Professor (full-time 1/2001 - present; adjunct 8/99 - 12/2000). Taught systems engineering over the Internet in the Graduate School of Management and Technology. Develop and teach web-based classes: CSMN635, Systems Development and Project Control; MSIT650, Systems Engineering; MSWE603, Systems Engineering; MSWE646, Software Design and Development. ~38 sections.

Consultant/Partner. Duties include:

• As part of a 2-person team, designed and wrote Year 2000 best-practices end-user classes on:
  • Visual Basic¨
  • Word¨
  • Access¨
  • Foxpro¨
  • Microsoft Project¨
  Courses, books, tests, and presentation materials were used by several thousand students at Fortune 500 clients
• Design and implement new business processes for this engineering and software consulting firm
• Write about systems engineering and other topics
• Consult on systems engineering, training, and other topics

Senior Staff Systems Engineer; Lead Consultant for Systems Engineering, Architecture, Course Development, and Training.
Directly continued duties of IBM posting under Loral and Lockheed Martin ownership. Planned, organized, directed, and controlled systems engineering courses offered by the Software and Systems Resource Center for all Lockheed Martin companies. Taught systems engineering classes (a total of 196 for IBM/Loral/Lockheed). Also, served as Program Manager for 84 of those classes and as Class Manager for 112. Consulted on systems engineering process development for multiple business units. Conducted systems engineering performance audits for major programs (6/92-2/99). Wrote presentations, courses, papers, and books using graphics, word processing , HTML and other software. Duties included:

• Performed and taught systems engineering and project management
• Managed as first and second level manager, as assigned
• Supervised 10 to 300 engineers in 1 to 5 first level departments
• Alternated between management and technical assignments under the IBM Dual Ladder Career Progression program
• Designed Computer Integrated Manufacturing System for printed circuit card production, IBM Technology Products Division, 1/90 - 6/92;
• Performed as Program Manager of Systems Integration Engineering for IBM World Trade Asia, 2/88 - 12/89.
• Earned two outstanding achievement awards
• Projects included system design and proposal consultation for:
  • Siam Motors
  • Singapore Trade Net
  • Hong Kong Airport Cargo Tracking
  • Malaysian Telecom
  • New Zealand Railways
  • Ngee-Ann Polytechnic in Singapore
  • many other programs;
• was awarded the Systems Engineering Chair on IBM Federal Systems Division Technical Staff
• Performed systems design and consultation, system design reviews, program control reviews, system performance assurance validation and systems engineering training, 1/86 - 2/88.
• Projects included:
  • x-ray annotation system for major hospital corporation’s patient information management system
  • automated teller management system for major French bank
  • more
• designed data support for military applications of the Space Shuttle, 11/83 - 1/86;
• taught and served as Program Manager for 84 systems engineering classes;
• performed systems engineering for a proposed Air Force-operated Space Shuttle Operations and Planning Complex, 1/82 - 11/83;
• served as loaned executive on the Hartford Utility Investment Project. of the Alliance to Save Energy, chaired by Senator Charles Percy, 6/81 - 12/81
• developed applications software for processing LandSat-derived imagery for Dept. of Agriculture crop yield estimation, Earth Resources project,10/80 - 6/81;
• performed as second-level manager of SIMS (Systems Integration of Marketable Subsystems), a NASA program sponsored by DoE, to design, install, test, and evaluate solar energy hot-water, space heating, and space cooling systems, 1980;
• performed as manager of Performance Analysis for solar energy initiatives of all federal agencies, 1978/79; wrote the definitive report on collector array performance;
• developed techniques for exploitation of the space environment in support of NASA Advanced Project Office, 1975/78. Among other projects, developed techniques for operationally using the same geosynchronous longitude for multiple satellites, and also developed concepts for performing sustaining engineering of the SpaceLab module cargo of the Space Shuttle;
• analyzed Launch Vehicle Performance for the Apollo/Soyuz test project, 1974;
• managed performance analysis for all Apollo Launch Vehicle missions, 6/69-6/74;
• performed failure mode and effects analysis and recommended corrective control actions for flight controllers on Apollo missions, 2/68 - 6/69

6/60 - 1/68 Douglas Aircraft Santa Monica, Eglin Air Force Base

Senior Systems Engineer Title: Design Engineer. Duties:

• Apollo remote site real-time flight controller 1966/68
• Apollo telemetry and systems integration engineer at Cape Canaveral Space Center 1963/65
• flight test engineer at Eglin AFB, 1962/63
• flight control electronic circuit designer for Skybolt air-launched ballistic missile 1960/62

• Texas 51559 (inactive)
• Alabama 11732

• B.S.E.E., Electrical Engineering, 1960. University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, 6/57-6/60
• M.S.E., Systems/Industrial Engineering, 1971. University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL, 68-71
• Ph.D., Industrial (Systems) Engineering, 1987.University of Houston, Houston, TX, 82-87.

• Educating Systems Engineers: Encouraging Divergent Thinking, Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual International Symposium of the International Council on Systems Engineering, July, 2002 (with Crystal Sloan). Winner, Best Paper Award for Education & Research Track.
• The Role of Configuration Management in Earned Value Management, Proceedings of the Tenth Annual International Symposium of the International Council on Systems Engineering, July, 2000 (with Karen Kehoe).
• Sustems Engineering in the Small, Proceedings of the Eighth Annual International Symposium of the International Council on Systems Engineering, Vancouver, BC, July, 1998
• Value Systems Analysis: Application to Team Motivation, Proceedings of the Fifth Annual International Symposium of the National Council on Systems Engineering, pp. 627-634, St. Louis, July, 1995
• System Performance Representation: Standard Scoring Functions, Proceedings of the Fifth Annual International Symposium of the National Council on Systems Engineering, pp.789-794, St. Louis, July, 1995
• Proceedings of the Third Annual International Symposium of the National Council on Systems Engineering, editor and Technical Program Chairman, Washington, DC, July, 1993
• "An Interactive System Design Heuristic," Ph.D. dissertation, University of Houston, 1987
• "Hartford Utility Investment Study," Alliance to Save Energy, Washington, DC (Major contributor), 1982
• Six Technical Papers in the field of Solar Energy, 1976-1980. Notable:
  • "The Analysis and Comparison of Actual to Predicted Collector Array Performance," IBM Journal of Research and Development, Vol. 23(3)
• "Constraint Analysis Applied to Sub-Model Interaction Effects," Master’s Thesis, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL, 1971

• International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE), http://www.incose.org:
  • Former Chairman of the INCOSE Principles Working Group
  • Former Associate Editor of the Journal of INCOSE, Systems Engineering
  • Referee for the journal.
  • Elected to the rank of Fellow in July 2000, "for contributions as a quintessential industrial leader, especially in the education and training of practicing systems engineers."

• Earned two outstanding achievement awards, as Program Manager of Systems Integration Engineering for IBM World Trade Asia, 2/88 - 12/89
• Was awarded the Systems Engineering Chair on IBM Federal Systems Division Technical Staff, 1/86 - 2/88
• Elected to the rank of Fellow of the International Council on Systems Engineering  (INCOSE) in July 2000, "for contributions as a quintessential industrial leader, especially in the education and training of practicing systems engineers."
• Winner, Best Paper Award for Education & Research Track, for the paper Educating Systems Engineers: Encouraging Divergent Thinking, Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual International Symposium of the International Council on Systems Engineering, July, 2002 (with Crystal Sloan).
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