Newport, Michigan, United States
Steve is a retired USMC armor officer. He is a research scientist at the US Army's Combat Capabilities Development Command - Ground Vehicle Systems Center. He is also a professor in Industrial Engineering at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. Professional Experience: - Combined industrial and military background (30 years) - Credentialed Project and Program Manager - Extensive Product, Project and Program Management experience in high tech, engineering programs - Exceptional Account, Bid and Sales Management track record - Unique engineering, finance and management schooling - Significant Fortune 500 Boardroom experience - 2009 LSS Black Belt Qualification Goals: - Continue executive track career - Upgrade education with an executive track Industrial Engineering PhD Specialties: Negotiation, facilitation, project management, program management, business development, technical and business leadership
I'm currently the trade study leader for the product development of the Optionally Manned Tank and other classified programs. I also act as the command's SME for product development decision analysis.
Planned, budgeted, developed, and successfully marketed this new web-based program. I am currently directing the program and have a lead teaching role as an Assistant Professor (Teaching) in the Industrial & Systems Engineering Department in the College of Engineering. I teach Systems Engineering, Project and Program Management, Decision Analysis, and Design for Six Sigma to general students, members of the Ford EMMP program, and the PhD Global Executive program.
I am responsible for teaching Decision & Risk Analysis and Lean Six Sigma to graduate students and doctoral candidates in the College of Engineering. Additionally, I conduct research in design optimization, product development and manufacturing processes.
Received an ASEE SMART Scholarship through the Federal STEM Program to support the Army's TARDEC Command. TARDEC is supporting my dissertation research which is to create a mathematical system design framework. The framework will utilize Set-Based Design which came from Toyota's Production System to increase resilience in the system design process for commercial and defense programs. We will be utilizing data sets from both TARDEC and the Navy's NAVSEA Command.
Managed the U. S. Marine Corps Amphibious Combat Vehicle (ACV) engineering program. Responsibilities include managing the current engineering project to develop an optimized whole system design that meets extremely tight cost and performance criteria. Also responsible for leading the team's bid for the upcoming Engineering & Manufacturing Design (EMD) contract.
The Product Manager for all engineering project management of new Abrams Main Battle Tanks both domestic and international. Responsibilities include managing 9 Project Managers and their associated 300 engineering and business personnel with subcontractors. International responsibilities include delivery to seven allied countries. Total program responsibility exceeds $1.5B through 2018. Additional similar responsibilities for the Pandur and MRAP specialty wheeled vehicle programs.
Team Leader of 20+ Managers that provide Program Risk Management, Structured Decision Project Management and Lead Systems Engineers to GDLS's core programs: Abrams, Strkyer, EFV, JLTV and FCS.
Served 26 years of active and reserve duty as an armor, amphibian assault, operations analysis or space operations officer. Supported and/or participated in the Beirut Crisis, Grenada Conflict, Operations Desert Shield/Storm and Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Developed the enterprise architecture for the Single Army Financial Enterprise. This included: governance, operational and organizational connectivities and the systems connections required to an ERP for implementation.