Professional Experience
20+ years driving transformation across defense, retail, and technology sectors
Program Manager – DoD Programs
Hose-McCann Communications
Deerfield Beach, Florida
Leading Manufacturer and Designer of Land and Marine Turn-Key Communication Solutions
- • Executed project plans with dependencies/timelines; consolidated 30 Trello boards via Placker/SOPs/training, ensuring data hygiene and early deliveries
- • Applied Earned Value Management (EVM) and financial metrics to monitor cost/schedule performance for a $1M Coast Guard integration project with multi-vendor coordination
- • Recovered engineering discrepancy on customer-furnished equipment, securing equitable adjustment to maintain customer schedule
Scrum Coach – PMI-ACP Certification Instructor
Independent Consultant
Remote
Independent consulting and certification training
- • Delivered PMI-ACP certification preparation courses to aspiring agile practitioners
- • Coached teams and individuals on Agile methodologies and Scrum practices
- • Developed training materials and curriculum for certification exam preparation
Senior Director – Engineering and Platform Enablement
Foot Locker
St. Petersburg and Remote, Florida
$8B diversified global retailer across 30 digital storefronts, 10 mobile applications, and 2,500 stores
- • Coached team in implementing open-source developer platform Backstage, delivered under budget by $500K
- • Increased distributed tracing into customer website flow, reduced false-positive bot signatures over 13%
- • Developed OPEX/CAPEX budget plans, aligning IT investments with organizational goals; led cost optimization & rationalization initiatives
Director of Program Management Office / Chief Operating Officer
Highland Companies
Mulberry, Florida
Specialty agricultural software and products for large and small produce growers and packers
- • Cut audit preparation time over 25%, collaborated with vendors to comply with SOC 2 Trusted Service Criteria audit requirements
- • Authored technical specifications, statements of work (SOW), and negotiated contracts for innovative ERP vendor plugin software
- • Developed training program for multi-state non-profit Executive Director certification; coached over 200 support personnel
Manager – IT Development
Ashley Furniture Industries
Tampa, Florida
Vertically integrated $4.7B leading manufacturer and retailer of home furnishings with 35,000 employees across 155 global countries
- • Enabled seamless integration between advanced digital asset management (InRiver) and legacy EDI systems utilizing MuleSoft connectors; increased inventory and image data pulls by 15%
- • Mentored Scrum team operating in SAFe for Lean Enterprise; increased team efficiency 25% and met critical deliveries
- • Matured advanced RESTful data exchanges, enabling seamless communication data accuracy/availability
Lead Project Management Specialist
Honeywell International Inc.
Largo, Florida
Fortune 100 Technology company, $11.8B Aerospace division, products used on virtually every commercial and defense aircraft platform worldwide
- • Shepherded advanced testing, performed shock, soak, and electromagnetic testing achieving 98% compliance with government flow down requirements to Raytheon
- • Enhanced collaboration between sites, established program metrics, managed counterfeit parts investigation IAW C-SCRM
- • Formulated new baseline schedule in Microsoft Project for partner Taiwan Air Force to deliver critical ferrite components to early warning radar system
Acquisition Manager
United States Air Force
United States and Iraq
The mission of the United States Air Force is to fly, fight and win – airpower anytime, anywhere
- • Highly decorated for excellence in execution of space and air domain weapon systems projects; held TS/SCI clearance
- • Directed depot maintenance retrofits for COTS enhancements to command-and-control systems on AWACS and JSTARS; Lean Six Sigma Green Belt awarded
- • Oversaw cyber-security upgrades to JSTARS software lab and mission systems; patched 3M lines of code
- • Managed vendor performance and flow downs to subcontractors on $480M advisory and assistance contract