Byron Roethler

About Byron Roethler

I have 28+ years of experience in the Military and Commercial Aerospace Display Electronics industry.From 2023 to present, I am the Associate Director of Engineering, leading the Helmet and Headworn Display team in Vision Systems. In this role, I lead a group of 70+ engineers that include Technical Project Managers, Systems, Electrical, Mechanical and Optical engineers in development of Helmet Mounted Displays and Headworn Displays.From 2019 to 2023, I was Associate Director of Engineering, leading the Tactical Displays team for Head-Up Guidance Systems. In this role, I led a group of up to 120+ engineers that included Technical Project Managers, Systems, Electrical, Mechanical and Optical engineers in development of Helmet Mounted Displays and Military glare shield mounted Head-Up Displays.From 2015 to 2019, I was Principal Engineering Manager, leading the Hardware Engineering team for Head-Up Guidance Systems. In this role, I led a group of 75+ engineers that included Electrical, Mechanical and Optical engineers in development and support of commercial and military Head-Up Displays, Helmet Mounted Displays and Enhanced Vision Systems.From 2009 to 2015, I was a Functional Manager leading a group of Mechanical and Product Integrity Engineers as large as 24 engineers. My group supported Heads-Up Display, Helmet Mounted Display and Enhanced Vision System projects in all lifecycle phases; including initial research, design, integration, test and initial production. In this leadership role, I provided staff to projects, technical guidance/expertise along with direct staff management and development.From 2003 to 2009, I was a Project Engineer/Technical Project Manager, leading multi-disciplinary engineering development teams through all project life cycle phases; from initial start-up through qualification and flight testing. I have led Head Down Display, Helmet Mounted Display and Head-Up Display projects ranging in size from $1M to $10M+.I have previously held a Government Clearance.Specialties: Project Management - Leading multi-disciplinary teams from project start-up through design & development to qualification testing.Multi-disciplinary project leadership, project planning including schedule development and tracking, cost baselining, metrics analysis, customer service, recognizing and understanding priorities, mentoring, training, staff management, team building, process improvement

Experience

1. Associate Director, Helmet and Headworn Displays

   Collins Aerospace

   Aug 2023 — Present · Wilsonville, OR, US

Education

• San Luis Obispo High School

  High School Diploma

  1989 — 1992

• California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo

  Bachelor of Science, Mechanical Engineering

  1992 — 1997

• San José State University

  Masters, Business Administration

  1999 — 2002

Skills

• Manufacturing
• Process Improvement
• Technical Project Leadership
• Integration
• Dtc
• Six Sigma
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Management
• Electronics
• Engineering Management
• Project Planning
• Supply Management
• Testing
• Engineering
• Proposal Writing
• Aerospace
• Earned Value Management
• Mechanical Engineering
• Mentoring
• Lean Manufacturing
• Avionics
• Leadership
• Program Management
• Project Management