About
I’m a Marine Engineer & certified Project Management Professional (PMP) with 13-years' in ship design, unmanned/autonomous vessels and offshore wind development. I’m experienced with proposals, contracts & procurement, project & financial management, fabrication oversight, and new process development in multi-discipline, multi-national teams. I'm a proven leader and effective communicator at the interface between the technical & program sides of specialty maritime projects. Throughout my career I have contributed to change management in various-sized organizations, developing and implementing new document, management, and software processes. I get a lot of job satisfaction facilitating how teams organize and developing the tools needed to plan, execute, & track, setting ourselves up for success.
Experience
I joined Booz Allen Hamilton in July 2025 as a Program/Project Management Specialist supporting Naval Unmanned Shipbuilding Programs. I coordinate the APM, GFE, Cyber, Autonoy and engineering government teams to achieve program objectives, with an emphasis on the production side of projects.
In previous roles, I developed engineering and management skills across a variety of specialty projects. As the Mechanical Engineering Group Lead at a small consulting firm, MiNO Marine, I managed engineering work while gaining extensive marine systems as well as some structural & classical naval architecture experience. More recently, my time at Gibbs & Cox established my competence leading complex projects in a much larger organization. I managed R&D activity at Principle Power, one of the leading floating wind technology providers. These experiences gave me a multi-disciplinary, project-focused background in the commercial marine, oil & gas, offshore wind, & naval shipbuilding fields. I joined Vineyard Offshore in Summer 2024, as Senior Development Manager for California North Floating OCS-P 0562. I coordinated the permitting, stakeholder, government affairs, technical, and PMO teams; managing scope, schedule, budget, planning and reporting. Unfortunately my time at VO was cut short due to layoffs resulting from executive orders affecting Offshore Wind.
I have experience designing and constructing naval vessels, unmanned vessels, hovercraft, landing craft, lift boats & jack-ups, WTIV's & CTV’s, ferries, towboats, crane barges, dredges, floating wind platforms, etc. My experience includes both conversions and new construction, and ranges from R&D/Prototyping to serial production of marine assets. I’m proud to have contributed in the early days of U.S. offshore wind, supporting vessel ops engineering for the construction of Block Island Wind Farm, and more recently as Senior Development Manager for CIP/Vineyard Offshore's flagship U.S. floating wind project. I'm also proud to have managed platform design and construction for the Navy's historic Overlord unmanned prototype program, a first-of-its kind UxV project.
Education
I completed my Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering at Tennessee Technological University in 2013 including electives in Aerodynamics, Vibrations, and Alternative Fuels. I completed my Master's Degree in Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering at University of New Orleans in 2017, including classes in Project Management, Design of Fixed Platforms, Maritime Law, Systems Engineering and Human Factors. My thesis presented a feasibility study of the use of jetting technology from jack-up rigs to achieve cost-savings during offshore WTG monopile decommissioning.
In addition to holding a master's degree in Naval Architecture, I recently completed the University of Massachusetts Offshore Wind Professional Certificate, which provides 9 credit hours in technology, development, finance, permitting, stakeholder engagement, supply chain, logistics, law, and policy.
