Synopsis of Additional Experience (Partial
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Management Strategy
Cost as an Independent
Variable (CAIV) and Design To Cost (DTC)
Engineering Design
Analysis
Technology Assessment
Management
Strategy
- Led
an extensive study for the Director of a major joint service program evaluating
its project management approach (including cost, performance and schedule
issues) and organizational structure and documented the findings for use
by future program personnel.
- Examined
procurement strategies (e.g., dual sourcing) used on engine, guidance and
air vehicle subsystems for the Director of a major joint service program
and documented the findings for use by future program personnel.
- Identified
candidate subsystem and component level procurement strategies and
performed quantitative analyses to determine potential benefit/cost
results and to assess the feasibility of these approaches. This work was
used to shape cost estimates for several major programs.
- Evaluated
development and procurement options for a series of potential, complementary,
ground and air projects. Results of this study were successfully received
by high-level government program sponsors.
- Led
an extensive study for the Director of a series of major development
projects comparing management, programmatic and technical characteristics
of these projects versus historical commercial and military projects. The
program manager used the study results in Congressional testimony.
- Management
and technical advisor to a national laboratory on a business process
re-engineering study that was performed by four major aerospace companies.
The scope of the study included examining existing processes and products
and developing recommendations for enhanced processes which could
potentially decrease operating cost and reduce fabrication time.
- Technical
advisor on several Independent Cost Assessments and Independent Cost
Estimates of major government development projects. Results of these
studies were successfully received by high-level government project
sponsors.
- Technical
advisor on several manufacturing cost reduction studies for the Director
of a series of major projects. These studies examined current
manufacturing processes and likely production costs for key subsystems
within several projects, developed recommendations for enhancing products
and manufacturing processes and included estimates of necessary
investments to decrease production cost, likely resulting production costs
and potential return on investment. The program manager used the results
in Congressional testimony.
- Led
manufacturing cost reduction assessments on all subsystems of a major
project. The results led to changes in design and technology options for
several subsystems to increase producibility and decrease potential
production cost.
- Performed
organizational implementation studies to potentially enhance the
effectiveness of various project management functions (e.g., risk
management) for industry and government sponsors on a variety of projects.
- Performed
an extensive study of acquisition reform impact on various project
management techniques (e.g., risk management) and developed management and
organizational implementation recommendations that will enhance
benefit/cost on a variety of projects.
- Developed
a unique analytical framework for enhancing the effectiveness of key
project management tools that support acquisition reform (e.g., CAIV and
risk management) on commercial and military projects. This framework
includes various aspects of buyer-seller interactions such as preferences,
objectives, programmatic and technical constraints; impact of contract
type; dynamic behavior during the course of a project and the likely range
of outcomes. This work was validated by a statistical analysis that used a
large sample of defense project data and extensive case studies of major
DoD programs. One application of this framework was the rapid, successful
prediction of potential management and organizational issues on several
development projects which I had no prior experience.
- Red
Team reviewer on the proposal activity for a multi-billion dollar program.
Made over 60 recommendations to enhance the proposal and associated
briefings in the areas of design, CAIV, management, manufacturing, risk
and systems engineering. All recommended changes were approved by the Red
Team chairman and provided to the client.
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Cost As an
Independent Variable (CAIV) and Design To Cost (DTC)
- Performed
an independent assessment of CAIV implementation on a major project with
high-level CAIV visibility. Evaluated the prime contractor's CAIV
implementation across the project and developed recommendations to improve
the CAIV process.
- Performed
an independent assessment of CAIV and DTC activity on a major project with
high-level CAIV visibility. Developed specific recommendations to increase
the level of CAIV effectiveness as part of the project's design and
management processes. Evaluated both the prime contractor and sponsoring
Service project office CAIV implementations, CAIV contractual
requirements, progress made to date in meeting these requirements, and
steps to improve the effectiveness of the contractor and government CAIV
implementation.
- Performed
an independent assessment of CAIV on a major project. Evaluated the
government and contractor team's CAIV process and developed
recommendations for improving the CAIV process. Successfully briefed
government and contractor project office personnel and government
headquarters' personnel on the results of this study.
- Developed
enhanced CAIV and cost-performance-schedule tradeoff processes for a major
project. This work included: evaluating the government and contractor CAIV
processes, developing recommendations for improving the contractor's CAIV
process, implementing upgrades to the contractor's CAIV and cost-performance-schedule
tradeoff processes, integrated the CAIV process with the risk management
process, and developed the project's Integrated Master Plan CAIV section.
