Engineer Project Manager

William Duggan

**** ****** ******, ****** ****, CA. 90755 310-***-**** *********@*****.***

Summary

Aerospace Systems Leader with extensive Project Management and Production Operations experience. Decisive, energetic leader who readily accepts increasing responsibility with very high visibility, interfaces effectively with internal/external customers and vendors, and has achieved outstanding results with multiple commendations. Strong technical skills combined with excellent functional interpersonal and team development skills. Consistently develops employees to the highest possible level of productivity by means of interviewing, hiring, mentoring, and continued participation in people strategy initiatives. Lean Manufacturing specialist and Six Sigma certified.

Security Clearance: DoD Secret

Professional Experience

NORTHROP GRUMMAN AEROSPACE SYSTEMS, Redondo Beach, CA. 2009 – Present

Manager II; Mechanical Manufacturing Engineering, Tooling, and Planning Department

Served as functional manager in a newly developing organization within Space Vehicles & Deployables (SV&D) directorate.

• Cultivated, led, and managed team of 34 direct reports of highly technical mechanical engineers/planners. Facilitated more than 15 space and airborne programs and their requirements of electro-mechanical hardware. MRP commodities included large scale assemblies, composite materials, modules, hybrids, cryocoolers, machined parts, propulsion systems, heat pipes, harnesses, solar panels, and RF cables. Successfully staffed and grew team over 200% in twelve months.

• One of only four employees out of hundreds nominated selected across Space Park and El Segundo campuses for Northrop Grumman Executive Leadership Development Program. Four protégés are matched with four different vice president mentors.

• Led cross functional team to finish highly critical planning certification effort seven weeks ahead of schedule, receiving VP recognition and award.

• Conduct mid- and year-end reviews of organization, administering and monitoring expectations for individual and Company alignment, developing Expectations in Grade standards of performance.

• Analyzed Employee Feedback Survey and presented to leadership team ways to improve organizational efficiencies.

• Innovated training curriculum to enhance employees’ presentation skills during bi-weekly staff meetings.

• Created and rolled out tools to capture weekly goals and accomplishments enabling team successes to be aggregated and rolled up to next level of management for improved visibility of progress and achievements.

• Selected for Space Park Operations Leadership Team to help bridge cultures across different geographic campuses, allowing for planning and transfer of common procedures within manufacturing. Received award for leading the transition of MBOM (Manufacturing Bill of Material) responsibility between two organizations resulting in a significant cost savings for the Company.

RAYTHEON SPACE AND AIRBORNE SYSTEMS, El Segundo, CA. 1999 – 2009

Principal Multi-Disciplined Engineer; Intelligence, Surveillance, 04/2008 – 12/2009

& Reconnaissance Systems - Systems Verification Center

Served as lead REA (Responsible Engineering Authority) for first and second-generation REC (Receiver/Exciter/Controller) subsystem deliveries on Global Hawk UAV SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) and EO/IR (Electro Optical/Infrared) sensors.

• As technical lead of 20+ engineers and technicians, responsible for domestic and international delivery of both new and repaired radar subsystems. Knowledge of ITAR regulations and performed visits to the field to mitigate anomalies as needed.

• Worked with global teams, supporting issues at locations across several different time zones.

• Acted as CAM (Cost Account Manager) and liaison to program office, working with budgets of 5M+.

• Led weekly reliability reviews, identifying and executing on technical and process areas to improve overall efficiencies and performance across the program, increasing reliability and decreasing defects.

• Managed in house test laboratory and resources, performing troubleshooting for depot activities, and sell off for new systems.

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Principal Operations Engineer; Advanced Manufacturing Engineering Center 04/2007 – 04/2008

As Manufacturing Engineering Lead, developed processes, corrected/aligned engineering test requirements, led efforts in vendor accountability, waste reduction, and investigative requests. Served on CCB (Change Control Board) as panel member.

• Analyzed trends of products, initiating cost reductions through standardization of materials and cycle time improvements.

• Performed failure analyses for defective products returned from the field, isolating and mitigating anomalies and ensuring successful redelivery to customer.

• Selected to lead several tiger teams leading engineers, technicians, planners, quality, and supply chain for space and tactical airborne programs VIIRS, Q27/Q29, and Global Hawk.

• Achieved 100% first time success on all AIRRs (Assembly Instruction Readiness Review) and NDCRs (No Doubt Critical Review), serving as technical author for VIIRS program.

Senior Systems Engineer II; Systems Verification Center 08/2005 – 04/2007

As System Integrator on Raytheon Multi-Program Flying Testbed (RMT), integrated test equipment, achieving successful test flights of R&D X-Band and Ku-Band systems on Boeing 727 aircraft flying laboratory at LAX and China Lake AFB.

• Performed system analysis, troubleshooting, test, failure analysis and stress screening, devising and implementing test procedures and risk/mitigation plans.

