Steven W.

Sillich
Merrimack, New Hampshire 03054
(H) 603-424-6481 (C) 603-533-1456
swsillich@aol.com
www.linkedin.com/in/SteveSillich

SUMMARY
Strong technical leader with a background in electrical engineering and significant experience managing all
sizes of technical and program teams. Very capable of managing projects by following PMP principles,
interfacing with customers, developing a technical staff, maturing an organization and helping the team achieve
predictable performance to meet customer needs.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
BAE SYSTEMS, Nashua NH

Program Manager, Program Engineering Manager

2009-2015, 1997-1999
Provided project / technical leadership for several cross-functional program teams supporting the Electronic
Warfare Business Area. Managed Depot, Sustainment, Technology Demonstration, EMD, and Full Rate
Production type programs for radar receivers / transmitters and signal / data processing equipment on the several
different fighter aircraft platforms.
* Worked several successful bid and proposal activities through contract negotiations.
* Competent technical planner responsible for budget and schedule development.
* Comfortable with formal EVMS practices, FAR, and ITAR requirements.
* Worked with the engineering and customer teams to define technical requirements and generate SOWs.
* Regularly monitored and delivered project status to all stakeholders.
* Enjoyed working with Production Operations and System IV&V teams to resolve technical HW/SW
performance and documentation issues during production and testing.
* Successful planned and executed risk activities to manage program issues to resolution.
* Leader in using SharePoint and Wikis to better manage program knowledge.
* Currently pursuing Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification.
* Leveraged Technology Initiative: Program leader for several teams whose goals were to take existing
technologies in the company and apply them to new applications. Worked directly with program managers
responsible for the target programs, performing an internal subcontracting function for the leveraged products.
* Successfully developed processes and procedures for implementing leverage.
* Developed and maintained technology roadmaps for technologies targeted for leverage.
* X33 Remote Health Node: Managed a 24 person cross-functional team in the development and first article
testing of a 4 million dollar project to provide remote health nodes for a Vehicle Health Management system
as part of the X33 Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV) program.
* Advanced Microwave Product Factory Standup: Managed a twenty-person Integrated Test Engineering team
responsible for inserting automated test capabilities into the BAE Systems Common Factories. Responsible
for the success of test-engineering activities on all Common Factory programs. Led the Test Team to stand up
the automated test capabilities for the Advanced Microwave Products factory.
* F22, JSF, ALE55 Sustaining/Depot: Directly responsible for the success of all engineering activities in
support of the production teams on these programs. Managed the technical teams and partnered with the
program managers and production personnel. Monitored the technical subcontracts, and provided a technical
interface to the customers. Successfully completed formal failure analysis closing all non-conformance issues.

Functional Management

1998 2009
Led several engineering functional organizations in different business areas. Responsible for the successful
application of engineering processes on programs. Worked with Technical Area Managers and Directors to
understand program goals and requirements. Recruited and retained the engineering staff necessary to

