Engineering Management

Bill Kelly

Engineering/Program/Product Management

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Objective

A senior Engineering/Program Management position that will utilize my background and strengths.

Profile

Technical management professional with over 25 years experience in telecommunications, computer and commercial avionics industries. Experience in high growth startup companies and mature industry leaders. Successful in new product development, technology and project budget/schedule management. Exceptional technical, communications, process improvement, organizational and leadership skills.

Work Experience

Thales Avionics – Engineering Director

June 1994 – May.2017

Led transformation team that deployed a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) development environment for Software and Hardware Development and Project Management. The team was successful in deploying SAFe at Portfolio, Value Stream, Program and Team levels to three Business Lines, consisting of five Agile Release Trains (ART’s) covering over six hundred employees in multiple geographic locations.

Directed Engineering Environment (E2) team responsible for all aspects of Engineering DevOps including Design Processes, Practices and Tools Deployment and Administration. Led an initiative to move all Engineering tools from in-house servers to the public cloud (Amazon Web Services). This included tool deployment in IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) and SaaS (Software as a Service) modes.

Directed five Integrated Software and Hardware Product Development Teams for a 3rd generation In-Flight Entertainment (IFE) system. The AVANT system utilizes digital server storage and Gigabit Ethernet based networks to provide video and in-flight interconnectivity services to airline passengers. The IPT organizational structure combines Engineering, Program Management, Manufacturing and Purchasing resources.

Led a concurrent engineering development initiative in conjunction with Manufacturing Operations which created focused product development teams to develop, test and manufacture complex robust IFE servers compliant with Boeing and Airbus line fit requirements.

Directed development of a fully Automatic Test Equipment (ATE) system for use in AVANT IFE Production and repair.

Introduced and co-led with Quality Assurance a multifunctional Failure Review Board (FRB) which managed product reliability improvement initiatives.

Led initiative which reduced the cost of a complex in-flight entertainment system. The initiative reduced the cost of goods from $2.2M to $1.6M in one year. Cost reduction was achieved through concurrent initiatives including architectural improvements, unit re-design and vendor consolidation/price negotiation.

Managed the introduction and delivered training for a companywide ISO 9001 program.

Bill Kelly

Engineering/Program/Product Management (Continued)

ANVT Inc. – Engineering Director

April.1993 – August.1994

Responsible for development of active consumer headset and aircraft cabin Noise Cancellation products, technical leadership and budget/schedule planning and tracking.

Directed software and hardware product development team to successful completion of trials of an active noise reduction system for passenger aircraft. The system included DSP based software algorithms and airworthy integrated power amplifier modules.

IDEA Courier Inc. – Engineering Director

March 1992 – April 1993

Responsible for development of computer peripheral products architecture and hardware/firmware design.

Directed development of a managed network hub supporting Ethernet and Fiber LAN's. Product was designed, tested to FCC/UL requirements and successfully released to manufacturing, on budget, in 9 months.

Syntellect Inc. - Director of Product Development

1989 – 1992

Responsible for development of new product architecture and all hardware and software development, budgeting and schedule performance for Integrated Voice Response systems deployed in Call Centers.

GTE Communications Systems, Inc. – Manager, Digital Hardware/Firmware Design

1984 - 1989

Responsible for management of Central Office telephony hardware/software design.

Barr & Stroud Ltd. Glasgow, Scotland - Member of Technical Staff

1982 – 1984

Design Engineer responsible for analog/digital hardware design and firmware programming for infrared weapons guidance systems.

Skills

Technical

Scaled Agile Development (Scaled Agile Process Consultant), DevOps, Lean Process Improvement (Six Sigma Black Belt), Continuous Software Integration

Tools

Version One, Jama, Jira, Confluence, Git, Github, Jenkins, SonarQube, MS Office

Personal

Strong Leadership, Communications and Technical Presentation Skills

Education

B.Sc. with Honors in Electrical Engineering

Strathclyde University, Glasgow, Scotland.

Higher National Certificate in Electrical Engineering

Bell Institute of Technology, Hamilton, Scotland.

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