• As liaison to COMSEC office for program security compliance, worked through security channels to ensure compliance with all government regulations.

• Developed and managed resources and product build forecasts, ensuring throughput of procedures, and appropriate manpower and skills sets for successful operations.

• Authored program specific documents, including Appropriation Requests (AR) document to support program budget requirements, Electromagnetic Energy Control (EEC) and RF Human Safety Plans, Embedded Global Positioning/Inertial Navigation System (EGI) test plans and Array Drive (AD) test plans to support subsystems.

• As Responsible Engineering Authority (REA) for Preliminary, Advanced, and Critical Design Reviews, served as focal point for communications between technical and review teams regarding technology, planning, costs, design and test plans.

Senior Test Engineer; Engineering Development Center 08/1999 – 08/2005

As Radar Module and Unit Engineer Team and Technical Lead for AESA, JF-15, F/A-18, B2, MP-RTIP, Global Hawk, MP-RTIP WAS, North 20, P910, P1196 Programs, oversaw design manual and automated test stations and supervised manufacturing builds, electrical checkout and STE/hardware/software integration, with budget of over $500K. Recruited, hired, and mentored new employees. Received Raytheon Technical Honors Award.

• Led projects from concept to completion, utilizing synergistic relationships and team building activities, saving the Company thousands of dollars through innovative brainstorming and project management techniques, while valuing integrity, customer commitments, and streamlining engineering processes.

• As CAM supporting top level budget, schedule and staffing, created BOE (Budgets of Estimate) to support proposals, performed cost analysis, process improvement, and strategic planning utilizing EVMS to maintain budget and manpower according to current burn rate. Created IMS/IMP, developed safety and test plans, and performed system sell-off with appropriate training to technicians.

• Served as project lead in VSWR (Voltage Standing Wave Ratio) optimization efforts across multiple programs. S-parameter characterization improvement technical lead. Gained DC - Ku band RF design experience. Validated, approved, and provided final authority sign-off of designs, engineering changes, and revision notices.

• Coordinated/executed seamless transition of programs to new production facility in Forest, MS, leading team for physical relocation of technology and personnel to the new facility.

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Education

Harvard Business School; Cambridge, MA.

High Potentials Leadership Program (HPLP). Executive leadership curriculum. Certificate received 10/11.

Stanford University, Graduate School of Business; Palo Alto, CA.

Certified Stanford Advanced Project Manager (SAPM). Six course professional credential certificate received 03/11.

Completed two year program in seven months

University of Southern California (USC); Los Angeles, CA.

Master’s degree in Engineering Management received 12/04; President’s List

Dean’s list; G.P.A. 3.9 – Graduated with honors; Summa Cum Laude

California State University, Long Beach; Long Beach, CA.

Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering received 05/99; Control Systems & Digital Logic Design; President’s List

Dean’s list; G.P.A. 3.7 – Graduated with honors; Magna Cum Laude

Claremont Graduate University; The Drucker School

Twelve week certificate program titled Effective Executive focusing on optimizing leadership and management skills

Raytheon Systems Company – Leadership & Technical Training; El Segundo, CA.

Awarded Systems Engineering Technical Development Program – SETDP Class of 2008

1 of 35 selected in company wide 18 month program to further develop system level technological proficiencies

Awarded Engineering Leadership Development Program - ELDP Class of 2007

1 of 68 selected in company wide 2 year program to enhance leadership skills through executive mentoring

Completed Raytheon Strategic Leadership Program

Professional Development/Certifications

Harvard ManageMentor® Development Courses - Project Management; Solving Business Problems; Setting Goals; Implementing Innovation; Managing Upward; Thinking Strategically; Developing Employees; Focusing on Your Customer; Negotiating

Raytheon RLI Courses – The Enabling Leader; Energizing and Empowering Employees; Coaching for Performance; EVMS; The Leader as a Model; Management Best Practices; Negotiating to Win; Principles of Systems Engineering (PoSE); Advanced Radar Principles

Certifications: Six Sigma; Space Hardware; Mentor Schematic Capture Program

Engineering Tools

Visiprise Manufacturing, Orcad, Solumina, MS Project, MS PowerPoint, Visio, PSpice, Mentor Graphics, PDM, Enovia/Matrix

Professional Affiliations

Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers (IEEE); Member Since 1993

Tau Beta Pi & Eta Kappa Nu engineering honor societies

Received publications in The National Dean’s List following graduations – 1999 & 2005

Northrop Grumman Management Club (NGMC) member

Raytheon Management Club (RMC) member

Imperial Toastmasters member – El Segundo Chapter

YESNet (Young Engineers and Scientists Network) staff member and representative

Personal

Math Moves U - Public speaker - Encourages children to become interested in math and science at a young age

Qualified and trained with elite Navy SEAL Special Forces

National level competitive bodybuilder; hold ‘Mr. California’ and ‘Mr. Arizona’ titles

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