- Performed
an independent assessment of a prime contractor's CAIV process on a major
project. Developed linkages between CAIV, risk management and systems
engineering processes on this project.
- Identified
potential CAIV issues on a series of diverse projects for a prime
contractor (including a project with high-level CAIV visibility) and developed
training materials and briefed key project personnel on methods to address
these issues.
- Performed
an independent assessment of a prime contractor's CAIV process on a major
project, and developed recommendations to improve this process.
- Provided
CAIV process and implementation guidance to the prime contractor on
several proposal activities. This included writing CAIV proposal sections.
- At
the request of HQ Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) and Aeronautical
Systems Command (WPAFB), I developed recommendations on how risk
management and CAIV processes should be linked. (This material was written
for an Air Force CAIV Handbook.)
- Provided
initial guidelines for the Air Force to implement CAIV activities on
projects prior to RFP release and following contract award. The guidelines
contain recommendations for the RFP Statement Of Objectives and Sections
L, M, and Standards; and post-award evaluation.
- Identified
and evaluated cost/performance/schedule/risk tradeoffs on a series of
major ground, air and space projects that led to design changes, which
contributed to lower potential life cycle costs.
- Identified
key cost/performance/schedule/risk tradeoffs for an organization that
initiates and manages a large number of high complexity projects.
- Served
as technical advisor and analyst evaluating cost-performance tradeoffs for
a wide variety of advanced technologies. This work included evaluating
focal plane arrays (8 projects); optical telescope assemblies (4
projects); cryocoolers (4 projects); gimbals (2 projects); electronics (2
projects); star sensors (2 projects); power supplies (2 projects); sensor
integration, assembly and test (2 projects); EHF communications (5
projects); solar power (2 projects); data processors (3 projects); and
spacecraft integration, assembly and test (2 projects).
- Developed
a unique analytical framework for implementing and enhancing the
effectiveness of CAIV and DTC and relating CAIV and DTC to risk management
on commercial and military projects. This framework includes various
aspects of buyer-seller interactions such as preferences, objectives,
programmatic and technical constraints; impact of contract type; dynamic
behavior during the course of a project and the likely range of outcomes.
This work was validated by a statistical analysis that used a large sample
of defense project data and extensive case studies of major DoD programs.
One application of this framework was the rapid, successful prediction of
potential cost-performance issues and trades on a high complexity development
project which I had no prior experience.
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Engineering
Design Analysis
- Led
the engineering design assessment subpanel of a national-level project review,
which evaluated the engineering feasibility and risk associated with a
large series of candidate air, ground and space projects.
- Led
numerous design assessment activities on several major programs that
resulted in enhanced designs, which contributed to lower potential
production cost.
- Developed
a unique analytical framework for enhancing the effectiveness of the
design analysis process that permits identifying feasible design limits
and cost, performance, schedule and risk tradeoffs. This work was
validated by a statistical analysis that examined commercial and military
system component data collected over a multi-year span.
- Developed
a framework for assessing how the cost of some key technologies may vary
with time; which permits enhanced insertion of technology into the design
process. This work was validated by a statistical analysis that examined a
large sample of commercial system components collected over a multi-year
span. One application of this framework was the development of cost versus
time predictions for a number of components used on an advanced technology
project.
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Technology
Assessment
- Led
numerous technology assessment activities on a series of major projects
that resulted in enhanced supporting technology projects, by helping to
focus the technology projects on the eventual development projects where
they would be applied.
- Led
technology assessments and identified potential technology shortfalls for
a number of subsystems on a major development program. This included
working with supporting technology project task managers to identify
potential workarounds due to budgetary, schedule and design changes and
enhancements to better focus the technology projects on the potential
needs of the major development program.
- Developed
technology assessments associated with several potential future projects
for a government organization that was attempting to understand the
likelihood that such systems could be developed and deployed within a
given time-frame.
- Performed
technology assessments on a variety of current and potential systems for a
government organization over a multi-year period of time.
- Developed
technical baselines to assist project-level cost estimates on numerous
high technology development projects, ranging from complex microelectronic
circuits to a space nuclear propulsion system.
- Developed
novel approaches for estimating the cost of advanced technology items,
including analogies between microelectronics and focal plane array
(detector and readout) chips and quantifying how the price of various high
technology items varies with time.
- Developed
innovative cost estimating methods for a variety of high technology
programs with far-term development and deployment dates (out to 2025).
- Led
two cost research roadmap studies on military space systems and one cost
research roadmap study for advanced military microelectronics.
Recommendations provided became the basis for government advanced
technology cost research activity funding over a five-year period of time.
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