Laura Chan
Program Manager at Viasat Inc.
Carlsbad, California, United States
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Top SchoolLaura Chan is an accomplished engineering leader and program manager with over 20 years of experience driving commercialization, new product introduction, and product lifecycle management for wireless and avionics systems. She has led cross-functional teams at Viasat, Northrop Grumman, Harris, and Kodak, consistently delivering complex programs on time, on budget, and to high quality and compliance standards (ISO 9001, CMMI, ITAR/FAR). Known for pragmatic contingency planning, resource prioritization, and process re-engineering, she bridges systems engineering, test development, and manufacturing to expand sales opportunities and improve customer satisfaction. Laura combines technical depth in software, test systems, and RF/communications hardware with financial planning and contract negotiation experience. She also brings leadership training from Darden and the University of Michigan, reflecting a long-term commitment to developing high-performing teams. Based in Carlsbad, CA, she often thrives on turning intricate regulatory and manufacturing constraints into repeatable, scalable product delivery processes.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Leadership Direction Program, Leadership Direction Program at University of Virginia, Darden School of BusinessManagement of Managers Program, Management of Managers Program at University of MichiganB.S., Computer Science and Spanish with Minor in Mathematics, 3.5, B.S., Computer Science and Spanish with Minor in Mathematics, 3.5 at Carroll College
English, Spanish
Github Skills (15)
exchange-web-services10
outlook10
office36510
exchange9
cms8
jsdelivr8
python8
traffic8
esmodules7
cdn7
http6
npm6
javascript6
microsoft5
infrastructure5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
laurachan/Vue-BookListing
Apr 2022 - Apr 2022
Book Listing for Vue Project
Contributions:9 pushes in 1 day
vuevue-projectlistingvuejs
laurachan/n2cms
Nov 2018 - Nov 2018
N2 CMS, an open source CMS for ASP.NET
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
cmsasp-net-mvcaspasp-netasp-net-core
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