Manager Management
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NICK NENADOVIC
***** ******* ***** • Germantown, Maryland 20876
440-***-**** • abnl1w@r.postjobfree.com
DIRECTOR OF PROGRAM & PRODUCT MANAGEMENT, GENERAL SITE MANAGER
Aerospace & Aviation
Accomplished global program and product management leader, change agent, and site executive with
extensive experience accelerating orders, sales, and margins for Fortune-500, Blue Chip companies.
• Consummate general manager with talent for revitalizing struggling organizations through expert
restructuring, effective leadership, and team building and motivation.
• Proven program management leader, consistently exceeding multi-million dollar revenue goals
and securing high-dollar contracts in excess of $100 million.
Program Management • Change Management • Revenue Growth • Business Operations • Product
Development • Profit & Loss Management • Six Sigma • Division Reorganization • Cross-Functional
Leadership • Client Relations • Process Management • Budgeting • Financial Management • Project
Planning • Team Building & Motivation • Public Speaking • Creative Problem Solver • EVMS • Strategic
Planning • Customer Focus • General Management • Plant Consolidation
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
GENERAL ELECTRIC AVIATION (Formally SMITHS AEROSPACE), Germantown, Maryland • 2004 -
2009
Multi-billion dollar global designer and manufacturer of aviation engines, avionics, aerostructures, and
other components for commercial and military airplanes.
Director, Products & Programs and General Site Manager • 2007 - 2009
Serve as primary leadership for a $60 million P&L military avionics airborne information systems business
with nearly 100 cross-functional direct and indirect reports and over 65 programs. Directly responsible for
overall manufacturing on-time delivery, profitability, sales, and new and momentum business growth,
overseeing 4 product areas across 3 facilities and numerous aircraft platforms (F-22, F-35, F-16, F-15, C-
130, C-17, T-45, etc). Manage product development of Airborne Information Systems products in Mass
Memory, Data Transfer, Video Recording and Mission Planning Products categories.
Key Contributions:
• Assembled and motivated highly effective team. Defined roles and responsibilities; ensured
alignment with business strategy.
• Introduced customer-focused, solutions-oriented program execution culture.
• Successfully consolidated manufacturing, closing a manufacturing facility and transitioning to
manufacturing centers of excellence (COE) in FL and MI.
Revenue Generation:
• Achieved forecasted 2008 orders, sales, and margin. Exceeding operating plan by 10%, 15%,
and 11% respectively.
• Over $1.4 million in program reserves released in 2008 contributing to bottom line results, directly
attributable to strong program leadership.
• Demonstrated international business acumen in dealings with the Middle East. Resolved 4-year
old outstanding United Arab Emirates contract issues resulting in $2 million cash windfall.
• Strong operational leadership resulting in a year-to-date inventory reduction of 13%.
• Proactively manage, maintain and enhance customer relationships allowing for high levels of
customer satisfaction leading to $1.3 million in cash and successful negotiation of a $10.4 million
development contract engineering change proposal with 14% profit.
• Demonstrated successful cost containment as evidenced via year-over-year Estimate at
Completion (EAC) stabilization and increased gross margins on existing and new programs.
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Director, Programs, Acting Site Leader • 2005 - 2007
Controlled profit and loss for manufacturing and engineering revenue of over $100 million. Managed over
200 personnel at 3 domestic manufacturing work sites.
• Restructured business organization as leader of cross-functional team including finance,
engineering, supply chain, contract management and quality assurance personnel.
• Traveled to client sites at Boeing and Lockheed Martin to repair client relations, address program
status and recovery action plans.
• Overhauled business forecasting. Facilitate weekly meetings to ensure team alignment with
goals. Review business plans, brief team and senior management on operating plans.
Programs Director • 2004 - 2005
Hired into senior leadership role as programs director leading a 200 plus staff and a $140 million Boeing
C-130 avionics modernization program (AMP) that was nearly 18-months into the execution phase
without budget baseline, and performance specification and statement of work negotiations were at an
impasse.
• Revitalized struggling team, instituted new business culture and established new direction for
organization.
• Negotiated final performance specification, statement of work, baselined budget, and successfully
concluded integrated baseline review (IBR).
