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Biographies
 GEORGE BRESSLER
ADJUNCT FACULTY, SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY
Executive Director for the NIUSR Community Resilience Education Initiative (CRE).
He was a lead author to the US Customs and Border Protection National Pandemic Response Plan, In 2007 he managed Public Safety and Security for FEMA during the 2007 Southern California Firestorm. In 2008 Bressler was the Civilian Lead Planner for Golden Phoenix 2008, the largest collaborative civilian-military training event in U.S. history. Over 150 local, state, federal, tribal, academic, private sector, and private industry participating agencies and organizations. In 2008 Bressler was selected as a Federal 100 Award winner for innovations in IT.
 PETE MINETREE
My academic background includes a master's degree in International Relations from the University of Southern California and a bachelor's degree in Political Science from the University of Nebraska. I am a graduate of the US Army Command and General Staff College and the National Defense University, and have completed over three years of post graduate studies in national security affairs. After going on retirement status from the Army, my government service included the National Intelligence Council, the former National Warning Staff, the CIA, principle US representative to a European Union conference in Greece, and senior consultant to the Director, Federal Emergency Management Agency. My business background included various corporations, as well as founder of Analytical Sciences Incorporated and cofounder of the National Institute for Urban Search and Rescue and founder of the Wilson Institute for Humanitarian Assistance. I was a member of the National Defense Executive Reserve for 15 years, served as president of the Bath County Chamber of Commerce, and as president of our local regional library foundation board. I currently am a member of the Bath County Board of Zoning Appeals and an EMT with our local rescue squad. I have been with UMUC for almost twenty years, my rank is adjunct professor, and I have taught courses in Business and Management, Emergency Management, Homeland Security, Fire Science, and the Excel Program. I am currently privileged to serve on the Faculty Advisory Council. My wife and I reside in beautiful Bath County, Virginia, where I participate each June in a triathlon and am running for election as county sheriff.
LOIS CLARK MCCOY
Lois Clark McCoy is the founding president and co-founder in 1981 of the National Institute for Urban Search and Rescue. NIUSR has attracted a "Who's Who" among leaders in public safety, government, military, emergency management, academia and industry. NIUSR is the force behind the Extreme Information Infrastructure initiative, of which the Domestic Emergency Response Information Service (DERIS) is one piece. NIUSR created the initiative for the "Interstate Communications Highway".
Recently, McCoy has established an Alliance, "THE WALKING DRUM", a networking group of organizations devoted to International Unified Survival, Response, Readiness, Resilience and Recovery. This advocacy coalition within NIUSR is focused on fostering Community and Neighborhood Resilience.
McCoy holds a Bachelor of Science degree Summa Cum Laude from Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. She is a graduate and Eagle of the National Search and Rescue School, Governor's Island, N.Y.
In 1967 she co-founded the San Diego Mountain Rescue Team. (SDMRT). In 1977 she assumed the Presidency of the National Association for Search and Rescue. (NASAR). In 1981 she co-founded the National Institute for Urban Search and Rescue (NIUSR). In 1992 as a co-founder of the California Urban Search and Rescue Association (USAR) their 6 trained Heavy Rescue teams were transferred for support of a National Program to FEMA.
Over the years she has been recognized with honors and awards. She is listed in Who's Who in America, and Who's Who in Women. In February 2009, McCoy was awarded the Office of the Secretary of Defense Citation and Medal for Exceptional Public Service.
LINTON WELLS II, Ph.D.
Distinguished Research Professor
Transformation Chair
Dr. Linton Wells II is a Distinguished Research Professor and serves as the Transformation Chair at National Defense University (NDU). Prior to coming to NDU he served in the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) from 1991 to 2007, serving last as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Networks and Information Integration). In addition, he served as the Acting Assistant Secretary and DoD Chief Information Officer for nearly two years. His other OSD positions included Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence-C3I) and Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Policy Support) in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Policy).
In twenty-six years of naval service, Dr. Wells served in a variety of surface ships, including command of a destroyer squadron and guided missile destroyer. In addition, he acquired a wide range of experience in operations analysis; Pacific, Indian Ocean and Middle East affairs; and C3I. Recently he has been focusing on STAR-TIDES, a research Initiative focusing on affordable, sustainable support to stressed populations and civil-military interoperability (www.star-tides.net).
