Ari Polidi, PMP

**** ****** ******, ******* ***** CA 90278

Mobile: 650-***-**** / E-mail: actuef@r.postjobfree.com

Professional Summary

Program Manager with over 20 years of encouraging teams for successful delivery of quality, on-time and under-budget products in a wide range of military and commercial applications. Currently technical baseline manager on satellite acquisition program.

Skill Highlights

Manage concurrent projects in multiple U.S. and International locations

Full project life cycle: conception, proposal, requirement analysis, design, implementation, delivery

Present financial status, work with contracts, interact with customers, risk mitigation, issue resolution

Certified PMP, Extensive knowledge of Microsoft Suite: Project Excel, Word, Power Point and Project

Innovative and Self-motivated, Maintain a productive environment

Clearance: Top Secret/SCI

Education

Project Manager Professional (PMP) certification 2007

MBA/Technology Management, University of Phoenix, San Jose, CA 1998

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science and Mathematics, UC Davis, Davis, CA 1987

Professional Experience

LEIDOS (formally SAIC) - El Segundo, CA 2005 - Present

Leidos Program Manager for Air Force Space Missile Command Remote Sensing SE&I

SE&I System Engineer and Integration Manager for 15+ member team to create efficient, productive and sustainable processes in Risk, Schedule, Requirements, Testing, Configuration/Data Management and Web-based Enterprise Information Infrastructure. Leading SEIT integration of Weather into Remote Sensing. Manage >$20 million

Provide Systems Engineering review of Space and Ground Segment systems for OPIR Satellites

Write V&V plans for satellite simulation : Line-Of-Sight, Radiometric accuracy and space clutter : uncover deficiencies

Design and implementation of SharePoint interface. Highlights: Reduce meeting durations (30%) and delivery processes (Change Control process from 200+ days to 40, CDRLs by 5 days), Automate actionable metrics to pull schedule on track

Communication skills provide horizontal and vertical integration between Directorate, management and functional areas

Continuous supportive employee interaction, provide guidance for individual growth

Leidos Program Manager for the VIIRS WEATHER SATELLITE

Test Analysis Software (TAS) and System Engineering manager. 4 Member team. Manage >$6 million

Maintain an amicable and mutually productive relationship extending contract from 2 to 4 years

Model and Simulation applications developer for interactions between reticle slits and satellite detectors

Develop validation and analysis software for satellite telemetry: Gain Transition, Line Spread Function, Signal Noise

Create software requirement, design and user manuals. Write, review, and perform acceptance tests

Documentation and process control for improved development time and passing program audits

Awards

•Received Air Force Division’s quarterly and annual Support Contractor award, 2015

•Received letter of Commendation from Colonel, USAF, Remote Sensing Directorate, Engineering & Integration Division, 2014

•Outstanding Achievement Award for VIIRS PM work, 2007

HORIZON NAVIGATION (formerly Visteon Technologies, Navigation; Sunnyvale, CA) - Santa Clara, CA 1998-2005

Software Project Manager/Principal Developer

•Software Project Manager of Application Group successfully bringing to market four GPS-based in-car navigation systems

•Create, maintain and meet milestones and customer deliverables for 8+ projects with 3 running simultaneously

•Encourage OOAD, peer code review and QA test

•Principal Software Developer on an embedded real-time system

•Develop mathematical models for sun rise/set time and terrain perspective.

•Lead design and develop of all HMI look-and-feel including: map display (panning, perspective), text (UTF-8) and voice for 12 languages, trail breadcrumbs, data retrieval and display (points of interest, city, streets)

•Develop, lead and participate in code review across system functions (graphic drivers, memory management) and automotive database

Awards

•Awarded six patents : Authored a Defensive Publication : 11 Certificates of Appreciation for Patent proposals

•Received three notes of commendation in recognition for a successful product launch

•Received letter of commendation from customer for professionalism and successful delivery

ACCLAIM ENTERTAINMENT - Mountain View, CA 1996-1998

Senior Software Analyst

•Design, implement and document an animation tool enabling artists to manipulate over 900 animation sequences (over 6500 images) in real time, using only point-and-click operations

•Tool supported multiple anchor points, sprite offset data for realistic movement, sequence playback in game time and multiple sequence loop/ping marking

LORAL SPACE AND RANGE SYSTEMS - Sunnyvale, CA 1989-1996

Senior Software Analyst

•Lead designer for user-interface and 2D graphics system to display GPS positions over bitmap map data. Utilize rapid prototyping for quickly organized and successful demos

•Develop multi-language user-interface. Focus on internationalization, simple and consistent

Software Analyst

•Member of Research and Development group, participate in design and development of program to display 250 symbols and models at 10 updates per second over false-colored USGS terrain maps. Include geometric modeling of eye position

•Senior developer on two concurrent projects. Brought project back onto schedule

Awards

•Received an Individual Performance Bonus, 1995

•Earned the President Award, 1994

•Top Performer Award, 1992

•Awarded two letters of commendation

•Object Oriented Programming Professional Sequence Award, UC Santa Cruz Extension.

Skill List

Air Force processes, animation, automotive, communication skills, Data Management, database, documentation, test-drivers, engineer, functional, GPS, graphics, graphic, Excel, Microsoft Suite, Power Point, SharePoint, Word, Enterprise, navigation, network, OOD, OOAD, presenting, process control, processes, proposals, protocols, prototyping, real-time, requirement, self-motivated, simulation, software developer, systems engineering, user manuals, telemetry, user-interface, validation, waterfall development, ClearCase, ClearQuest

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