Collaboration in Determining Value
Yvonne has thirty years of diverse experience in space and ground engineering and financial management for both government and commercial systems. She is particularly expert in cost/risk analysis and the valuation of the insertion of new technologies. Experienced in executive management studies and economic decision presentations and proposal preparation, Yvonne is imminently qualified for providing consulting services in these areas. She has held various DoD and SSBI clearances.
Yvonne is president of RYL Analytics and Consulting, which she joined after retiring from Northrop Grumman as Pricing/Cost Estimating Manager for large programs. At Northrop Grumman she managed cross-functional teams to prepare cost volumes for major proposals, budgetary exercises, rough order of magnitude” (ROM) estimates, not to exceed”, and contract changes. Prior to that, she held various positions as Cost/Risk Manager, and Finance Manager at Spectrum Astro and General Dynamics. In those roles, she was a member of Programs Director’s teams with emphasis in cost estimation; cost-risk analysis; and parametric cost model development. Her duties include leadership and coordination of various cost estimating related projects and interface/coordination with top management on cost estimating issues.
Previously she was with Space Systems/Loral as Specialty Manager assigned to the Advanced Systems and Technology Department where she managed economic analysis from a total systems perspective. Fundamental to this practice was measuring the value of new technologies insertions in satellites, and measuring the completed conversion benefits in terms of costs, annual rate of return, and technical performance & schedule. Prior to that she was with Ford Aerospace where she developed and implemented that company’s first integrated Space and Ground Segment Systems Life Cycle (LCC) estimating capability. Yvonne began her early career at Ford Motor Company as an Industrial Engineer before transferring to Ford Aerospace. She has a B.A Business Administration from the University of Missouri, and has done M.B.A graduate work at the University of Santa Clara in California. Yvonne is a member of several cost estimating societies, and has authored eight publications.