Dr. Wells was born in Luanda, Angola, in 1946. He was graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1967 and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in physics and oceanography. He attended graduate school at The Johns Hopkins University, receiving a Master of Science in Engineering degree in mathematical sciences and a PhD in international relations. He is also a 1983 graduate of the Japanese National Institute for Defense Studies in Tokyo, the first U.S. naval officer to attend there.
Dr. Wells has written widely on security studies in English and Japanese journals. He co-authored Japanese Cruisers of the Pacific War, which was published in 1997. His hobbies include history, the relationship between policy and technology, scuba diving, and flying. He has three times been awarded the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service.
CHARLES "SID" HEAL
Charles "Sid" Heal is a retired Commander from the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department with nearly 33 years of service in Law Enforcement, nearly half of which has been spent in units charged with handling Law Enforcement Special and Emergency Operations. At various times during his career he has served as an operations officer, watch commander, unit commander, incident commander, consultant and trainer in a myriad of law enforcement tactical operations, and is a court recognized expert in law enforcement special operations and emergency management. As a collateral assignment, Sid was in charge of the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department's internationally recognized technology exploration program. This program seeks to identify, develop, exploit and integrate new technologies for law enforcement. The focus of effort for this program is on intervening with nonlethal options.
Sid has earned three college degrees and is a graduate of the California Peace Officer's Standards and Training, Center for Leadership Development, Command College, and the FBI National Academy. He is the author of Sound Doctrine: A Tactical Primer, and An Illustrated Guide to Tactical Diagramming, as well as more than 120 articles on law enforcement issues and has appeared on numerous television newscasts and documentaries and been quoted in many periodicals and newspapers. Additionally, he has been a featured speaker at numerous conferences in Canada, Germany, England, Scotland, Ireland, Israel, Brazil and Argentina, as well as throughout the United States.
In addition to his career in law enforcement, Sid recently retired from the Marine Corps Reserve after 35 years, with service in more than 20 countries and four combat tours. As a result of both these careers, he has been personally present for the operations involving the 1992 coup d'état in Thailand, the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, as well as the attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center in 2001 and a host of other disasters, natural and manmade.
ERIC FROST, PhD
Eric Frost, Viz Center, San Diego State University
Homeland Security Master's Program
Eric Frost is Co-Director of the SDSU Viz Center (with Bob Welty) and the Homeland Security Master's Program (with Jeff McIllwain), which has more than 130 graduate students, including many Homeland Security parishioners from many Federal agencies, state and local government, NGOs, industry, and groups such as the National Institute for Urban Search and Rescue (NIUSR, http://www.niusr.org/). Much of the program is based on actual interaction with real operational training, including work with the US-Mexico border region agencies, as well as many other international Homeland Security groups such as in India, Central Asia, and Indonesia.
Frost is also Co-Director of several centers at SDSU including the Center for Homeland Security Technology Assessment, the Visualization Center, and the Center for Information Technology and Infrastructure (http://citi.sdsu.edu). All these roles come together in humanitarian and homeland security efforts to use technology and geospatial imagery in particular to help solve difficult problems in austere, generally disaster or challenged sustainability circumstances, like the recent Indonesia earthquake and volcano, Myanmar cyclone, and California wildfires. Frost and his colleagues use many new technologies and protocols that are enhanced and tested during exercises such as Strong Angel III (http://www.strongangel3.net/) on avian influenza and web pages such as http://www.geoplayer.com/gateways for Banda Aceh, Katrina, and Indonesia earthquake and volcano efforts. Frost and co-workers work with sensor networks, wireless and optical communication, data fusion, visualization, and decision support for first responders and humanitarian groups, especially crossing the civilian-military boundary.
ERIC RASMUSSEN, MD, MDM, FACP
Now CEO for InSTEDD, Dr. Eric Rasmussen. MD, MDM. FACP, was previously both Chairman of the Department of Medicine within Naval Hospital Bremerton near Seattle, Washington, and an advisor in humanitarian informatics for the US Office of the Secretary of Defense. He holds academic positions at several institutions and has been a Principal Investigator for both the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and for the National Science Foundation. He is a Reviewer for the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), the American Journal of Public Health, and for IEEE, and sits on several advisory boards, including the Crisis Management Resources Board for the National Academy of Sciences. He has a number of publications and has been awarded several personal, unit, and theater military decorations, including a Presidential Legion of Merit.
