Program Manager Risk Management

Location:

Salt Lake City, UT

Salary:

$130,000 - $160,000

Posted:

February 13, 2025

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Resume:

TAYLOR S. PORTER

**** **** *** *****, **** Point, UT 84015 P: 801-***-**** E: ******.********@*****.*** Introduction

Strategic business leader with 13+ years of experience in acquisitions, project and program management, supply chain management, depot activations, contracting, data and cost analysis, demand forecasting, continuous improvement initiatives, and inventory management; most recently in support of HX5.

Experience

HX5 – Ogden, Utah Aug 2023 – Nov 2023

Senior Program Manager

• Plan, evaluate, and implement program acquisition strategies and market research; evaluating deliverables requirements, and best practice management

• Prepare, review, and integrate statutory and regulatory acquisition milestone review documentation and certifications as identified in DODI 5000.02

• Develop, maintain, and update program Integrated Master Plan/Schedule (IMP/S); analyzing prime and sub-contractor IMP/S; identifying opportunities to improve program execution; reviewing deliverable status together with milestone schedules, status reports, and cost performance reports; determining accuracy of information and depicted situations

• Develop, maintain, and update program risk management plans; facilitate program risk identification, risk analysis, risk handling and monitoring; assist with execution of program risk management boards, risk management working groups, and document and analyze prime and sub-contractor risk management processes

• Develop, maintain, and update acquisition reports

• Prepare briefings, graphics, and reports in direct support of the acquisitions being performed

• Provide services critical to Life Cycle Logistics (LCL) and operational supportability

• Interpret, organize, execute, and coordinate acquisition project assignments; making recommendations to government Program Manager

• Prepare, review, and integrate selected milestone documentation, reports, and certifications

• Review and track prime contractor deliverables status and schedules

• Review and advise on program integration plans

• Monitor interface control between software systems

• Draft contractual letters and develop source selection strategies, evaluation criteria, Request for Proposal (RFP) documentation

• Assist with mission execution, operational planning and analysis, capability development, event integration and execution, and reporting

Parker Aerospace – Ogden, Utah May 2023 – Jul 2023 Lead Project Manager – Facility Integration

• Lead and manage depot facility integration, implementation, and distribution

• Provide project management support for existing depot activation projects and proposals

• Support proposal development, gathering competitive intelligence as required, gather and document project information and business case assumptions

• Develop and maintain project risk assessments

• Develop and submit detailed depot activation proposals, supporting each program platform (A-10, E-3, F-15, F-16, KC-135) to provide necessary equipment, manpower, and floor space for standing up maintenance capabilities

• Present detailed information regarding gate reviews

• Support project tracking by creating, maintaining, and updating in-depth project schedules as needed

• Lead and support status briefings/meetings, identifying and providing resolution to issues impacting project schedules

• Initiate periodic reviews of projected annual sales

• Provide project execution and management throughout all stages of program

• Work with project team to develop and maintain schedules, risk tools, and detailed proposals

• Monitor the timely execution of delivery schedules

• Provide periodic status reports on all projects

• Forecast and meet project schedules and sales

Hill Air Force Base – Ogden, Utah Oct 2010 – Jan 2023 Chief, Depot Partnering Jan 2021 - Jan 2023

• Responsible for leading a team with program execution focus on planning, directing, and managing section activities

• Serve as leader for program engagement, in regards to assessments for determining viable workload activations for organic repairs, to include those under a public partnered relationship with contractors

• Collaborate with all cross-functional teams, for the success of the program: Contracting, Financial Management, Modernization, and the Air Logistics Complex

• Support financial planning activities for funding activations

• Analyze and assign activation management to Depot Activation Section team members

• Monitor progress in multi-milestone activation process

• Monitor fleet modernization programs to ensure successful activations

• Inform F-22 Enterprise leadership of status of planned and in-progress activations

• Conduct Business Case Analyses to validate Product Support Strategies, and to identify opportunities for cost savings and improved life-cycle-management of the F-22 Air Vehicle

• Provide analysis support to various taskers from Division, Directorate, Center, Command, Air Force, and DoD levels

• Supervise 8-10 team members

Lead Program Manager Sep 2018 – Jan 2021

• Assess, develop, and implement supply support strategies across multiple Integrated Product Teams

