Pedro Sharpe
Austin,TX
Summary
Technical product leader with a strong background in operational strategy, user engagement, and operations planning. Deep experience in managing cross-functional initiatives, ensuring compliance, and delivering technical solutions that drive efficiency and readiness in complex environments.
Overview
1
1
Certificate
5
5
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Technical Product Strategy & Operations Manager
U.S. Army
Fort Hood, TX
10.2025 - Current
- Engage senior executives and end users to identify needs, clarify ambiguous requirements, prioritize the highest-risk gaps, and translate findings into product direction and implementation plans.
- Define and drive near- and long-range strategy for multi-team and organizational operational capabilities, converting executive intent into annual roadmaps, quarterly priorities, weekly releases, milestones, ownership, and measurable outcomes.
- Unified operations, intelligence, communications, logistics, maintenance, safety, and subordinate-team workstreams into coherent plans, balancing risk, capacity, timelines, and operational constraints.
- Own shared task and reporting mechanisms that provide enterprise visibility, track dependencies and completion, surface risks, and enable leaders to make timely resource and investment tradeoffs.
- Led technical planning discussions with functional experts, evaluating feasibility, operational load, user impact, and risk to recommend priorities and execution approaches.
- Write strategic narratives, decision briefs, and implementation directives that communicate product intent, requirements, milestones, success criteria, and tradeoffs to senior leaders and distributed teams.
- Mentor junior managers on structured planning, requirements analysis, and product-quality standards, increasing their ability to deliver accurate outputs and support parallel workstreams.
- Streamlined planning for Combined Arms Battalion and Armored Brigade Combat Team, fostering collaboration among multiple operational teams.
Product Deployment Experience Manager
U.S. Army
Fort Hood, TX
01.2024 - 01.2025
- Represented the user experience by designing onboarding, practical exercises, job aids, coaching, and performance validation that reduced adoption friction and enabled safe, effective use.
- Developed phased product adoption roadmap aligning technical standards, user roles, and resource availability with fixed deadlines; prioritized critical capabilities despite operating under 60% staffing.
- Owned end-to-end deployment of a new tracked vehicle platform for 134 users, coordinating requirements, equipment integration, operating procedures, training, qualification, safety controls, launch, and post-deployment support.
- Partnered with technical specialists, maintainers, operators, logistics teams, and senior leaders to resolve integration issues, make capability tradeoffs, and keep deployment aligned to user and organizational outcomes.
- Updated the roadmap and operating model based on changes in technical guidance, staffing, risks, and field conditions.
- Advised on data collection and competitive analysis, integrating diverse information sources into a unified operating picture and actionable recommendations for senior decision-makers.
- Led 46-person technical organization fostering collaboration and efficiency; directly managed 22 personnel and subordinate team leaders to achieve project goals.
Operations & Reliability Program Manager
U.S. Army
04.2023 - 01.2024
- Managed lifecycle operations for mission-critical technical systems, ensuring user readiness, effective maintenance, and compliance with configuration standards through training, inspections, and operational support.
- Balanced urgent customer demand with long-term reliability investment, applying risk-based prioritization to sustain technical availability, safety, and delivery schedules.
- Simplified maintenance workflows and strengthened inspection mechanisms, resulting in a zero-deficiency external compliance inspection.
- Collaborated with Dutch, Spanish, Lithuanian, and German partner organizations to synchronize technical requirements, interfaces, operating standards, and schedules, enhancing cross-environment integration.
- Led seven progressive simulation exercises and one formal technical qualification event, refining training and operating processes based on performance observations and participant feedback.
- Led a 16-person technical team in a multinational European operating environment. / Multinational European operating environment
Systems Risk & Compliance Program Manager
U.S. Army
05.2021 - 04.2023
- Used dashboards and risk metrics to influence senior-leader decisions and sustain more than 85% workforce readiness for overseas movement.
- Owned workforce data, evaluation, recognition, assignment, compliance, and reporting processes for a 600-person organization; advised senior executives on policy, risk, talent, and readiness.
- Gathered requirements from five subordinate organizations and external finance and enterprise partners during overseas deployment, facilitating alignment for 864 personnel.
- Managed enterprise workforce systems and processes supporting personnel levels between 600 and 864, ensuring operational consistency.
- Designed tracking tools and standardized workflows that ingested distributed status data, identified documentation defects, prioritized remediation, assigned ownership, and accelerated issue closure.
