Experience

Ravenswood Solutions

• United States
• Defense and Space Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• General Manager UK

  • okt. 2020 - - heden

  Moved to the UK to start up a Subsidiary of Ravenswood Solutions.

• Deputy Director

  • dec. 2017 - sep. 2020

• Senior Program Manager

  • sep. 2015 - dec. 2017



SRI

• United States
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Program Manager

  • apr. 2010 - sep. 2015

  Manage an Army National Guard program that has grown from $8M in annual revenue into $60M annually. Responsible for a team that runs eXportable Combat Training Capability (XCTC) exercises around the country to include management, logistics, scenario development, equipment support and battlefield realism support. Lead multidisciplinary team that develops the instrumentation used for training, produces that equipment, supports the system in the field, and maintains it throughout the year. Represent program managers on the Estimate At Completion Working Group that is redefining management and accounting processes used to forecast project finances.Responsibilities include: • Client development and relations• Financial management• Personnel management• Project planning and oversight• Business development• IR&D development and management • Proposal writing and costing • Subcontractor managementIn 2010, promoted from a Deputy Program Manager to a Program Manager because the program had grown substantially. Responsibilities grew in size but not in scope.

• Deputy Program Manager

  • mrt. 2008 - mrt. 2010

  See Program Manager Description.

• Research Engineer III

  • mrt. 2006 - mrt. 2008

  Oversaw field testing of new products and then led design improvements on those products.Deputy exercise manager for the first two proof-of-principle XCTC exercises. Managed multiple subcontractors, put together project plans, and tracked financial and technical performance versus those plans. Worked with team to change our field support model to drastically lower cost to the client.

• Research Engineer II

  • mrt. 2004 - mrt. 2006

  Led the design of a GPS based tracking device that included an embedded GPS microchip with antenna, RF transceiver, microprocessor, ultrasonic transducers, and internal batteries. Managed a manufacturing subcontractor to produce over 2000 of these devices.Spent two years as a Field Application Engineer working as a subcontractor on a GPS project for Boeing. Managed thirteen GPS ground station sites around the country. During flight-testing, was the sole onsite SRI representative monitoring the GPS system.

• Research Engineer I

  • jun. 2001 - mrt. 2004

  Designed multiple devices including:• LED based device that simulates the muzzle flash on M1 tanks• PCB that controlled membrane switch input to simulate M2 firing system• Cable harnesses to draw power and digital signals off M1 and M2 combat vehicles.Performed data capture and analysis for RF data communication system and gyroscopic pointing