Sherry R. Ratliff

About Sherry R. Ratliff

Contracts professional with over 25 years of experience with Engineering, Academic Research, Manufacturing in Commercial, Energy & Defense Technologies and related companies, institutions and international governments / foreign entities. I want to maintain employment with a progressive organization offering challenge, higher levels of responsibility, and opportunities for growth in ventures, and corporate business. I focus on legal compliance, agreements, team endeavors, and maintaining corporate identity with commercial, DoE & DoD entities, and with FAR / DFAR / ITAR / EAR. I perform well in higher-level activities, start-ups or site-closures, and corporate specific activities. I work well in out-of-ordinary interpersonal connections, with training in Psychology/Counseling. I operate within processes, making a company successful. Embracing teams to ensure corporate conformity. The combination of psychology and contracts is useful in corporate transactions.I want to be a “Warrior” for my employer, networking, and otherwise opening doors. I want to listen to stories and problems, and resolve. I achieve business goals by working closely with leaders and management. Special assignments, and multi-million dollar business winnings provide experience in communicating within teams. Psychology/Counseling provides experience in listening to the customer needs. Recognizing our customer is both internal and external establishes guidelines for good business. I attain deeper knowledge base of technologies, systems and performance; and connect to customer’s needs. Identify gaps in capabilities, and work to provide remediation for customers and internal personnel. Experience in communicating across disciplines to embrace business initiatives. Interpersonal skill-sets and coordinating with teams, I facilitate the customer\'s voice.

Experience

1. Assistant Director, Tees Contracting

   Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES)

   Aug 2023 — Present

Education

• Lee College

  A.A.S. / A.A., Applied Science / Liberal Arts

  1989 — 1991

• The George Washington University

  Masters Certificate, Government Contracting

  2001 — 2005

• Texas A&M University

  Bachelor of Arts, Psychology

  1992 — 1994

• Stephen F. Austin State University

  M.A., Rehabilitation Counseling

  1996 — 1998

Skills

• Manufacturing
• Defence
• Ms Project
• Procurement
• Government
• Government Contracting
• Process Improvement
• Integration
• Analysis
• Costpoint
• Defense
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Operations Management
• Management
• Aviation
• Engineering Management
• Peoplesoft
• Navy
• Logistics
• Engineering
• Aerospace
• Cost Accounting
• Itar
• Earned Value Management
• Defense Contracting
• Aircraft
• Far
• Materials Management
• Cost Benefit
• Information Assurance
• Pricing
• Dod
• National Security
• Policy
• Leadership
• Air Force
• Negotiation
• Military
• Contract Negotiation