SARAH TURNER
WA
Summary
Experienced with coordinating and executing comprehensive technical programs. Utilizes strategic planning and risk management to ensure project success. Strong understanding of stakeholder communication and team leadership.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
Work History
Technical Program Manager
HII
01.2021 - Current
- Manages cost, schedule, and performance for program encompassing 13 independent projects in a software group with 156+ personnel, seven subcontractors, and a >$60 million budget
- Engages directly with stakeholders and aligns schedule with technical roadmap to ensure full traceability throughout execution of tasks
- Performs technical analysis and full system lifecycle process planning and execution to meet on-time deliverables on contract while exceeding performance goals
- Leads cross-functional teams to iteratively review designs and deliver complex technology adapted to customer needs with compliance to contract terms.
- Translates customer needs to engineering user or job stories, manages team backlog with roadmaps, and participates as product owner in scrum ceremonies for key product releases
- Over fifteen years of experience using JIRA and other collaborative Atlassian tool sets with focus on organizing customer needs and backlog to identify scope, customer impact, and alignment with long term strategies.
Senior Systems Engineer
GTMR inc
08.2018 - 01.2021
- Drives product development with dispersed engineers and key Intelligence Community (IC) stakeholders with focus on Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) software to deliver the best capabilities and experience to users. Collaborated on seven separate software projects with technical analysis of all interface design for software interaction.
- Primary customer representative and key reporter for issue creation, tracking, and resolution of customer defects and requested enhancements.
- Translates customers' needs to actionable tasks for engineering teams. Prioritizes issues for management to highlight key areas for development to minimize long term cost and risk while promoting customer satisfaction
- Consistently ensures customers know how to use the product effectively, and scales approaches based on customer experience, with ability to communicate effectively with both inexperienced users, executive level users, and programmatic managers
- Key participant in technical design and collaboration with corporate and government partners in ongoing design of aircraft mission software interfaces and capability evolution with focus normalization of divergent data approaches
Naval Flight Officer
United States Navy
05.2008 - 05.2018
- Key participant and contributor in development of $38.5 Million Dollar Program focused on naval dominance via dispersed software services
- Interfaced with multiple international and diverse communities as a Weapons and Tactics Instructor (WTI) and subject matter expert on airborne signals intelligence
- Performed as a primary briefer and collaborator for tactical development in navy, joint, and coalition environments
- Autonomously planned and executed multiple detachments involving the movement and employment of aircraft to remote locations as an independent manager and Officer-in-Charge (OIC)
- Managed training program and exercise integration for the US Navy's largest operational squadron
- Routinely performed long range strategic planning for squadron operational readiness
- Performed planning and instruction for EP-3 Navy Weapons and Tactics Instructor curriculum with focus areas on Minotaur, Datalinks, and Mission Planning
- Executed over 5,000 instructional hours as a curriculum manager
- Flew over 2,000 flight hours in multiple operations internationally as an airborne intelligence mission commander performing exploitation and dissemination of time sensitive intelligence
- Served in Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF), Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF), Operation New Dawn (OND), and multiple other operations
- Excellent communicator and briefer with experience briefing executive level and senior executive level audiences with adept ability to make technical subjects approachable honed through thousands of hours of teaching
Education
MSE - Software Systems Engineering
Johns Hopkins University - Whiting School of Engineering
Baltimore12-2023
BS - Computer Science
Oregon State University
Corvallis12.2020
BA - Political Science
Vanderbilt University
Nashville05.2008
Skills
- Leadership
- Project and Product Management
- Technical Roadmap Design
- Cross Functional Facilitation
- Experienced Communicator
- Skilled Briefer
- Thrives in Dynamic Environments
- Effective Team Builder
- JIRA & Confluence
- User Experience and Design
- Risk Mitigation
Websites
Activities
- Undergraduate Teaching Assistant, TA Analysis of Algorithms, Fall 2020, Teaching Assistant for Undergraduate Analysis of Algorithms Course focused on helping students understand and apply algorithmic strategies such as dynamic programming, recursion, linear programming, Big Oh Complexity Analysis, and NP-complete proofs., Grades student coding/written assignments and assists during office hours.
Timeline
Technical Program Manager
HII
01.2021 - Current
Senior Systems Engineer
GTMR inc
08.2018 - 01.2021
Naval Flight Officer
United States Navy
05.2008 - 05.2018
MSE - Software Systems Engineering
Johns Hopkins University - Whiting School of Engineering
BS - Computer Science
Oregon State University
BA - Political Science
Vanderbilt University
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