Career Profile
I am a technical project manager with 5+ years experience managing fast-paced military and commercial contracts. On the side, my company, Presque Labs LLC has won or finalized in multiple design challenges (HeroX, YCombinator). In my free time I love to stay active and play volleyball, tennis, and ski.
Work History
- Developed and maintained financial models to support business forecasting and budgeting processes, including revenue, expense, and capital expenditure forecasts
- Analyzed financial data to identify trends and provide insights into business performance
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to develop and implement financial strategies that aligned with business objectives
- Led team of five developers to design, program, and execute the largest (to-date) Agilepoint application at RTX
- Modernized capital equipment Access database by converting to SQL Server (2021)
- Established new approval workflows in Sharepoint/Agilepoint and decreased process times by up to 40% (2023)
- Responsible for data sanitization and visualization to help interpret and drive company-wide spend profiles
- Oversaw procurement of hundreds of capital equipment projects totaling more than $100M per year
- Wrote technical specifications identifying critical processes and guiding design concepts for external vendors
- Negotiated commercial (pricing, payment structure) and legal terms and conditions to reduce cost and risk
- Validated and led acceptance tests for all projects, including material handling automation equipment, machining and inspection systems, and CNC and welding equipment, etc.
- Provided EAR and ITAR classifications for export of sensitive technical data.
- Converted capital equipment Access database to SQL Server with Agilepoint front-end (2021)
- Established new quote approval operations workflow in Sharepoint and decreased process time by 50% (2021)
- HeroX NextGen Cart Design Challenge winner for airport material transport (AMTC) concept to track and transport secured goods within an airport (2018)
- Designed electrical circuit in KiCad and prototyped and fabricated PCB through OSH Park
- Developed user interface and linked IoT sensors to SQL database using Python
- Full stack programming with Flask, Django, and MongoDB for Waddle, an events app (2022)
- Generated concepts for Revocube (a 3D puzzle game) and programmed game in Unity with C# (2017)
- Built and programmed Context, a text message analytics app, in Android Studio with Java (2016)
- Maintained and provided site reliability engineering for company website and internal applications, including Docker, Jupyter, Nginx, Nextcloud, and Wordpress
Projects
- Created a modified SEIR model of COVID-19 spread in Connecticut, and formulated a discrete, nonlinear, predictive, closed-loop feedback controller to minimize the number of infected.
- Simulated mathematical model in Python using the GEKKO optimization suite
- Challenge winner for airport material transport (AMTC) concept to track and transport secured goods within an airport.
- Designed electrical circuit in KiCad and prototyped and fabricated PCB through OSH Park.
- Developed user interface and linked IoT sensors to SQL database using Python.
- Analyzed, modeled, and simulated a to-scale jumping robot with spider-inspired joints in MATLAB, using a differential algebraic equation (DAE) method.
- Directed micro-fabrication using FDM and SLA 3D printing methods
- 3rd place finish at 2016 ASCE Concrete Canoe Competition.
- Coordinated and oversaw 6 subteams (aesthetics, analysis, business, mold, mix, and paddling) and 34 persons for the 2016 ASCE Concrete Canoe Competition.
- Introduced novel moisture sensors and concrete curing control.
- Eliminated shrinkage cracking while increasing tensile and compressive strength by 62% and 35%