Professional experience spanning the US Navy, Booz Allen Hamilton, GE, and Siemens.
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Multimillion-dollar program management, governance, schedule integrity, and executive reporting.
Requirements definition and traceability, Model-Based Systems Engineering, verification discipline.
Planning, process integration, configuration decisions, and adoption for enterprise platforms.
Lean Six Sigma, KPI design, quality systems, and cost and cycle-time reduction.
Bringing engineering, manufacturing, quality, finance, and customers to a single plan.
Translating technical reality into decisions leadership can make with confidence.
A visible program behind schedule, requiring re-baseline, governance, and restored stakeholder confidence.
Multi-site implementation where process readiness, data, and adoption must move with the technology.
A complex product program needing traceability and verification rigor to reduce rework.
A production or engineering process where cost, quality, and throughput must measurably improve.
Certification, configuration control, and long program horizons demand traceability that survives change.
Requirements rigor and stakeholder governance decide whether a program is defensible under scrutiny.
Capital intensity means schedule and quality decisions carry compounding financial consequences.
Throughput improves when engineering intent and shop-floor reality are designed as one system.
Adoption — not deployment — determines whether an enterprise platform delivers its business case.
The same discipline travels: understand the system, align the people, and make execution visible.
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