Director Resume Saline, MI - Hire IT People

SUMMARY:

Results oriented leader with 15 plus years of diverse experience in product management, requirement development, test and evaluation. Talent for working efficiently and effectively under pressure and in a busy environment.
An innate ability to develop loyal and cohesive team mates dedicated to timely task completion.
Extremely well versed in personnel management, strategic planning and training.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Director

Confidential, Saline, MI

Responsibilities:

Responsible for creating and developing long term strategy/opportunities for current and future programs specifically focused on Unmanned and Robotic capabilities
Integrate the programs and advertise the Modeling and Simulation tool developed by Confidential for Department of Defense and Commercial customers
Create new business opportunities for Confidential
Develop a marketing strategy/effort to inform other Industry partners on Confidential capabilities and products

Product Manager

Confidential, Warren, MI

Responsibilities:

Responsible for the cost, schedule, risk and performance for the Medium Flail System (M160), Route Clearance & Interrogation System (RCIS) and Husky Mounted Detection System (HMDS) as well as other future large unmanned ground system capabilities. Effectively, managing a budget of over $50 Million dollars in Procurement and Research and Development dollars.
Successfully led 30 multi - disciplined government professionals to achieve acquisition success on one sustainment and one developmental program
Led a team of Engineers, logisticians and budget analyst in developing technical requirements strategy to integrate unmanned kits onto Army trucks. Primarily focused on integrated, testing and fielding the additional unmanned kits onto the Army vehicle without degrading initial performance

Deputy Director

Confidential, Warren, MI

Responsibilities:

Responsible for the fleet management of over 6,600 Stryker vehicles, control and managed a budget of over $600 Million dollars, and effectively managed 93 government logistic professionals and over 780 contractors personnel providing Stryker Brigade Combat Team logistical support worldwide.
Served as the lead planner for deployment and redeployment of 4 Stryker Brigade Combat teams vehicles (transporting over 8,000 vehicles) from the Continental United States to both Afghanistan and Iraq while simultaneously meeting operational readiness timelines
Lead an Army logistics team in capturing additional capability performance and ensuring there was sufficient logistic support to integrate the technical solutions into our logistics products. Over 100 additional kits, tools and material was added to the Army Stryker vehicles during the 8 years of combat in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom.

Assistant Product Manager

Confidential, Warren, MI

Responsibilities:

Responsible for the production, configuration management, and enhancement of the Stryker Infantry Carrier Vehicles, Remote Weapon Systems and multiple other technologies integrated to improve system performance, a total effort over $1.5 Billion dollars.
Successfully separated the Remote Weapon Station contract from General Dynamics to Kongsberg Defense Agency effectively saving the US government $500K per systems
Responsible for capturing additional user (Customer) capabilities, decomposing those requirements into technical specifications and developing a plan to integrate, develop and test those requirements onto the Stryker Infantry Carrier Vehicle to meet increased performance within cost and schedule