Manager Project

Hernando Arauco

Email: abpiec@r.postjobfree.com

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

City: La Mirada

State: CA

Zip: 90638

Country: USA

Phone: 310-***-****

Skill Level: Director

Salary Range: $125,000

Willing to Relocate

Primary Skills/Experience:

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HERNANDO E. ARAUCO

13417 Gandara Ave

La Mirada, CA 90638 C: 310-***-**** H: 562-***-****

Goal: Find an Executive Program Manager Position with growth potential in a challenging customer environment to make my next employer even more successful.

CREDENTIALS

* University of California, Berkeley

o Master of Science in Materials Science and Metallurgy

o Bachelor of Science in Metallurgical Engineering

* Program Manager Best Practices & IPT Leadership Certification by Raytheon Learning Institutes

* 6 Sigma Black Belt Certified by NGST & Raytheon Company

* I currently hold transferrable TS SSBI w/ CI Poly and DoD Secret Security Clearances

* I speak & write fluently in English, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese

CORE COMPETENCIES

Excellent ability to synthesize a large number of interrelated projects into a small set of discrete programs with clear objectives, detailed plans and execution structures.

Extensive experience leading and managing program-level forums to regularly review program health, risks, mitigation options, resource contention and escalated issues.

Technical knowledge and experience creating and maintaining four quarter rolling product roadmaps for analog, digital and RF properties of a diverse number of products.

Unique ability to manage, train and mentor teams of technical Program Managers in both core project/program management and agile/scrum-master duties.

Management skill sets ensure that the Program Management teams are effectively and consistently publishing detailed project plans including sprint metrics, resource utilization, cross-functional dependencies, milestones, launch dates and critical path analysis on the schedules.

Extensive experience managing projects efficiently with international resources spread over multiple geographies in multiple countries.

Ability to asses quickly program health and publish weekly project and program updates including the latest status, financial status, variance from plan, high priority issues, mitigation plans and decisions needed to successfully continue to execute programs.

Performance-driven, hands-on senior program manager with 25+ years of experience managing IPTs' for critical Commercial, as well as Space & Defense programs for Air Force, Navy, Army & Homeland Security.

Expertise with electronic lean manufacturing principles (design & manufacturing) & Six Sigma Black Belt.

Effectively identifies and meets changing customer needs with innovative growth strategies, expanding product offerings and diversifying distribution channels to increase profitability of any program.

Excellent knowledge of Earned Value Measuring systems to report financial and schedule status of programs.

Expertise in Customer interfaces defining technical hardware requirements to meet specific field applications.

SELECTED SKILL SETS & ACHIEVEMENTS

Program Management:

Expertise in selling new high pressure and visibility Program Initiatives, System Support, Technical Capabilities and Program Management Skill Sets to potential or existing Customers, to enhance their knowledge of products and services offered.

Extensive experience leading IPTs' with multi-disciplinary teams, with a bias for action and execution.

HERNANDO E. ARAUCO

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Unique ability to lead high pressure execution of programs with ability to lead change, while being a creative problem solver to meet or exceed the financial goals with direct responsibility for program profit or loss.

Extensive experience leading and reviewing proposal bid preparations, while ensuring that the sales and profitability objectives for the Business Unit are met or exceeded.

Hands on experience developing and managing multiple customers while politically navigating through issues during the entire lifespan of each program.

Unique ability in providing leadership in program planning, policies, procedures, design, productivity, and product innovation.

Experience and knowledge on how to recognize and develop business opportunities that arise as a part of each program's conduct and communicates timely with the Business Development function to ensure follow through with customer base.

Unique verbal and written skills to effectively present information and on how to respond to customers needs, as well as for internal managers and employees in a timely manner while empathizing with each individual.

Unique interpersonal skills to coordinate multi-discipline activities within the various functional departments and with other support organizations within a matrix management organization.

Ability to always ensure accurate and timely data is provided to Senior Management on gross margin and team contributions to facilitate assessment of target attainment.

Technical knowledge and experience recognizing and encouraging development of patentable technologies and products containing the company's intellectual property to ensure long term sustainability of product lines.

Extensive experience developing and establishing guidelines for implementation of Program Best Practices, as well as project/program management metrics.

Management experience to ensure all departmental, contractual and customer procedures are followed at all times.

Successfully managed multiple programs / contracts for small ($50M), medium (250M) Space & Defense Programs.

Expertise in restructuring and rescuing failing programs and functional organizations with financial and/or difficult technical and/or personnel problems.

