Manager Engineering

Michelle Cooper

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

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

City: Costa Mesa

State: CA

Zip: 92626

Country: USA

Phone: 714-***-****

Skill Level: Management

Salary Range: $140,000

Primary Skills/Experience:

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Educational Background:

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Job History / Details:

Michelle Cooper MSC Consulting

3328 Maryland Circle, Costa Mesa, CA 92626 714-***-**** **********@********.***

Engineering Program Management Services Consulting

Experience

Significant number of years of exceeding client expectations and driving award winning engineering and technical programs to completion within budget and schedule. Successful Engineering Program Management background on leading aerospace and defense programs for world class customers including NASA, Missile Defense Agency, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Cessna, Bombardier, Korea Aerospace Industries, Israel Aerospace Industries, and Embraer.

Specialties

Project planning implementation

Program cost schedule management

Project review recovery

Integrated Master Schedule instruction, generation, implementation using critical path analysis

Strategic planning

Resource management planning

Customer liaison, communication, support

Contract pricing negotiations

Contract terms and conditions review negotiation

Lean Enterprise/ Kaizen

Risk Management

Proposal preparation, review, validation (incl. Red Team Review)

Pricing preparation using Work Breakdown Structures (WBS)

AS9100/ ISO2001 procedure preparation, review, validation, audits

Engineering document preparation review (incl. development/ qualification/ acceptance test plans, procedures, reports, PDR/ CDR preparation, as-designed v as-built configuration, specification verification matrices, engineering fabrication drawings)

Test Planning Execution (incl. environmental testing, static drop testing, aircraft drop testing, structural testing)

Fabric Engineering (incl. fabric construction manufacturing techniques, fabric structural testing)

Accomplishments/Career Highlights

Led a multi-million dollar engineering effort for a DX-rated Department of Defense program. All design and test milestones met on an extremely challenging 24-month schedule required to support an urgent procurement of five ship-sets for the Missile Defense Agency.

Led an engineering team for the parachute recovery system as part of the NASA Langley Max Launch Abort System program that culminated in a successful test. NASA required program execution under extremely challenging schedule constraints to support the NASA Constellation Program requirements (click to view the MLAS test).

Successfully directed a Kaizen Lean Enterprise team that addressed bid proposal process improvements resulting in reducing the response time to customer by 50%, and significant proposal preparation cost-savings.

Championed the implementation and training within the Engineering Division of the first company-wide Management Information System that resulted in significant efficiency gains (CostPoint).

Key member of the team creating implementing ISO9001 procedures for initial successful company accreditation Member of internal quality audit team for all subsequent (and successful) re-certifications.

Proposal Manager for the successful award of several major aerospace contracts from major international corporations

Education (UK)/Awards

Higher National Certificate (HNC) in Mechanical and Production Engineering (equivalent to a Bachelors Degree)

ASEE Certificate in Engineering Management

NASA Engineering and Safety Center (NESC) Group Achievement Award 2009

NASA/ LM Pad Abort Demonstrator Team Award 2004

Employment History

Nov. 2012 present

MSC Consulting Engineering Program Management Services

Consulting services to the defense and aerospace industry

Owner Viator Ventures Physical Commodities Broker

Sourcing bulk commodities for both domestic and international buyers

Sourcing buyers for existing sellers

Independent representative for a number of sellers

www.viator-ventures.com

Aug. 2011 Oct. 2011 PTS Staffing Solutions

Program Manager

Employed by a staffing agency on behalf of Airborne Systems to facilitate the handover of Program Management activities

1998 July 2011 Airborne Systems North America, 3701 W Warner, Santa Ana, CA 92704

Program Manager (member of core employee team of less than 10% of staff)

Successfully managed multi-million dollar engineering programs for commercial military customers, from quotation through hardware delivery to customer training support. Responsible for budget, schedule, technical requirements, exceeding all customer expectations. Major programs include F-22 Raptor (Boeing), JSF F-35 (Lockheed Martin), T-50 Golden Eagle (Korea Aerospace).

Prepared proposals to $30m incl. budget preparation per Work Breakdown Structure, Integrated Master Schedules using MS Project 2010

Key customer interface, internal liaison with operations dept., QA, procurement, liaison with test facilities, vendors.

Preparation, coordination and presentation of design reviews (incl. PDR, CDR)

Key role in Lean Enterprise initiative (Company Bid Proposal Process Kaizen)

Extensive experience with ISO9001: 2000 incl. creating review of procedures for accreditation process. Successfully undergone several formal ISO audits.

Undertaken many company internal quality audits as an independent auditor.

Ongoing market segment research/ business opportunity activities to support engineering business unit growth to support company financial targets.

1984 1998 Irvin Great Britain Ltd, Icknield Way, Letchworth, Herts, England

Program Manager, 1996 1998, Senior Project Engineer, 1993 1996

Successfully managed programs to $1m primarily for the UK MoD.

Proposal preparation, budget planning, test planning control, design review preparation and presentation.

Successfully gained ISO accreditation for design of flying clothing.

Project Engineering, 1984 -1993

Lead Engineer for a variety of programs

Test planning and control

Technical support activities incl. design calculations, materials testing, systems testing (aircraft drops, wind tunnel testing)

Technical Skills

MS Project 2010, Excel, Word, Access, PowerPoint

Visio

AutoCAD

Immigration Status

UK and US Citizen

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