My Professional Journey
I enjoy tackling hard problems. I do this by joining, building, or leading a diverse, collaborative team. The best solutions are found when technical experts are encouraged and enabled to be bold and creative.
Northrop Grumman Space Systems
Systems Engineering Manager
Functional manager of the Systems Engineering section in the Operational Exploitation Systems (OES) Operating Unit. I oversee 2 managers and ~ 40 individual contributors who specialize in OPIR ground processing.
Systems Engineering, Integration, and Test (SEIT) Lead for the design, execution, verification, and build of 6 relay ground stations on Guam.
Scrum Master for the program's Agile development.
Technical oversight of the subcontractors for the ground terminal equipment and antennas.
Responsibilities include technical contribution on programmatic roles, employee engagement, performance management, career development, proposal support, employee rewards and recognition, resolving personnel issues, strategic hiring, employee skills development, labor forecasting, execution through collaboration with program management, and balancing employee needs with business goals.
Northrop Grumman Mission Systems
Hardware Engineering Manager
Functional manager of the Computational Electromagnetics (CEM) group comprised of 16 engineers with experience ranging from new-hires to 30+ years of industry experience who specialize in CEM and RF antenna modeling in an installed environment.
Lead and manage internal research and development for new tools and techniques.
ScrumMaster for the CEM development effort.
Roadmapping activities for the development of new modeling capabilities.
Day-to-day responsibilities include employee engagement, performance management, career development, employee rewards and recognition, and resolving personnel issues.
Additional responsibilities include strategic hiring and employee skills development, labor forecasting and execution through collaboration with program management, and balancing employee needs with business goals.
Northrop Grumman Mission Systems
RF Microwave Design Engineer
Development and maintenance of industry leading, in-house electromagnetic software toolkit.
Experience with computational techniques: DDM, FEM, MoM, IE, FMM, PO, and various optimization methods.
Experience with utilizing HPCs for computational modeling.
Development of active phased array antenna architecture, requirements generation, antenna systems and subsystem analysis, and performance modeling.
Collaboration with Systems and subsystem architect leads.
The University of Kansas
Graduate Assistant
Researched electron-positron cascade mechanism in magnetospheres around spinning black holes.
Development of theory on small scale magneto-optic effects and applications to laboratory plasmas.
Instructed three sections of undergraduate physics lab per semester.
E. E. Slossen Award for Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant.
Developed an analytic solution for the cross sections of non-relativistic flavor-mixed particle collisions.
Additional Experience
Consulting
Illinois Business Consulting
Project Manager
Leading a team of 7 consultants to develop a deployment plan for an open source catastrophe modeling platform for a top specialty insurer and global reinsurer.
Additional responsibilities include project scoping, consultant skill development, client engagement, and work stream planning.
Consultant
Collaborated on a team of seven consultants to generate financial projections in order to create a sustainable business model for establishing an interoperability testing center for a government institution.
Volunteering
Mentoring the Technical Professional — Mentor
Northrop Grumman
Physics and Astronomy Alumni Board — Member
University of Kansas Department of Physics and Astronomy
Alumni Industry Day — Panelist
University of Kansas Department of Physics and Astronomy
Leadership in Action — Mentor
University of Illinois Gies College of Business MBA program
Science & Engineering
Systems Engineering Certificate Program — Caltech — CTME
Modeling and Simulation of Phased Array Antennas — Georgia Tech — GTRI
The Big Bang, Black Holes, and the End of the Universe — University of Illinois — Astronomy Department
High Energy Density Summer School — CLaSP University of Michigan — R. P. Drake
Business
Project Management — Certificate — Google
Scrum Master Certification— LearnQuest — Coursera
Professional Scrum Product Owner™ I — Certification — Scrum.org
Capture Strategy Executive Program — University of Chicago — Marc Knez
Master Digital Transformation — LinkedIn Learning
Strategic Leadership and Management — University of Illinois — Coursera
Leading the Modern Day Business — University of Virginia & BCG — Coursera
Law
Law School 102 — Colorado University — Mini Law School
Law School 101 — Colorado University — Mini Law School
CopyrightX — Harvard University — HarvardX
Intellectual Property Law — University of Pennsylvania — Coursera, edX part 1, edX part 2