Melissa Mutolo
Jericho,VT
Summary
Drop me into any Aerospace (16 years), Semiconductor (7 Years) or Entertainment (11 years) program and I will take leadership on all Program Needs.
- Project Management - Thirty-four Years experience, MS Tools
- Communication- Procedures, plans, software tools
- Configuration – Product life management tools
- Resource – Direct report or matrix
- Financial and Schedule Management – Million-dollar budgets
- Customer Facing – Focused voice of the customer Supply Chain
- Demand and supply planning
- Engineering - Software and hardware with front-end design applications, internet applications
- Quality Assurance – Audit preparation for AS9001, supplier audits
Specialty in proactive electronic obsolescence management to support your products and fleets.
Overview
35
35
years of professional experience
Work History
Principal Project Engineer - SAIS Obsolescence
Collins Aerospace Systems
04.2016 - 11.2024
- Responsible for electronic obsolescence across 1500 circuit cards, 50,000 parts and three factories
- Disposition all Obsolescence Product change notices and follow until closure across three factories
- Ensure active monitoring of all Circuit cards in both Accrues and Silicon Expert
- Support proposals across Original Equipment, Aftermarket and Manufacturing repair and overhaul to ensure acceptance of producible parts
- Participate in all Gate Review to ensure obsolescence is managed prior to moving to another program phase
- Review all Supplier Request for Information specific to obsolescence and follow to closure
- Work with Sales and Operations to ensure we only accept purchase orders without obsolescence issues
- Assist customer quality and supplier quality support for obsolescence issues
- Participate in contract reviews of obsolescence clauses for compliance
- Procurement support on obsolete parts using brokers, recreations, repackaging
- Inventory support for Last Time buy storage conditions, negotiations with third parties to store material
- Support all Customer meetings on site or via remote meetings
- Manage all Diminishing supply contractual health reports with Value stream leaders yearly and work with partner team for schedule and execution
- Sub-Tier Management
- Work with Brokers on finding parts and counterfeit testing protocol
- Work with Test houses when necessary
- Work with Contract Manufacturing houses on their obsolescence
- Work with shop floor on Certificate of Conformance recreation
- Participate in all Inventory reviews (evaluating material in storage for scrap across three factories)
- Work Transfer assistance by reviewing quotes, customer furnished material and costs
Program Manager
United Technologies Aerospace Systems
09.2008 - 04.2016
- Program management activities around monthly production deliverables and new product introduction programs in support of the aerospace industry
- Focus on earned value management to understand cost and schedule performance of program
- Integrated product team management to include a matrix team consisting of engineers, procurement specialists and manufacturing technicians
- Monthly demand reviews to assist in Sales and Operation planning
- Monthly financials reviews to report on earned value, cost performance index and schedule performance index
- Responsible for design to cost models and ensuring appropriate percentage of cost of sales
Project Manager
IBM Corporation
04.2001 - 07.2008
- Manage yearly project scope in support of the semiconductor industry through the Fall Plan process
- Schedule management for requirements/design/development/testing/deployment/training and support of software applications which are used across five IBM locations
- Communications management to include customer and stakeholder venues
- Resource management to include maintaining workload/priority balance across assigned resources
- Risk management to include mitigation and contingency plans
- Quality assurance management
- Support and maintenance management
Director of Production
U.S. Interactive, Inc.
04.1999 - 03.2001
- Management of twelve Project Managers within team based, mentor structure
- Management of high level language programmers
- Participating in sales and new business opportunities through qualifying, presentation and bidding process
- Bringing trademarked process and methodology marketing message into practice
- Promulgating the methodology and process throughout the USI offices
- Lending sponsorship and leadership to project teams
- Recommending and approving training needs
Managing Producer
Viacom, Inc.
09.1996 - 04.1999
Senior Producer
Arc Studios International, Inc.
06.1994 - 09.1996
Account Executive
The Image Bank Film
05.1990 - 06.1994
Education
BA - Psychology
University of Vermont
Burlington, Vermont05.1990
Timeline
Principal Project Engineer - SAIS Obsolescence
Collins Aerospace Systems
04.2016 - 11.2024
Program Manager
United Technologies Aerospace Systems
09.2008 - 04.2016
Project Manager
IBM Corporation
04.2001 - 07.2008
Director of Production
U.S. Interactive, Inc.
04.1999 - 03.2001
Managing Producer
Viacom, Inc.
09.1996 - 04.1999
Senior Producer
Arc Studios International, Inc.
06.1994 - 09.1996
Account Executive
The Image Bank Film
05.1990 - 06.1994
BA - Psychology
University of Vermont
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