PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

Program / Project Manager with extensive manufacturing experience in government and private sectors. Results - oriented leadership skills. Develop and implement effective strategies, while managing programs and budgets. Record of success in completing projects accurately and on time. Make sound management decisions based on technical competencies, engineering inputs, fiscal objectives, and contractual obligations.

SKILL:

• Team player but also a take charge individual with energy and a clear sense of urgency
• Diplomacy, with t he ability to motivate people, strong interpersonal and team working skills
• Communication skills both written and verbal for report writing & presentations
• Financial skills for budget development & control
• Organized, able to balance work-load and deliver targeted results
• Adept at investigations. Able to read, analyze, and interpret detailed technical specifications
• Proficient in MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook), Project, and Visio

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Rochester, NY

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Manage multiple projects from order placement to completion, meeting customer expectations and delivering the planned level of profitability. Always ensuring legal and ethical compliance, and adherence to Confidential policy.
• Review and evaluate detailed and extensive technical specifications. Extract applicable client requirements and translate / communicate specifications to subcontractors, sub-vendors and internal organization.
• Review product design for compliance with engineering principles, company standards, customer contract requirements, and related specifications.
• Create project plans defining the schedule of activities, milestones, and documentation submittals, to meet the customer requirements. Track progress of project deliverables to agreed schedules
• Identify resource requirements and assign individual responsibilities.
• Ensure project documents are complete, current and stored appropriately by p reparing project documentation submittals, Liaise with engineering in preparation of detailed drawing packages for client approval & production along with monitoring and expediting documentation to and from the client
• Review and evaluate bids, proposals, and vendor agreements in coordination with Supply Chain Management for acceptability of customer specifications, price, and delivery
• Identify and manage subcontract vendors via Supply Chain including satisfactory performance to quality and delivery standards
• Track & control expenditure within the project budget. Assist with development of budgets and project cost estimates at the quotation stage as well
• Maintain a delivery and cost control schedule for each project
• Provide regular and effective status and progress reports to the customer, project team, and management
• Resolves and / or escalates issues in a timely fashion to the appropriate level of management
• Evaluate and approve design changes, specifications, and drawing releases and liaise with Commercial organization to obtain applicable variation orders for customer driven changes
• Keep track of lessons learned, shares with others, and builds preventative measures into standard processes and routines
• Always looking for opportunities to improve efficiency without jeopardizing quality or compliance
• Continually seeks opportunities to increase customer satisfaction and deepen client relationship
• Build and share the knowledge base of each client's business, organization, and objectives

Confidential, Rochester, NY

Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Develop and manage new projects in Korea, China, Japan, and domestically with values approaching $30M in revenue annually.
• Creator of project plans for interfacing with various departments including Finance, HR, Sales, & Manufacturing to improve customer relations.
• Utilize MRP/ERP systems to support Programmatic and Logistical decisions to drive revenue streams, develop project manufacturing/delivery plans, and monitor contractual deliverables.
• Managed international shipping regulations for equipment sales and aftermarket support products to ensure customer satisfaction. (Familiarity with INCOTERMS 2000 & 2010 and ITAR regulations).
• Participated in Lean Manufacturing processes including Kaizan s, KanBan, 5S, and, Modular manufacturing methods to reduce waste and duplication, while increasing productivity.
• Managed the preparation of technical proposals and contractual costing. Directed technical cross - functional teams to developed project bills of materials in preparation of engineering cost estimates.
• Organizer of project teams to develop, engineer, integrate, test, and provide field installation/testing functions as required in Requests for Proposals/Quotes.
• Prepare schedules and budgets with sufficient detail to allow the tracking of progress in the design and integration of systems along with the associated costs.
• Effectively communicate with customers on contractual and technical issues, scheduling, acceptance tests, and other programmatic matters.
• Managed field personnel for fulfillment of contract obligations.

Confidential, Lancaster, NY

Deputy Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Manage government programs for converting customer requirements into deliverable solutions that balance technical challenges, scheduling, and cost constraints.
• Provided daily programmatic and logistical support to the Program Manager for concurrent military programs, which were fixed fee and lead time to the government for military use.
• Leader of cross - functional teams to capture action items, design progress, change requests, and other program related items.
• Interact with internal departments, as well as vendors, to facilitate product, process, and materials improvement for prototype equipment development.
• Directed the product engineering and prototyping efforts of 5 - 6 technicians and engineers. Supervised the low volume production runs of prototypes for US Navy & US Army evaluations.

Confidential, Rochester, NY

Project Team Lead / Hardware Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Manage simultaneous programs, contracts, and subcontracts for conversion of customer requirements into deliverable solutions that balanced technical challenges, schedule, and cost constraints, while maintaining engineering support for legacy reconnaissance systems.
• Actively participate in contract negotiations to support RFP generation, cost assessments, risk analysis for system designs, equipment builds, and of projects under my direction.
• Ensured contractual s by adhering to cost savings, labor hours, and, contractual reporting requirements using Value Based Six Sigma practices, to ensure 100% of fees.
• Evolved new platforms for digital imagery capture and dissemination systems based upon customer requirements. Resulting in decreased labor and improved cycle time in getting images to the end users.
• Trainer and manager of field service teams to provide on - site technical support to customers worldwide.

Confidential, Rochester, NY

Development Engineer / Project Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Provide technical and engineering support for ground - based applications of satellite and airborne camera systems to deliver products to intelligence imagery analysts and commercial end users.
• Received accolades from government agencies for ingenuity, perseverance, and project management, when a primary imagery production system failed. Saved over $10M and 18 months lead time.
• Streamliner of over $2M of customer inventories in consumable and support products used for 24/7 intelligence operations as a continuous improvement project using Just in Time methodology.
• Document product usage and cycle times, to satisfy auditors. Provided status reports in accordance with Confidential oversight.
• Teamed up with engineering disciplines, management, technicians, suppliers, and customers to identify fiscal growth opportunities while furthering customer relations.
• Managed service and support contracts with values exceeding $5M annually.
• Leader of team to transition analog systems to PLC hardware and software controls.
• Results were reduced downtime and operational costs, with ROI of each $750,000 upgrade in less than 2 years.
• Travel to customer locations domestically and over 30 countries in support of contractual obligations.