MAGNAVOX – ASHBURN, VIRGINIA

Magnavox opened a new facility for IR&D and Production in Northern Virginia. I rejoined Magnavox in 1986 as Program Configuration Manager for both IR&D and Production of U.S. Army contracts for vehicular communications systems. Configuration Management Department consisted of eight personnel and was responsible for generation of Bills of Material for each program.
Configuration Management was responsible for the following:
a. Prepare a Program Configuration Management Plan for each IR&D and Production government contract.
b. Maintenance of Bills of Material for each item used in the configuration of proposed product, as well as, for the configuration of production of hardware and software.
c. Preparing engineering change notices to released Bills of Material. Establish `As Build Configuration Sheets’ including part number and document revision level.
d. Preparing Production Specification Changes to procurement Specification, Engineer Change Proposals, Request for Deviation, and Request for Waiver to U.S. Army for concurrence and/or approval.
e. Conduct Configuration Audits in house verifying As Built Configuration Sheet and documents for a product match.
f. Visit Customer facilities to monitor progress of contract schedule and support Program Manager at customer meetings.
g. Visit Vendor’s plants and conduct configuration audits on vendor products to integrated into a communication system prior to acceptance of vendor products by Magnavox Quality Department.
h. Record changes to documents for hardware and software.
i. Prepare Configuration Item Status Accounting Reports reflecting products to assigned Serial Numbers.
Education: Northern Virginia University March 1988 Hardware Configuration Management. Northern Virginia University March 1989 Software Configuration Management. American Defense Prepared Association June 1990 Certified Industrial Configuration Manager.