Dr. Rasmussen's 25 year Navy career began with seven years enlisted in nuclear submarines before leaving the Navy to receive his undergraduate and medical degrees from Stanford University. After graduate work in molecular biology at Los Alamos National Laboratory and teaching in Haiti, he completed a Residency in Internal Medicine and re-entered the Navy as Chief Resident in Medicine at the Navy Medical Center in Oakland, California. Subsequent Navy positions included three years as Fleet Surgeon for the US Navy's Third Fleet.
Dr. Rasmussen, with an additional European Master's Degree in Disaster Medicine, served on the Afghanistan humanitarian support planning staff within US Central Command Headquarters (CENTCOM) in 2002, and later as a physician on the Iraq Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) for the Iraq War in 2002-2003. As a member of the DART, he served within the International Humanitarian Operations Center in Kuwait and was later selected for the DARPA 2003 "Sustained Excellence in a Principal Investigator" award.
Further work as Director of the Strong Angel series of international humanitarian support demonstrations led to work in Afghanistan in 2004 and 2007, and in Indonesia as head of a Civil-Military Coordination Team for the tsunami response in Banda Aceh in early 2005. Later in 2005, he deployed with Joint Task Force Katrina in New Orleans, serving as a member of the Mayor's Medical Reconstruction Task Force and coordinating a small portion of the relief response after Hurricane Katrina.
He now serves as a Member of Kofi Annan's Global Humanitarian Forum, as a member of the US Congressional Global Surveillance Task Force, as a lecturer within the Applied Humanitarian Service track of the Monterey Institute for International Studies, and as a Permanent Advisor to the UN Secretary-General's High-Level Panel on Water Disasters.
Dr. Rasmussen has been married for more than 20 years to Demi, and has daughters Melissa and Faith. He divides his time between Palo Alto and a small ranch near Olympic National Park in western Washington.
TERRY M. RYAN
President, MERCURY FEDERAL COMPUTER SYSTEMS
Arlington, Virginia
Terry Ryan is the president of Mercury Federal Computers, a subsidiary of Mercury Computers Systems. It provides IT and C4ISR engineering services and solutions to clients across the Department of Defense and intelligence community. Prior to coming to Mercury Computer Systems, Mr. Ryan was the vice president and director, Adroit C4ISR Center, part of the SRA Command and Control, Communications, and Intelligence (C3I) business unit. Mr. Ryan oversaw the provision of IT and C4ISR engineering services and solutions to clients across the Department of Defense and intelligence community.
His many years of experience in these areas includes his serving as President and Director of Adroit Services, Inc. a provider of C4ISR. He then joined SRA as Senior Vice president, an engineering and IT company in Arlington. .
He has served as the director of intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance systems for the Office of the Secretary of Defense; the deputy director for the Defense Airborne Reconnaissance Office; and a staff member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Mr. Ryan's expertise includes implementing growth strategies to capture new business opportunities and expand existing business.
Prior to joining SRA, Mr. Ryan was President and Chief Executive Officer of Adroit Systems, Inc. (ASI). (SRA completed the acquisition of ASI on January 31, 2003.) He was primarily responsible for assuring that the corporation adequately planned, staffed, and executed its technical and financial performance objectives. His other important responsibilities included developing a long-term corporate strategy, identifying new business opportunities, and formulating an execution plan to capture new opportunities.
Mr. Ryan graduated from Ohio State University with a Bachelor of Arts degree and was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps on 12 December 1980. He completed the Marine Corps Infantry Officer's Course in August 1981, Marine Corps Intelligence Officer's Course in April 1985, and the Post Graduate Intelligence Program in June 1987.
DAN LEMON
Mr. Lemon became a well-known leader during his prior 34-year U.S. Coast Guard career. During that time he led development of national and international civil SAR services, particularly in the maritime and aeronautical fields, supported operation and use of a highly successful satellite system for relaying distress alerts to SAR authorities worldwide, operated a global system that tracks thousands of ships at sea to support maritime SAR, and served as Executive Secretary of the National Search and Rescue Committee. He is currently the Chief of Staff of the National Institute for Urban Search and Rescue.
