Mark E. Bakotic

**** ******* ********* **** **** Point, Mississippi 39562

228-***-**** ac2j18@r.postjobfree.com

Program Management Project Engineering Risk Mitigation & Management

Operations and Production Management Organizational Leadership

Recognized as a visionary, innovative, strategic and motivational engineer and executive leader active and influential in financial, business, political, and programmatic decisions.

A rare combination of experience and education at the crossroads where Business, Technical, and Politics converge.

Background as a distinguished Naval Officer through rank of Commander, holding positions of authority in Program Management and Operational Research, coordinating with related areas of engineering, strategic planning, business development, finance, program offices, contracts, material, legislative, manufacturing, and others. Repeatedly appointed as direct representative of higher Commanding Officers.

Professional Profile

A focus and successful record of developing the next generation of leaders

Highly educated, holding MBA and two additional master’s degrees

Recognized by the Small Business Administration (SBA) with its 2007 National Individual Tibbitts Award for making a technological and socioeconomic impact and exemplifying the best in Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) achievement

Demonstrated ability to anticipate technology advances, actively involved in design implementations and transition to include design engineering and drawing design

Adept at grasping complex technical concepts and devising viable solutions, fully versed in a wide range of office automation software, providing technical direction to projects, personnel, and contracted activities

Ensured technical integrity in all areas of engineering development, risk mitigation, system engineering, acquisition and life cycle engineering support for hardware and software systems

Coordinated a variety of risk mitigation strategies leveraging SBIR topics submitted and approved through governmental channels

Led and mentored Program Management personnel (i.e., both Government Services (GS) and active-duty Military) as First-Level Supervisor with programmatic oversight authority for all Surface and Expeditionary Warfare Program Directorate programs

Ensured compliance on all Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) and other Department of Defense/Navy acquisition rules and regulations

Directly and indirectly coordinated activities of over 100 multidisciplined personnel on surface and expeditionary warfare projects within the Training Systems Division

Intimately involved in all cost, schedule and performance reviews at critical milestones using earned value measurement system

Actively involved in all phases of Plans, Programming, Budgeting, & Scheduling (PPBS)

Implemented phased funding to support the design, development, risk mitigation and lifecycle support of numerous emergent navy projects and legacy programs

Coordinated budget submit and successfully defended programs to Navy Comptroller during Financial Management and Budget (FMB) and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) reviews

Briefed Program Execution Office and NAVSEA personnel on results of Program Objective Memorandum/Program Review (POM/PR) actions

Coordinated funding, responded to congressional inquiries and helped formulate Theater Air Warfare and Navy Ballistic Missile policy

Evaluated the effectiveness of the Single Integrated Operational Plan (SIOP) and reported results to the Commander, United States Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM) on congressional briefs and talking points, as Operations Research Analyst

Experienced developer of personnel including second tier management positions, ie, Manager Contracted Research and Development (CRAD), Manager National Shipbuilding Research Program (NSRP), Manager Technology, and Manager Advanced Ship Design

Experienced, well-regarded public speaker, fulfilling engagements at various small business conferences on such topics as integrating with prime contractors, and as Subject Matter Expert at the Electric Ship Research and Development Consortium (ESRDC)

Recognized for intuition and creativity in presenting complex topics, selected to work directly for an Admiral (Childs) and General (Butler) in creation of congressional talking papers and presentations, highly classified material with a major impact on the entire SIOP and on national defense deterrence

Career Highlights

For the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, the Pentagon, coordinated and successfully defended budget submit for approximately $1.9 billion/year, accounting for about 3.2% of overall USN budget, and $11 billion over 6-year Future Year Defense Plan (FYDP), during three critical annual reviews, ensuring success of future air warfare developments and current operations

Devoted long hours and days at the Pentagon managing 166 budgetary line items and providing continual and successful defense, ensuring correct allocation of dollars through Depts. of the Navy and Defense, President’s OMB, responding to congressional inquiries

While serving as junior Commander, selected for position ordinarily filled by more senior ranking officer, as Deputy Director for Surface and Expeditionary Warfare, within the Naval Air Warfare Command (NAWC) Training Systems Division (TSD)

