Youngsville, North Carolina, United States
Navy O6 with 26 years’ service including nuclear submarine command and Pentagon duty with the Chief of Naval Operations and the Office of the Secretary of Defense. Twelve years of space systems cost estimation experience. Demonstrated program management, leadership, and collaborative skills. Extensive business development and proposal management experience. Excellent writing skills and analytical ability.
As an on-call consultant, managed and and wrote proposals for clients in diverse technical areas, served on red teams for major proposals to government and commercial organizations. Served as systems engineering technical consultant on proposal teams.
Provide independent cost estimates in support of a US Government customer for space and ground systems program offices. Work directly with government representatives as the contractor task lead, interfacing with other intelligence community and Department of Defense agencies. Develop parametric cost estimating relationships. Designed improvements to the customer's space hardware cost estimating model. Developed a standardized cost integration model for the customer and a database to facilitate generation of annual budget authorization requests.
Managed winning proposal for Wyle’s major classified contract re-compete. Minimized costs through virtual meetings and file sharing among geographically dispersed team
Prepared monthly publication sent to all U.S. embassies and DTS-PO client agencies.
Acting Program Manager for more than 100 employees working at the State Department Diplomatic Telecommunications Service Program Office (DTS¬PO). Delivered the annual program briefing to the director and senior staff members.
For CENTECH, INC. Responsible for recruiting staff and preparing resumes for the DTS-PO proposal, the largest contract in CENTECH’s history. Company acquired by CACI in 1998.
Established and coordinated health and humanitarian aid programs for people in countries of the former Soviet Union, including contract negotiations. Established needs, analyzed resource requirements, estimated costs, prepared con-tracts, obtained funding, and supervised distribution of medicine, supplies, and food.