Mr. Lemon has led or substantially contributed to the development of the Search and Rescue Annex to the Convention on International Civil Aviation, the International Convention on Maritime Search and Rescue, the International Aeronautical and Maritime Search and Rescue Manual, numerous international SAR agreements, the NSP, the National Search and Rescue Manual, and Emergency Support Function 9 (Search and Rescue) Annex to the FRP.
Since 2005, Mr. Lemon has served as President of SAR Consulting, Inc., a company that provides consultative services and support on search and rescue (SAR) policy and operational matters to government, military and other clients. Types of services that SAR Consulting provides include preparation of positions, proposals and information for meetings of international organizations involved in SAR and participation on U.S. delegations to such meetings. Mr. Lemon works with a variety of federal civilian and military authorities to prepare federal interagency and agency policy guidance to support the National Search and Rescue Plan (NSP) and the National Response Framework (NRF).
BECKY NOLAN
Becky Nolan has served as Executive Vice President, AFCEA International, since the dawn of the New Millennium. In this capacity, she is a primary back-up to the President. She also oversees development of the Association's long-term strategic goals, is responsible for exploring new opportunities for growth and development, and coordinates annual updates to the Strategic and 500-Day Plans. Promotion, marketing, media relations and public affairs all fall within her area of responsibility. As such, she coordinates AFCEA's marketing initiatives, including market research and analysis, and the development and implementation of promotional strategies and campaigns.
Ms. Nolan joined the AFCEA International Headquarters staff in September 1981. She began her AFCEA career as Director of the AFCEA Building Service Corporation (BSC), the title-holding corporation that handles the Association's real estate transactions. In this position, she was responsible for the design, planning, construction and outfitting of both the first Headquarters building in Burke Centre, Virginia, and the current facility at Fair Lakes, Virginia.
In 1987, Ms. Nolan became Director of Planning and Development; in 1992, Senior Director, Plans and Development; in 1996, Vice President, Plans; and then in 1998 was promoted to Executive Vice President, Plans.
Her functional responsibilities cut horizontally across the full spectrum of AFCEA activities. In this unique position, she has been an integral part of AFCEA's outreach program beyond its traditional defense orientation. She was a leader in AFCEA's information technology expansion, and a proponent of the importance of providing services and activities that transcend traditional government lines. She has played a key role in creating and implementing a number of non-defense forums, including AFCEA's annual Virtual Government Conference – now the Homeland Security Conference -- which has become a cornerstone of the government IT Calendar; the GSA/FTS Network Services Conference; and the annual DISA Customer Conference. In recognition of her singular contributions to the government-industry IT community, she received Federal Computer Week's Fed 100 Award both in 1994 and 1997.
In addition to her marketing duties, she has served since September 1988 in the AFCEA Board Officer position of International Secretary. In this capacity, she serves as the primary staff interface with the Chairman of the Board, Executive Committee and Board of Directors.
Ms. Nolan earned a BA degree in English and German from The College of William and Mary in 1968. She served in the Peace Corps in Bangkok, Thailand, as an English professor at the graduate level. On her return to the States, she worked as a substitute teacher in the Alexandria, Virginia, secondary school system, while creating and directing a preschool educational program in her home. After owning and managing an antique shop – Ms. Hubbard's Cupboard – Ms. Nolan ventured into the retail industry with Bloomingdale's in 1976, where she began by opening the first Bloomie's in the Washington area. She worked in Washington, DC, and New York City as a department manager and regional buyer in housewares, stationery, and home furnishings. She also was a home furnishings buyer for both Garfinckel's and Lord and Taylor.
Ms. Nolan is married, with two daughters, four very special grandchildren, and a yellow lab, "Liberty." She and her husband Paul, a retired government worker, live in Alexandria, Virginia. A former marathoner, she still runs 50-60 miles per week, and is an avid cross-stitcher. Her favorite place in the world? Duck, on the Outer Banks of North Carolina!
COL. ANTHONY WOOD (USMC Ret.)
Vice President, CDM Technologies, Inc.
A Marine Corps veteran of thirty-one years, including nearly three years of combat duty, Colonel Wood enjoyed a distinguished career.
