Christopher Shotts

Experience

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  United States Department of Defense

  Aug 1998 - Nov 2000

  Deputy Commander for Exercises and Experiments

  Executed the joint exercise support program consisting of 25 government and contract employees with a $2.25 million budget. Supported military exercises world-wide with simulations of space based missile detection systems, distributed connectivity, data collection, data analysis, data archiving, and technical support; supervised operations research activities of one direct report employee for the Data Engineering and Standardization program and one direct report employee for the Joint Technical Architecture program. Show less

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  US Army, 12th Aviation Brigade

  Nov 2000 - Oct 2003

  Commander, Executive Officer, Operations Officer

  Provided leadership, support to families of deployed personnel, force protection of assets in Germany, logistical support to operations in Germany and Iraq, and supervised four direct reporting commanders to provide operational guidance to 500+ employees in a headquarters with three subordinate organizations operating facilities at 14 different locations in Germany with an annual budget of $11 million and equipment valued at over $200 million. Provided leadership and organized force protection guards and patrols for Giebelstadt Army Air Field, conducted advanced party operations and planning for troop movements to Kuwait, coordinated and successfully led multiple movements of brigade soldiers, vehicles, and equipment from Germany to Kuwait, ensured safe and orderly operations of 14 control towers on airfields in Germany without incident, established and wrote operating procedures and programs for personnel management, soldier and family welfare, budget and expenditure process, physical and information security, logistics, supply chain, and communication. Show less

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  US Army TRADOC

  Oct 2003 - Jul 2010

  Managed and led four direct reports and 20 person contractor team in TRADOC, TCM-V with responsibility for prioritizing and directing the $20+M budget expenditures for the Aviation Combined Arms Tactical Trainer (AVCATT) program and the Synthetic Environment Core software development program (7/2007-7/2010)- key leader of an Army level cross functional team that programmed, planned, integrated, and managed the operational activities for Army Aviation Training Aides, Devices, Simulators, and Simulations (TADSS) to align costs with available budget- developed and documented a six year strategic capability production plan for AVCATT, provided leadership to the AVCATT team (soldiers and contractors) to ensure the efficient production, distribution and operation of 23 simulators suites (21 located in the United States, one in Germany, and one in South Korea) according to the plan.- managed customer relations for AVCATT at 23 different locations, gathering feedback to make improvements on the system- wrote and published articles on use of AVCATT for collective training in the AAAA Magazine.- worked with AVCATT and SE Core computer software engineers to identify scope and feasibility of simulation requirements leading to cost effective and relevant changes in the software capabilities. Show less Managed, coordinated and directed a 33 person organization to operate and maintain $1.5M in advanced computer, network, communication, and simulation equipment in a new simulation facility to accomplish virtual training for managers and employees preparing to go to Iraq and Afghanistan. Ensured understanding of every task and saved millions of training dollars by shifting expensive live training to the virtual training environment, led the execution of ten training exercises per year. Executed annual budget of $1.8M, planned logistical support of the facility, and trained 3000 personnel per year. Managed, provided technical oversight, and supervised the successful implementation of Flight School XXI contracts to build the world’s largest virtual simulator facility providing 45 high fidelity flight training simulators to support flight school, and to install 18 re-configurable flight simulators in a newly built simulator facility to support collective training. Pioneered experiments to test virtual collective training using flight simulators connected with Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS) and High Level Architecture protocols (HLA). Managed and supervised publishing of the Army Aviation Simulation Strategy (2007), wrote and published articles in aviation and training simulation journals to highlight benefits of using virtual simulators to support collective training. Show less

  • Senior Simulation Operations Manager, TRADOC Capability Manager for Virtual Simulation Systems

    Jun 2007 - Jul 2010

  • Deputy Director of Simulation

    Oct 2003 - Jun 2007
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  US Army

  Aug 2010 - Sept 2011

  Exercise Officer

  Planned, organized, directed, and supported employee and manager training events involving up to 750 personnel per event traveling from Fort Lewis, WA, to the partner countries globally to conduct training with foreign militaries to enhance military to military relations and improve organizational proficiency: supervised four direct reports, mission and budget responsibility for $3 million in exercise funds, coordinated logistical and supply chain support for each training event. Published written directives to assign responsibility for funding and executing each exercise. Provided leadership by building teams to accomplish every training mission, developed estimates and supporting budgets that allowed efficient use of available manpower and resources, supervised development of SharePoint sites for each exercise to allow fast and effective communication, coached and mentored team leaders and planners to ensure all exercise objectives were met within budget. Show less

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  Pacifica

  Sept 2011 - Apr 2015

  Vice President of Operations

  Provided executive oversight on all aspects of global operations at Pacifica Inc. to include supply chain, inventory, lean manufacturing, order fulfillment, shipping, and logistics; provided leadership and guidance to five direct reporting managers with 70+ employees at the Portland facility; ensured profit for Pacifica Inc. product lines: candles and home fragrance, perfumes, bath and body, face, skincare, and color cosmetics; coordinated the new product development processes and advised on regulatory issues pertaining to new products to achieve the following:. - implemented changes to increase order fulfillment revenue generating potential from $50,000 per day to over $500,000 per day leading to increased annual revenues over 3.5 years from $10M to $18M- to achieve business goals, identified inefficient supply chain links and high cost components for products and made changes to replace them with more cost effective options resulting in increased gross margins from 45% to 57% over a three year period- to reduce cost of goods, completed projects to add in house perfume, lipstick, and lip butter manufacturing, as well as, tube and bottle filling in our Portland facility to gain better control of our supply chain achieving a ROI within one year on each project.- fine-tuned reporting from Sage 300 ERP using Excel to support inventory management, demand planning, and supply chain planning to foster data analysis that allowed the business focus on revenue generating products- Set up processes to analyze inventory and sales data to determine optimal inventory levels allowing Pacifica to add three new product lines (skin care, face, and color cosmetics) keeping inventory cost level at 2.8M to 3.0M reducing average turn from 180 to 90 days Show less

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  Lam Research

  Sept 2015 - now

  Senior Logistics Manager

  Senior Manager of Warehouse, Logistics Operations, and Global Logistics Quality.Works with Lam and 3PL warehouse operations and quality leaders to improve processes to allow scaling of output levels while still achieving quality goals.Establishes logistics quality KPIs, manages a global quality team, conducts process audits to identify process gaps that leads to errors, and leads projects to reduce internal and external quality errors.