Kevin Hightower Email & Phone Number

Charged with building a holistic product & product process for the largest, most complete provider of aviation data.

Mountain View, California

Mountain View, California

Santa Monica, Ca

Santa Monica, California

London, Greater London, United Kingdom

Continuing my role as Chief Technologist as the transition from Lockheed Martin to Leidos has taken place as part of a two-year international assignment, based outside of London. I am the decision maker for technology, including investments in research & development and vendor partnerships to shape customers and staff, taking advantage of technology to reduce cost, reduce risk and increase productivity, keeping the company competitive in the marketplace. Performed as technical lead for new… Show more Continuing my role as Chief Technologist as the transition from Lockheed Martin to Leidos has taken place as part of a two-year international assignment, based outside of London. I am the decision maker for technology, including investments in research & development and vendor partnerships to shape customers and staff, taking advantage of technology to reduce cost, reduce risk and increase productivity, keeping the company competitive in the marketplace. Performed as technical lead for new pursuits by designing solutions and presenting to potential customers around the world. Additionally, I provided senior oversight to all ATC and airport programs and directed eight elite employees as the manager of the Technical Directorate department. Show less

Whiteley, Hampshire, United Kingdom

Responsible for the technical direction for our LM UK Aviation business, including Global airports and UK NATS D-SESAR work.

Current: Chief Technology Officer for IS&GS-Civil's Transportation Solutions. As CTO, I lead the technology decisions for our multiple existing programs and pursuits, as well as investments in both research & development and vendor partnerships. This shapes our customer and staff to take advantage of technology to reduce cost and risk, keep us competitive in the marketplace, and increase productivity. I am also a Lockheed Martin Advanced System Architect.2010: System Architect for Time… Show more Current: Chief Technology Officer for IS&GS-Civil's Transportation Solutions. As CTO, I lead the technology decisions for our multiple existing programs and pursuits, as well as investments in both research & development and vendor partnerships. This shapes our customer and staff to take advantage of technology to reduce cost and risk, keep us competitive in the marketplace, and increase productivity. I am also a Lockheed Martin Advanced System Architect.2010: System Architect for Time Based Flow Management (TBFM) program, a $200 million dollar FAA program to revolutionize the traffic flow automation system currently operational in the field. Performed all architectural duties on the program. Also functioned as the primary customer interface. In addition, performed duties as the product owner and System Architect for the Logic Suite, a set of commercial and government products used to make air traffic more efficient, currently in negotiation for deployment at multiple airports and airlines.2009: Transferred to a new line of business as the Chief Systems Engineer of "The Charlotte Project", a LM funded project to revolutionize airline airport management to shape the TSS image into an agile, intelligent airport flow expert in order to secure future FAA business. Designed the service oriented architecture to support the rapidly changing requirements and future expansion possibilities. Led the agile team of 5 to develop the products on time while being built to scale and to adapt to other customers.2005: Promoted to Systems Architect. Designed, planned and implemented a technical refresh architecture and transition plan of the operational and training oceanic ATC systems, which completed on-time with zero operational downtime in 2009. Completed Lockheed Martin qualification as a System Architect in 2007. Participated as Capture Architect in multiple RFI and RFC responses. Show less