A Little About ​Myself.

I currently work at RTX (Raytheon Technologies) as the Associate Director for Business Development focused on Department of War (DoW) government customers across a very wide defense/weapons technology spectrum (e.g. see OUSW/R&E Critical Technology Areas). I previously worked at Boeing Research & Technology (BR&T) leading various Hypersonics, Space, and Satellite efforts. I am a US citizen with active DoD security clearance.

Prior to moving into business development, I worked various technical roles in both Industry and Academia with extensive DoW/NASA engagement. As a Composites SME I have made both seminal and major research contributions with expertise in manufacturing, experimental characterization, and FEA modeling of textiles, polymer matrix composites, and ceramic matrix composites for hypersonics, space, aerospace, and armor.

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Business / Technology

Science / Research

• USG and DoW customer engagement, marketing, shaping
• USG and DoW CRAD capture (RDT&E), Proposal development
• DoW budgets and acquisition, Congressional Interest Items (CII) and Adds (Earmarks)
• Advanced Materials, and Manufacturing; Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML); Microelectronics and Power Electronics; Energy Storage, Management, and Resiliency; Electrification Architectures; Air, Space, and Sea Propulsion; Hypersonics; Quantum; Energetics and Munitions; Missiles and Effectors; Directed Energy (DE) and Electromagnetics; Space and Satellites; UAVs, USVs, and UUVs; Campaign Analysis and Wargaming; Human-Machine Collaborative Teaming and Collaborative Autonomy
• Industry CRAD and IRAD program management
• Business Development, Competitive Intelligence
• Strategic partnerships, OEM to Startups to Small Business and NTDC supplier engagement
• Business process improvement, Cost reduction, LEAN
• Tool modernization, Process automation, Material data analytics
• ​​Composites supply chain, Make-Buy, Technology roadmaps, Emerging technologies, Material and Process qualification and specification

• Composites manufacturing and automation, Additive manufacturing
• Experimental characterization of composites
• Prepregging of PMCs and CMCs, 3D weaving of textile preforms
• Composites reuse and recycling
• Composites design, modeling, and analysis
• Composite material allowables and statistical analysis
• Multiscale and probabilistic modeling of composites
• Ballistic impact, thermal, structural, damage behavior of composites
• Textile and composite modeling preprocessing software
• Implicit and explicit finite element analysis
• Supercomputing, scripting, user-defined material modeling

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Education and Certifications

• PhD, Materials Science and Engineering, University of Delaware, 2011
• MS, Mechanical Engineering, University of Cincinnati, 2006
• BE, Mechanical Engineering, Visveswaraiah Technological University (India), 2003
  
  
• Aerospace Project Management, California Institute of Technology, 2021
• Leadership at All Levels, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020
• Accounting and Finance for the Non-Finance Manager, University of California San Diego, 2020
• Six Sigma Green Belt for Process Improvement, University of Southern California, 2019