Austen Bryan

CEO

Omaha, Nebraska, United States16 yrs 5 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Led revenue growth from $10M to $34M in 18 months.
Transformed DoD programs to DevSecOps for continuous delivery.
Managed teams of over 120 personnel in high-stakes environments.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Defense industry leader with expertise in software delivery and project management.

Contact

abryan562@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

LeadershipProject ManagementProduct ManagementSales StrategyTeam LeadershipCustomer SuccessDevsecopsStrategy DevelopmentAgile MethodologiesOperations ManagementEngineeringEngineering ManagementBudgetingProduct DevelopmentResource PlanningResearch And DevelopmentAgile Software Development

Other Skills

AgileAir ForceAnalysisC#Continuous IntegrationDefenseDoDIntegrationKubernetesMicrosoft OfficeMilitaryMilitary OperationsOpen SourceProgram ManagementSales

About

At war with status quo

Experience

Defense unicorns

3 roles

Senior Vice President, General Manager

Promoted

Nov 2024 – Present · 1 yr 4 mos · Remote

Senior Vice President, General Manager of our company's core product called Unicorn Delivery Service (UDS), a software delivery platform for the Department of Defense. I am accountable for the end-to-end revenue growth, strategy, and profit/loss of this business unit which encompasses sales, product development and customer success/professional services. I am accountable to 120+ personnel which I lead as we look to grow our mission impact, revenue, and customer diversification.

IntegrationSystems EngineeringLeadershipProject ManagementEngineering Management

Vice President, Product

Promoted

Apr 2023 – Nov 2024 · 1 yr 7 mos · Remote

Vice President of Product at Defense Unicorns. In this role I help bring 2 Open Source Projects to the community and integrate them together into a software delivery platform for the Department of Defense. My main role was to resource, enable and guide brilliant software engineers, designers and product managers.
In this role I grew the small department (research and development) from 12 personnel on 2 teams to 60 personnel across 10 teams. I was responsible for curating the product vision across the executive leadership team and accountable for the strategy to execute on making it a reality. We moved from services around Open Source to a Open Core model and Go To Market strategy around Unicorn Delivery Service (UDS), our flagship product. This allowed us to scale federal revenue but also launch additional revenue streams with OEMs, SIs, small business, and partners. Specifically, we grew revenue from $10M to $34M over 18 months.

IntegrationProduct ManagementLeadershipProject Management

Vice President, Delivery

Feb 2022 – Mar 2023 · 1 yr 1 mo · Remote

Vice President of Delivery (Professional Services and Customer Success) at Defense Unicorns. In this role I was responsible for leading the teams that are accountable for implementing our products in customer environments.
We accelerate the delivery of open source and commercial software to federally regulated environments. I aided in the initial formation and organization of the team. Together we grew the portfolio from $3M to $10M over 13 months. Along the way we grew the team from 15 to 45 amazing personnel and added multiple key accounts across the Air Force

LeadershipCustomer SuccessProject Management

United states air force

7 roles

Chief Operating Officer, DoD Platform One

Promoted

Sep 2019 – Jan 2022 · 2 yrs 4 mos

I help resource and enable some of the most talented technical and acquisitions professionals in the United States Air Force. We help DoD programs transform their culture, process and technology to DevSecOps so we can drive down MVP times and get them to continuous delivery for their war fighters.
We offer our platform as a managed DevSecOps service or help others deploy and scale it as Infrastructure as Code/Configuration as Code. This includes a native Kubernetes-based platform and tailored Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery pipelines to support application developers going from commit to deploy in automated fashion. We also secure and accredit vendor software for others to use.
Lastly, we enable others for end-to-end digital transformation by training teammates from start to finish with our on boarding classes which includes acquisition best practices so program's can get the talent, license and cloud services they need for sustainable success.

DevSecOpsLeadershipTraining

Co-Founder, LevelUP Code Works

Promoted

Aug 2018 – Sep 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo

Develops strategy and ensures execution of all strategic objectives for our software teams. Responsible for delivering war-winning capability which includes standing up the initial continuous integration and continuous delivery stack, increasing capability across legacy joint cyber platforms and developing a new container-based cloud platform for future growth, scale and security. Ultimately responsible for software delivery across three agile value streams in order to deliver value to over 130 different organizations.

Strategy DevelopmentAgile Methodologies

Flight Commander, Operations Support

Oct 2016 – Jul 2018 · 1 yr 9 mos

Directs 32 member department organized into 4 separate teams. Responsible for all support functions required to operate 3 satellite constellations valued at $17.9B. Specifically responsible for orbital analysis, mission tasking, satellite and ground engineering teams. Sets expectations/goals for the teams and enforces necessary standards to achieve operational success.

Operations ManagementEngineering

Operations Chief, Satellite Engineering

Promoted

Sep 2014 – Oct 2016 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Chief engineer for 3 satellite constellations in 2 different orbits. Supervised team of 7 engineers to produce all maintenance commanding, optimize constellation performance, respond on call to system anomalies and guide funding/budgeting for near term system acquisitions.

Engineering ManagementBudgeting

Product Manager

Oct 2013 – Sep 2014 · 11 mos

Concurrently managed two product developments efforts to deliver on time and budget while exceeding customer specifications

Product DevelopmentProject Management

Program Manager

Apr 2013 – Oct 2013 · 6 mos

Planned and executed the support of 3 aircraft and its crew in several world-wide missile defense tests. Responsible for resource planning and budgeting necessary to meet testing needs. Traveled to test sites to oversee crew operations and ensure resources procured met the needs to personnel.

Resource PlanningBudgeting

Lead Systems Engineer

Apr 2011 – May 2013 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Led a small multidisciplinary team (engineering, contracting, and finance) in the research and development of laser technology and its application to missile defense. Responsible for delivering projects on time and budget while meeting all technical specifications.

Research and DevelopmentProject Management