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Louis Bravos

Senior Program Manager
Wheeling,United States

Summary

Mr. Bravos is a senior program manager who has an experience managing large groups of engineering teams. He has a background in process improvement and establishing program management practices and initiating PMOs. He has worked extensively across the United States, Europe and the Middle East with remote teams.

Overview

28
28
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Program Manager

CausePoint Consulting
06.2006 - Current

Airbus Defence and Space - France/Qatar – Program Manager – End to end responsibility to deliver major components of the program, including the system engineering, software development, testing and integration into the live border control system. The components included BorA Radar Update, Surveillance software release updates, Surveillance tracker server update and multiple System Stability updates.

Airbus Defence and Space - France/Qatar – Program Management Organisation - Led multiple engagements, over a five-year period, to plan and implement comprehensive engineering management policies and processes on a major border security programs.

Airbus Defence and Space – (Saudi Arabia) – Program Management - Led program to re-plan and improve a 1.4b Euro border security program. The scope of the program included Organizational Development, Civil Works, Engineering, Training and Rollout. Directed all Group Managers. Ensured program requirements were clearly traced in system releases. Conducted senior management Program Management Reviews.

Co-Founder and Program Manager

ChangeBridge Consulting
06.1996 - 06.2006

National Air Traffic Services (UK) – Restructured Engineering Organization - a ten year 6-billion-pound program to reinvent the air traffic control system for the United Kingdom. Part of a two-year program to oversee the integration of new software to aid in improving the efficiency safety of air traffic control.

ITT, GEC Marconi, Baxter Healthcare, Liberty Mutual, John Hancock, ATT – Directed and achieved measurable CMMI Software Improvements.

Process Improvement Director

American Management Systems
03.1994 - 06.1996

Northrop Grumman, ATT, Defense and Information Agency

A professional services organization focused on delivering complex information technology software for government and heavy industry clients. Clients included

Education

MBA -

Lake Forest Graduate School of Management
Lake Forest, IL

CMMI Instructor V1.1 -

Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA

Computer Science

DePaul University
Chicago, IL

Bachelor of Arts -

Roosevelt University
Chicago, IL

Skills

Planning/Schedule Management

Team/Remote Collaboration

Risk Management

Work Management

Monte Carlo Simulations

Tracking

Cost Management

Client Facing

Software

MS Project

Sharepoint

JIRA

ARM

PowerPoint

Excel

Timeline

Senior Program Manager

CausePoint Consulting
06.2006 - Current

Co-Founder and Program Manager

ChangeBridge Consulting
06.1996 - 06.2006

Process Improvement Director

American Management Systems
03.1994 - 06.1996

MBA -

Lake Forest Graduate School of Management

CMMI Instructor V1.1 -

Carnegie Mellon University

Computer Science

DePaul University

Bachelor of Arts -

Roosevelt University
Louis BravosSenior Program Manager