Provided Program Management leadership (cost, schedule, performance) in administration of performance of duty, organization, order and discipline for a crew of 350, acting as direct representative of the Commanding Officer (CO), enforcing command orders and policies, as Executive Officer (XO) USS Ticonderoga (CG47)

Selected to join warship as first Combat Systems Officer (CSO) of a New Threat Upgrade (NTU) ship, a fast track appointment normally preceded by a tour on a smaller ship

In prioritizing and managing Ingalls’ Independent Research and Development (IRAD) program, wrote ISO 9001 documents for the technology development process in shipbuilding

Completed two six-month deployments in support of Desert Shield and Desert Storm, and completed the longest SM2 missile engagement exercise recorded using an NTU System

Career History

Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) Ingalls Shipbuilding, ACG - Pascagoula, MS 2003 – 2017

Manager, Science and Technology

Managed technologists within Advanced Capabilities Group (ACG), a group of engineers, naval architects, and technical support personnel in support of early stage ship design projects

Managed the Independent Research and Development (IRAD) Program

Project Engineer SIRS Level V 2003-06

Team Leadership in Future Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) and Advanced Weapon System (AWS) integration, and conducting trade studies using state-of-the-art techniques and tools

Interfaced with sister sectors, government laboratories, universities and U.S. Navy customers, and Science and Technology agencies

Served as Ship Automation IRAD Team Leader

Member, DD(X) Modernization Team, leading DD(X) Technology Insertion effort

Naval Air Warfare Center, Training Systems Division (TSD) - Orlando, FL 1999 – 2003

Deputy Program Director for Surface and Expeditionary Warfare Directorate

Provided leadership and direction to approximately 32 Project Management personnel

Interfaced with all external customers at Navy Personal Development Command (NPDC), NAVSEA, various schoolhouses, and Program Management Offices

Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, the Pentagon - Alexandra, VA 1997 – 1999

Financial Coordinator, Theater Air Warfare

Resource Sponsor for Navy Theater Wide (NTW) (6 mos.)

Resource Sponsor for Sea-Based National Missile Defense (NMD) (6 mos.)

USS Ticonderoga Executive Officer (XO) 1996 – 1997

United States Strategic Command, Plans and Policy Directorate (J5),

Offutt Air Force Base, Omaha, NE 1993 – 1995

Operations Research Analyst

USS Scott Combat Systems Officer (CSO) 1989 – 1991

Led daily operations of the 110-man Combat Systems department

Coordinated department’s schedule, material condition of all combat weapons

systems and all facets of department training

USS King Division Officer 1983 – 1986

Held 3 billets in 4 years: Communications Officer (COMMO), Anti-Submarine Warfare Officer (ASWO), and Assistant Weapons Officer (AWEPS), as well as two 6-month Mediterranean / Persian Gulf deployments

Education & Development

M.B.A. Business Administration, focus on Program Management

Keller Graduate School of Management, Orlando, FL 2003

M.A. Strategic Studies & International Relations

Naval Command & Staff College, Newport, RI 1993

M.S. Weapon Systems Technology Undersea Warfare (ASW)

Naval Post-Graduate School, Monterey, CA 1988

B.S. Oceanography

United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD 1982

Graduate, Professional Military Courses

Div-O, Dept. Head, PXO / Surface Warfare Officer School (SWOS), Newport, RI

Graduate, Joint Specialty Officer Training

Armed Force Staff College, Norfolk, VA 1994

Graduate, Defense Acquisition Training: ACQ 101, ACQ 201, PMT 302

Defense Systems Management College, Fort Belvoir, VA 2003

Professional Certificates and Security Clearance

Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act (DAWIA) Level III Program Management

Secret (as of April 2017)

Areas of Expertise

Cost & Scheduling Estimates / Budget Allocations / Technology Development / Trade Studies / Research and Development / Proposals / Risk Mitigation / Metric Maintenance, Reporting, Cost, Scheduling, Risk, Performance Evaluation / Federal Regulation Compliance (Acquisition – FAR) / Acquisition Management Oversight, Strategies, Approvals / Finance and Funding Coordination / ISO9001 Process Documentation & Architecture / Risk Mitigation Strategies / Operational Research / Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) Process

Industry-Specific

Automation / DD(X) Technology Insertion / Technology Mining

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