Cost Controls:

Expertise in rescuing failing programs with serious problems in two fronts technical and financial by controlling program's scope to meet hardware field applications and results usually increase program's profitability over original contract negotiated value.

Expertise in stabilizing technical data packages to make high reliability products producible with a smooth transition to manufacturing, thus delivering products on cost and schedule.

Restructured program implementation plans and established a production cycle with strict cost and schedule controls, reducing the expense of electronic sensor suite systems, while using these achievements to increase probability of follow-on orders.

Expertise in Earned Value Measuring Systems (EVMS) for implementing strict cost & schedule controls.

Business Process Reengineering:

Expertise in developing product based work breakdown structures for proposals to ensure development of true cost and schedules for specific products, while increasing competitive pricing, increased system performance, and facilitating the accuracy of bids and proposals for follow-on orders.

Streamlined successfully initial designs or redesign efforts for high reliability electrical systems to meet customer's field application requirements, while reducing overall product costs and enhancing probabilities of winning follow-on contracts, which increases corporate revenues.

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Innovation/Strategic Improvements:

Designed and implemented automated product production lines for high reliability hardware, expanding customer base for Air Force, Navy, Army and Homeland Security applications.

Expert restructuring program implementation plans and implementing complex product production cycles with strict cost and schedule controls, thus reducing product costs and schedules, while increasing contract values, thus delivering positive streamlined revenue sources.

Capable of implementing robust innovating Program and Functional management best practices.

Streamlining Program Management Processes:

Stabilized tense relationships with Customer communities, while managing all Program expectations to ensure all requirements were met and products were delivered on cost and schedule.

Helped recruit critical technical talent to ensure successful product designs and producibility by guaranteeing smooth transitions to manufacturing, thus meeting cost & schedule goals for individual programs / products.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

DIRECT TV Corporation: 2012-Today

* STB Project Manager

* IHD Project Manager

Responsible for the cost, schedule and technical performance for projects in both of these engineering areas, while managing talented project support personnel. My unique ability to manage the development, qualification and deployment of new Direct TV RF electronic technology hardware projects such as SH26, LH26, SHR26, SL3S LNB, SL5S LNB, Dual LNB, 2 & 4 Way Splitters, SWM5 LNB, SWM8, Band Stop Filters, DECA-W2, among others, gave me a unique perspective into Direct TV's project management preferences as well as their goals and objectives, while working closely with preferred vendors who design and manufacture these new RF products.

L3 COMMUNICATIONS / ETI: 2006-2011

* Executive Program Manager for Redesign & Production of High Power Pulsed Amplifiers

* Executive Program Manager for Cygnus RF Com Amplifiers

Responsible for the cost, schedule and technical performance for both of these programs, while managing over 80 talented people. My unique ability to manage these large complex (>$250M) development and production programs increased our earnings potential, while ensuring follow-on contracts worth > $140M.

RAYTHEON COMPANY: 2004-2006

* Executive Program Manager Hawkeye E-2D Program Executive Program Manager Global Hawk UAV Program

Directed >100 engineering and production employees, designing and coordinating re-engineering of high-speed digital receivers, including radar simulators for the C-130 Navy aircraft. Directed all Transition to Manufacturing initiatives for the production of Enhanced Integrated EO/IR and Radar Sensor Suites for UAV. Coordinated all change control board activities, administered cost and schedule functions, and oversaw the implementation of effective & timely risk mitigations and realization of critical opportunities.

HERNANDO E. ARAUCO

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NORTHROP GRUMMAN SPACE TECHNOLOGY (TRW): 1989-2004

* Program & Functional Manager providing the best engineering talent while delivering critical Space and Defense Products for Programs such as AEHF, Milstar, 4171, 3290, DCP/WCP, 4171, EOS, AXAF, etc.

Functional manager recruiting and evaluating personnel in critical Product Development, M&P, Components, Manufacturing Engineering departments. Responsible for developing new high tech component packaging technologies, new materials and process, state of the art electronic manufacturing designs and processes.

Implemented new workmanship standards to comply with Quality Measurement System (AS9100) & ISO9000 high reliability product design requirements, while delivering quality M&P for manufacturing.

INTERNATIONAL RECTIFIER CORPORATION): 1986-1989

* Semiconductor Process Engineer, Hybrid & Monolithic Design Engineer & Quality Assurance Engineer

* Hired directly after graduating from UC Berkeley Graduate School to their Engineering Rotational Program. I started out responsible for semiconductor process engineering building their HEXFET products. Then moved a year later to their Hybrid and Monolithic design and packaging facility and finished in their Quality Assurance learning to test and troubleshoot their electronic component products.

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