Experience

Knight Aerospace
• United States
• Aviation & Aerospace
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Program Manager

  • Feb 2023 - Present


Elbit Systems of America

• United States
• Defense and Space Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Environmental Safety & Health Lead Coordinator

  • Apr 2022 - Feb 2023

  • Served as EHS Coordinator managing facility safety and environmental plans, training, and maintaining compliance standards to EPA, DCMA, and OSHA regulations while taking positive measures to continually maintain a workplace mental attitude that is safe and environmentally supportive

• Facilities Manager

  • Dec 2020 - Feb 2023

  • Project Manager for the M7 Aerospace facility reduction project to reduce overall cost and overhead as M7 Aerospace shifted to a hybrid environment by vacating a two-story 50,550 ft² administration building and condensing all staff into available hangar spaceo Coordinated with all functional groups to develop plans to reduce the footprint of previous workspaces in preparation for relocation to hangar spaceso Located and designed layouts for new workspaces with Microsoft Visioo Worked with vendors to renovate hangar space to accommodate functional groups using designed layoutso Managed a team to relocate all furniture and equipment from the administration building and redistribute items to the new function-assigned spaces Show less

• Project Manager

  • Jan 2020 - Feb 2023

  • Project Manager for the T-6A/B/D Crash Survivable Recorder project:o Supported a prime contractor in obtaining FAA airworthiness approval for the CSR system by managing a team of FAA DERs, DARs, and M7 engineers to be fully compliant with the Project Specific Certification Plan to obtain an FAA Supplemental Type Certificateo Managed a team of subcontract vendors and employees for the kit proof installation, validation and verification kit installation, de-modification, and conformity of each aircraft• Project Manager for the Air National Guard RC-26 Hard Landing Study project:o Supported a prime contractor to establish requirements for addressing the discoveries of repeated damage to the RC-26B nacelle structure and answering airworthiness concerns of the USAF Airworthiness experts by executing a study of airframe and flight datao Managed a team of subcontract vendors and employees to generate a technical data package, install aircraft instrumentation, record/obtain flight data, and de-modify the aircraft back to its original aircraft configuration• Project Manager for a rapid response IPT business development team submitting multiple requests for proposals responses to the United States Air Force Special Operations Forces and Naval Air Warfare Center in a Multiple Award Contract generating opportunities for the site Show less

• Senior Planner

  • Apr 2018 - Jan 2020

  • Lead risk management meetings over multiple projects to proactively record, analyze, and develop a plan to best avoid future risks while mitigating current risks• Saved over an estimated $1 million with a self-developed Access database for operations automating and vastly improving communication for operations. This database would be recognized as a nominee for the Elbit Systems 2019 Performance Excellence program of the year award• First to successfully implement Deltek Cobra EVM software into San Antonio programs to meet company-wide standards • Created and managed the Integrated Master Schedule in Microsoft Project for multiple programs across the site• Introduced standardized Gemba walk visual boards and aircraft EVM metrics presentations between multiple site programs• Worked with corporate IT leadership to implement improvement to data reporting resulting in faster morning metrics reporting processes Show less

• Project Analyst (Contractor)

  • Jul 2017 - Apr 2018

  • See Senior Planner



Northrop Grumman Corporation

• United States
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Industrial Engineer II (Contractor)

  • Jan 2017 - Jul 2017

  • Developed and maintained critical path and milestone schedules for the JSTAR program in Microsoft Project • Worked closely with operation and engineer teams to provide daily work scheduled and planned milestones • Analyzed data collected to identify trends, constraints, and risks to implement process improvements for operation teams • Maintained strong communications with peer engineers and management to integrate numerous aircraft into the master schedule • Organized daily IPT meetings to provide status of aircraft metrics to various functional groups and acted on feedback given • Reviewed key performance indicators through EVM and used critical path method to produce recovery plans as needed • Created an integrated visual display deck in excel to give a simple and clean visual status of different areas of the aircraft. This project has been presented as a lean innovation tool to customers of the JSTAR program Show less



Boeing

• United States
• Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Industrial Engineer II

  • Aug 2012 - Oct 2016

  • Lead a wiring provision project to clear engineering constraints that improved the communication and through-put time between multiple engineering functions and operation teams• Designed integrated tools that automated daily tasks of operations with software such as Oracle, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access• Prepared and managed business cost-based analysis for proposed process improvements through ad-hoc and assigned projects• Integrated the master bill of materials database and Microsoft Access to design automatic parts tags for mechanics drastically improving on the manual written process which then lead to best practices implementation of the parts control function group• Generated automated metrics from SQL queries integrated into excel and presented to PowerPoint through VBA macros• Lead and participated in VSMs to improve internal function and provided technical advice on external processes• Operated on a team of peer engineers to organize work study, time study, and AIW events with a strong focus on continuous improvement, first-time quality, and standard process documentation• Studied engineer drawings and plans to prepare strategic forecasts and schedules through Boeing-provided systems • Worked on the pre-plan team responsible for the induction of two start-up programs for defense aircraft to the site• Voted as Employee Involvement team leader by fellow team members that focused on ideas for continuous improvements• Elected as a Boeing representative to speak to graduating students during engineering week hosted by Boeing San Antonio Show less

• Methods Analyst Planner (Contractor)

  • Aug 2011 - Aug 2012

  • See Industrial Engineer II



Bell Helicopter

• India
• Consumer Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Manufacturing Engineer (Contractor)

  • Jan 2011 - Aug 2011

  • Verified the accuracy of operations data and made revisions needed in preparation to be transferred between software systems • Presented issues discovered within data configurations of planning packages to be approved by the project lead • Collected time studies data of manufacturing operations for the AH-1Z and UH-1Y helicopter assembly line • Used root cause analysis to discover stock issues for drill bits in vending machines causing unnecessary travel time to tool cribs • Analyzed travel time and layout of point-of-use carts and vending machines to provide efficient locations for each resource Show less