Material & supply chain program manager with hardware-native experience across aerospace, motorsports, moonshot R&D, and enterprise infrastructure. From Loon stratospheric balloons to Disney's high-priority infrastructure deployments — BOM management, vendor negotiations, and ERP-driven material planning that holds up under regulated-industry tempo.
Translating week-over-week design changes into vendor-facing part lists without drift. Long-lead watch lists, on-time PO discipline, monthly inventory-at-risk reviews — the work that keeps build cadence intact when the spec moves.
Operations & tooling vendor agreements end-to-end across business units — with $3.8M+ in negotiated savings, litigation-adjacent contract research, and a maintenance/renewal pipeline that flagged auto-renew traps before they fired. Multi-cycle vendor relationships built on tight comms and clean documentation.
Operating ERP layers as the truth-source stakeholders pull from without asking. Coupa as the daily procurement surface (4+ years), DocuSign workflow design, Conga document automation. Rebuilt an email-chain ordering process into one that scaled.
Project Loon experience translating R&D BOMs into supplier-ready POs with no off-the-shelf catalog. Backup-supplier fanout, early-purchase strategies on long-lead components, build-window protection when launch dates compress.
Aerospace baseline at Wesco. Compliance-balanced sourcing. Audit-ready file discipline. The kind of program documentation that holds up to ITAR-adjacent reviews and infra-procurement audits without a scramble.
Running HIRECAR concurrently — DMV, insurance, supplier management, partner P&L, JV agreement design. The cross-functional reflex that program management requires, sharpened by also signing the front of the check.
The career arc isn't a coincidence. Aerospace production engineering at Wesco taught the regulated-industry baseline. Honda HPD added motorsport-cadence delivery pressure. Loon proved the moonshot R&D environment — sourcing for hardware that didn't exist as a catalog SKU. Disney layered in $3.8M+ of indirect-spend negotiation across enterprise software and infrastructure deployments at scale.
What that arc produces is uncommon: a program manager who reads a BOM like an engineer, negotiates like a category buyer, and documents like an aerospace QA lead — the exact profile that defense-tech, AI-infra, and hardware-startup procurement teams now compete to hire.
Available for full-time onsite, hybrid, or remote. Concurrent founder responsibility at HIRECAR — disclosed and structured to not interfere with W-2 obligations.
Quarter after quarter at the confidential hardware build operation — long-lead watch list and on-time PO discipline kept the program from showing up on the post-mortem.
Owned the operations and tooling contract surface at Disney — negotiation, litigation research, contract interpretation, deal orchestration, and the maintenance/renewal cadence across business units.
At Loon, vendor-facing part lists tracked the design changes in real time. The work that doesn't get hired for in stable programs but is mission-critical in a moonshot.
Open to W-2 program management and supply chain leadership roles — onsite, hybrid, or remote. Strongest fit: hardware NPI, moonshot R&D, defense-tech, AI infrastructure, entertainment-tech procurement.