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Virginia, United States

Mountain View, WY, US

A dual-use startup in maritime logistics

Vista, California, US

Bluetech startup building thermal energy harvesting systems generating electricity for ocean and ocean-based sensing.

Palo Alto, California, US

Arlington, VA, US

• Design and lead Navy’s disruptive innovation process for AI and unmanned systems
• Accelerated delivery of 4 unmanned system efforts by over 3 years each against the Navy’s top 2 operational problems
• Aligned and accelerated 4 AI efforts significantly enhancing Fleet survivability and operational tempo
• Prototype novel execution-year fiscal agility—reprioritized significant funding significantly increasing Fleet lethality

Arlington, VA, US

• Oversee and improve the investment direction, policies, and operational processes governing ONR’s ~$3B/yr science and technology portfolio. Advise senior naval leadership on strategy and policy for science and.
• Designed and chaired the enduring venue for strategic investment decision-making and for oversight of tactical investing policies and procedures
• Reallocated basic and applied research portfolios to higher impact investment areas
• Redesigned and implemented the innovation programs for maturing applied research into operational prototypes

Arlington, VA, US

• Establish the vision, strategic direction and coordinate the integrated portfolio for all autonomy & unmanned system efforts.
• Led the Navy’s first large-scale, multi-domain, swarm attack experiment: 126 unmanned systems of 9 different platform types across air, surface, and undersea domains
• Co-led DoD’s expansion and implementation of its Autonomous Weapon Systems policy
• Establish the vision and strategic direction and coordinate the investments for all autonomy and autonomous unmanned system efforts as an integrated portfolio across the DoN S&T Enterprise (~$200M/yr)

Arlington, VA, US

• Dept. of Navy executive for Ocean, Atmosphere, and Space Research: Set strategic direction, coordinate the Programs, and supervise all Division staff
• Develop and administer the $460M budget, portfolio review, and rebalancing processes.
• Provide executive level leadership and stewardship for ONR’s policies and processes for organizing, fostering, and managing the conduct of S&T

Arlington, VA, US

• Direct the Navy & USMC investment portfolio in Mine Warfare, Explosive Ordnance Disposal, & Naval Special Warfare (~$100M/yr). Manage programs in machine learning, environmental characterization, autonomy, and sensor.
• Drove the development and fielding of automatic target recognition for Navy mine countermeasure unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) and multiple synthetic aperture sonar systems
• Led science and technology aspect of rapidly fielding the Navy’s Lionfish UUV
• Competitively won over $120M across 5 major programs
• US National Lead for TTCP Maritime Group, Mine Warfare Panel (5 nations of AUS, CAN, GBR, NZL, and USA)

Brussels, BE

• US National Representative (voting member) for all military branches on the NATO Science & Technology Organization’s Systems, Concepts, and Integration (SCI) Panel
• Lead member nations in updating the post-pandemic strategic focus

Brussels, BE

• Recognized international leader serving as the Member-at-Large for Autonomy on NATO’s SCI Panel
• Lead the prioritization and reorganization of the member nation’s renewed research efforts in autonomy for the Alliance

Brussels, BE

• US National Lead for a NATO Joint Research Project on Autonomous Mine Clearance
• Lead multi-national research in signal processing for synthetic aperture sonar, autonomy for unmanned systems, and machine self-assessment of proficiency

Washington Navy Yard, DC, US

• Perform basic and applied research in signal processing, machine learning, and autonomous robotic behaviors for the underwater environment
• Lead the Data Fusion program: develop the S&T vision, propose investment strategies, lead execution and technology transition
• Publish and present technical papers, obtain funding for research group, collaborate with universities, government, industry, and international partners

Atlanta, Georgia, US

• Develop signal modeling, detection, feature extraction, and classification techniques for fault signature recognition and pattern recognition problems

Dublin, Ireland, IE

• Exide Electronics Division—manufacturers of outdoor uninterruptable power supplies
• Design and prototype outdoor power electronics and power supplies; led one new product and team from conceptual design to production

• Manufacturers of Commercial & Governmental Heavy Machinery
• Design and prototype electrical and hydraulic systems for heavy machinery; led one new product and team from conceptual design to production

Master Of Business Administration (Mba)

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electrical And Electronics Engineering

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Electrical And Electronics Engineering