Kansas City Metropolitan Area
I previously worked as a Program Manager at Honeywell FM&T where I supported the manufacture of non-nuclear components for nuclear weapons. In my role, I supported product realization teams and help them progress through the 6.X Product Realization Process. I was responsible for all of their financials, schedule milestones, technical changes, formal risks, and served as their advocate in escalating necessary technical and project challenges to senior leadership. Communication was vital in my role. I served as the primary customer interface to the National Nuclear Security Administration and Design Agency customers for the technical teams that I supported. I regularly represented the Kansas City National Security Site, facilitating technical gate reviews and federal program reviews. I served as the program Derivative Classifier. In addition to my work with product realization teams and customer engagement, I was also responsible for the financial performance and spend plan of the reimbursable portfolio for the weapon program. The reimbursable portfolio consisted of approximately $50 million in planned execution in fiscal year 2023. In my time as a systems engineer at Honeywell FM&T, I worked cross-cutting technical and communication issues on the weapon program I supported. I had the opportunity to engage in a wide range of technologies such as elastomers, detonators, structural components, printed wiring assemblies and mechanisms. I led multiple efforts including a Qualification working group, which focused on resolving differences in quality approach between stakeholders within the weapon complex. I also led the Record of Assembly working group to determine which manufacturing data needed to be captured at all levels of the weapon assembly. I collaborated with our IT department and a small engineering team to create an application called Epic-R, that now serves as the sitewide formal change control solution. As a product engineer at Honeywell FM&T, I supported steady state production in a wide range of manufacturing areas: machining, welding, painting, coating, and additive manufacturing. I also served as the technical lead on a complex assembly that was in the development stage of product realization. I had the opportunity to create manufacturing processes and fixtures necessary to build the product. By optimizing production strategies on multiple components, I was able to identify $1,381,790 in cost savings, 2600 labor hour reductions, and 160 days of schedule savings.
Managed key elements of the W80-4 Life Extension Program (LEP), supporting modernization of the warhead in alignment with NNSA stockpile stewardship and DoD delivery requirements. Coordinated closely with national laboratories, production plants, DoD stakeholders, and federal partners to ensure alignment between warhead development and delivery system integrations schedules. Serves as the primary program engineer for four product realization teams, and secondary engineer on four others. Support nuclear component integrated project team, surveillance, and life-extension phases, ensuring alignment with national security objectives. Track and analyze program progress related to engineering releases, qualification, and other related program metrics. Provide the FPO with actionable data to drive critical conversations around program execution. Develop necessary graphics for FPM to enable effective communication with external stakeholders
-Lead and direct 8 cross-functional engineering project teams through requirements management, resource loading, delivery performance, critical path analysis, milestone management, SOW-thru-BOE-thru Integrated Master Schedule, EVM, Risk management. -These engineering project teams had delivery performance of 25,629/25,649 required components or 99.9% in FY22. -Completed 15 CAT1, 88 CAT2, and 34 CAT3 milestones in FY22 with on time performance of 100%,99%, and 94%. -Responsible for development and execution against yearly reimbursable program spend plan comprised of 130 project teams and approximately $50 million. Designed monthly reimbursable operating system to better manage earned actual cost across 4 business units. Presented execution to senior leadership on a monthly basis. -Serve as main interface with DOE, Design Agency, and production customers as an integrated project lead. Organize and facilitate technical & gate reviews as part of 6.X Product Realization Process. Work overarching program issues at integrated project team meetings, technical gates and program reviews. -Monitor execution and adjust authorized spending limits for 30 reimbursable projects. Responsible for quoting work within reimbursable portfolio.
-Worked as a systems engineer to maintain the nation’s nuclear weapons stockpile. Supported a wide variety of projects including elastomers, detonators, structural components, printed wiring assemblies and mechanisms. -Led Record of Assembly and Qualification working groups, interfacing with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory counterparts. Drove development of record of assembly and qualification planning documentation for all products on a weapon system -Collaborated with IT and Engineering teams to develop and implement new EPIC-R change control web application across multiple weapon programs. Developed guidance documentation, online training, and facilitated training sessions for 225 directors, managers, and engineers to guide technical staff in use of new application. -Ensured the logical and systematic conversion of customer or product requirements into total systems solutions that acknowledge technical, schedule, and cost constraints
-Technical lead for $150 million product realization effort in the area of metal additive manufacturing. -Led teams and contributed unique solutions that resulted in $1,381,790 in cost savings,2600 labor hour reductions, and 160 days of schedule savings. -Designed rework plan and led a cross-functional team to rework 4100 long lead terminal strips. Resulted in delivery to next level assembly on time, while saving $154,000 and 65 days of schedule slippage -Designed complex tooling and manufacturing processes for a new complex nuclear weapon assembly. -Managed product deliveries in a wide variety of manufacturing areas from coatings, welding, plastics, machining, and 3D printing.