accomplish Business Area technology development goals while providing active employee mentoring, career
guidance and development opportunities.
* Made engineering assignments to provide the necessary engineering skills with motivated and cohesive
teams. Provided task leadership as required.
* Developed and executed a training plan for the managed unit. Gave performance evaluations,
administered merit and promotional budgets.
* Participated in cross-functional teams in the establishment and continuous improvement of engineering
design processes and methodologies.
* Supported corporate technical campus recruitment initiatives.
* Director ECS Electrical Engineering: Functional leader for a 500-member team that developed electrical
hardware for the ECS Line of Business. Main focus was on developing the next set of engineering leaders.
Reported directly to the VP of Engineering.
* Mentored EE Department managers to support functional needs of the business.
* Directly responsible for reviewing and approving all bids containing Electrical Engineering content.
* Partnered with business area technical directors to solve Electrical Engineering execution issues.
* Led several strategic engineering initiatives to improve the efficiency of engineering organization and
staff.
* Department Manager EW Electrical Engineering: Functional leader for a 125-member team that
developed and supported electrical hardware for EW systems on a variety of platforms. Developed a
mentoring based organization to both efficiently handle the span of control and to make sure every member of
the department was able to have access to a technical coach. Directly responsible for the quality of the
engineering accomplished by members of the department
* Section Manager- Technical Unit Leader, Electrical Prototyping: Technical leader for a 32-member team
developing electrical hardware for advanced technology programs. Responsible for engineering performance
on Advanced Systems programs. Provided technical assignments, engineering career development and training
guidance to staff members. Supported technical proposals submitted from within the AS directorate. Assured
the application of applicable best practices on Advanced Systems & Technology programs.
PREVIOUS DIRECT TECHNICAL CONTRIBUTIONS
Sanders, A Lockheed Martin Company, Nashua NH
Technical expertise was primarily in digital electrical engineering involving embedded processors for use in RF
and Electro-Optical systems. Work was concentrated in providing signal processing and controller solutions
using VHDL targeted to FPGAs and embedded SW.
* Developed application and FPGA design requirements for several applications including a DSP based
sonobouy channelizer and several Electro-Optical Systems.
* Designed and tested the HW for a micro-miniature imaging subsystem for the Micro-Air Vehicle
(MAV).
* Developed VHDL for image processing algorithms targeted to Actel FPGAs for the ATIRCM program.
* Designed the Analog to Digital Multi-Chip Module for the RHN program.
* Completed the Digital Subsystem development on the Milsatcom program.
General Electric Company/Martin Marietta/Lockheed Martin, Syracuse NY
Worked many different design/development activities in HW, SW, subsystems, and systems.
* Process Development - Part of a multi-business team that created the Lockheed Martin standard digital
design process. Responsible for developing the FPGA Design process. Provided application engineering
and methodology support in the areas of schematic based capture, VHDL simulation, and VHDL based
synthesis operations to design engineers across the corporation. Managed corporation wide CAE tool
competition for Hardware Accelerator technology

* Project Engineer - Technical lead for implementing changes that allowed for increased remote operational
capabilities for the Seek Igloo Radar program. -- Project Engineer responsible for implementing bundled
changes into an existing radar system. Duties included design, development, and project management.
* Subsystem Design - Developed the digital architecture and wrote the requirements for a fault tolerant
controller for the phased array on the A2100 satellite program. Completed digital subsystem design for
Fiber Optic Controlled Phased Array Radar. Developed an autonomously controlled clocking scheme for
the Warp Systolic Array Processor.
* Hardware Design - Designed, developed and fielded a three stage micro-programmable engine for the
Array Processor used in the Over-the-Horizon Radar program. Duties included architecture definition,
detailed design, manufacturing interface, and testing.
* System Test - Supported the integration and test phase of several Solid State Radar programs and solved
several data processor hardware issues at remote radar sites.
* Software Design - Designed and tested an assembly language multi-processor I/O driver that interfaced
with the Array Processor Operating System for a proposed FAA radar program. Developed the microcode for the array processor in the OTH Radar Program.
CLEARANCES
* Top Secret Collateral
EDUCATION
Master of Science, Computer Engineering
Syracuse University; Syracuse, New York

Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering

Rochester Institute of Technology; Rochester, NY

Master of Business Administration (completed 30 of 60 required credits)

Syracuse University; Syracuse, New York

Post Graduate Management work

University of NH, Northeastern University, In-House PEM Training Certificate

Post Graduate Engineering work Digital Signal Processing

University of Massachusetts, Lowell

COMPUTER RELATED SKILLS

Productivity Tools: Mind Manager, One-Note, Sharepoint, Access DB, Microsoft Office
Software Languages: C, C++, MATLAB, Fortran, Tcl/Tk, Bourne & C Shell,
CAE Software: Mentor Graphics, Cadence, Synopsys, Summit, Synplicity
Other Experience: VHDL and Verilog hardware modeling, Access database construction.
HONORS
* General Electric Aerospace General Manager's Award
* Professional Ski Instructor's of America Level 2 Certification
* Level 1 Curling Instructor Certification