Experience

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  Nasa

  Jan 2011 - Jan 2011

  Research assistant
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  Darpa

  Oct 2011 - Nov 2011

  Research assistant
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  Vaisala

  May 2012 - Jun 2022

  • Directed business and product roadmap strategies of which yielded a 55% year on year growth of product area revenue alongside records being set with respect to orders received.• Managed initiatives for an embedded software engineering team to create tools for customer ease-of use, including novel items to automatically process data for sensor site survey analysis without need for expert support as well as remote software updates and device control.• Nominated as the primary resource to drive product development via Agile/Scrum methodologies for a company-wide software suite to integrate multiple instrumentation platforms, including weather radar, lightning, and LIDAR technology, for enhanced severe weather analysis.• Regularly conducted and presented financial detail as well as market analysis to senior management to enable boosts of sales and drive product advancement to remain in a market-leading position for international B-to-G opportunities.• Supervised hardware and software product life cycles across multiple offerings to ensure that release targets were exceeded, and ramp-down schedules were maintained for mature and developing products.• Maintained synergistic relationships with operations and customer services to ensure project alignment and schedule successes by promoting current information on EOL components, supply chain challenges, and opportunities to perform remote installation/training. • Served as the lead product area expert primarily heading efforts for sales and customer services to design and develop lightning networks using GIS utilities alongside tender support by way of customer site visits to deliver presentations and technical demonstrations.• Drove initiatives to strategically communicate product launches, innovations, and refinements as well as managed a complete overhaul of the lighting offering quoting system to elevate capabilities for both marketing and sales teams. Show less • Acted as a team lead for deployment and commissioning of numerous lightning detection networks, including tasks as such as installation, integration, and acceptance of lightning equipment within customized customer environments of which resulted in a network of 100+ systems globally.• Provided support and assisted in management of projects including various Linux-based distributions, SQL databases, GIS platforms, and virtual environments, including Redhat, CentOS, AlmaLinux, Ubuntu, VMware, HyperV, Proxmox, MapInfo, and ArcGIS.• Selected as the primary application engineer to support a third-party contractor with the development and validation of a web-based UI for realtime lightning information. This system came to be associated with multiple +$1M deliveries.• Demonstrated capability to develop cross-functional relationships from supporting product management with tender review to helping business development teams with lightning network construction.• Supported the completion of a meteorological infrastructure project in Vietnam that led to 20M€+ in revenue as well as continued business in-country for additional lightning detection networks due to superior product quality and support.• Aided hardware and software engineering teams by conducting software testing and documentation review to ensure that product release goals were exceeded.• Offered opportunity to assist other meteorological departments due to successes in lighting deliveries, including various nationwide projects with our soundings team and associated automatic balloon launching systems. Show less • Provided lead support to the project and customer services team for global deployments of industry-leading products for FDA/GxP regulated environments, including installation and calibration of transmitters and systems relating to temperature, humidity, trace gases, and differential pressure.• Engaged internal sales and engineering teams regularly to assist with project development and provided product support to ensure customer expectations were exceeded, in turn enabling growth of capacity building opportunities.• Appointed as the primary resource to validate systems for compliance as well as provide training due to strong system administration skills and interpersonal communication capabilities. Show less

  • Product Manager, Lightning Networks and Sensors

    Dec 2019 - Jun 2022

  • Systems and Application Engineer

    Mar 2014 - Dec 2019

  • Field Engineer, Industrial Measurement

    May 2012 - Mar 2014
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  Maxar technologies

  Jun 2022 - Aug 2023

  Staff satellite operations engineer
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  Vaisala

  Aug 2023 - now

  Program manager, faa rvr