Vickie Wall
Broomfield,CO
Summary
Dedicated management professional with history of meeting company goals utilizing consistent and organized practices. Skilled in working under pressure and adapting to new situations and challenges to best enhance the organizational brand. Leadership focused on creating an environment that allows team members to thrive while meeting business needs.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
Work History
Engineering Workforce Development Team Lead
L3Harris Technologies, Inc.
Palm Bay
01.2020 - 01.2022
- Leading Directors and Sr Managers to track and fill all Electrical Engineering requisitions
- Report staffing metrics to Sr Director
- Track current requisition status with Program Managers
- Process Improvement for forecasting, staffing, recruiting, and hiring.
Electronics Workforce Staffing Team Lead & Electronics Manager
Lockheed Martin
Littleton, CO
01.2017 - 01.2020
- Support staffing assignments for 700 Electronics employees
- Leading 15 Sr
- Managers to track and fill all Space Electronics requisitions
- Report staffing metrics to Director and VP level
- Track current requisition status with Program Managers
- Forecasting, staffing, redeployment, recruiting, hiring, onboarding and retention
- Track and approve usage of sign-on and relocation budget
- Track ASIC/FPGA staffing needs for 30-40 programs
- Track current assignments for 90+ engineers
- Build design teams while balancing the needs of both the engineers and the program
- Use of Staffing Management tools for staffing current employees and forecasting needs
- Partner with Managers, Program Managers, LOBs and Chief Engineers for staffing needs
- Attend recruiting events, conduct interviews and make same day offers
- Coordinate with HR, Recruiters, and GTA for hiring
- Screened and hired contractors to support short term assignments when needed
- Career development for direct reports
- Conduct mid-year and yearly performance assessments
- Conduct reviews for salary adjustments, recognition awards and promotions
- Implemented focus teams for architecture, design, verification and DSP for ASIC/FPGA.
Managed Storage Services Project Manager
IBM
Longmont, CO
01.2015 - 01.2016
- Manage projects to install new storage devices, decommission old equipment and upgrade FW on existing devices
- Creation of schedule templates
- Creation of project processes and procedures.
Project Manager
Seagate Technology
Longmont, CO
01.2006 - 01.2014
- Managed cross-functional teams for emulation, development and verification
- Conducted schedule feasibility analyses
- Created project schedules that accurately tracked project milestones
- Contract requests to legal department for NDA’s, purchase agreements and subcontracts
- Purchased, tracked and audited capital assets
- Served as point of contact for engineering lab and supplies inventory
- Created training materials for various tools and processes
- Created document templates for FPGA design specifications
- Created consistency for ASIC to FPGA prototype conversion by defining process
- Supported team members in tool selections and vendor support
- Supported 3 teams of 30+ engineers for design, verification and emulation
- Minimized impact of risks for each project by using risk analysis
- Minimized schedule impacts by tracking progress of development teams using EV metrics
- Conducted lessons learned at end of projects, improving processes for next project
- Point of contact for vendors, customers, and internal departments
- Nurtured communication within team by conducting weekly meetings with team members
- Evaluated project scheduling tools and presented recommendations
- ASIC & FPGA Design and creation of FPGA process and documentation.
Hardware Engineer
Ball Aerospace & Technology Corp
Boulder, CO
01.2004 - 01.2005
- ASIC & FPGA Design and creation of FPGA process and documentation.
Hardware Engineer
McData Corporation
Broomfield, CO
01.1999 - 01.2004
Education
PMI Project Management Certificate Program -
CSU Denver Center
Bachelor of Science - Electrical Engineering
University of Wyoming
Skills
- Recruiting and Staffing, Experienced & College
- Skills Assessment & Training
- Team Building and Mentoring
- Process Improvement
- Professional Placement and Development
- Customer Engagement, Vendor Engagement & Employee Engagement
- Retention
- Change Management, Risk Management
- Executive Reporting
- Scheduling & Budgeting
- Mission Critical Applications
- Requirements Elicitation
- Client Requirements
- Workflow Development
- Electronics Design and Engineering
- Project Scheduling
Timeline
Engineering Workforce Development Team Lead
L3Harris Technologies, Inc.
01.2020 - 01.2022
Electronics Workforce Staffing Team Lead & Electronics Manager
Lockheed Martin
01.2017 - 01.2020
Managed Storage Services Project Manager
IBM
01.2015 - 01.2016
Project Manager
Seagate Technology
01.2006 - 01.2014
Hardware Engineer
Ball Aerospace & Technology Corp
01.2004 - 01.2005
Hardware Engineer
McData Corporation
01.1999 - 01.2004
PMI Project Management Certificate Program -
CSU Denver Center
Bachelor of Science - Electrical Engineering
University of Wyoming
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