Ryan De Petro, PMP, MBA

Experience

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  TRW Automotive

  Jun 2004 - Oct 2008

  Applications Engineering for driver airbag inflators. Qualification of new products consistent with government regulations. Subject Matter Expert (SME) for initiators and connectors within the inflator. Participated on manufacturing improvement teams, both domestic and international, to increase throughput and decrease scrap. Provided engineering support to the seat belt applications group while completing my undergraduate thesis.

  • Product Engineer

    Jun 2007 - Oct 2008

  • Applications Engineering Co-Op

    Jun 2004 - Jun 2007
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  BAE Systems

  Oct 2008 - Sept 2019

  Program Management responsibility including business development and capture management for the International Hard Body Armor (HBA) and Soldier Ensembles portfolio. Focus on growth of the portfolio while maintaining efficient execution of current programs. Program management responsibilities for the ground vehicle seating portfolio as well as the newly formed armored construction equipment product area. Focused on securing awards and growing the business segments organically. Relocated and engaged in a one year assignment within the Warfighter Protective Equipment group in an effort to improve the military and commercial ballistic helmet programs being executed out of the Jessup, PA facility. Extremely challenging environment with a complex product and strained customer relationships. Responsible for repairing customer relationships, improving program performance in the areas of on time delivery, quality, operational efficiency, as well as securing new business. Assistant Program Manager for military ground vehicles including mine blast resistant seating and vehicle armor solutions. Single point of contact for customer communication. Indirect lead of an Integrated Product Team. Responsible for customer satisfaction, financial salients, and day to day management of the various programs within the Ground Vehicle Protection organization. Project engineering and project management for military ground vehicle survivability. Bioengineering principals applied to evaluate injury potential during mine blast and crash events. Responsible for design of seat energy management device during mine blast, vehicle integration, and comfort evaluations. Functioned as group lead for project earned value management.

  • Senior Program Manager

    Jan 2017 - Sept 2019

  • Program Manager

    Apr 2014 - Jan 2017

  • Program Manager

    Apr 2013 - Apr 2014

  • Assistant Program Manager

    Apr 2012 - Apr 2013

  • Senior Project Engineer

    Oct 2008 - Apr 2012
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  Stryker's Sustainability Solutions

  Sept 2019 - Jul 2023

  Responsible for managing and optimizing our project and initiative timelines across our portfolio. Focused on ensuring we have aggressive but achievable timelines, appropriate risk reserves, and effectively managed resources. Passionate about developing talent and aiding others in pursuit of their career goals. Responsible for strategy, growth, and execution for the vascular franchise of reprocessed medical devices. Driving increased speed to market and launch predictability through PMO governance reform.

  • Director, PMO

    Feb 2020 - Jul 2023

  • Senior Program Manager

    Sept 2019 - Feb 2020
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  University of California, Irvine Division of Continuing Education

  May 2022 - May 2023

  Advisory Board Member

  Served as an Advisory Board member leveraging my new product development and portfolio management background to provide insight on their program curriculum. More specifically from the standpoint of how changes to the Customer Experience impacts the groups that have to do the work to implement the changes in addition to more general leadership and change management methodologies.

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  Stryker

  Jun 2023 - now

  Director, PMO Governance