Experience - R&D Project Management

Acquired > 40 years experience in proposing, planning, performing and reporting on R&D on complex information systems

Formed and managed teams as large as 48 researchers in technical, project and line management roles

Founded and managed the Autonomous Systems Branch at the Naval Ocean Systems Center (NOSC), Robot Intelligence International and Zetetix

Created advanced technology concepts and developed markets for them producing ~ $44M in revenue

**Approximate Revenue Generated from R&D Projects Developed and Marketed**
Project	Sponsor	Project Lifetime (yrs)	Total Funding ($)
Software Verification & Validation	VBA	4	16M
Synthetic Commander	DARPA	5	11M
Intelligent Welding Workcell	NAVSEA	3	5M
Advanced Techniques for Simulation Validation	DMSO	14+	4.5M
Autonomous Mobile Robot	USMC	6	4M
Analysis of Fuel-Fed Automobile Fires	GM	1	1M
Intelligent Synthetic Forces	Hughes IR&D	2	750K
Terrorist Behavior Simulation	DARPA	3	500K
Source Code Quality Measurement	VBA	4	340K
Hazardous Road Condition Sensor	GM IR&D	2	250K
Distributed Computer Intrusion Detection	Hughes IR&D	2	200K
Object-Oriented System Engineering Techniques	Hughes IR&D	2	150K
Interoperability Analysis	DARPA	2	100K
Physical Security Automation	DNA	1	75K
Information Physics for Information Assurance	DARPA	1	50K

R&D Business Development

Founded and operated Robot Intelligence International as a robotics R&D business for 4 years and Zetetix as a software and simulation validation R&D business for > 16 years
Founded and managed the Autonomous Systems Branch at the NOSC, San Diego, for 6 years
Contributed to business development in information sciences, requirements modeling, mobile communications, process modeling, distributed simulation, robotics, software development, automotive electronics, systems engineering and software quality evaluation
Worked with a broad range of Government customers to develop markets for such concepts as organizational vulnerability assessment, human behavior modeling, information physics, an object-oriented simulation engine and quantitative software quality evaluation

**Staffing and Project Lifetimes for the R&D Projects Managed**
Project Goals	Staffing (people)	Project Lifetime (yrs)
Construct and demonstrate intelligent synthetic forces	5	5
Develop new software & simulation development standards	6	4
Convert an armored vehicle to an autonomous ground robot	8	6
Develop an integrated planning and perception system for cooperating autonomous vehicles	7	3
Integrate expert systems with an automated welding workcell	6	3
Design and implement a teleoperated vehicle computing system	4	2
Develop technology to prevent fatalities from fuel-fed vehicle fires	8	1
Develop, test and demonstrate a hazardous road condition sensor	3	2
Assess the capabilities of object-oriented systems engineering techniques	2	2
Measure and analyze the behavior of semi-automated forces for SIMNET	2	2
Analyze the application of robotics to military tasks	1.5	2
Implement an agent-based computer intrusion detection system	2	1
Analyze the application of robotics to NWSS	2	1

Organized and co-organized 8 workshops on mobile robots, mobile robot implementation, robotics state of the art, architectures for intelligent control and scientific exploration of simulation phenomena (i.e., simulation science)
Managed the Autonomous Systems Branch at the Naval Ocean Systems Center ($2.5M/yr, 15 professionals), San Diego; the Computational Intelligence Department ($4M/yr, 15 professionals); and the Information Sciences Laboratory ($12M/yr funding, 48 professionals) at the Hughes Research Laboratories
Cooperated and coordinated with senior executives in the U.S. Navy, NASA, GM, Hughes Electronics and the US Department of Defense to develop long-term R&D strategies in robotics, telecommunications, information sciences, distributed simulation, systems engineering, information assurance and simulation VV&A