Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Timeline
Generic

Eugene R. Cataen

Marshfield

Summary

Active Top-Secret Clearance Over 20 years of in-depth experience across a multitude of functional/operational areas (Program Management, Operations, Engineering, Logistics, Reliability and Fielding) and excelling within those disciplines Wide range of field test experience CONUS and OCUNUS Proven ability to make critical decisions in a timely manner with exceptional results Methodical thinker who identifies areas of risk, risk mitigations, and solution implementation Extensive track record of implementing process improvements in all areas of a program, which resulted in savings cost and improving productivity Strong ability to successfully lead cross functional teams under high stress conditions Productive collaborator with all individuals within an organization, building trust and reliability through consistent, effective communication Highly proficient in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Planner, Teams, Slack and Visio Certified through Humphreys and Associates in Earned Value Management System (EVMS) Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) through Project Management Institute (PMI) and Raytheon PMX6

Overview

24
24
years of professional experience

Work History

Cross Product Team Lead

Raytheon Technologies - RMD
Woburn
01.2025 - Current
  • Establishing roadmap and execution of the DT scope to support program work environment needs

Digital Technology Program Lead

Raytheon Technologies - RMD
Marlborough
11.2020 - 01.2025
  • Establishing roadmap and execution of the DT scope to support program work environment needs
  • Leader within a cross functional environment ensuring effective DT support of program from start-up to growth and sustainment
  • Oversight and monitoring of cost, schedules, and performance of DT tasks, which will include task planning, scheduling, earned value reporting and variance analysis
  • Establish and maintain annual DT Capital and Expense planning for several programs which include Annual Operating Plan (AOP) and Long-Range Planning (LRP)
  • DT touchpoint for the Mission Area Leadership, Program Management teams, and product area directorates (PADs) serving as a strategic business partner, escalation point, and a change agent for digital transformation
  • Responsible for Risk and Opportunity Management for individual programs
  • Responsible DT Material procurement management

Program Manager – Underwater Autonomous Vehicles, Surveillance and Sensors

QinetiQ North America
Waltham
01.2019 - 11.2020
  • Responsible for program performance on three customer programs (one SW development and maintenance) and two IRADs
  • Manage CPFF, FFP, T&M and CRAD/IRAD contract types
  • Monitor and control performance using earned value management (EVM) utilizing indices such as CPI and SPI
  • Primary interface with program customer on Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS) and Advanced Arresting Gear (AAG) program for USS Gerald R. Ford. Providing weekly program status to customers via presentations and supporting recurring program status meetings
  • Lead for the development of schedules and budgets using WBS, critical path and estimation techniques
  • Communicate weekly plans to the program team. Directed program team and provided guidance to mitigate risk and solve problems
  • Responsible for managing and leading proposal development efforts

Program Manager – WIN-T Army Tactical Network

General Dynamics Mission Systems
Taunton
02.2017 - 01.2019
  • Responsible for establishing and assuring adherence to budgets, schedules, work plans, and performance requirements
  • Lead for developing and implementing program WBS and WBS Dictionary
  • Developed Obsolescence/ End of Life (EoL) Management process and plan for entire program
  • Management of Life Cycle Cost Estimate (LCCE) which includes estimation of total program cost over a 10-year period
  • Managing procurement, production, integration, test and delivery of multiple production lines
  • Responsible for oversight of a multi-million-dollar field retrofit of a highly technical SATCOM product line

Senior Advanced Reliability Engineer – WIN-T Army Tactical Network

General Dynamics Mission Systems
Taunton
07.2015 - 02.2017
  • RAM lead for WIN-T Inc 2. Responsibilities include overseeing Failure Reporting, Analysis, and Corrective Action System (FRACAS) team and developing overall Failure Review Board (FRB) presentations for PM WIN-T
  • Weekly/Monthly Reliability Status presentations to senior leadership (VP/Director) utilizing MS Office tools and PTC WIndchill
  • Leading several successful high profile Reliability Demonstration Tests in order support correct action Verification and Validation (V&V)
  • Responsibilities include performing failure data collection and analysis, facilitating team failure investigations and providing solutions to complex reliability related problems
  • Facilitating FRACAS meetings with Subcontracts managers and vendors to ensure failure mode resolution is achieved.
  • Reliability, Availability and Maintainability (RAM) lead for TCN-L/NOSC-L. Responsible for development of Program Reliability Plan
  • Utilizing PTC Windchill for failure database and presentation development
  • Updates and modification of several prediction models based on real time reliability testing results
  • Consistent use of many reliability tools such as 5 Why’s, Fault Tree Analysis, Pareto Chart analysis and Scatter Diagrams

