Focused, driven, strategic-minded Business Professional with proven success in leading multi-disciplinary development teams. Adept at bringing clarity to chaos in programs and maximizing resources to achieve goals. Highly skilled and recognized communicator and relationship builder, honest and direct in approach with the ability to influence change in a creative, positive and effective manner. Strong ability to properly scope programs and translate high-level product and program goals to project milestones and detailed development tasks, on-time and on-budget. Skilled at forging strong strategic relationships with development partners and vendors for best-in-class products. Highly experienced at working with international partners from Asia and Europe. Broad experience in program and project management. Additional experience in RF and system engineering, testing, quality/reliability, operations, applications development and customer requirements analysis. 15+ years of direct management and customer relations experience with data processing systems, networks, communication systems, signal intelligence, data acquisition techniques and products, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles ( UAV ), and applications. Knowledgeable in Virtualization, Cloud Infrastructure Solutions and Cyber Security. ©

New to programming in general. Recently (Jan 2017) inherited Systems Data Analyst chair in our department (by default, not aptitude). Lots of years in IS, primarily in Network administration, hardware support, and project and people management. Feels like a reboot taking this chair, though. ©