Corporate Leadership

Global hardware/software/systems communications provider needed to ‘spin off’ a planned satellite communications system to a separate, public company. The receiving company required an integrated, global program plan with updated status to complete the transaction. 

Build a program plan composed of 812 separate project plans (at initiation of program office) covering invention, construction, integration, nation-state coordination, ground-based and space-based implementation as well as commercial/military terminal equipment design, build and certify. Bring all project plans to current status and have key PMI metrics at the program level. 

Built and staffed a corporate level Program Office spanning four divisions. Collected and integrated all extant project plans. Built comprehensive program schedule and budget that contained all project plan cross-dependencies. Coordinated at CFO level to identify program Sources and Uses capital flows. Delivered plan and metrics panel to both company CxO offices for approval and transferred in Program Office responsibilities (trained the replacement team).