As the principal author of the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps "Maritime Prepositioning Concept," he developed a detailed concept and subsequent CONOPS, and then assisted in standing up the national strategic response capability based on forward positioning three squadrons of specially-configured climate-controlled ships, each containing prepackaged supplies and equipment sufficient to support a force of 15,000 Marines for 30 days. This strategic response capability continues to be refined and expanded today.
In addition to serving in a variety of command billets in infantry and reconnaissance units, Colonel Wood served simultaneously for one year as both Marine Expeditionary Brigade operations officer and brigade logistic officer. That tour had a fundamental effect on his view of the relationship between operations and logistics in naval expeditionary warfare.
While Chief of Staff, Marine Forces Pacific, from 1991 until 1994, Colonel Wood functionally designed the Joint Conflict Model, a simulation designed to train joint staffs in complex contingency response operations. Applicable to a wide range of post-Cold War contingencies, it was the first large simulation designed for simultaneous distributed application at widely dispersed sites as well as the first joint simulation to address low-intensity conflicts such as Somalia and to include allied employment as a primary factor.
Also as Chief of Staff, Col Wood was dispatched to Russia in 1993 for two weeks of negotiations and successfully concluded a major tension-reduction agreement and multi-year exercise program with the Russian General Staff, the Commander Russian Pacific Fleet in Vladivostok, and the Commander, Russian Far East Military District in Kharbovsk. Designed to relax tensions and reduce the risk of nuclear incidents in the Pacific Theater, the agreement has since been extended.
Colonel Wood's final billet was as founder and first Commanding Officer (1995-1998) of the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory, the Corps' leading R&D agency focused on expeditionary warfare. Unique in its concept-based approach and in its projection of a very different and non-traditional future, the laboratory spearheaded Marine experiments to recast military capabilities in a mold appropriate to emerging future requirements. Prominent among these experiments was the use of agent-based decision support to improve the acuity and speed of complex decision making. Colonel Wood combined these techniques with new designs for military command elements, new information flow models, and experimental training programs, all designed to enable far faster, more adaptive battlefield capabilities. In the course of these experiments, he shaped and executed Hunter Warrior, a major warfighting experiment featuring distributed operations on an extended battlefield. Hunter Warrior presaged later events in both Afghanistan and Iraq.
Colonel Wood's decorations include the Distinguished Service Medal (multiple awards), the Legion of Merit, the Bronze Star with Combat V, the Combat Action Medal (multiple awards), the Meritorious Service Medal, the Joint Service Commendation Medal (multiple awards), and the Humanitarian Relief Medal. At the time of his June 2008 retirement, Colonel Wood was the only active Colonel or O-6 in any service to have been twice awarded the Distinguished Service Medal.
Colonel Wood continues to develop several artificial intelligence-based decision-support systems for the DoD. He has two daughters and a son and resides with his wife, Elizabeth, in Atascadero, California.
LORI BUSH
Lori Bush is a Senior Advisor in Cisco's Critical Infrastructure Assurance group out of Research Triangle Park, NC. She works with State and Local Government agencies, non-profits and organizations sharing best practices and technology solutions that can address Homeland Security initiatives in the areas of Public Safety, Public Health, Critical Infrastructure Protection and Information Sharing and Communications. These solutions include creation and deployment of mobile command centers, interoperable emergency Videos surveillance.
With 9+ years at Cisco, she has worked with both Service Providers and Enterprises to deploy solutions in varied environments - from IBM and the e-business Web-enablement space to deploying mobile wireless applications, as well as network management solutions. Prior to joining Cisco, Lori was a product manager and engineer at IBM for 12 years working on network management and end-to-end connectivity options.
Involved in civic endeavors and on the boards of several startups in RTP, Lori is an active participant in entrepreneurial arenas, WITI (Women in Technology International), IEEE and ACM, non-profit organizations (Junior Achievement, Boys and Girls Club) and local organizations (Education Committee, Cary Chamber of Commerce), and local government boards. Lori received her B.S in Computer Science from the Engineering School of the University of Missouri-Rolla.
JOHN S CLAY CAPT, USCG (ret)
NIUSR5, VP
Dvision Manager
SRA International, Inc.
John Clay is a product of New England-go Red Sox-and is a 1973 graduate of the United States Coast Guard Academy in New London, Connecticut. His Coast Guard service included 7 ships/cutters and he was the captain of the last 3 he served.
