Scott Thomas

• Partnered with management, technical leaders, and project teams to understand needs, identify solutions, and align the right experts with implementing and improving engineering processes and solutions, including Agile product development, for mission customers and project teams across the enterprise.
• Applied engineering, Agile, PLM, and program expertise to lead, coach, and mentor leadership, customers, and project teams across Sandia.
• Contributed to the development and implementation of the Project and Product Delivery System (PPDS), a standards-based system encompassing policies, processes, services, and tools for project management and product life cycle management.
• Collaborated with experienced professionals in the Science & Engineering Product Life Cycle Management Execution & Portfolio Management organization (10416) to deploy PPDS, providing subject matter expertise in product life cycle management, Agile framework, and portfolio/project assurance reporting.
• Actively partnered with mission delivery engineering teams, establishing technical roadmaps aligned with product and project requirements and deliverables.

• Provide a full range of project leadership for planning systems engineering and integration strategies for the sustainment program supporting the Distributed Common Ground Systems – Army (DCGS-A) family of systems.
• Direct various software services, analyses, and solutions to ensure associated Business Automation, Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) systems capabilities are operating optimally.
• Manage work breakdown structures (WBS) development to support work plans for subsequent activities of internal and external organizations.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively lead, manage and balance current and projected mission requirements, capabilities, and workload demand with current and future workforce needs.
• Ensure compliance with customer requirements, engineering standards, architectures, and Army policy.
• Use Systems Engineering expertise to implement best practices in designing, developing, and delivering products and projects based on frameworks, iterative development methodologies, user-centered designs, planning tools, and continuous delivery methodologies.

• Lead systems engineer and Program Manager for a project team of over 50 IT professionals and $30M annual budget responsible for developing, deploying, and maintaining the commands global Information Technology Service Management BMC ITSM enterprise systems project.
• Led, planned, developed, directed, and coordinated multiple projects for the NETCOM Operational Engineering Directorate (OED) NETOPS Tools Division.
• Guided functional area managers and engineers responsible for design, development, deployment, implementation, and maintenance of multifaceted systems that provided information management and processing services to global Army Theater Signal Commands.

• Planned, coordinated, and managed the full range of activities for daily mission operations through national intelligence capabilities in the analysis of terrorist activities and actions against the US, DoD and Allied interests in Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa.
• Defined statements of work (SOW), internal instruction, and procedures to ensure operational effectiveness.
• Evaluated, planned, coordinated, and developed intelligence reporting and products for national and theater level consumers with primary focus on the European and African regions.
• Used strong analytical and problem-solving skills to develop effective solutions for challenging situations.
• Worked effectively in fast-paced environments.