Geoffrey K. Hill
Madison,AL
Summary
Program manager with expertise in leading complex multi-million dollar projects. Demonstrated success in driving operational builds and negotiating contracts to align projects with strategic goals. Enhances collaboration across diverse teams to achieve optimal results.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
GMD IDT Integration & Subcontract Program Manager
Northrop Grumman
Huntsville, AL
12.2024 - Current
- Managed the cost, schedule, and technical performance of $400M+ multi-subcontractor programs (L3Harris & CesiumAstro) during the high-risk, critical-path Phased Array (PA) IDT development and delivery over a 5 year period.
- Facilitated contract negotiations, securing favorable terms to align with project needs.
- Leads all phases of key Subcontractor Operations, manages the day-to-day administration, logistics, and workflow of organizational programs to ensure efficiency, compliance, and goal achievement.
- Developed and oversaw project schedules, managed data, improved operational processes, and liaised between teams and stakeholders to enhance collaboration.
- Establishes milestones and monitors adherence to master plans and schedules, identifies program problems and obtains solutions, such as allocation of resources or changing contractual specifications.
- Directs the work of ~36 direct employees assigned to the IDT subcontractor management team (SMT) program cross-functional program disciplines.
- Manages all program disciplines to deliver a successful subcontract and deliverables.
- Ensures supplier hooks are present in the overall product roadmap.
- Held ultimate responsibility and accountability for the success of the subcontracts.
- Directed management of cost, quality, and schedule performance for successful project execution.
- Identifies and coordinates interfaces, integration requirements and relationships.
- Drove risk analyses and mitigation activities, ensuring subcontract performance met organizational standards.
- Completed the closeout of the subcontract effort after receiving and verifying all deliverables.
- Maintains accountability to the program and Subcontracts Organization.
- Directs Global Supply Chain Subcontract Manager / Subcontract Administrator activities.
- Negotiated resource requirements and team assignments to optimize project efficiency.
- Secures the required Team resources to effectively manage the subcontract.
- IDT product Integration lead to GWS intra-/inter-product dependencies, integration events and external components.
- Leads a team in Risk, Issue & Opportunity (RIO) management.
GMD IDT Deputy Product Manager
Northrop Grumman
Huntsville, AL
07.2021 - 06.2025
- Directed daily operations of GMD Ground Systems IDT (IFICS Data Terminal), valued at ~$300M, focusing on product execution, cost management, team building, and customer satisfaction.
- Successfully delivered two operational product builds through the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) boards and into the fielded system to enhance capabilities for the Warfighter.
- Experience in setting a vision and developing a plan with team leaders, gaining Customer buy-in and executing the plan to success.
- Manages cross-functional teams of ~75 engineers performing SW development, HW development, Systems Engineering, Integration & Test.
- Manages a major subcontractor/supplier planning, integration and execution to include proposal development, negotiations, baseline implementation, product development, issue identification and complex problem solving to amount to ~$200M over 4 years based out of Melbourne, FL.
- Actively manages risks by identifying, assessing and mitigating threats to Northrop Grumman’s capital and earnings.
- Experience in Organic Business Growth, Contract/Fee Definition, Developing long-range objectives and strategic plans, strategic assessments to shape & develop proposals, Customer Negotiations, Project Engineering, and Systems Engineering.
- Served as the IDT CAM managing discrete and level of effort CAs, overseeing a ~$20M budget and directing program plans to meet contractual requirements.
- Recognized and responded to customer needs, developing additional sales to support organizational objectives.
- Identified and addressed program impacts through a systematic, proactive approach to issue and problem resolution, ensuring conflicts were communicated, monitored, and resolved promptly across all product levels.
GMD Mgr Systems Engineering & GS Program Execution Manager
Northrop Grumman
Huntsville, AL
09.2020 - 07.2021
- Championed the GS Build 8 Critical Design Review, guiding GS products nationwide to achieve success.
- Facilitated communication and coordination across multiple inter-company GS products, ensuring successful execution of program milestone commitments.
- Served as the GS Program Director delegate, facilitating GS TERs and Executive Level Escalation Reports during GMD Program Director Staff meetings and Risk & Opportunity reviews.
- Served as the GS Program Management CAM, executing ~11 active CAs and overseeing a budget of ~$55M with ~70 Full-Time Equivalents.
- Coordinates all product team inputs and develops the GS Financial & Product Technical Execution Review (TER) packages; and presents all the GS Financial Earned Value data to the MDA GMN Customer bi-weekly.
- Performed strategic assessments to influence and negotiate Contract Fee (Award and Incentive) Criteria/Metrics, overseeing execution for high ratings.
- Functional manager to a team of up to ~11 engineers responsible for leading, staffing, evaluating, coaching and professionally developing toward Northrop Grumman’s Leadership Characteristics and Goals Achievement.
GMD Mgr Systems Engineering & Change Management
Northrop Grumman
Huntsville, AL
02.2020 - 09.2020
- Managed a team of up to 11 engineers, leading staffing, evaluations, coaching, and professional development.
- Participated in negotiations with MDA/Boeing on the GMD Development and Sustainment Contract (DSC) Program Extension, follow-on contract, achieving a value of ~ $1B.
- Programmatic responsibilities include planning, proposing, negotiating, and integrating negotiated contract cost, execution schedule and technical baselines to meet internal/external program milestones.
