-: My name is Adam Kelly and I'm a
program manager at Honeywell Aerospace.
And so for example, we make navigation systems,
guidance systems, engines, auxiliary power units
so a lot of different components that you would see
on an airplane or in a missile and that kinda thing.
A program manager at Honeywell Aerospace
manages development programs.
So it's something when we are creating
a new product that we're gonna intend
to either sell to one specific customer
or maybe to multiple customers,
my role is to manage that development program
from a cost, a schedule, budget, quality
and so kinda taking those business requirements
of what the product needs to do,
helping translate that into more functional
technical requirements and then managing
the technical team as we execute
and bring it into production.
Once we get approval, and we use a very
rigorous stage-gate process
like a lot of other aerospace companies would.
So we use a stage-gate process
and that really defines as you progress
through the development of a product,
so we go through planning stage,
then we go into preliminary design.
Out of that you'd typically have a PDR,
a \preliminary design review,
and then after that you'd go into the critical design phase
and at the exit of that phase,
you'd go into the CDR, and then finally,
you'd go into more of a testing and validation phase
of that product, where you're getting ready
for production and you're testing
really what is this product meeting the requirements
that we set out to create and design it to.
So that's basically the process of development
and then we also have a lot of emphasis
in terms of bringing those products into the factories
to make sure our factories can manufacture them effectively
and then our customer support is all set up as well
which is a big thing in the aerospace industry.
On a weekly basis I'm either kinda touching base
on programs that are executing and running.
We have I would have a MOS, a management operating system
where I might have standard meetings
that come up once a week where we review
our actually financials from that project
and then I'm also working on helping create
some statement at work documents,
some initial documents where we're defining
what the programs are gonna be.
And then there's also customer interaction
and supplier interactions.
We also work with suppliers
who do some of our development work as well,
so it does kinda vary where a lot of times
I'm working with our internal resources
but then I do have a lot of meetings
with some of the external resources
like customers and suppliers as well.