- Created a recurring readiness-review mechanism, enhancing visibility and predictability, adopted by adjacent organizations, contributing to improved enterprise performance.
- Trained users on standard operating procedures and governance documentation.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Mechanical Engineering
The Citadel The Military College of South Carolina
Charleston, SC 08.2018 - 05.2021
Professional Military Education - Operations Management
Basic Officer Leadership Course
Fort Benning, GA 09.2021 - 02.2022
Professional Military Education - Operations And Business Management
Maneuver Captain's Career Course
Fort Benning, GA 03.2025 - 09.2025
Skills
- Product strategy Roadmap Definition Technical Product ManagemRequirements Gatheringgement Risk-Based Prioritization Product LifeCycle managementerience anUser adoptional collaboration Performance metrics TeStakeholdProject managementf analysisessProcess Improvemente management Analysis ChaProcess automationData analysis, PowerPPerformance tracking
- Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Outlook Cross-Functional CollaCross-functional leadershipcuProcess MappingskUser adoption collTradeoff analysisng PRegulatory Complianced Operating Procedures Executive BriefExecutivStandard Operating Proceduresning materials
- Executive Reporting
- Risk Registers
- Performance validation
- Operational efficiency
- Team leadership
- Senior Stakeholder Influence
- Stakeholder influence Metrics
- Client engagement
- Stakeholder Negotiation
- Communication strategies
- Operational supervision
- Logistics management
- Logistics Coordination
- Schedule oversight
- Schedule coordination
- Assignment delegation
- Delegation
- Mentoring programs
- Process automation
- Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Outlook
- Data management
- Interdepartmental coordination
- Problem-solving
- HR planning
- Interdepartmental coordination
- Assignment delegation
- Data management
- HR planning
Certification
- Maneuver Leader's Maintenance Course - US ARMY - 2022
- Joint Staff Law Of War - US ARMY - 2022
- Technical Transportation of HAZMAT - US ARMY - 2022
- Leader Developmental Training Management System - US ARMY - 2024
- Cyber Security Awareness Training - US ARMY - Annually since 2021
Accomplishments
- NATO Armed Forces Medal of Support - Lithuania
- US ARMY Commendation Medal
- 2x US ARMY Achievement Medals
Timeline
Technical Product Strategy & Operations Manager
U.S. Army
10.2025 - Current
Professional Military Education - Operations And Business Management
Maneuver Captain's Career Course
03.2025 - 09.2025
Product Deployment Experience Manager
U.S. Army
01.2024 - 01.2025
Operations & Reliability Program Manager
U.S. Army
04.2023 - 01.2024
Professional Military Education - Operations Management
Basic Officer Leadership Course
09.2021 - 02.2022
Systems Risk & Compliance Program Manager
U.S. Army
05.2021 - 04.2023
Bachelor of Science - Mechanical Engineering
The Citadel The Military College of South Carolina
08.2018 - 05.2021
Work Availability
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LEADERSHIP AND PLANNING IMPACT
- Delivered complex technical and organizational programs across U.S. and European environments while coordinating internal specialists, external partners, and senior decision-makers.
- Established repeatable mechanisms for intake, prioritization, execution tracking, escalation, and remediation across high-volume, deadline-driven work.
- Recognized within the top 30% of peer leaders by a senior evaluator for reliable execution, ownership, and performance in complex assignments.
- Built inclusive, high-accountability teams through coaching, professional development, clear standards, and respect for diverse expertise and perspectives.
TECHNICAL & LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
Senior Managerial Leadership Program | Technical Leadership and Maintenance Management | Data Collection and Analysis | Hazardous Materials Management | Safety Program Management | Logistics and Supply Chain Operations | Equipment Deployment Planning
SELECTED PRODUCT & LEADERSHIP IMPACT
- Delivered complex technical and organizational programs across U.S. and European environments while coordinating internal specialists, external partners, and senior decision-makers.
- Established repeatable mechanisms for intake, prioritization, execution tracking, escalation, and remediation across high-volume, deadline-driven work.
- Recognized within the top 30% of peer leaders by a senior evaluator for reliable execution, ownership, and performance in complex assignments.
- Built inclusive, high-accountability teams through coaching, professional development, clear standards, and respect for diverse expertise and perspectives.
TECHNICAL & LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
Senior Managerial Leadership Program | Technical Leadership and Maintenance Management | Data Collection and Analysis | Hazardous Materials Management | Safety Program Management | Logistics and Supply Chain Operations | Equipment Deployment Planning