Riley Roberts
Los Olivos,USA
Summary
Dynamic professional leader with over 16 years of management and supervisory experience with a proven track record in driving operational excellence across diverse environments. Expertise in strategic planning, team collaboration, and process improvement. Strong background in coaching and mentoring, quality assurance, and team development with a focus to enhance performance optimization and employee engagement. Active DOD Secret security clearance.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
Work History
Range Section Manager Telemetry
RGNext
07.2023 - Current
- Manage a Telemetry site with 24 staff, 7 antennas and four geographical locations.
- Provide leadership, management, technical and professional direction to the workforce through supervisors and technicians responsible for Telemetry functions located at the Vandenberg Telemetry Receiving Station (VTRS).
- Ensure operations and maintenance personnel are selected, trained, and qualified to meet contract requirements, government standards and in accordance with a Collective Bargaining Agreement.
- Ensure procedures are developed and maintained to clearly describe current, approved procedures, performance standards, reporting, documentation requirements, and manage deviations from procedures using root cause analysis process.
- Ensure operations and maintenance personnel are scheduled to meet contract and mission requirements and personnel are recalled when needed to meet emergency requirements.
- Ensure the performance of all operations and maintenance personnel are effectively and proactively monitored to detect deviations and deficiencies and provide constructive feedback where required.
- Ensure the infrastructure and facilities are properly prepared, checked, and ready to meet mission requirements.
- Ensure preventive and corrective maintenance is performed in a timely and effective manner consistent with established standards and requirements.
- Ensure infrastructure degradation, failures, and maintenance outages are documented and reported in a timely way consistent with RGNext contract standards and requirements.
- Ensure all operations are conducted in accordance with RGNext contract personnel, facility, and system security standards and policies.
- Ensure material, supplies, and property are ordered, stocked, and controlled to meet mission requirements consistent with RGNext contract standards.
- Ensure Human Resource's policies are known, understood, carried out and disciplinary action is performed in a consistent manner Ensure compliance with RGNext quality program requirements and standards and participate in RGNext and government process improvement initiatives.
- Provide technical advice to RGNext management, staff, and government personnel on issues, anticipated operability, maintainability, or logistical problems, potential new technologies, and participate in the planning and integration of new or modified facilities and systems.
- Strong interpersonal skills for interacting with multiple customer organizations, local government, RGNext management, and employees on operational, technical, and personnel issues.
- Strong analytical skills and the ability to prioritize work despite changing schedules and meet deadlines.
Range Systems Supervisor
RGNext
04.2022 - 02.2025
- Developed new hire site training on site hazards, safety, ESD, etc.
- Expanded end of the day brief to include training sessions to close the knowledge gap between junior and seasoned employees.
- Oversee LMS and EQR Training of personnel to maintain readiness and manning flexibility.
- Attended meetings, system status reports and briefings with all facets of RGN, users and government.
- Deconflicted ops, maintenance, engineering, and project work daily.
- Document/procedure review and development
- Oversee the setup and operation of mission equipment.
- Ensured maintenance actions are completed on schedule.
RF Specialist
RGNext
02.2020 - 04.2022
- Conduct RF sensitivity testing of command receivers (in vehicle and bench testing).
- Verification of commands for pre-launch and launch testing in standard and secure mode.
- Code loading at CT sites and CCS (COMSEC).
- Oversee technicians and ensure they are performing tasks correctly.
- Determining equipment failures, troubleshooting and returning system to operational.
- Document/procedure review and development.
- Coordinate with range users for testing requirements.
Senior RF Technician
RGNext
03.2019 - 02.2020
- Conduct RF sensitivity testing of command receivers (in vehicle and bench testing).
- Measuring cable loss and VSWR. Data measurements on links. Measuring signal strength and verify carrier, FM and tones on RF signals.
- Use IMDS to document preventive and corrective maintenance.
- PMEL coordinator: Pull items to be calibrated, resolve calibration issues and maintain documents.
Education
Associate - Physics
Allan Hancock College
Associate - Engineering
Allan Hancock College
Associate - Mathematics
Allan Hancock College
Consolidated Automated Support System (CASS) Bench - undefined
USMC
NAS Oceana, VA12.1998
I-Level Maintenance Technician Course - undefined
USMC
NAS Pensacola, FL09.1998
Basic Electronics Training Course - undefined
USMC
NAS Pensacola, FL06.1998
Skills
- Staff leadership
- Preventive Maintenance
- Continuous improvement
- Organizational development
- Asset management
- Operations improvement
- Team management
- Decision-making
- Strategic thinker
- Quality control management
- Adaptability and flexibility
- Effective communication
- Active listening
- Problem-solving
Training
- Nuclear, Biological & Chemical Detection Course, April 2001, MCAS Iwakuni, Japan
- Collateral Duty Inspector Training, May 2001, MCAS Iwakuni, Japan
Timeline
Range Section Manager Telemetry
RGNext
07.2023 - Current
Range Systems Supervisor
RGNext
04.2022 - 02.2025
RF Specialist
RGNext
02.2020 - 04.2022
Senior RF Technician
RGNext
03.2019 - 02.2020
Consolidated Automated Support System (CASS) Bench - undefined
USMC
I-Level Maintenance Technician Course - undefined
USMC
Basic Electronics Training Course - undefined
USMC
Associate - Physics
Allan Hancock College
Associate - Engineering
Allan Hancock College
Associate - Mathematics
Allan Hancock College