Steve Thomas
AMS Co-Founder and CFOO
- Role
- Chief Financial & Operating Officer at Aviation & Missile Solutions
- Location
- Huntsville, AL, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Steve Thomas
Co-Founder and Chief Financial/Operating Officer at Aviation & Missile Solutions (AMS), an air and missile defense technology company in Huntsville, AL. Partnered with CEO Keith McCollum in 2022 to acquire AMS from Dynetics. Lead business operations and financial strategy facilitating 161% revenue growth in three years.Previously spent 25 years at Dynetics in engineering, P&L, and finance roles. Founding member of the ESOP Advisory Committee supporting the 2011 transition to 100% S-Corp and led annual valuations with the external trustee. Developed key financial materials such as the Confidential Information Package, contract waterfall, and pro forma financials underpinning the $1.65B Leidos acquisition of Dynetics in 2020.Technical career prior to operations included foreign RF surface-to-air missile subject matter expertise for IC and DoD electronic warfare programs. Grew this business 300% through expansion into RF threat simulator systems.
Experience
Chief Financial & Operating Officer
Jan 2022 — Present · Huntsville, AL, US
EVP, Chief Financial & Operating Officer, and Board Member at Aviation & Missile Solutions (AMS), an air & missile defense technology company.
Education
Georgia Institute of Technology
M.S., Electrical Engineering
1995 — 1996
Auburn University
B.S., Electrical Engineering
1991 — 1995
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Aerospace and Defense
2018 — 2018
Skills
- Systems Engineering
- Systems Design
- Radar
- Software Development
- Simulations
- Rf
- Engineering
- Aerospace
- Esop
- System Design
- Government Contracting
- Business Development
- Dod
- Engineering Management
- Proposal Writing
- Electronic Warfare
- Information Assurance
- Electronics
- Program Management
- Incentive Programs
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