Systems Engineer Program Manager

Daniel D. Sikes, PMP

Phone: 707-***-****

Windsor, CA Email: *******@*****.***

SUMMARY

Established leader with over 23 years in the military and defense industry in a wide-variety of roles and across disciplines, to include: Combat-deployed Naval Submarine Officer, Engineering Director, Program Manager, Project Engineer, Engineering Manager, Systems Engineer, Operations and Manufacturing Leader. Over 14 years management, supervisory and leadership experience as an Officer on a nuclear fast attack submarine and engineering director / manager.

EXPERIENCE WITH THE FOLLOWING TOOLS / TRADES

Jama and DOORS requirements management tools

Cameo for model based systems engineering (MBSE)

Jira for agile systems engineering, project task management, issue tracking and risk mgmt.

Lean manufacturing / executing lean principles

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Collins Aerospace, (Fairfield, CA)

May 23 – Present, Director of Engineering – Propulsion

Leading a department of 40+ project, systems, mechanical, chemical, analytical engineers

Guiding technical and strategic vision for a scalable, reliable and cost effective product suite

Working closely with customer base to improve development life cycle and design for cost

Leading process improvement initiatives for RCCA, lean manufacturing, CI and DFX

L3Harris (Santa Rosa, CA)

May 22 – Mar 23, Sr. Manager, Systems Engineering

Managed / led group of 16 systems engineers spanning various disciplines including: cyber security, MBSE, integration and test and requirements and analysis

Led strategic vision for engineering department pertaining to MBSE and req mgt process development as well as long term growth and scalability planning

Led software development effort for next gen target detection system for military aircraft

Worked as lead systems engineer on highly technical development program

Led agile systems engineering process implementation effort using Jira for scrum, sprints

General Dynamics OTS (Healdsburg, CA)

Feb 17 – May 22, Sr. Manager, Systems and Test Engineering

Growing and deploying my staff to schedule and technical critical program tasking

Implemented lean manufacturing principles into factory, including machine learning and continuous improvement initiatives

Grew the group from two to nine engineers over one year to react to resource demand spike

Led CMMI ML3 for Development v2.0 certification effort – achieved ML3 rating

Led process implementation, including 8 detailed WI’s, of Jama reqs management tool

FY19 and FY20 Capital projects lead

Jul 14 – Feb 17, Program Manager

PM and CAM on SM-3 2A cost plus firm fixed (CPFF) contract with monthly sales over $350K

Technical Program Management with full EVMS rigor (monthly CPR Formats 1-5)

Coordinated IPT activities ensuring program progressed on schedule and within budget

Successful completion of annual DCMA EVMS audit cycle with no major findings

Highly technical development program with enormous cost and schedule constraints

Led program to success in two major milestone reviews

Nov 12 – Jul 14, Project Engineer

As PE on SM-3 2A, led and contributed to multiple high priority and high visibility milestones

Overall leadership and management of dedicated engineering integrated project team (IPT)

Led successful implementation of Agile project management to recover schedule

Recovered substantial cost and schedule variance paving a clear path to successful CDR

L-3 Communications, Wescam Sonoma EO

Nov 09 – Nov 12, Mfg/Support Engineer, Customer Service Group

Managed MX-20/MX-15/MX-10 repairs program technical, budget, schedule and customer

Provided 24/7 mission critical technical support to FSR’s deployed in the Middle East

Improved repair line execution through implementation of lean manufacturing principles

Jan 07 – Nov 09, Systems Engineer, Integration & Test Engineering Group

Ensured compliant, producible and repairable designs transitioned to the NPI line

Built, integrated, tested and troubleshot new development products prior to transition to NPI

Supported field integration activities, flight testing and operator training with end user

Real time capability to troubleshoot complex systems under immense schedule constraints

Feb 06 – Jan 07, Systems Engineer, Requirements & Analysis Group

Lead Systems Engineer on several critical development programs

Transitioned all program system requirements to DOORS

System / subsystem requirements compliance / traceability across technical disciplines

Submarine Officer, United States Navy

Jan 05 – Dec 05, Assistant Engineer, Submarine Squadron 11

Reporting directly to CMDR, Submarine Squadron 11, oversaw engineering training program

Sep 01 – Jan 05, Junior Officer, Fast Attack Submarines

Nuclear Engineer aboard USS Helena on multiple deployments throughout Pacific Theater

Division Officer of 10+ enlisted personnel: Reactor Plant, Torpedo and Navigation Divisions

EDUCATION

2003, Naval Nuclear Power School, Masters Equivalent in Nuclear Engineering

Highly competitive nuclear officer training school - graduated in top 10% of my class

2001, University of California, Berkeley, B.S. in Engineering Physics

Interdisciplinary major with focus on engineering, physics and advanced mathematics

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING / CERTIFICATIONS

Dec 22: Dassault 3DS MBSE Intensive Training Course

Mar 17: Program Management Professional (PMP) – PMP Number 2018120

SECURITY CLEARANCE

Currently hold Secret clearance

Previously cleared for Top Secret information and granted access to SCI

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