Senior Systems Engineer II – TPY-2 PPU and EEU

Raytheon Missile Defense
Woburn
12.2014 - 07.2015
  • Lead FRB meetings with Raytheon and customer leadership. Representing Raytheon at Failure Review Board meetings and customer meetings, which includes interfacing directly with Raytheon program leaders and customer program staff
  • FRACAS Engineer for the TPY-2 PPU and EEU systems. Responsibilities include performing failure data collection and analysis, facilitating team failure investigations and providing solutions to complex reliability related problems
  • Organize FRACAS details via Windchill Quality Solutions (WQS) FRACAS module
  • Design and support of Reliability Growth Plan for the PPU system. Providing statistical analysis, supporting product problem resolutions, providing RAM performance assessments, and supporting design changes resulting from root cause investigation/analysis

Senior Systems Engineer

MITRE Corporation
Bedford
06.2014 - 12.2014
  • Developed detailed RAM analysis for the Space Surveillance Telescope (SST) program utilizing WQS Prediction module
  • Analysis consisted of predicting Operational Availability, Mean Time to Repair (MTTR), and Administrative and Logistics Delay Time (ALDT). Several recommendations were made which increased Operational Availability (OA) and decreased MTTR and ALDT in all the updated models
  • Authored Obsolescence Analysis for the Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) program office. Analysis consisted of calculating point estimates based upon field data, then utilizing the Poisson distribution to calculate the probabilities of reaching a certain year with current equipment on hand. Repair rates were also considered (5% to 95%) and calculated using a modified Chi-Square Distribution

Senior Product Engineer / Risk Management Facilitator

Siemens Healthcare Medical Diagnostics – Point of Care
Norwood
01.2014 - 06.2014
  • Primary responsibilities include assisting with prototype design, testing prototypes, identifying failure modes and recommending design changes
  • Developed Reliability Plans for all new products, establishing Reliability Requirements for new products, Reliability Reports for all major project milestones, System Reliability Growth Testing, and Accelerated Growth Testing
  • Responsible for the Risk Management on several product lines. Risk Management includes a Risk Management Plan, Risk Management Report and Hazard Analysis for all aspects of a products design. Responsible for ensuring all products follow ISO Standard 14971- Risk Management for Medical Devices
  • Facilitator for Risk and Opportunity Analysis meetings and reports. Responsible for quantifying associated risk regarding proposed design changes that have been suggested or that are being implemented. This includes analysis needed for any issues that surface in the field, which would need to be assessed for possible root cause and corrective actions to be implemented

ILS Manager/Reliability Engineer/Test Engineer

General Dynamics C4S
Taunton
08.2001 - 01.2014
  • Assisted in the management of the successful WIN-T Inc 2 Reliability Qualification Test which included identifying risks, development of test, coordination of testing, personnel, and scoring. This resulted in GD receiving a $12M incentive fee
  • Responsible for Reliability Modeling and Predictions for new design development across multiple vehicle platforms and kit assemblies
  • Reliability Test Lead for WIN-T field testing at White Sands Missile Range (WSMR) for a total of four field tests during the Network Integration Evaluation (NIE) for OT&E/FOT&E and Risk Reduction Events
  • Developed Failure Mode, Effects, and Criticality Analysis (FMECA) for several programs which resulted in design changes and mitigations based upon results
  • Served as Control Account Manager (CAM) for ILS on the WIN-T Inc 2 program to assist with tracking cost, schedule, performance and variances
  • Responsible for interface with Program Management, Subcontracts, Quality, Operations and Manufacturing in order to implement failure mode corrective actions within production line through ECPs and CNs
  • Assisted with engineering design of Tech Control Facility for Camp Speicher, Buehring, New Kabul, and Anaconda
  • Deployed to Iraq as the On-Site Test Lead for KICC Mobile Tech Control Facility Program - Camp Speicher and Camp Anaconda

Education

Master’s Degree - Engineering Management

Northeastern University
Boston, MA

Bachelor’s Degree - Information Technology

Northeastern University
Boston, MA

Skills

  • Project management
  • Risk management
  • Cross-functional collaboration
  • Presentation skills
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • Schedule management
  • Budget management

Timeline

Cross Product Team Lead

Raytheon Technologies - RMD
01.2025 - Current

Digital Technology Program Lead

Raytheon Technologies - RMD
11.2020 - 01.2025

Program Manager – Underwater Autonomous Vehicles, Surveillance and Sensors

QinetiQ North America
01.2019 - 11.2020

Program Manager – WIN-T Army Tactical Network

General Dynamics Mission Systems
02.2017 - 01.2019

Senior Advanced Reliability Engineer – WIN-T Army Tactical Network

General Dynamics Mission Systems
07.2015 - 02.2017

Senior Systems Engineer II – TPY-2 PPU and EEU

Raytheon Missile Defense
12.2014 - 07.2015

Senior Systems Engineer

MITRE Corporation
06.2014 - 12.2014

Senior Product Engineer / Risk Management Facilitator

Siemens Healthcare Medical Diagnostics – Point of Care
01.2014 - 06.2014

ILS Manager/Reliability Engineer/Test Engineer

General Dynamics C4S
08.2001 - 01.2014

Master’s Degree - Engineering Management

Northeastern University

Bachelor’s Degree - Information Technology

Northeastern University
Eugene R. Cataen