Bonnie Patterson
VP/GM - Civil Space at BAE Systems, Inc
- Role
- Vice President and General Manager, Civil Space at BAE Systems, Inc.
- Location
- Erie, CO, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Bonnie Patterson
Business leader with over six years of program management experience in the aerospace field. Demonstrated ability to drive effective execution and growth on large teams through servant based leadership. Drove over 40% profitable growth on major contract in just over two years. Over 15 years of mechanical engineering experience in a product development environment provides appropriate context and prudence to management level decision making. US Patent holder.KEY STRENGTHS• Government contracting, bid, and proposal• Earned Value Management• Leadership of 200 + member teams• Scalable communication skills from individual contributor to executive• Successful execution directly tied to customer profit recognition• PMI certified Project Management Professional• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt
Experience
Vice President and General Manager, Civil Space
Jul 2025 — Present · Boulder, CO, US
Education
Valparaiso University
Bachelor of Science, Mechanical Engineering
1989 — 1994
University of Illinois Chicago
Master of Science, Mechanical Engineering
Rochester Institute of Technology
Certificate, Vibration Engineering
Skills
- Sheet Metal
- Design of Experiments
- Manufacturing
- Ansys
- Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (Fmea)
- Design for Assembly
- Systems Engineering
- Machine Design
- Product Development
- Abaqus
- Ptc Creo
- Design for Manufacturing
- Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing
- Mechanical Engineering
- Unigraphics
- Solidworks
- Finite Element Analysis
- Tolerance Analysis
- Product Design
- Six Sigma
- Stress Analysis
- Solid Modeling
- Testing
- Manufacturing Engineering
- Pro Engineer
- Fmea
- Gd&T
- Nx Unigraphics
- Siemens Nx
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