Project Management Specialist (Deputy Program Manager, MH-139 Program) at The Boeing Company (2025-01 – Present)
- Own the full acceptance-to-delivery lifecycle for a 38-aircraft USAF helicopter program — inspecting and acquiring commercial aircraft from the OEM, overseeing Special Type Certificate (STC) modification to military configuration, and managing delivery to the customer — serving as the primary customer interface throughout.
- Drive customer coordination and stakeholder alignment through structured PM meetings and quarterly program reviews with leadership.
- Established production baseline plan for 12 additional aircraft, defining schedule, statement of work, and delivery commitments.
- Execute change management through the Configuration Control Board (CCB), coordinating supplier SOW updates, contract baselines, and program initiatives.
- Directed Manufacturing Readiness Level (MRL) assessment, enabling program readiness for full-rate production.
- Resolved delivery withholds, meeting customer requirements and securing release of $4M in payments.
- Lead make-vs-buy-driven initiative to insource production of a mission-system component, owning approval, procurement, manufacturing, and certification end-to-end.
Engineering Project Manager at The Boeing Company (2023-12 – 2024-12)
- Served as lead project engineer, managing budget, scheduling, and resource alignment across program priorities.
- Directed schedules and deliverables across multiple concurrent projects, ensuring coordination across the full program.
- Established and managed priorities across all teams for the full product lifecycle, from design through installation and optimization.
- Implemented risk, issue, and opportunity management plans, ensuring cost, quality, scope, and delivery goals were met.
- Managed and strengthened relationships across 10 global suppliers, improving quality, cost, and on-time delivery KPIs.
- Led effort to establish a new international supplier — product specifications, candidate evaluation, RFP, financial analysis, and export compliance.
Structural Engineer at The Boeing Company (2020-03 – 2023-12)
- Managed production floor backlog, prioritizing tasks based on operational impact and schedule requirements.
- Authored a 200-page technical standards manual for composite materials on the V-22 program, coordinating with engineers and senior technical experts.
- Developed the business case for a new manufacturing methodology, reducing lead times and cutting costs by up to 15%.
Wiring & Equipment Engineer at The Boeing Company (2018-03 – 2020-03)
- Led a team of 15 in root cause and corrective action analysis, improving product design and quality while lowering costs.
- Led the engineering change management process across internal and external stakeholders, mitigating production risk.
Co-Founder at LLeMental Systems, LLC (2024-01 – 2026-03)
- Founded and led end-to-end operations for an AI-powered SaaS document automation platform, owning product strategy, technical delivery and go-to-market as one of two founders — full P&L accountability with no additional staff.
- Directed product roadmap and delivery for a template-preservation AI platform (Python/FastAPI, PostgreSQL, OAuth, Stripe billing) with a RAG-based multi-document synthesis engine (ChromaDB), coordinating design, development, and QA to ship and iterate a production platform.
- Built and personally ran the company's entire go-to-market function on a self-funded budget — website and analytics, blog, newsletter, social channels, SEO strategy, email and paid campaigns, and client pitches/demos.
- Designed and built 6 internal tools using AI-assisted engineering — paid-media automation, ad-graphics generation, content and video production, SEO intelligence, and CRO diagnostics — personally executing marketing and creative work at the output level of a full team, with no engineering or marketing staff.
- Diagnosed a signup-to-onboarding integration failure silently dropping ~40% of new signups through the CRO diagnostics pipeline — a key, data-driven finding for conversion recovery.
