Project Manager Management

David Wagner

Email: *********@********.***

Address: ***** * **** ***** ***

City: Tucson

State: AZ

Zip: 85737

Country: USA

Phone: 520-***-****

Skill Level: Management

Salary Range: 95

Willing to Relocate

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DAVID WAGNER

(C) 520-***-**** * *********@********.***

~ Project Manager ~

20+ years of Professional Experience, in both Project Management and Supervisory Roles, Building Relationships and Solving Problems

HIGHLIGHTS OF QUALIFICAITONS:

-Strong background in project management methodologies, software, simulations, engineering, aerospace, math, finance, and six sigma principals.

-Expertise lies in being able to evaluate a situation, setting goals, working with the customer and stakeholders, determining available resources, organizing, leading, managing and collaborating with personnel to make sure the tasks get done correctly, on time and within budget.

-Involved in all phases of the project life cycle, from initiation through close-out.

-Creative problem solver who works well in cross functional environments, consistently and proactively addressing issues to minimize costs and resources use while providing high quality customer satisfaction.

-Comfortable communicating with senior management, associates, suppliers and clients, making relationships a priority.

-Recognized for professionalism, leadership skills and proven ability to both work with and mentor employees.

-Certifications in project management, program management, cost account management, six-sigma expert and black belt.

Schedule Planning, Project Planning, Forecasting, Resource Management, Statistical Process Control, LEAN Principles

Resource Definition, Project Management, Budget Management, Proposal Development, Scrum Master, Waterfall

MS Project, Communication, Change Management Control, Analysis, Software Development, Risk Management,Agile

Staff Development, Simulation Development, Team Culture, Algorithm Development, Organization Management

Presentation, Requirements Definition, Documentation Management, Product Assurance, Collaboration, Six Sigma

Critical Chain, Cross-Functional Team Development, Decision Making, Client Satisfaction, Engineering Solutions

SELECTED ACHIEVEMENTS:

Reorganized the team structure and leadership due to a major software development project being behind schedule, over budget and morale issues with the team. Evaluated the structure, reviewed assignments and issues with the team, took over the leadership, reassigned tasks as needed, guided and mentored new and existing members and got the project back on track.

-IMPACT: Resolved the three month schedule slip, got costs in line and completed all needed tasks within eight months avoiding approximately $150K - $160K in additional costs.

Organized and launched a cross functional team that included the supplier, to evaluate software and algorithmic approaches to determine the impact on the supplier's component specification and predicted yield. The new team was able to change the requirements by altering the specifications that resulted in reduced component cost and improved yields.

-IMPACT: The yields improved from 1% to over 20% and had a cost savings of approximately $26M.

Assembled and managed a team of software and algorithm designers, planned and managed team activities, scheduled and coordinated meetings with the customer and shareholders and mentored the team members as needed to support program objectives and goals for a new potential contract.

-IMPACT: Won the contract by exceeding the customer's expectation with the result being $100M for this phase.

Directed a team to evaluate issues affecting program yield and rework issues. Analyzed the issues, proposed an implementation of a statistical process control approach and improved the production rate to meet the customer expectations.

-IMPACT: Recovered sales in excess of $10M per month, rework costs were reduced by over $700K per month.

Collaborated with the customer and led a team to determine major performance factors and test cases that were relevant on a program schedule of significant cost that was both behind schedule and incurring additional costs. The team was able to determine that many of the tests could be cancelled and keep only the ones that were important to the client.

-IMPACT: Removing and modifying some of the tests prevented potential delays to the major program milestones and saved several $M in costs and lost award fees.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Pima Home Care Oro Valley, AZ 2012 - Present

Director of Operations

Performs all facets of operations, information technology and finance

-Scheduling, website updates, billing and receivables, payroll, interviewing, online advertising, development of materials and procedures used in day to day operations

-Coordinates activities between caregivers, management of financials, information technology development and utilization

Raytheon Tucson, AZ 1996 - 2012

Project Manager / Section Head / Six Sigma Expert / Senior Principal Systems Engineer

Responsible for project management of various program efforts, general management of employees, managing day to day activities and support for Six Sigma Expert projects

-Defense and aerospace systems company providing "State of the Art" electronics, missions systems integration and both communications and intelligence systems with 71K employees

-Handled project management and execution, team lead activities, proposal development, tasking, change management, risk and scope management, customer and stakeholder communication, project scheduling, project cost, resource management, supplier management and led failure investigation teams as needed

-Interviewing, rating and ranking, personnel assignments, performance development, mid-year and year-end performance reviews

-Task assignment and status updates, communication with customers and the program office, direction of team activities, execution of project tasks, supporting software, simulation and algorithm development activities

-Customer communication and collaboration, task and schedule management, project execution, flow down of program information, coordination of activities across teams, cost account management, change board support, identification and resolution of project risks and issues, program office communication, technical contribution, lead and manager peer reviews

-Coached and mentored employees, performance review development, provided employee feedback, conflict resolution, provided hiring recommendations and peer review support for programs across the division

-Planned and directed six sigma project efforts, coordinated with program, team leads and team members.

-Managed project schedules and activities, implemented process control where applicable, communicated progress to customers and stake holders

-Directed algorithm, software and simulation development projects for multiple complex military programs and technologies

-Completed software development projects with coding standards and conventions, utilized cost accounting management and supported proposal activities for various military and defense contracts

-Created earn value management system reports for project scheduling and cost evaluations

-Data analysis projects, including performance assessments, requirements, verification and model validation

-Optimized program management and increased customer confidence with implementation of software configuration control boards for software and simulation development and management

-Consistently fulfilled customer award fee milestones valued at $100M within cost and schedule parameters, with over 95% of potential fee awarded

-Cut reword costs by $700K per month and doubled yield of subsystems through use of Statistical Process Control on production programs

-Minimized computing resources needed to support system performance verification, improving efficiency and production with various program Design of Experiment projects to identify factors and verify system performance

Northrop Hawthorne, CA 1992 - 1996

Senior Engineer / Engineer II

Led and supported a team performing software and algorithm development

-Performed task management, directed team activities, executed project tasks, coordinated and managed day to day activities

-Assigned tasks to engineers as needed, developed simulations, provided performance analysis and flight test support

-Guided algorithm design, mission planning and resolved system specification issues

-Supported development and simulation of signal processing and compression algorithms used for target detection, classification and tracking of tactical targets

EDUCATION:

Master of Business Administration, California State University, Long Beach

Master of Science - Electrical Engineering, California State University, Long Beach

Bachelor of Science - Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles

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