Gavin Payne

About Gavin Payne

A technically and emotionally intelligent leader with a consistent track record of systems thinking to align people, processes, and tools that drive real world results.Highly skilled people person and leader across the corporate, public, and non-profit arenas. With the ability to collaborate with Executive Leadership, and lead and translate for technical teams.Innate curiosity that keeps me learning across a wide set of technical topic and connect concepts in a systems view that lets me see how technical decisions will affect other systems, people, resources, money, data, and future road maps.

Experience

1. Section Head

   Space Dynamics Laboratory

   Apr 2020 — Present · Logan, UT, US

Education

• Utah State University

  BS, Computer Engineering

  1994 — 2000

• University of Colorado Boulder

  Master of Engineering - MEng, Engineering Management

  2001 — 2007

• University of Colorado Boulder

  Certificate, Embedded Systems

  2001 — 2002

• Project Management Institute

  PMP, Project Management Professional

  2007 — 2007

• University of Colorado Boulder

  Certificate, Management of Research and Development

  2004 — 2006

Skills

• Engineering Management
• Software Project Management
• IT Project & Program Management
• Aerospace
• Team Facilitation
• Continuous Improvement
• Cmmi
• Embedded Systems
• Development of Strategy
• Performance Metrics
• Strategic Planning
• Program Management
• System Architecture
• Integration
• Project Portfolio Management
• Stakeholder Analysis
• System Design
• Business Analysis
• Presentations
• Agile Methodologies
• Spacecraft
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Management
• Data Analysis
• Defense
• As9100
• Organizational Change Agent
• Space Systems
• Systems Engineering
• Agile Project Management
• Systems Design
• Security Clearance
• Agile Application Development
• IT Strategy
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Business Process
• Budgets
• Business Process Improvement
• Portfolio Management
• Satellite