EM LOPEZ-MAKI
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Em Lopez-Maki

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Technical Project Manager (PMP) with a background in mechanical engineering and cross-functional program execution across aerospace, R&D, and manufacturing. Experienced leading complex technical programs from planning through delivery, including a critical redesign accelerated from 18 months to 6 months under regulatory and customer pressure.

Current Role: Operations Strategist (Contract)
Workflow and scheduling systems overhaul for electrical transmission construction company.
Experience

Parker Meggitt

10/2022–10/2025
Technical Project Manager / Lead Technical Engineer
  • Led a critical system redesign and rework effort that eliminated a flight-critical failure mode, preventing in-service shutdowns and avoiding $4M+ in potential part-replacement costs while restoring customer confidence.
  • Accelerated a high-priority program from 18 months to 6 months by restructuring execution plans, clarifying ownership, and improving cross-functional coordination under regulatory and customer pressure.
  • Led IPT coordination across engineering, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, and customer stakeholders, managing critical-path dependencies to maintain schedule integrity under competing priorities.
  • Served as primary coordination lead between leadership, customers, and cross-functional teams, communicating risks, status, priorities, and mitigation plans to support timely decisions.
  • Built and maintained integrated tracking systems in Microsoft Project and Trello to manage schedules, dependencies, risks, and coordination across multiple concurrent programs.

Los Alamos National Laboratory

04/2019–09/2020
Mechanical Engineer / Technical Project Coordinator
  • Independently designed and developed a patented 3D-printed tamper-evident container with inlaid fiber optics, recognized with an R&D100 Award and featured in Popular Mechanics.
  • Led coordination of a multidisciplinary test-system development effort spanning hardware design, instrumentation, software integration, vendor management, and external stakeholder communication in an R&D environment.
  • Contributed to development and testing across experimental systems, including particle-accelerator vacuum infrastructure and a rapid-response PPE decontamination system.