Nikus Allen

• Orchestrate the business rhythm and operational strategy for multi-functional ground and space systems (SLS, Orion, ISS), serving as the primary integration point between engineering, flow management, and leadership teams.

• Spearhead risk mitigation initiatives and safety protocols that reduced facility downtime and ensured continuity of operations for high-priority space assets.

• Drive the implementation of operational excellence methodologies, transforming legacy maintenance workflows into agile, data-driven operations that maximized team effectiveness and budget utilization.

• Partner with executive leaders and QA managers to institute quality management protocols, heightening product performance metrics and accelerating flight hardware processing.

• Strategic Partnering (Blue Origin): Executed the fabrication and installation of critical controls and automation systems for Blue Origin’s Launch Complex 36 (LC-36). Collaborated with client engineering teams to ensure system builds met strict aerospace quality standards and site integration schedules.

• Operational Excellence: Developed and standardized Operating Procedures (SOPs) for electronic assembly and calibration. Transformed manufacturing workflows to increase throughput and reduce error rates, directly supporting the transition to high-rate production environments.

• Facility Operations: Directed facility operations for a specialized calibration lab, managing capital equipment forecasting and ensuring 100% accountability of high-value assets.

• Team Leadership: Led a 7-person technical team in the deployment of automated systems, overseeing risk mitigation during equipment installation and ensuring on-time delivery for projects generating $16M in revenue.

• Selected by executive leaders to lead a 40-person team with oversight of projects maintaining critical DoD satellite communication systems.

• Led enterprise projects optimizing $10M in communication equipment; inspired team to high performance, increasing readiness of systems to an unprecedented 87%.

• Developed process improvements and innovative business solutions driving cost savings in daily repairs of circuit card assemblies and subassemblies.

• Propelled leadership development initiative by coaching and mentoring 30 junior members; groomed next-generation leaders and deepened management bench strength.

• Headed mobile teams providing services to clients onsite; maintained inventory of technical equipment ensuring accountability and operability of critical healthcare assets.