Robert Frietze

**** ******** **., *********, ** *2028

Phone: 858-***-**** E-Mail: add63y@r.postjobfree.com

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Program Manager/Project Manager

A versatile, collaborative, accomplished, and knowledgeable project management professional with a successful track record and a flair for leading people in the right direction. Experience well over 20 years. Outstanding organizational and problem-solving skills. Highly collaborative with a talent for building productive relationships that allow smooth functioning while driving others towards excellence and attaining business goals. Possess verifiable leadership, interpersonal, and communication skills that help put across things with a crisp point. A remarkably successful mentor to peers and colleagues, owing to exceptional people’s skills and always giving them the nudge in the right direction to go the extra mile and helped in achieving what seemed difficult, with ease. Have a solid track record in achieving the set goals and delivering personal best at every step of the way to provide optimal results. Thrive in fast-paced business environments and cherish a chance to self-manage things through the innate problem- solving skills and never say never attitude.

HIGHLIGHTS

• Proven capability in evaluating new business proposals including notional design, schedule, resource requirements, dependencies, risk, budget, ROI to support development and market deployment delivering value to the organization.

• Experienced in Agile based software development, prioritization of backlog, sprint planning, Scrum meetings and development metrics.

• Experienced manager supporting government contracts for diverse UHF SATCOM product line including IP data controllers, embedded modems, UHF SATCOM terminals and software applications within UHF SATCOM group with primary customers, US DoD, government contractors and international partners.

• Experienced in managing change in organizations including new project development model, NPI, ODM, contract manufacturing, utilization of geographically dispersed resources and support for transitioning designs to offshore manufacturing reducing development and MFG costs.

• Proven capability in managing cross-functional teams in the development of wireless commercial products/software supporting network deployment and customer acceptance: LTE wireless internet access & LTE/CDMA fixed wireless terminals, a multitude of CDMA cell phones supporting Android OS, mobile applications & C-Band satellite receivers.

• Experienced with working with customers and development teams to define requirements, project scope, maintain track and close issues to maintain development milestone schedule and budget. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

VIASAT INC, CARLSBAD, CA (2014 – 2020)

Program Manager

Responsible for new product development, new business proposals, and product sustainment within UHF SATCOM business area. Product line support for data controllers (IP data controller interface to tactical radio for UHF SATCOM supporting MIL-STD-188-184), software applications (VDCIP, eVDC, Viaboard lite), Embedded modems

(SGM, ERM), UHF SATCOM terminal (MD-1324) (supporting Dedicated, DAMA and Integrated waveform protocols) for UHF SATCOM military applications (Naval, Airborne and unmanned aircraft).

Managed FAR part 15 proposal multi-year task order award for modernized digital signal processor design for use in UHF SATCOM terminal product line. Developed and reported monthly project status CDRL using earned value Page 1

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metric’s (EVM), software development metric’s (Velocity & Burndown), risk management to scheduled milestones and budget. The subsequent modernized design reduced part obsolescence's and improved DSP/CCA gross margin by reducing MFG cost by 30%.

Development management for custom software applications (VDCIP) and integration of product (VDC-850) for Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellite legacy gateway leading to production contract award for software licenses and hardware.

Generated new business proposals (RFI/RFP) engineering level of effort, detailed schedule, tasks, resource requirements, budget, pricing and return on investment generating multi-year production contract awards for

(SGM/CI) product line.

Generated analysis and productization plan for modernized production tests capability with support for outsourcing manufacturing (UHF SATCOM CCA’s) with a projected increase in gross margin of 10%.

Responsible for deliverables (CDRL’s & line items) to contract. Direct customer interface with responsibility to provide program updates and risk mitigation plans to business area senior management and customers. NOVATEL WIRELESS INC: SAN DIEGO, CA (2011 – 2014)

Senior Project Manager

Responsible for product delivery and management of cross-functional team tasks to meet scheduled product development deliverables for wireless mobile hotspot (supporting internet access for up to 10 simultaneous Wi-Fi devices) and new product development of fixed wireless terminal (supporting simultaneous voice (CDMA1x) and data (LTE).

Developed level of Effort (LoE) required from cross-functional development teams (including software, hardware, system test, antenna, mechanical, QA, supply chain, NPI and operations) to develop & deliver product to market including detail schedules, tasks, resources, budget and return on investment leading to development, customer acceptance and production orders.

Coordinated compilation of technical requirement documents from Software, Firmware, Hardware and Mechanical engineering teams to determine compliance to customer specifications.

Managed scheduling of content and testing of software builds to support development tasks using Jira software tracking tools associated with Agile development and testing methodology.

Managed engineering teams to prepare for and pass all technical customer required testing: Network infrastructure testing, product conformance testing, FCC, Safety, Firmware over the air updates, Wi-Fi compliance, customer product testing, (Lab parametric testing, feature testing, field interoperability testing, network user trials) and customer acceptance of the product.

KYOCERA COMMUNICATIONS INCORPORATED (KCI), SAN DIEGO, CA (2003 – 2011) Program Manager

Responsible for P&L of CDMA cell phone development projects from concept to sustained high volume production.

Developed detailed joint development project plan (QC/Flextronics/Kyocera) for mass-market CDMA cell phone project encompassing request for proposals, detailed scheduling (MS-Project), resource plan, budget, project plan used to determine return on investment (ROI) and authorization for project funding & development. Project led to multi-million-dollar production orders and lead product for new business introduction into Brazil and India.

Managed internal cross-functional groups (Engineering, Finance, Sales, Product Test, Regulatory, Supply Chain) and offshore engineering development teams (Hardware, Software, System Test, Mechanical, Manufacturing, Quality) to meet project deliverables.

Managed customer required lab testing (Sprint STIC, Verizon Open development), industry certification (CTIA, FCC, CDG2 Inter-Op) leading to customer approval, product commercialization, purchase order acceptance and product shipments to Virgin Mobile/Metro PCS\Cricket and Verizon open development. Page 2

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Responsible for coordinating and reporting project status to executive management including risk mitigation plans to maintain project schedule, budget, and profitability.

Managed cross-functional multinational project teams including software, hardware, mechanical and contract engineering services in support of industrialization of products to offshore manufacturing sites reducing product development labor costs by 25%.

Developed Telemedicine product requirement proposal and scope for wireless device to report medical information, location, and medical updates to user. Managed technical requirement updates, customer interface and project scope with support from contract engineering services.

Managerial responsibilities for the project engineering department, including hiring, budgeting, training, development of department metrics, and project assignments for a group of eight project engineers. PRIOR EMPLOYMENT DETAILS

Qualcomm Inc. San Diego CA, 1998 – 2003, Product Engineer, Design support for development and manufacturing of CDMA cell phones.

General Instrument, San Diego CA, 1988 – 2003 Project Engineer, Test and integration of VLSI custom IC's into satellite receivers and encrypted modules.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT & CREDENTIALS

MBA/TM (Technology Management) University of Phoenix San Marcos campus. BSET/RF (Bachelor of Science Engineering Technology with Emphasis in RF communications), California State Polytechnic University Pomona.

Training: Project leadership/management, leading High-performance teams, Earned Value Management, Statement of work, (SOW), SCRUM Certification, PMP Certification. Computer Skills: Microsoft Office suite, Microsoft Project, C++, JIRA, Agile CM, Oracle. Security Clearance: Secret

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