Engineer Management

JAMES ALEXANDER WHEELER, III

**** ****** ****, #***

Alexandria, VA 22304

PHONE: 256-***-**** (Cell)

E-MAIL: ***************@*****.***

QUALIFICATIONS SUMMARY:

Thirty (30) years of progressive experience in the areas of automation

management; hardware and software requirements; database development;

tactical systems research and development; training management; battle

management and tactical operations; tactical system prototyping; Air

Defense command, control, communication, and system integration and test;

tactical missile system engagements; missile defense concepts; System

Engineering Plan; system procurement and test; and cost account management.

CLEARANCES:

TOP SECRET (active)/NATO SECRET/COMSEC/INTEL

EDUCATION AND TRAINING:

Masters of Arts (1978), Management,

Pepperdine University, California

BS (1970) Classical and Solid-State Physics,

Dr. John McNeile Hunter's Physics and Chemistry Center and Laboratory,

Virginia State University, Petersburg, Virginia

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

AUGUST 04 to PRESENT: SENIOR SYSTEMS ENGINEER, Science Applications

International Corporation (SAIC), Future Concepts, Missile Defense Agency

(MDA)

Responsible for providing technical, analytic, engineering, and

administrative

support to the MDA Deputy for Systems Engineering and Integration (SE&I),

Director of Future Concepts Engineering. Responsible for analysis,

coordination, and

review of Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) concept engineering activities at

the

BMD System (BMDS) level. Included are interfacing with related BMDS

element,

test, analysis, verification, target and countermeasures, C2BM, System

Engineer Plan, and communication planning and implementation efforts.

Tasks include review of

Element development and upgrade plans, test and verification plans, and

tracking and analysis of BMDS element technical progress and schedules.

Present

oral briefings of engineering/analytic judgments and recommendations.

NOVEMBER 92 to AUGUST 04: SENIOR STAFF SYSTEMS SOFTWARE ENGINEER, Lockheed

Missiles and Space, Theater High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD), BM/C3I

Program

Responsible for the development and management of Operator System Interface

(OSI) screen design for the THAAD System. Initiated and sustained an OSI

Working Group, which interface with the customer (THAAD Project Office),

the

user (U.S. Army Air Defense School), and the software and system developer.

Provided support to developing and testing THAAD system software.

MAY 92 to NOVEMBER 92: BM/C3I OPERATIONS ENGINEER SPECIALIST, CAS, Inc.,

Army Theater Missile Defense (ATMD), C3I DIVISION

Responsible for the BM/C3I development and operational design of the

prototype

and objective ADTOC. Managed 50 personnel in the ADTOC Force Operations

integration and development for Army Tactical Missile Defense (ATMD)

Agency.

Designed the ADTOC operational front-end menu driven database to integrate

the

Air Defense functions with software packages and modules operating in

various

automated environments.

MARCH 90 to MAY 92: ADVANCE SYSTEMS ENGINEER SPECIALIST, Lockheed Missile

and Space, ATCCS System Engineering and Integration (SE&I) Program

Responsible for the Air Defense functional analysis and system requirements

for

the U.S. Army Tactical Command and Control System (ATCCS). Designed the

Army

Air Defense and Airspace Command and Control software requirements for C3I

system models to be used on the Combined and Joint battlefields.

Responsible

for the simulation and system analysis for timelines to control the

synchronization of forces and support elements on the battlefield.

Developed a

workable understanding of the Ascent Logic s Requirement Driven Development

(RDD) CASE Tool. Conducted briefing regarding Air Defense command and

control

issues.

MARCH 70 to MARCH 90: U.S. Army Air Defense Artillery and Automation

Management Officer

Served various assignments in the positions of Air Defense HAWK battery

commander, group (brigade) and battalion operations and training officers.

Provided training and evaluation of the AN/TSQ-73 Command and Control

System in

32nd Army Air Defense Command (AADCOM), Germany. Responsible for the total

operations, and minute-by-minute status of an Air Defense HAWK Group

(Brigade)

Operations Center which controlled three (3) HAWK Air Defense Battalion

managing all equipment and personnel assets. Served as the First Army

Infantry

Division Automation Management Officer. Retired from the military service

on 31

March 1990.

PROFESSIONAL LICENSES AND CERTIFICATIONS:

ISO 9001-2000 Certified

COMPUTER PROFICIENCY:

Expert with Microsoft Suite Applications

Tester for Object-Oriented Software

MISCELLANEOUS:

Graduate, U.S. Army Officer Basic Air Defense Artillery Course

Graduate, U.S. Army Officer Advanced Air Defense Artillery Course

Graduate, U.S. Army Air Defense Artillery AN/TSQ-73 Command and

Control Officer Course

Graduate, U.S. Army Systems Automation Management Course

Graduate, U.S. Army Automation Security Management Course

Graduate, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College Course

Graduate, Quality Management international, Quality Systems Auditor Course

for

ISO 9001 and ISO 9001:2000

Certificate for Computer Network Management, Florida Institute of

Technology

Certificate for Testing Object Oriented Software, International Institute

for

Software Testing

Completed, Lockheed Martin System Engineering Process Course

Completed, Lockheed Martin Software Engineering Process Course

Completed, Software Object-Oriented Design Course using OMT, LMSSC

Completed, Software Object-Oriented Analysis Course using OMT, LMSSC

Completed, Program Management Cost/Schedule Control System, Cost Account

Management Course

REFERENCES:

- Merritt Aurich, Area Manager, MDA Systems Engineering (SAIC), (703) 693-

1524

- John Ratts, Division Manager (SAIC), 703-***-****

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