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Experience Summary: 35 yrs experience serving US federal customers in defense, space, intelligence & health domains 20 yrs military service facing a wide variety of leadership, security, and technical challenges 18 yrs systems engineering/program management in large & small systems development projects 15 yrs academic experience teaching university - level technology, strategy, & business topics 11 yrs operational experience in security, military and intelligence situations 7 yrs work and life experience living/traveling abroad in Asia and Europe Dr. Meeks is an energetic and effective leader/team-builder: * Successfully served in leadership and command positions in industry and US Marine Corps * Energizes teams to focus on mission accomplishment * Assesses complex situations from multiple points-of-view to engage the correct resources 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 * Focus is innovation, using creative ways to exploit technologies to improve performance * Skilled in quantifying alternate resources-, capabilities-, and intentions-based future states Dr. Meeks is an effective communicator: * Often cited for direct writing and plain speaking can "tell the emperor he has no clothes" * Enjoys working in both small-team and large-group settings * Communicates well with audiences has briefed 2 US presidents and 1 foreign head of state * Published author and experienced graduate/undergraduate adjunct faculty member Dr. Meeks is trained and experienced in formal research and data analysis: * Formulates systematic data collection and analysis efforts * Critically evaluates results and clearly communicates them with intuitive graphics and prose * Conceptual thinker: operationalizes complex problems for effective analysis/management DR. MEEKS HAS EXTENSIVE INVOLVEMENT WITH THE DOD & INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY (IC) SYSTEMS MARKET: * He has been part of national and commercial space vehicle, ground systems, and related technologies' development in engineering and program management for over a dozen years * He is an accomplished senior systems engineer and thrives on hard technical challenges Dr. Meeks' Aerospace and Remote Sensing technical and technical leadership background: * Supported GeoEye's next generation imagery high resolution commercial satellite and ground processing system development under the NGA EnhancedView contract * 10 years experience designing systems for/assessing performance of the Intelligence Community's Tasking, Processing, Exploitation & Dissemination (TPED and TCPED) process * Held successive leadership roles in satellite & ground system development for a multi-billion dollar future imagery architecture program * Led the National Imagery and Mapping Agency's (NIMA) Airborne Imagery TPED Capability Assessment Study * Familiar with enterprise architecture frameworks, including: C4ISR, DoDAF, and Zachman enterprise architecture frameworks and products, and NSSA's I-ISR Enterprise study * Familiar with Multi-INT concepts/multi-disciplinary system performance and integration * Developed an algorithm to evaluate information quality and utility of geospatial information
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