Craig A. Westcwest@moog.com

50 Kettle RunEast Aurora, NY 14052 801.652.0760

OBJECTIVE To leverage my experience as an effective leader and collaborator in demanding technical and programmatic environments in a role that provides challenges in management, customer interface, and supports program objectives and engages in the strategic development of the execution of the business unit.

KEY SKILLS Highly effective communicator with internal and external customers, adaptable, proven excellence with customer intimacy, program leader and consensus builder, personnel developer – supporter of the growth of internal social networks, barrier eliminator, strong project management skills, cost controller, highly effective turnaround and adversity management experience in challenging customer settings.

P R O F E S S I O N A L E X P E R I E N C E

Moog, East Aurora, New York 2011 - Present Military Aircraft Group Deputy Program Director – Tanker and Transports

Primary responsibility: KC-46 program lead overseeing a $50M NRE budget, weekly and monthly metric reporting including working knowledge and application of Earned Value Management System (EVMS), management of customer relationships and expectations, established a relationship platform in support of future business opportunities, internal team leadership, evaluated and negotiated contract modifications increasing program NRE from $36M to $50M, facilitated product and production engineering leading to on-time and on-cost development delivery goals, effective cross-site coordination to achieve delivery objectives, facilitated Military Sector Leadership in the application of New Product Introduction (NPI).

Secondary responsibilities: A400M and F-15 FBW program team lead overseeing NRE budgets of $30M and $13M respectively, collaborated with the respective Moog and customer engineering groups through qualification completion, worked extensively with the Airbus and Boeing Program, Contract, and Engineering offices to bring the A400M and F-15 FBW programs into production, teamed with Moog Operations leadership in support of establishing a strong production team – crossing all operational functions – ensuring long term on-time quality and delivery performance.

Tertiary responsibility: directed the sustaining production of C-27J and C-295, established a strong working relationship with Alenia North America – the prominent outcome; closure of a long unresolved Master Purchase Agreement and substantial price increases in the case of C-295.

Moog, East Aurora, New York 2010 to 2011 Military Aircraft Group Staff Program Manager, Lockheed Martin F-35 SDD Phase

Worked with Moog leadership to establish program strategies in line with Product Line objectives, extensively utilized EVMS tools, applied Program Management tools in support of influencing outcomes, e.g., developed and managed a performance upgrade plan for all fielded CV hardware in time to support planned test flights at Lockheed Martin.

Craig A. Westcwest@moog.com

Moog, Bremen, Germany 2008 to 2010 Moog Aircraft Group, A350 On-Site Customer Support

Lived and worked in Bremen, Germany coordinating the initial post contract award of the A350 High Lift System (HLS) with all Airbus teams to achieve timely resolution of engineering changes and contractual updates, managed the analysis and implementation of engineering changes affecting the A350 HLS design including their tracking, worked with the Moog team in Torrance to determine the cost impact of engineering changes and negotiated the commercial impact with Airbus, coordinated daily and weekly tasks with Airbus and the Moog Torrance team, conducted weekly Drumbeat meetings with Airbus engineering, supported and evaluated the application of new hardware and technologies, e.g., lead the proposal phase for the A350 HLS Damper Struts and Arms, lead the proposal phase for A320 Slat and Flap actuation package – this included coordination with the Moog team and negotiation with the customer, obtained a working knowledge of the German language.

Moog, Salt Lake City, Utah 2004 to 2008 Moog Aircraft Group, Boeing 787 Sr. Program Manager

Secondary flight control program lead overseeing a $35M budget, collaborated with Moog’s Program and Engineering leadership across all Aircraft Group facilities in managing the 787 secondary flight control development and delivery of lab and flight test hardware, directed a team of 25 co-located Moog colleagues grouped to enhance communication and efficiency during development of the secondary flight controls, worked directly with Moog Supply Chain to develop the program’s supply base.

Moog, Salt Lake, Utah 1999 to 2004 Moog Aircraft Group, Challenger 300 Program Manager

On-site Montreal, Canada program lead for the secondary flight control Joint Definition Phase, secondary flight control program lead overseeing a $30M NRE budget, worked with Moog’s engineering community to develop the first complete system delivered by Moog, collaborated with manufacturing and engineering to introduce and implement concurrent engineering.

Raytheon Aircraft, Salt Lake City, Utah 1993 to 1999 Statistician

Trained Operations, Quality Engineering and Inspectors, Design Engineering, and Site Leadership in the techniques of applied statistics in the manufacturing arena, budgeted and purchased automated software and gauging allowing for real-time data collection, applied the techniques of Process based Statistical Process Control (SPC) to manufacturing, favorable results: reduced tool wear, reduced scrap, and elimination of redundant inspection.

E-Systems, Salt Lake, Utah 1990 to 1993Associate Design Engineer

Boeing 777 Wing Fold design and development.

E D U C AT I O N

BSME, University of Utah School of Engineering; Salt Lake City, Utah, 1990