(IPTs), supporting the A-10 and F-16 supply chain

• Led redesign effort for A-10 Central Interface Control Unit (CICU) as pathfinding team utilizing Other Transaction Authority (OTA) Agreement for rapid prototyping and Nonrecurring Engineering (NRE) (first successful OTA within entire Air Force Sustainment Center (AFSC))

• Seek out squadron level opportunities for Performance-Based Logistics (PBL) contracts, and other strategic contracts, reducing the quantity of stand-alone efforts

• Gather and perform data analytics, utilizing Reverse Logistics Digital Twin (RLDT) to improve supply chain

• Work with engineering, depot, and maintenance on transitioning to TeamCenter

• Address and improve organic depot repair deliveries for healthy asset availability supply posture

• Establish review systems for the organization that make certain government needs are met and validated, and that economy and quality of operations are maintained and/or improved

• Advise senior management on best practices for major projects, systems, and subsystems

• Assess and address risk and conflicting cross-departmental priorities to ensure milestones and quality are achieved

• Provide guidance and training for 20+ program managers, in regards to Air Force policy and regulations, contracting, acquisition consignment, warehousing/transportation issues, etc.

• Evaluate IPT performance and individual career developmental needs

• Temporarily oversee the work of other team members as alternate Supervisor Sustainment Logistics Manager July 2014 – Sep 2018

• Manage worldwide maintenance, supply, procurement, overhaul, and repair support for a critical military defense technology (ICBM subsystems: Support Equipment, Airborne Launch Control System (ALCS), Strategic Automated Command Control System

(SACCS), Higher Authority Command/Rapid Message Processing Element (HAC/RMPE), and Codes)

• IPT Lead overseeing and administering the work of 8-10 employees

• Build and maintain effective relationships with customers and partners

• Collaborate with contractors and subordinate units to optimize workflows

• Establish and monitor metrics to assess efficiency, effectiveness, and regulatory compliance

• Implement appropriate deviations from plans based on costs, schedules, and performance, to accommodate the incorporation of new equipment and/or requirements into assigned systems

Inventory Manager, Senior Item Manager Oct 2010 – July 2014

• Oversee team performance and development

• Provide and maintain inventory management control over groups of assigned items to support total weapons or operational equipment systems on a continuous international basis

• Provision support, acquisition, distribution, and replenishment of inventories

• Drive and implement continuous improvement and lean activities for inventory accountability and asset reconciliation

• Prepare and present briefings including program costs, schedule and performance status, review of customer requirements, problems/anomalies with proposed solutions, and long- range planning and strategy issues

• Support non-Air Force customers

Education

UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY - Logan, UT

Masters of Business Administration, GPA: 3.9 cum.

WEBER STATE UNIVERSITY – Ogden, Utah

B.S. Business Administration/Supply Chain Management Air University – Maxwell AFB, Alabama (Distance Learning) Air Command and Staff College (ACSC)

Air Force Institute of Technology – Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio (Distance Learning) Master’s Certificate Data Analytics

Volunteer Experience & Supplementary Development

• Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification

• Level II Life Cycle Logistics (APDP)

• Significant acquisition Program Management and Managerial experience (pre-Milestone A, B, C, through to production, lifecycle management, and demilitarization when necessary)

• DoD 5000 proficiency knowledge

• Microsoft Office proficiency (expert knowledge and experience in Word, PowerPoint, Project, Access)

• Emerging Supervisor Development Program Graduate (ESDP)

• Former volunteer Quality Assurance Augmentee, performing Inventory Management inspections throughout the 748th Supply Chain Management Group at Hill Air Force Base.

• Former Speaker Committee Lead for the Junior Force Council at Hill Air Force Base.

• Former SBO president possessing strong interpersonal skills, as well as excellent written and oral communication skills.

• Former VP of Operations for the Weber Entrepreneurs Association

• Organized and participated in St. Ann’s Shelter food drive

• Delivered Christmas gifts with Weber Human Services for Sub-For-Santa program

• Provide instructional/educational demonstrations for children as a Youth Impact volunteer

• Member of Beta Gamma Sigma International Business Honor Society

• Active member of the Institute for Supply Management

• Active Secret DoD Security Clearance

References

Name: John Perry

Employer: Hill Air Force Base