• Improved customer relationship lead to several sole source contract awards in excess of $20
million and the opportunity to renegotiate contract type conversion from Firm Fixed Price to Cost
Plus.
GOODRICH CORPORATION, Cleveland, OH • 2001 – 2004
Global supplier of systems and services to the aerospace, defense and homeland security markets. With
annual revenues of $6.4 billion in revenue and over 24,000 employees worldwide.
Acting Director / Senior Program Manager
Site leader and interim director for Boeing Business Unit program management. Responsible for
profitability, follow on sales, and program execution on over $40 million in manufacturing landing gear
programs (Boeing 737, 757, 767, 747 and 777 platforms).
• Successfully negotiated several long-standing unresolved contract matters within the Boeing
Business Unit contributing over $3.2 million dollars to cash and operating income.
• Improved communication and relationships with customers resulting in a more favorable position
in acquiring new business and better terms and conditions on existing work.
• Proven team builder in an integrated product team environment, motivating team members to
drive results resulting in 94% on-time deliveries.
• Active change board chairman on assigned programs. Reduced configuration change board
process by 25%.
THE BOEING COMPANY, Long Beach, CA • 1985 – 2001
Multi-billion dollar leading aerospace company and the largest manufacturer of commercial jetliners and
military aircraft combined.
Program Manager – C-17 Program Budgets & Program Affordability • 1996 –2001
Directly responsible for program affordability execution on two investment funds valued at $575
million. Approved and managed over 175 business plans and projects with resulting multi-year
divisional cost reductions exceeding $1.7 billion. Responsible for controlling and managing
approximately $2.2 billion per annum budgetary work-scope, including target cost analysis,
management reserve process, program budget authorization, and budget / cost account planning.
Accountable for leading a group of 20 financial specialists and budget analysts in developing
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monthly and quarterly closing financial statements, business case analyses, budget at completion
(BAC), estimate at completion (EAC), variance analysis, budget analysis, pricing analysis, and
program financial assessments.
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Assisted in the development of long term strategic planning relying on redesign and technology
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application, optimal sourcing, make versus buy, overhead control and reduction, and
implementation of commercial products and practices, and fundamental improvements in
management practices.
Program Manager of a corporate wide part-costing project. Successful implementation using
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project management principals and establishing a team-based environment resulted in
Information System savings of nearly $500 thousand per annum.
Chairman of Business Integration Team responsible for setting the strategic direction for all
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financial program planning and control.
Formalized and instituted program change approval process. Demonstrated ability to manage
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change evident through appointment to several executive change review boards.
Senior Staff Specialist Manager • 1995 – 1996
Led reengineering efforts within manufacturing / operations including the initiation, authorization, and
implementation of numerous cost reduction concepts resulting in significant improvements to quality,
schedule, and cost.
• Formulated financial plans, monitor implementation of financial policies, and prepare regular and
special purpose reports to ensure Executive Management remained informed of financial status.
• Compiled and reviewed budgets, organization’s financial status and other general fiscal business
activities for five departments.
• Performed net present value (NPV), internal rate of return (IRR) and other financial analysis for
business case development.
Industrial Engineer • 1993 – 1995
As acting Manager led the development of manufacturing departmental strategic plan reducing span time
and cycle time by 20% and associated assembly costs using bottoms-up analyses.
Quality Systems • 1990 – 1993
Championed manufacturing in-process inspection requirements in lieu of traditional quality assurance
testing and evaluation resulting in nearly $300 thousand in annual savings.
Team Leader Aircraft Electrical Technician & Assembly Planner • 1985 – 1990
Directed two separate manufacturing work teams of 20 mechanics and technicians supporting the testing
and installation of electrical and hydraulic systems and subsystems on various commercial platforms
(MD-80, MD-90, DC-10). Worked closely with industrial, electrical, and manufacturing engineering to
identify areas for product quality and productivity improvements.
EDUCATION & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Master of Business Administration
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA • 1998
3.5 GPA
Beta Gamma Sigma - Honor Society
Bachelor of Science Business and Management
University of Redlands, Redlands, CA • 1996
3.7 GPA
Finance Concentration
GE core training in CECOR and lean six-sigma green belt training
Interim Secret Clearance
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