- Organized and managed all phases of program response, coordinating with major subcontractors to meet Missile Defense Agency’s (MDA) and Boeing’s Request For Proposal (RFP) specifications and ensuring timely program submittals.
- Acquired experience with CPAF, CPFF, CPIF, and Task Instruction contract types, developing proposals, creating estimates, generating monthly awards forecasts, formulating long-range objectives and strategic plans, analyzing contract acquisitions financially, and tracking profitability, productivity, and growth targets.
- Led internal and supplier bid approach for 10+ proposals, supporting Statement of Work decomposition, basis of estimate preparation, and development of pricing inputs and schedules.
- Represented Northrop Grumman as lead for complex debit/credit termination proposal during mid-hardware/software build execution, coordinating with subcontractors and customers to align on project approach.
- Led and managed Technical Baseline Changes to an undefinitized contract baseline.
Systems Engineer
Northrop Grumman
Huntsville, AL
10.2017 - 01.2020
- Pathways Program: Rotation Three – Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) Program.
- Enabled effective project strategies to align with organizational goals.
- Supported and participated in the room with MDA/Boeing in negotiations on the GMD Development and Sustainment Contract (DSC) Program Extension, follow-on contract, to negotiate a value of approximately $1B.
- Analyzed contract alternatives to maximize sales return and minimize risk, providing strategic business solutions.
- Coordinated between contractual, technical, and financial teams to drive proposal execution and communicated strategic objectives and risk implications to GMD program and Northrop Grumman executive leadership.
- Develops innovative solutions to provide the MDA/Boeing with affordable solutions to meet the warfighters' needs.
- Pathways Program: Rotation Two – Integrated Air & Missile Defense (IAMD) Battle Command System (IBCS) Program.
- Managed status of use case and requirements design and development for all software domains during software build execution.
- Identified program risk by analyzing unplanned requirements growth during execution and mitigated the risk by burning down the backlog utilizing the crashing technique via management reserve to achieve program milestones.
- Evaluated earned value cost and schedule data with Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) forecasts and root-cause analysis to brief program leadership weekly.
- Supported the CAM with detailed EVMS analysis (Estimate to Complete (ETC), Variances (VARs), IMS, Quantifiable Backup Data (QBD)).
- Captured design, development, agile, and integration efforts to implement process improvements, enhancing velocity and mitigating risks through lessons learned.
- Generated data visualization control charts for monthly contract deliverables (CDRLs).
- Proposal Team Material Lead.
- Managed effort to construct and verify the BOM resulting in $1.5M savings to satisfy the scope.
- Produced a time-phased cost baseline of material forecasts utilizing project management and business acumen.
- Established communication channels among 30 team members to ensure accurate cost estimation, status reports, and BOM procurement schedule.
- Leads, coordinates and manages the development of material to accomplish contract milestones minimizing risks incorporating adequate lead times.
- Performed an internal audit to verify contractual materials and synchronized with the customer.
- Engineered and conducted a change management procedure for Government furnished material lifecycle.
- Hardware Design Engineer.
- Designed, developed and integrated first article hardware assemblies to ensure compatibility.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to align expectations ensuring a successful design.
Mechanical Engineer
Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA)
Norfolk, VA
08.2016 - 09.2017
- Specialized in combat systems and certified in advanced mechanical auxiliary systems.
- Executed research, development, and acquisition tasks, including design, installation, revision, and analysis of platforms to enhance operational capabilities.
- Monitored and provided on-site technical support and assessments, ensuring system reliability and performance.
- Participated in elite program enhancing strategic skills, conceptual thinking, strategic planning, and authentic leadership.
Education
Master of Engineering Management -
Old Dominion University
Norfolk, VA09-2019
Bachelor of Science - Mechanical Engineering
Old Dominion University
Norfolk, VA05-2016
NCAA Division I Student Athlete -
ODU Men’s Soccer Scholarship
Norfolk, VA05-2016
Skills
- Program Management
- Project Lifecycle Management
- Budget Management
- Risk management
- Risk assessment
- Risk Analysis
- Scope and schedule management
- Northrop Grumman CAM/EVMS Certified
- Acquisition process
- Subcontractor oversight
- Operational Analysis
- Cross-functional leadership
- People & Process Management
- Team Leadership
- Executive communication
- Responsibility matrix
- Active Secret DoD Security Clearance
Highlight Of Qualifications
- Ability to present complex problems to executive management clearly & concisely
- Ability to apply knowledge, insights and understanding of business and financial concepts, tools and processes to the benefit of program decisions, actions, and performance
- Ability to manage communications with stakeholders through organized processes to ensure that program information is defined, collected, shared, understood, stored and retrieved in a manner that effectively meets program and stakeholder needs
- Ability to prioritize and adjust tasks to accomplish project results
Timeline
GMD IDT Integration & Subcontract Program Manager
Northrop Grumman
12.2024 - Current
GMD IDT Deputy Product Manager
Northrop Grumman
07.2021 - 06.2025
GMD Mgr Systems Engineering & GS Program Execution Manager
Northrop Grumman
09.2020 - 07.2021
GMD Mgr Systems Engineering & Change Management
Northrop Grumman
02.2020 - 09.2020
Systems Engineer
Northrop Grumman
10.2017 - 01.2020
Mechanical Engineer
Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA)
08.2016 - 09.2017
Master of Engineering Management -
Old Dominion University
Bachelor of Science - Mechanical Engineering
Old Dominion University
NCAA Division I Student Athlete -
ODU Men’s Soccer Scholarship