Keith Matthews
SDA Tranche 1 Transport Layer PM at Northrop Grumman
Los Alamitos, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKeith Matthews is a senior program manager and technical leader with over two decades of experience delivering RF, digital and optical systems for space and defense programs. At Northrop Grumman he has led large integration, test and operations organizations—most recently as SDA Tranche 1 Transport Layer PM and prior director overseeing test and launch activities for 200+ staff. He combines hands-on systems engineering (lasercom, EHF antenna upgrades, modem development) with program execution expertise in earned value, risk management and proposal strategy, repeatedly turning risk-reduction demos into production-ready capabilities. Trained as a physicist with an MSEE in communication systems, he blends deep technical breadth with business development acumen and a knack for aligning multi‑disciplinary teams around high‑stakes milestones. An understated strength is his ability to move between detailed lab-level technical leadership and strategic operational roles, making him effective across the full lifecycle from TRL‑6 demos to program delivery.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
MSEE Communication Systems, MSEE Communication Systems at University of Southern CaliforniaBSEE Communication Systems, BSEE Communication Systems at Georgia Institute of Technology
Github Skills (20)
editor9
microsoft9
electron9
visual-studio-code9
vscode-extension9
typescript9
visual-studio9
vscode9
xamarin-ios5
xamarin-android5
xamarin-mac5
xamarin-forms4
meta3
xamarin3
issue-tracking3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
MakerFaireLA/sitePlanJungle
Apr 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:158 commits, 152 pushes, 9 branches in 3 months
manifolded/five-bit-poskitt
May 2017 - Sep 2020
Contributions:21 commits, 20 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 4 months
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