Lari Hernandez

· Led complex development programs including the Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar System (ASARS) –2B EMD Development program chartered with the development, build, and test of an airborne radar through a Flight Test Program. · Expanded the program franchise by securing a follow-on production contract and establishing a new customer and mission. · Portfolio responsibility has included Development, Production & Capability Enhancements of $700M in value. · Managing a complex set of programs with profit and loss (P&L) responsibility and annual sales of $120M. · Currently, navigating multiple program execution challenges requiring the development and maintenance of a good customer relationship with multiple divisions within the customer base. · Consistently communicating with internal senior, executive leadership as well as Government leadership. · Driving new business activities to support portfolio growth including development of international sales opportunities. · Leading a cross-functional team of up to160, spanning multiple engineering and manufacturing sites in Mississippi, Texas, and California. · Led my team through 3 significant proposal efforts in 4 months for development contract definitization, capability enhancements, and production.

· Led a production team to achieve full-rate production of a configuration kit of hardware for the APG-79 requiring significant ramp up in manufacturing and factory output of Receivers, Waveform Generator and Processor modules. · Successfully managed $250M of Radar Production business with annual sales of $70M. · Consistently met or exceeded AOP and financial targets including “stretch goals” for Sales, Bookings, Profit, and Cash. · Drove significant manufacturing improvements, requiring strong advocacy for funding and support of risk mitigation efforts that drove results with benefits beyond just the F/A-18 product line but also to other products within the enterprise. · Recognized as a 2020 SAS R6Sigma President's Award winner receiving recognition as part of the Processor Module Yield Improvement Team, which resulted in Enterprise-wide cost benefits. · Established and maintained a solid relationship with the NAVAIR customer, openly communicating and working issues with results enabling recovery of retrofit commitments to the fleet. · Successfully proposed and negotiated two Fixed Price Incentive Fee (FPIF) contracts. · Regularly prepared and presented at internal and external program reviews from Estimates At Complete (EACs), Program Management Reviews (PMRs), and program start up and production gates including Gates (4, 5, 10, 11) internally to external Biweekly Performance Reviews and Quarterly PMRs.

· Led a technical demonstration program redesigning the ASARS-2A radar system with a new Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) and Enhanced Capabilities to address future high-altitude Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) radar system capabilities. · Managed a cross-functional team of 70, spanning the Forest, Texas, and California factories to fabricate, integrate and demonstrate a technical demonstration unit in Flight Test. · Responsible for over $110M of revenue spanning multiple contracts with profit and loss (P&L) responsibility. · Consistently met or exceeded Annual Operating Plan (AOP) and all financial objectives for Sales, Bookings, Profit, and Cash. · Successfully proposed and negotiated the largest business area booking in 2017. · Responsible for collaborating with the USAF on Engineering Change Proposals (ECPs) including new scope for the enhancement of existing modes and the addition of new modes to support multi-mission (land and sea) objectives. · Regularly prepared and presented at internal and external program reviews from EACs, PMRs and Gates (4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11) internally to external reviews to the USAF including PMRs and Design Reviews (SRR, SDR, PDR and CDR). · Responsible for external Earned Value (EV) financial reporting including all IPMR formats and CFR submittals.

· Managed multiple Production contracts delivering 10 systems, including the first Low-Rate Initial Production (LRIP) MP-RTIP systems, concurrent with an ongoing System Design and Development (SDD) phase. · Responsible for P&L with $140M+ of revenue with profit and loss responsibility. · Delivered year-over-year profit increases by developing strong relationships with factories critical to the production line, leveraging lessons learned from parallel product lines to achieve greater build synergy. · Consistently achieved 100% on-time delivery (OTD) following the completion of Qualification Testing. · Successfully proposed and negotiated a Firm/ Fixed Price (FFP) contract for 5 systems.

· Managed all aspects of the MP-RTIP Antenna Subsystem including the oversight of engineering, supply chain, quality and manufacturing across multiple Raytheon sites. · Responsible for the overall cost, schedule and technical performance of the Antenna subsystem including accountability for metrics ranging from Technical Performance Measures (TPMs), Key Performance Parameters (KPPs), Schedule/ Cost Performance Indices (SPI/ CPI), cycle time, material procurement metrics, and Lines of Balance (LOBs). · Managed Antenna risk and opportunity development, including execution of mitigation plans and capture activities. · Led multiple production proposal activities in coordination with senior leadership to secure new business for ISRS.

· Managed a team of over 30 bidders to develop a proposal for multiple production Lots with multiple quantity options. · Developed successful strategy for a production lot capture. Presented proposal approach to senior and executive leadership. · Successfully submitted a fully TINA-compliant, certified proposal on time in support of Customer needs and objectives.