Kelly Price

***** ******* *****, **** * Lakes, FL 34639 813-***-**** adjikk@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY

PROVEN LEADER (Technology/Engineering/Manufacturing/Quality) Creative results driven expert with over 25 years of experience in analyzing existing operations and implementing the strategies, processes, and technologies to improve organizational efficiency and ensure total quality. Accomplished Team Builder with solid technical training and a proven record of leadership under demanding conditions.

Unequalled track record in program management, product development, transition to production, and electronics manufacturing. Seeking Senior Leadership role in a progressive high tech organization.

Engineering Management

General Management

Lean Manufacturing/Six Sigma

Program Management

Team Building

Change Management

EXPERIENCE

iGOV TECHNOLOGIES, Tampa, FL 2018 to Present

Deputy Program Manager

Directs the activity of a team of engineers, logisticians, and trainers in the development and fielding of a Mobile Communication System for a USAF customer

Manager responsible for day to day activities of a $85M development and production project.

Successfully led the team through major engineering milestones to conduct and complete the non-recurring engineering activity.

Leadership Champion for cost and schedule saving initiatives.

Conduct business development and proposal activities for related USAF communications projects and Engineering Change Proposals.

THE CANTON GROUP LLC, Baltimore, MD 2011 to 2018

Vice President of Operations

Vice President of Contracts

Lead daily operations of a 45 person, $9M software development company providing services to Federal, State of Maryland, and commercial customers.

Developed revenue and cost forecasts and established Key Performance Indicators for tracking performance of the organization.

Established a Program Management Office and acted as Program Manager on over 20 projects

Implemented Agile Development Practices such as SCRUM Meetings and Rapid Prototyping significantly reducing development time.

Proposal Manager on over 35 proposals resulting in over $40M in awards.

Documented PMO Procedures in support of Capability Maturity Model Integrated (CMMI) Certification

Awarded the Executive Management Award (COO Category) by the Smart CEO Magazine

AAI/TEXTRON, Hunt Valley, MD 2008 - 2011

Senior Program Manager

Successfully transitioned a Universal Ground Control Station prototype to Full Rate Production in the Shadow Unmanned Air System. Assigned as Product Line Manager for all UAS Universal products, coordinating 5 year technology roadmaps ensuring that the GCS will enter full rate production for other US Army Tactical Unmanned Air Vehicle programs in 2011 and 2012. Sponsored continuous improvement initiatives within the AAI Ground Control Technologies Directorate.

Provided mentorship to a team of 20 CAMs (Control Account Managers) ensuring that my programs supported AAI DCMA EV certification. One of three programs selected for DCMA and DCAA evaluation for EV processes.

Managed an 80 person engineering team in the $50M engineering development of the Universal Ground Control Station and other UAS Ground control equipment. Completed all tasks on schedule and on budget. Received accolades from the Army Customer for the teams ability to execute. Turned this project into a $300M production contract.

Sponsored a Change Management Process that formalized red line changes of technical drawings ensuring that the Contract Manufacturer experienced very quick turnaround of requested changes. Reduced turnaround time of engineering changes from 10 days to less than 2 hours. Enabled assembly of first units in less time than current GCS even though UGCS was in preproduction phase.

Led multiple Value Stream Mapping and Value Stream Improvement projects.

Received AAI 3rd Qtr. 2010 Outstanding Achievement Award for leading a team of 25 engineers in a streamlined project to repackage the UGCS into a 3 crewstation shelter.

DRS LAUREL TECHNOLOGIES, Johnstown, PA 2004 - 2008

Director of Manufacturing Technologies and Operational Excellence

Provided leadership to technical teams in the areas of Operational Excellence/Lean Manufacturing, Management Information Systems (MIS), Test, Configuration Management, Customer Service, Manufacturing Engineering, Design Engineering (DFM, DFUC, DFSS) and Project Engineering.

Advisor/coach on over 20 Kaizen/DMAIC events – resulted in over $700K of savings and cost avoidance.

Strong Advocate for Management by Metrics.

oCollaborated with a team of operations experts across the company to establish a baseline set of 30 manufacturing metrics (benchmarked at the Johnstown Facility)

oImplemented a series of dashboards to quickly display the status of key metrics in a stoplight fashion (established thresholds for red, yellow, green, and blue performance)

oDeveloped a concept for displaying metrics (Efficiency, Quality, Schedule) at the workbench level; this Visual Workplace was adopted at all DRS manufacturing sites

Strategic Development: Developed the three-year roadmap for the implementation of Paperless Manufacturing (successfully completed pilot project and initial implementation at three sites).

