Brian Russell

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ABOUT BRIAN RUSSELL

Resourceful aerospace strategy and business leader skilled at aligning people, problem sets, and product developments to drive return on research investments and deliver profitability. Comprehensive background in forming and leading engineering and product strategy teams, interpreting and understanding requirements, to drive multi-generational product plans to support the strategic priorities of the business and drive customer solutions. Proven ability to interpret signals and plot intercept points where technology and product development must anticipate and intercept market needs to capture new business and achieve revenue goals. Exceptional team builder and mentor, adept at building cross functional consensus, maintaining relationships with customers, and key business partners.Core Competencies:• Over 36 years of experience in Department of Defense technical product and business strategies, Solutions architect, technical research and development, system engineering, pilot vehicle interface design, and analysis.• Experienced leader able to quickly derive and capture customer requirements from indistinct user input, and translate the input into exact and concise engineering, programmatic, and business requirements.• Skilled in the use of test & evaluation methods of prototyping in a controlled immersive laboratory environment stimulated by operationally sound battlefield scenarios and terrain to reduce design risk, facilitate requirements analysis, and improve communication between the user, developers, test community, and contractors.• Qualified as an U.S. Army Acquisition Corps Member, Army Aviation Tactical Operations Officer, Electronic Warfare Officer, Aviation Safety Officer and Developmental Test Pilot qualified in MH-47E/G, CH-47D and UH-1 aircraft.DoD Qualifications:• Department of Defense, Army Acquisition Corps Member• Department of Defense, Certified Acquisition Professional, Engineering Level 3