He had three tours in the Barents Sea and ice and fishing wars. His cutter was the first U.S. response to arrive in Haiti in their time of need. While in command of the cutter "Chase", he deployed to the Mediterranean in support of the drug interception program of the U. S. Forces.
John completed graduate work at the University of Rhode Island in 1983, where he earned a Master of Science degree in Ocean Engineering.
John retired from the Coast Guard in 1999 and has been working in IT services since that time, first with SOZA and Company Ltd. then with Perot Systems Government Services at their Annandale, VA office. He has moved to SRA International where he serves as Division Manager for Government Contracts.
John has been a dedicated member of the National Institute for Urban Search and Rescue (NIUSR) since 1994 and it's Vice President since 2001, He is the proud recipient of the NASAR "Eagle of the High Lonesome" Award for 2003..
CAPT Clay is married to the former Sherry Miller, also from New Hampshire.
DAVE WARNER, MD, PhD
Research Assistant Professor, Dept ECS Syracuse University NY
Adjunct Research Professor, College of Sciences, San Diego State
University, San Diego, CA
Dave Warner, a medical neuroscientist with an MD/PhD from Loma Linda University, and director of the Institute for Interventional Informatics, has gained international recognition for pioneering new methods of physiologically based human-computer interaction.
Dr. Warner is particularly active in technology transfer of aerospace and other defense derived technologies to the fields of health care and education. Much of his recent work has been in using Shadow Operations to rapidly
prototype and develop military/civilian operations capabilities in very
difficult settings such as refugee camps, disaster areas, and regions of
major civilian interaction in both the US and overseas. Much of his work
is directed at law enforcement and the intelligence community in
delivering capabilities that are scaleable and actually work for real
responders in difficult situations.
His team of shadow operation specialists have worked closely with the Dept of State, OFDA, and senior DOD and intelligence community managers, as well as law enforcement officers on the street. His focus is on delivering inexpensive, yet highly capable communications, visualization, and decision support systems.
Dr. Warner's research efforts have focused on advanced instrumentation and new methods of analysis, which can be applied to evaluating various aspects of human function as it relates to human-computer interaction. His efforts are to identify methods and techniques that optimize information flow between humans and computers.
Dr. Warner's work has indicated an optimal mapping of interactive interface technologies to the human nervous system's capacity to transduce, assimilate, and respond intelligently to information in an integrative-multisensory interaction and will fundamentally change the way that humans interact with information systems.
Application areas for this work include quantitative assessment of human performance, augmentative communication systems, environmental
controls for the disabled, medical communications and integrated
interactive educational systems.
Current Efforts:
In collaboration with San Diego State University and NIMA we are currently
serving the information and communication needs of the CENTCOM
Humanitarian Operations Center. We are engaged in ongoing efforts in
networking and communications to support the humanitarian intelligence
efforts both nationally and on the ground in Iraq.
Specific areas of interest are:
advanced instrumentation for the acquisition and analysis of medically
relevant biological signals; intelligent informatic systems, which augment
both the general flow of medical information and provide decision support
for the health care professional; public accesses health information
databases designed to empower the average citizen to become more involved
in their own health care; and advanced training technologies, which will
adaptively optimize interactive educational systems to the capacity of the
user
Active Research Areas:
Integrative Intelligent Systems; Interventional Informatics; Medical
Communications; Distributed Medical intelligence; Bio-sensors;
Quantitative Human performance; Expressional interface systems;
Physio-informatics; Intelligent Interface-metrics; User Tracking Interface
systems; Distributed tele-robotic controllers; Inter-mental Networking;
Bio-cybernetics systems; Cognitive Neuroscience; Perceptual
Psycho-physics; Perceptual state space modulation; Physiology; Physics;
Mathematics; Philosophy; General Systems
Other professional responsibilities:
Director, Institute for Interventional Informatics (I3), San Diego, CA. CIO, MindTel LLC, Director of Medical Intelligence, Syracuse, NY. MindTel
is devoted to solving leading-edge problems in communication, healthcare,
education, and recreation I3 is an organization dedicated to the intelligent implementation of interactive information technologies in Health Care and Education.
