Director of Engineering Operations

Bryan Schuster

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DIRECTOR OF ENGINEERING OPERATIONS PRODUCT-PROGRAM MANAGEMENT

Results driven professional with extensive leadership and technical experience in support of the business and product lifecycle process in the IoT, transportation, auto, aerospace, space and defense markets. Capacity for communication, collaboration, and leadership, fostering associations across functional hierarchies, engaging stakeholders, managing, coaching and mentoring organizations for success.

Product Development Program Management Project Management Cross-Functional Team Leadership

Business/Operations Planning & Management Profit and Loss Financial Planning IT Management Organizational Change Management Risk Assessment, Mitigation, and Management LEAN – Agile SOX

EXPERIENCE

Honeywell

Director, Engineering Operations, Charlotte, NC 05/2019 - 03/2020

Propelled overall Safety and Productivity Solutions (SPS) product development lifecycle for six Gold Business Enterprises (GBEs). Ensured a lean-agile product development experience to enable quick learnings, quick delivery, driving alignment to the Honeywell Agile Framework across the business.

Headed the Agile transformation initiative for Honeywell SPS new product introduction lifecycle.

Propelled the people, processes and tools for New Product Introduction (NPI).

Provided governance and audit across to ensure new product alignment to the customer journey.

Managed, coached and mentored a highly productive group, other project teams and Communities of Practice (CoP)

Corporate council member sponsoring and executing strategic initiatives (Agile Transformation & New PLM).

Aerojet Rocketdyne

Integrated Product Team Leader, Chatsworth, CA 11/2017 - 05/2019

Coached and mentored an integrated cross functional product team of 25+ in the development of advanced one of a kind rocket propulsion combustion devices, components and systems for aerospace and defense.

Headed product lifecycle management with innovative designs including advanced additive manufacturing and sound business planning.

Provided strategy, scope, budget, business analysis, vendor management, forecasting, talent management and resource planning for combustion devices product team by delivering on time and under budget while actively managing scope within the product strategy.

Scrum Adventures LLC

Business Development Partner, Long Beach, CA 2017 - 2017

Established new company business model with previous colleagues. Partnered to develop company structure, strategy and associated standard operating procedures.

Facilitated capture team and proposal development for customer transformation and PMO services.

Created and refined product backlog while collaborating with both scrum team and product stakeholders to obtain buy-in and alignment to product requirements.

Led product planning sessions and facilitated various Scrum activities; used JIRA Scrum Board as repository for creating / managing Product and Sprint Backlog user stories.

Syncromatics

Director of System Integration, Los Angeles, CA 2016 - 2017

Directed vendor management, talent management, resource planning, budget forecasting, system design, supply chain, client delivery and field services. Established Product Design, Packaging and Integration strategies to maintain more than 5K systems. Managed 5 direct employees and 20 vendor contractors.

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Partnered with state and city transit customers to deliver on time integrated transportation management solutions meeting stakeholder expectations (Client Web-based Operations, Android or Windows Vehicle System Platform, GPS Tracking, Google Map integration, People Counting, AVAS, Infotainment, Security Video and Vehicle Health monitoring).

Established a new Operations Center and Warehouse.

Toyota North America

Senior Principal Consultant, Torrance, CA 2014 - 2016

Led Toyota Motor Sales PMO for the CIO with best practices (PMBOK, ITIL, SDLC) and continuous improvement (Kaizen) under NTT Data consultant agreement

Implemented PMO Office 365 cloud uplift with Enterprise SharePoint and MS Project Web App. Provided governance, oversight, implementation, BI and Change Control Board for the CIO project portfolio.

Ensured Solution Delivery Lifecycle (SDLC) success for the Project Portfolio utilizing Toyota and Agile methods for the CIO and enterprise stakeholders.

Managed BI with ongoing CIO dashboard (KPI’s) for 20 to 25 enterprise programs and projects.

Provided critical Enterprise Project Management and oversight of Azteca project at request of OCIO. Supported resource sourcing, hiring and onboarding for project managers and project support staff.

Moog Space and Defense Group

Senior Product Manager and Program Manager, Chatsworth, CA 2011 - 2014

Improved P&L for multiple satellite propulsion system product lines. Managed talented product team in a matrixed organization. Created winning proposals, negotiated contracts, forecasted plans and developed SOW’s with customers that ensured profitability. Trusted and engaged as the voice of the customer.

Exceeded sales goals (> $25M) with multiple international satellite customers including Mitsubishi Electronics in Japan, and Ball Aerospace and Technologies.

Incorporated best practices, continuous process improvements and waste reduction using LEAN Six Sigma and the Toyota Way methodologies within operations.

Managed, coached and mentored senior team leadership, functional department management, technical engineering product design development teams and production operation teams.

Created technology investment plan with M&A possibilities that was approved by the Board of Directors.

ADDITIONAL RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

Aerojet Rocketdyne, Canoga Park, CA 1989-2011

Senior Manager, Marketing and Strategy, R&D Portfolio, Proposals

Capture and Proposal Team Manager, Army THAAD Missile Kill Vehicle Propulsion

Senior Project Manager, Navy SM-3 Missile Kill Vehicle Development

Project Engineer: Air Force EELV Rocket Engine Valves, Control Systems; Space Shuttle Main Engine, R&D

EDUCATION

Master of Business Administration (MBA), University of Phoenix

Bachelor of Science (BS), Mechanical Engineering, Penn State University

ADDITIONAL RELEVANT INFORMATION

Stanford Advanced Project Management Certification

Certified Scrum Master, Scrum Alliance

LEAN - Six Sigma Green Belt

SOX, SAFe Agile, Jira, Confluence, GPS, Google Suite, Hyperion, ITIL, Microsoft Office Suite, MS Project, Office 365, PeopleSoft, Salesforce, SharePoint, Asana, Azure

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