Joseph Cerreta

Experience

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  AAI Corporation

  Jun 2002 - Jun 2015

  Senior Program Manager

  Planned and executed Aerosonde fee-for-services programs, including labor force training, deployment of six systems to Afghanistan, and day-to-day sustainment support. Developed risk mitigation plans. Effectively communicated project status across multiple functional organizations. Co-authored the technical volume proposal development for logistics, training, and deployed labor execution plans for the Aerosonde Mk 4.7 platform used in the MEUASII and UAS ISR Services fee-for-services programs resulting in two contract wins.Business capture lead for the RQ-7 Shadow 200 Government Owned Contractor Operated (GOCO) program to expand organizational Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) fee-for-services strategic objective requirements.Executed and maintained project management processes and disciplines in the areas of project cost, schedule, communications, quality, human resource, and risk management. Responsible and accountable for the scope, cost, and schedule for defense programs, while maintaining Cost and Schedule Performance Indices within DCMA tripwire thresholds.Designed and employed collective training programs in accordance with TRADOC 350-70 and USSOCOM Directive 350-9 for newly established military organizations including, composite risk management, aviation standardization and tactical flight operations as the program manager for the New Equipment Training (NET) and Special Unit Training (SUT) programs.Successfully implemented earned value management (EVM) processes and tools to determine cost and schedule performance measurements in the dynamic context of performance-based logistics to measure the NET and GOCO project effectiveness. Authored published research using performance-based logistics metrics correlated with earned value metrics of cost and schedule performance indices. Show less

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  Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

  Jun 2015 - now

  Associate Professor

  Teaching core technologies of unmannedaircraft systems (UAS); governmental and private sectorapplications of UAS to meet mission needs; operationswithin the architecture of the current national airspace andfederal aviation regulations; Crew Resource Management,planning and effective conduct of complex missionsinvolving the proper use of aerial sensing systems.