Paul Gallegos

Product Management MBA Intern

• Devised a new product approval process, reducing time to market by four months. Collaborated with functional managers and team members to obtain consensus on the new process.
• Analyzed and delivered end consumer pricing and variable costs for key products across the entire training portfolio to enable more effective pricing strategies and more accurate product forecasts.
• Designed a financial modeling tool to forecast quarterly sales growth, expenses, and profitability, allowing product managers to analyze potential and existing investment opportunities.

Duke MBA Consultant

• Developed business plans with ‘go-to-market’ strategies for two pilot programs for rural Indian communities to establish a sustainable source of revenue for the communities and the client.
• Determined optimal product, positioning, pricing, and distribution for the programs by researching the competitive landscape, evaluating customer surveys, and conducting customer interviews.
• Presented recommendations on the small- and large-scale viability, profitability, social impact, and risk of each program to the president and the COO, validating the continuation of the pilot programs.

Volunteer, Consultant & Program Developer

• Developed the non-profit organization internally and its relationships with strategic partners,resulting in growth from 1 program in l location to 2 programs in over 10 locations locally.
• Contributed strategic planning inputs in preparation to scale the youth program nationally.

Aerospace Engineer, Engineer & Project Manager

• Directed a $150,000 cross-team network overhaul project for an astronaut training facility that optimized the design for its users and enhanced customer and developer support experience.
• Improved efficiency by 25% by streamlining project processes, permitting faster response and turnaround to users and customers through collaboration with managers and four functional teams.
• Led a cross-functional team in a $100,000 simulator upgrade project, minimizing customer impact by reducing simulator downtime from four weeks to four days (NASA JSC Performance Award, 2007).
• Created a platform-independent application to rapidly prototype space vehicle display and control panels, enabling new exploration vehicle designers to rapidly deliver prototypes for analysis.
• Developed and deployed two handheld testing devices, customized to target users’ needs.

Aerospace Engineer, Undergraduate Co-op

• Achieved a fast track to begin certification as an International Space Station back room flight controller for Mission Control Center in three months (versus the 6-9 month average).
• Developed a software application to enable end-to-end testing of an astronaut-training simulator (NASA JSC Co-op Special Achievement Award, 2002).

Duke University Fuqua School of Business

University of Edinburgh Business School

University of Texas- El Paso

Universidad de Sevilla