectively meet customer needs• Acted as portfolio engagement manager responsible for building customer relationships & delivering external presentations Show less
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Program Manager
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Apr 2018 - Jan 2020
Serving as a Program Manager under the Force Protection Division at Hanscom Air Force Base. Currently leading 85 person product development, maintenance, and sustainment team directly responsible for 95 US Air Force bases across the United States, Europe, Middle East, and Africa. As the lead Program Manager, primary duties include cross-functional coordination/management in order to exceed program cost, schedule, and performance requirements. Duties also includes frequent travel coordination to high conflict areas in order to provide immediate response to dynamic requirements in constantly changing environments.• Awarded four key services contracts valued at over $87 million, providing integrated security solutions to 95 military bases globally• Synchronized multiple contractor deliveries to achieve economies of scale, resulting in effectively sourced security solutions six months ahead of schedule and saving over $7 million across the program’s three year budget• Sourced $27 million to overcome program budget shortfall in first year of as program manager, mitigating key supply chain delays and avoiding break in service to 53 customer locations Show less
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Intelligence Officer
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Apr 2017 - Apr 2018
Served as a Mission Operations Commander and Subject Matter Expert for Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) operations within the Korean Area of Responsibility (AOR). Duties included leadership and management of over 80 intelligence analysts, along with operational control over multi-million dollar Government weapon system. • Led a 60-person team responsible for data collection and analysis across the Korean peninsula, developing over 17,000 intelligence reports across 66 intelligence operations to enable strategic leaders to make informed decisions• Trained and qualified eight personnel over 220 hours into positions of leadership, empowering them to command intelligence missions• Selected above peers to brief industry and executive branch leadership on key areas of intelligence analysis that impact mission success• Streamlined organization’s dynamic targeting process, leading 65 analysts over 24 hour simulated missions to verify capability to perform effectively in a wartime environment Show less
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Intelligence Officer
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Jun 2015 - Apr 2017
Served as a Business Intelligence Analyst focused on providing program development teams with detailed vulnerability and threat information. Duties ensured effective technology/capability development under the current state of the global threat environment. Translatable skills included digesting analyzing engineering strategies, translating technical model/simulation data into real-world impacts for customers, and briefing Department of Defense executive leadership on product development risk factors/mitigations.• Mitigated five aircraft intelligence capability gaps by organizing working groups between acquisition professionals and the intelligence community, leading to joint resolution strategy for key issues impacting mission systems• Analyzed intelligence data to support a $320 million program acquisition, providing required threat analysis to clear program milestones• Created and managed organization’s business integration training program for 150 personnel, facilitating successful delivery of intelligence analysis to 26 programs• Authored lifecycle intelligence analysis report for multi-spectral imagery sensor technology, providing insight to critical mission system threats and yielding successful technology implementation in the field Show less
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Intelligence Officer
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May 2014 - Jun 2015
Served as a Student in the US Air Force Intelligence Officer Initial Training Course located at Goodfellow Air Force Base.
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Education
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United States Air Force Academy
Bachelor of Science - BS, Business Administration and Management, General