Dr. Warner is presently in Afghanistan and can be reached at davew@well.com
JEFFREY S. RIBEL
Senior Information Engineer
Jeff Ribel joined the National Institute for Urban Search and Rescue as the Marine Corps representative while at the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory in 1997. Since that time, he has transitioned to the United States Marine Corps Reserve and, as a civilian, is a Principal at SRA International. He created and leads the Information Engineering Division of the Adroit C4ISR Center at SRA in Alexandria, Virginia. He is a member of the NIUSR Joint Executive Board and maintains an active role as a founding NCORE member.
While he considers himself an Information Technology (IT) professional, his work is strongly grounded in the reality of field operations. His work is focused on applied technology in support of civil and military operations. His division also provides classified and unclassified technical, engineering, and programmatic support to major government program offices.
His recent projects include creation and demonstration of the Domestic Emergency Response Information Services (DERIS) portal, which won the AFCEA Golden Link Award for Best State/Local IT Project for 2002; Super Bowl 2003 Exercise Support for San Diego County; DARPA Grand Challenge (DGC) command and control system support; Operation Desert Bloom, a citizen-centric sensor and communications network in support of public safety during DGC 2004; and the ongoing Los Angeles County Terrorism Early Warning (TEW) Group Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) Exercise Program.
He is proud to be a founding member of the Synergy Strike Force, a multi-disciplinary group of professionals and NIUSR members who provide an interface between community readiness groups and public safety officials during major domestic events. This group conducts such operations to vet new operational concepts and enabling technologies for community readiness, public safety, homeland defense and civil-military communications and collaboration.
Jeff began his military career at the United States Naval Academy. Upon graduation he was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps. While on Active Duty over the next nine years, he served in operational and staff roles as a Communications Watch Officer, a Tank Battalion S-6, a Communications Platoon Commander, the Marine Communications Detachment Officer in Charge (OIC) and Technical Control Officer onboard an amphibious assault ship, and a Systems Integration Project Officer at the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory. As a Reservist he has worked on enterprise IT policy and programs at Headquarters Marine Corps in the Command and Control, Communications and Computers Department. He is also currently a student at the Marine Corps Command and Staff College.
Jeff is also a member of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA);
The International Association for Counterterrorism and Security Professionals, and the Project Management Institute. He resides in Northern Virginia.
SHANE DEICHMAN
Shane Deichman has spent nearly two decades in the national security field, as both a scientist and a manager. He led the Operations Division and the World Class Adversary Division at U.S. Joint Forces Command's J9 "Joint Futures Lab" for seven years, where concepts for future warfighting methods were challenged by adaptive adversaries, and spearheaded that command's effort to actively engage industry partners in solving "wicked problems". He founded his own company in 2008 (EMC2 LLC, a consulting company focused on emergency management and disaster preparedness) and is an active blogger and social networker.
VICE ADMIRAL JERRY O. TUTTLE, USN (RET.)
J.O.T. Enterprises, LLC
10680 Main Street, Suite 170, Fairfax, Virginia 22030
EDUCATION:
1954 - DeVry Technical Institute, First Class Telephone License, number one in class.
1962 - Communications Engineering Degree, B.S. Naval Postgraduate School, attended the undergraduate and postgraduate schools simultaneously, carrying 29 hours per term.
1969 - Master of International Relations, George Washington University with honors.
QUALIFICATIONS:
Extraordinary business leader with proven bottom line results in high-risk, high-stress, complex organizations. Sagacious, information technology visionary, indubitable winner and team builder. Broad business experience and powerful CEO level network and access in domestic and international business circles. Twenty years of experience in creating information systems spanning from stand alone information management systems to the Department of Defense (DOD) Global Command and Control System.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
J.O.T. Enterprises, LLC: President and CEO of this information systems consulting company.
Savantage Financial Services, Inc., formerly REL-TEK Systems & Design, Inc.: June 2000 to February 2002
President of this employee-owned federal financial management software development firm.
ManTech International Corporation: October 1996 to January 2000
President, ManTech Systems Engineering Corporation & Senior Vice President, ManTech International Corporation. Responsible for strategic planning at the international level and total operating responsibility at the subsidiary level in this $500 million, 4,500 person management and technology firm. Crafted a comprehensive strategic plan for growing ManTech International Corporation from a $500 million company to a $1 billion enterprise in three years. Immediately reversed precipitously declining revenue situation. Doubled the revenue of ManTech Systems Engineering Corporation, increased profit by 60 percent and grew subsidiary from 18 percent of ManTech International Corporation's revenue to 52 percent in three years. Instrumental in acquiring and integrating numerous information technologies companies. Led the effort to create a state of the art ManTech corporate information management system, e-commerce and decision support system.
