Lou Orsini

About Lou Orsini

Summary: Achievement oriented technical professional experienced in producing…

Experience

1. Senior Director of Engineering

   Drs Signal Solutions, Inc

   Jun 2018 — Present

   Managing a 50-person, multiple disciplined, engineering department in all phases of product development and production support. Responsible for all aspects of electrical, mechanical, software and embedded design and release to manufacturing for multi-channel, open standards based and tactical surveillance receivers supporting frequencies from less than 2 MHz to 26 GHz. Specific accomplishments include: • Increased Engineering On-Time Deliverables from 55% to greater than 98% • Instituted development processes resulting in dramatically reduced product defects in fielded systems and initial product releases. • Designed and implemented development estimation process increasing overall accuracy of project estimates and schedules. • Led process improvements resulting in successful completion of CMMI level 3 assessment. • Instituted disciplined, monthly project review process resulting in improved schedule performance and cost containment. • Leading effort to standardize and automate test development across development and operations resulting in increased test coverage and reduction in development costs. • Leading effort to design multi-channel, standards based, low-SWAP-C, tactical surveillance receiver.