# Justin Allen

> Experienced Technical Project Leader and team player ready to develop, sustain, and grow your business. | MBA and PMP certification

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/justinallen

Results-oriented, customer-focused leader. I have enjoyed developing my skills and gaining experience in leading people and influencing solutions to technical and functional business challenges. I have 12 years of professional experience as an Engineer, Project Manager, and People Manager in the defense and aerospace industry. Currently, I am nearing the finish of a biblical and practical theology graduate program and seeking FT work opportunities.

## Work Experience
### Lead Technical Project Manager @ Sandia National Laboratories
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Livermore, California, United States
Led team of integrated business process leaders to create and develop a Plan of Actions and Milestones (POAM) process and template focused on ensuring program deliverables are trackable and reportable, in an agreeable and consistent format, to resolve customer Level 2 milestone issue and action item tracking goals. Conducted stakeholder input meetings set to collect, identify, and analyze feedback to evaluate program project roles and responsibilities to update program role guidance artifacts for technical staff and leadership resulting in an updated team RACI chart. Organized and proactively collected and assessed key status updates from team in support of project reporting business rhythm activities aimed to inform key stakeholders of project and deliverable status at key program meetings, presentations, and reviews. Demonstrated ability to employ and integrate PMBOK knowledge areas of quality, scope, time and cost management, human resources, communications, risk, EVM, and stakeholder management to impact change and progress within a technical project environment.

### Manager Project Management @ Sandia National Laboratories
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Livermore, California, United States
Performed day-to-day management of onsite/remote team of 15-20 project managers and staff
responsible to manage program planning, execution, risk, requirements, and integration, for high-risk
national defense life extension program (LEP). Developed and implemented FY23 strategic planning and set priorities after identifying program project role misalignment as part of broader organizational Structured Improvement Activity (SIA). Resolved customer-team conflicts and coached team through detailed planning and communications, resulting in improved customer relations and execution of the first-ever program two-day risk deep dive review, aimed to re-prioritize high-risk mitigation burndown strategies. Strengthened team through improved and regular communications at staff meetings/1-on-1’s, provided coaching, mentorship, and training, incorporating lessons learned, and advocating for cross-functional learning opportunities for staff. Partnered with HR and leadership to increase employee satisfaction and support retainment initiatives by advocating and negotiating for additional staff resources, realigning roles, negotiating temporary assignments, and advocating for promotions or compensation merit increases. Maintained accountability and compliance in fast-paced project environment through prompt approval or delegation of functional business requirement activities, to include salary and hourly employee timesheets, purchases, travel requests, and expense reports. Led the interviewing, hiring, and onboarding process of 5 new employees, and completed team mid-year
and end-of-year performance evaluations during FY22/23, and goal setting in FY23. Realized an opportunity to redefine the Lead Technical PM role and responsibilities, collaborating within the program and across the organization to assess communication, technical understanding deficits, and stakeholder needs.

### Product Realization Team Lead @ Sandia National Laboratories
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
Team Lead responsible for $100MM weapon cables scope, uniting 30+ project, design, technical, test, and quality staff members responsible for ensuring the product meets customer design, manufacturing, and schedule requirements for the highest corporate risk program. Managed design planning and development activities using tools such as PTC Creo, Windchill, JIRA, and others, balanced significant project resources, fast-paced schedules, and technical constraints, while recovering $7M of schedule variance and 2-3 months of schedule float between 2020-2021. Tracked, negotiated, and delivered 42 past-due qualification milestones. Monitored strategy, planning, and decision points. Persuaded the decision to conclude a significant risk mitigation strategy conflict. Elevated project rigor by standing up a formal meeting cadence, developing project charters, and a communication plan, tracking risk, implementing change control, and overseeing the generation of very detailed schedule plans. Briefed significant accomplishments, schedule status, risks, and challenges to DOE National Nuclear Security Administration customer weekly and presented overall status quarterly.

### Product Engineer @ Honeywell FM&T
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Kansas City, Missouri Area
Led project team and maintained 100% ship performance during FY2017 during onboarding of new team lead. Reduced 90+ non-conformance reports down to zero and avoided $85k in scrap cost after negotiating Design Agency and next assembly approval to deviate product specification requirements, accepting 155 schedule critical assemblies. Mentored new engineers and proactively shared knowledge of business tools to strengthen team. Spearheaded an aggressive recovery plan to improve the performance of an underperforming vendor by developing an actionable supplier improvement plan with demonstrable checkpoints resulting in improved performance. Ensured material compatibility requirements of several purchased parts were met by validating the material composition of several cutting fluids after directly contacting suppliers and receiving personalized written statements.

### Rotation Engineer @ Honeywell FM&T
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Kansas City, Missouri Area
Completed experienced rotation engineer program supporting Global Security business.

### Control Account Manager @ Honeywell FM&T
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Kansas City, Missouri Area
Managed six (6) B61-12 LEP Interconnects summary accounts covering 20 Control Accounts with
total projected costs of $216 million. Supported EVMS implementation strategy under DOE Order 413
for Department of Energy NNSA customer by communicating resource requirements and status to
Senior Management Team (SMT) and partnering with leadership to find solutions to challenges. Coordinated key milestone alignment hand-offs between production and design agency schedules. Achieved major program Performance Measurement Baseline (PMB) and Integrated Baseline
Review (IBR) deliverables by planning and coordinating the development of resource-loaded project
schedules in Primavera P6 and costing in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) tool. Leveraged product knowledge and teamed with Finance to learn material commitment and costing mechanisms. Addressed important EVM knowledge gaps regarding material tracking and reporting. Led cross-functional team responsible for improving forecasting of large test house contracts, resulting in a level-loaded approach and significant reduction in contract oversight.

### Purchased Product Engineer @ Honeywell FM&T
Jan 2011 – Jan 2014 | Kansas City, Missouri Area
Led recovery team responsible for mitigating high-risk purchase order (PO) by understanding
technical requirements such as GD&T and BOM structure, schedule, working with technical experts,
and reducing risk while optimizing outcome resulting in $300k cost savings. Purchased product lead and liaison for 85 weapon modernization development machined products of precision to medium size totaling over $1 million in CY2013. Standardized development parts tracking spreadsheet managing redline ANSI/ASME Y14.5M drawing statuses and PO mods resulting in increased stakeholder communication and collaboration. Completed Green Belt project selecting two new suppliers boosting capacity for new programs.

### Design Engineer Co-op @ Emerson Process Management
Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 | Marshalltown, IA
-Performed design calculations and drafting analysis for the nuclear business unit.
-Created work instructions for valve and bonnet assembly using a rapid prototype.
-Supported Engineering Management data requests and updated product Bill of Materials (BOM).
-Provided suppliers with technical information for order entry.

### ME Summer Intern @ Alcoa
Jan 2007 – Jan 2007 | Bettendorf, Iowa
-Led Project Team responsible for installing water treatment filtration units supporting several plant heat treat systems.
-Liaison in Kaizen event focused on improving safety in the workplace.
-Worked with site machine shop to design and create hooks for new aluminum scrap recycling facility.


## Education
### Master of Business Administration - MBA in General Studies
The University of New Mexico

### Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering
Iowa State University

### Master of Arts - MA in Biblical & Practical Theology
Northern California Bible College


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/justingallen-mba

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