Innovation: Implemented the concept of Video Work Instructions, enabling the rapid capture of tacit knowledge required in some of the more difficult build processes.

Lean Manufacturing: Implemented an employee suggestion system that resulted in over 100- implemented suggestions and $500K savings within the first year.

Technical Leadership: Developed a team of design engineers who focused on designing for manufacturability and unit cost.

Director of Quality

Concurrently held the position of Director of Quality on an interim basis for 15 months during the search for a new Director. Transformed the quality organization from a subjective based inspection group to an objective data focused team.

System Design: Architected and implemented a Web Based Failure Reporting and Corrective Action System (FRACAS) increasing the scope of data collection from 15 data elements to over 150 while decreasing data collection time per event from 15 minutes to less than 2 through use of barcoding.

Innovation: Implemented Failure Review Boards process to drive Cost of Poor Quality Reductions resulting in several major successes

oReduced failures occurring during molding process on fragile connectors ($250K savings)

oReduced damage during manufacturing process on cable builds ($168K savings)

Completed Annual Recertification in AS9100/ISO 9000 with no discrepancies or findings

Director of Collaborative Operations/Director of Software Center of Excellence

Directed the start-up activities of a Software Center from the ground up for the first year of operation. Team was operating at CMMI level 3 within first 6 months and achieved CMMI Level 5 in first two years.

Entrepreneur: Responsible for all aspects of the hiring process, building a team of 25 Software and Systems Engineers within the first six months

Designed the framework for a Collaborative Development Environment (based on Rational products, SharePoint collaboration, and web meeting applications) across three locations

CONCURRENT TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION, Johnstown, PA 2002 - 2004

Director of Software and Systems Engineering Program Manager, Knowledge Technologies

Directly responsible for senior systems/software engineers and supporting staff within the quickest growing directorate in the company. Rapidly built a corporate capability in the areas of advanced knowledge technologies (artificial intelligence, ontology development, and semantic web applications). Provided program management and system engineering expertise within a national security focused division.

Team Builder: Involved in all aspects of team building including recruiting, hiring, developing, training, motivating and leading.

Program Manager for a $4M Advanced Knowledge System Prototype using cutting edge technologies to solve data overload problems in support of the intelligence community. Develops budgets and spend plans to support program.

Leads a team of technical and program management professionals in meeting the schedule, performance, and cost goals of government clients and is responsible for the communication and liaison with numerous supporting suppliers. Responsible for entire life cycle of the development project ranging from requirements definition to system testing.

Proposal manager on several competitive proposals. Involved in business development activities.

Internal ISO 9000/14000 Auditor.

MOUNT ALOYSIUS COLLEGE, Cresson, PA 2003 - 2005

Adjunct Faculty - Taught Introduction to Statistics and Statistical Research. Approved to teach a variety of undergraduate math and physics courses.

US NAVY 1988-2002

Commissioned Nuclear Trained Officer

EDUCATION/CERTIFICATIONS

LEAN SIX SIGMA BLACK BELT, University of South Florida, Dec 2020

LEAN/SIX SIGMA GREEN BELT, DRS Laurel Technologies and Arizona State University

Certified as Project Management Professional (PMP) by Project Management Institute (PMI)

POST GRADUATE COURSES, KNOWLEDGE AND LEARNING MANAGEMENT, Walden University

GRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT, The George Washington University

MASTERS OF ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT, Concentration in Knowledge Management, The George Washington University, GPA: 3.97

NAVY NUCLEAR PROPULSION, Graduate level courses in the design and operation of nuclear reactors, certified by Bureau of Naval Reactors as a Nuclear Engineer

BS/AEROSPACE ENGINEERING, Special Honors Graduate, University of Colorado at Boulder, GPA: 3.88, Tau Beta Pi, Engineering Honor Society

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

40 Hours/4 CEU’s of Training Requirements for Lean-Six Sigma Green Belt Certification

Ethics Training Program conducted at DRS Laurel Technologies

Lockheed Martin-LM21 Lean Leadership Training Course

CTC Program Management Training

SECURITY CLEARANCE

Active DoD Secret Clearance

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Outlook, Project, Visio, Oracle ERP

LINKED IN PROFILE

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