Program Controls & Master Scheduling Leadership
40+ Years | NASA | DoD | EVMS | Digital Delivery
Program Controls & Master Scheduling Leadership
40+ Years | NASA | DoD | EVMS | Digital Delivery
Professional Experience
Blue Origin | Lead Sr. Master Scheduler | 2021–Present
- Lead integrated master and shop-floor production scheduling across the full New Glenn vehicle portfolio—including first- and second-stage production, tanks, payload accommodations, and current and future vehicle plans—directing approximately 20 tactical schedulers and owning scheduling-readiness decisions.
- Established and sustained 47 consecutive weekly Tier 3-to-Program reviews, clearly surfacing critical paths, risks, dependencies, recovery actions, and accountable owners.
- Integrated multiple production rocket configurations and cross-functional workstreams into the master schedule, expanding risk-and-opportunity coverage and strengthening program-level visibility and decision support.
- Administer 13 Microsoft Project Web App sites supporting all seven Blue Origin business units and more than 2,000 users; manage the MSP help desk and have resolved more than 500 support requests since 2025.
- Serve as technical project manager and functional design lead for Blue Origin’s company-wide transition from Microsoft Project Online ahead of Microsoft’s September 30 retirement date, leading requirements, evaluation, solution selection, and migration planning.
- Lead New Glenn’s pre-General Availability transition from all COTS scheduling tools to an internally developed scheduling product through pilot design, phased cutover, boundary rules, training, and work-center readiness governance.
- Shipped five production releases of the enterprise Project Tools suite, including a custom multi-scenario Need-By-Date engine that back-calculates completions from any selected milestone into any date field.
- Built a suite of internally developed schedule-integrated workflow and portfolio-management applications for ITAR/CUI-ready AWS GovCloud deployment, establishing containerized architecture, PostgreSQL services, Terraform infrastructure, and internal GitLab CI/CD foundations.
- Trained and supported ~20 schedulers across New Glenn, Engines, Lunar, and Test Flight Operations on the tactical scheduling process and tools I built and managed for organizational use.
- Led the Microsoft Project Server enterprise migration as technical project manager with disciplined rollback, change-log, live-test, and operational-handoff controls; also presented scheduling innovations at the 2024 and 2026 Empower EUG conferences.
forProject Technology, Inc. | Co-Founder & Vice President | 2007–2021
- Co-designed, developed, and commercialized EVMS forProject, a leading Microsoft Project-based EVMS solution adopted by more than 200 government agencies and contractors.
- Co-developed and commercialized Schedule Analyzer forProject, later purchased and deployed agency-wide by the Defense Contract Management Agency as its standard schedule-auditing tool for DCMA officers.
- Directed product strategy, solution architecture, implementation, training, and customer support for integrated scheduling, earned-value management, schedule-quality analysis, and executive reporting products.
- Advised aerospace, defense, and federal clients on integrated master scheduling, ANSI-748 EVMS, schedule quality, program controls, and enterprise operating standards.
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Compliance Software Technology, Inc. | President & CTO | 1999–2007
- Designed, developed, and commercialized Microsoft Project-based scheduling, EVMS, integration, and reporting products adopted across complex government and commercial programs.
- Led product strategy and hands-on software architecture, development, implementation, testing, training, customer support, and continuous product improvement.
- Translated demanding program-control requirements into practical execution systems, automated workflows, and decision-grade performance reporting while providing executive-level consulting to aerospace, defense, federal, and commercial clients.
Computer Sciences Corporation – CSTI Client Engagement | Contract Senior Integrated Master Scheduler
- As CSTI’s hands-on founder and principal consultant, served as Computer Sciences Corporation’s original Senior Integrated Master Scheduler supporting the IRS Business Systems Modernization Office.
- Led more than 10 schedulers responsible for the enterprise integrated master schedule and Control Account Manager intermediate schedules.
- Established the weekly cross-project dependency process, strengthening schedule integration, ownership, issue visibility, and coordinated execution across major workstreams.
- ntegrated earned-value status and schedule performance using Cobra and Microsoft Project, producing credible program-control data for management review and decision-making.
Aerospace, Defense & Federal Program Mission Impacts
- Delivered integrated master scheduling, ANSI-748 EVMS implementation, schedule analytics, schedule-risk support, and program-control leadership for aerospace, defense, federal, and commercial organizations.
- Architected Microsoft Project and Project Server environments, standardized scheduling methods, and developed custom automation, reporting, and decision-support tools for complex enterprise programs.
- Integrated schedule, cost, and earned-value data across Microsoft Project, Primavera P6, SAP, Costpoint, Cobra, and related program-control systems.
- Supported the FAA, NASA programs, DoD and DCMA organizations, General Dynamics, Ball Aerospace, Rolls-Royce, Safran, Collins Aerospace, Raytheon, and other mission-critical clients through implementation, consulting, training, and hands-on execution leadership.
Technology, Methods & Certifications
SCHEDULING
Microsoft Project 3.0-Project 2021/2502 | Project Server | Primavera P6 | Open Plan | Milestones Professional | Steelray | Schedule Analyzer | Acumen Fuse/Risk | PertMaster
EVMS / COST
Empower | Cobra | MPM | PM Compass | wInsight | EVMS forProject | Costpoint | BCWS/BCWP/ACWP | PMB/EAC/ETC | IPMR/CPR reporting
DATA / AUTOMATION
Databricks | SQL Server | Oracle | Excel/Power Query/Pivot | VBA | VB.NET | C# | Microsoft 365 | SharePoint | Teams | Visio
SECURE CLOUD DELIVERY
AWS GovCloud | ITAR/CUI-ready and FedRAMP Moderate-aligned architecture | Terraform | Docker | GitLab CI/CD | JWT/OIDC | ECS Fargate | Aurora PostgreSQL | Secrets Manager
GOVERNANCE
ANSI-748 | DCMA 14-point assessment | IMS health and critical-path analysis | SRA | WBS/OBS/RAM | BOE | change control | risk and opportunity