Career Profile
I am a technical project manager with 8+ years experience managing fast-paced military and commercial contracts. My company Presque Labs LLC has won or finalized in multiple design challenges (HeroX, YCombinator). In my free time I love to stay active and play volleyball, tennis, and ski.
Work History
- Developed and maintained capital expenditure models to support business forecasting and budgeting processes, including cash management, capacity needs, and strategic initiatives
- Responsible for long range (capital) planning across all P&W Operations module centers
- Managed strategic supplier relationships and was primary point of escalation for contract enforcement
- Led team of ten project managers responsible for executing more than $200M of machine tool procurement per year
- Established and maintained general equipment standards across P&W, with cross-functional feedback from EH&S, MTS, and Manufacturing Engineering teams
- Modernized and established new procurement workflows in AgilePoint and helped reduce process times by up to 20%, or more than 60 days
- Led team of five developers to design and program the largest (to-date) AgilePoint application at RTX for capital execution
- Oversaw procurement of hundreds of capital equipment projects totaling more than $25M per year
- Wrote technical specifications identifying critical processes and guiding design concepts for external vendors
- Negotiated commercial (pricing, payment structure) and legal terms and conditions to reduce cost and risk
- Validated and led acceptance tests for all projects, including material handling automation equipment, machining and inspection systems, and CNC and welding equipment, etc.
- Provided EAR and ITAR classifications for export of sensitive technical data.
- HeroX NextGen Cart Design Challenge winner for airport material transport (AMTC) concept to track and transport secured goods within an airport (2018)
- Designed electrical circuit in KiCad and prototyped and fabricated PCB through OSH Park
- Developed user interface and linked IoT sensors to SQL database using Python
- Full stack programming with Flask, Django, and MongoDB for Waddle, an events app (2022)
- Generated concepts for Revocube (a 3D puzzle game) and programmed game in Unity with C# (2017)
- Built and programmed Context, a text message analytics app, in Android Studio with Java (2016)
- Maintained and provided site reliability engineering for company website and internal applications, including Docker, Jupyter, Nginx, Nextcloud, and Wordpress
Projects
- Created a modified SEIR model of COVID-19 spread in Connecticut, and formulated a discrete, nonlinear, predictive, closed-loop feedback controller to minimize the number of infected.
- Simulated mathematical model in Python using the GEKKO optimization suite
- Challenge winner for airport material transport (AMTC) concept to track and transport secured goods within an airport.
- Designed electrical circuit in KiCad and prototyped and fabricated PCB through OSH Park.
- Developed user interface and linked IoT sensors to SQL database using Python.
- Analyzed, modeled, and simulated a to-scale jumping robot with spider-inspired joints in MATLAB, using a differential algebraic equation (DAE) method.
- Directed micro-fabrication using FDM and SLA 3D printing methods
- 3rd place finish at 2016 ASCE Concrete Canoe Competition.
- Coordinated and oversaw 6 subteams (aesthetics, analysis, business, mold, mix, and paddling) and 34 persons for the 2016 ASCE Concrete Canoe Competition.
- Introduced novel moisture sensors and concrete curing control.
- Eliminated shrinkage cracking while increasing tensile and compressive strength by 62% and 35%