EXPERIENCE SUMMARY: * Extensive experience with customers in defense, space, intelligence, health, & education * Extensive experience leading and managing teams and orgs from 4 to 1,200 people * Military service solving leadership, organizational, and mission accomplishment challenges * Technical and programmatic leadership & management developing large & small systems * Experience teaching university - level technology, strategy, & business topics, over 20 years * Diverse work and life experiences: lived/traveled abroad in Asia and Europe for over 7 years Dr. Meeks is an effective communicator: * Often cited for direct writing and plain speaking will "tell the emperor he has no clothes" * Published author and experienced graduate/undergraduate adjunct faculty member * Formulates systematic data collection and analysis efforts that lead to clear goals * Critically evaluates results and clearly communicates them with intuitive graphics and prose * Big data is not about data: data analytics is about storytelling and organizational insights Dr. Meeks is an energetic leader & team-builder: * Successfully served in leadership and command positions in industry and US Marine Corps * Energizes teams to focus on mission and goal accomplishment * Assesses complex situations from multiple points-of-view to engage proper resources W. Lee Meeks, PhD, MBA * 2 Current: March 2017 Dr. Meeks is a multidisciplinary systems-of-systems thinker: * Systems analysis, design & engineering skills based upon experience, education, and training * Integrative approach is basis for problem identification, definition, analysis, and resolution * Skilled in quantifying alternate resources-, capabilities-, and/or intentions-based future states * Conceptual thinker: operationalizes complex problems for effective analysis/management Dr. Meeks' leadership experience w/ small systems and apps: medical and educational technology * Product manager leading web & mobile app development for VHA Office of Connected Care * Project manager and analytical SME supporting VA VISN5 medical technology and capital medical equipment acquisition assessments and long-term plans for equipment and staff * Strategy SME guiding development of an innovative STEM K-12 learning app/technology Dr. Meeks' leadership experience w/ large systems: aerospace and remote sensing: * Supported GeoEye's next generation imagery high resolution commercial satellite and ground processing system development. Led the requirements analysis and review team. * Experience designing systems and assessing performance of the Intelligence Community's Tasking, Processing, Exploitation & Dissemination (TPED and TCPED) process * Held successively complex leadership roles in satellite & ground system development for a multi-billion dollar future imagery architecture program * Developed an algorithm to evaluate information quality and utility of geospatial information

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• Infrastructure
• PMP
• Query
• Assessments
• Architect
• Biomedical Industry
• Budgeting
• Business Development
• Capital Equipment
• Consulting