Oracle Government: January 1994 to October 1996
Vice President, Business Development and Chief Staff Officer. Made a major contribution to Oracle Government increasing revenue 400 percent and quadrupling the size of the work force in 33 months. Increased Oracle's DOD database market share from 25 percent to over 75 percent. Launched e-commerce initiative in Oracle in January 1994 by making it the number one strategic objective. The results have been ineffable. Established state and local, federal, health and education vertical business units, which have endured and flourished.
United States Navy: February 1955 to December 1993
Advanced from seaman recruit to Vice Admiral. Retired from the United State Navy December 31, 1993, following a 39-year career, 15 years at flag rank. Highly decorated, with recognition covering the spectrum from combat to numerous civilian and foreign government awards. Internationally regarded as an information technology strategist, having created Navy's C4I Joint Operations Tactical System (JOTS), a sobriquet for the Jerry O. Tuttle System. Served as Director, Command, Control and Communications (C3) Systems, The Joint Staff. As Director, Space and Electronic Warfare, crafted Navy's C4I architecture, Copernicus, and Information Warfare architecture, Sonata. During this tour evolved JOTS into first the Navy Tactical Command System – Afloat, thence the Joint Maritime Information Command System and then DOD's Global Command and Control system. Commanded an attack squadron, air wing, replenishment ship, aircraft carrier, two Carrier Battle Groups and Battle Force Sixth Fleet. Flew over 220 combat missions over North Vietnam and accrued more than 1,025 carrier arrested landings. At the time of retirement, he was the Navy's "Grey Eagle" signifying the earliest designated Naval Aviator on active duty.
PERSONAL DECORATIONS AND AWARDS:
Defense Distinguished Service Medal (3); Defense Superior Service Medal; Legion of Merit (4); Distinguished Flying Cross (3); Meritorious Service Medal (2); Air Medal (23); Navy Commendation Medal (4); Letter of Commendation from the Japanese Defense Agency; and myriad campaign awards. Navy League's John Paul Jones Award for inspirational leadership (1978), Association of Old Crow's Award for contributions to electronic warfare (1983), and the Annual Tailhook Award for contributions to Naval Aviation (1984). The 1989 AFCEAN of the Year Award and the 1992 AFCEA Jon L. Boyes' Award for contributions to the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association. The 1991 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence Award for the overall effectiveness to all of the Department of Defense C3I systems. Federal Computer Week's 1991 and 1992 Federal 100 Awards for impact on government computer systems. The Washington Space Business Roundtable 1993 Excellence in Government Award. Inducted into the Government Computer News Information Resource Management Hall of Fame in 1993. The 1994 American Astronautical Society Military Astronauts Award. The French "Commandeur de l'Order National du Merite" medal by the President of the Republic of France for promoting greater interoperability between the U.S. and French Navies. Listed in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in Executives and Professionals and Who's Who in Science and Engineering. A Naval Aviator Gold Eagle member for being recognized as one of the top 200 living Naval Aviators.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:
American Astronautical Society
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Inc.
Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association
Association of Naval Aviation
Defense Science Board
General Dynamics, Consultant
Georgia Tech Resources Institute, Board of Advisors
Harris Corporation, Consultant
Joint Intelligence University Board of Directors
Joint Military Intelligence College Foundation's Senior Advisory Board
ManTech International Corporation, Board of Advisors
Miltope, Board of Directors
National Academy of Sciences
National Defense Industrial Association
National Institute for Urban Search and Rescue, Executive Board Member
Navy League of the United States
Navy Mutual Aid Association
Nippon Telephone and Telegraph (NTT) Data, Consultant
Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Advisory Board (Carnegie Mellon)
Systematic Software Engineering (Denmark), Chairman of the Board for U.S. subsidiary
US Naval Postgraduate School, Chairman of the Board of Advisors to the Superintendent
USO-Metro, Board of Directors
PUBLICATIONS/PRESENTATIONS:
Authored and presented an unfathomable number of information technology/information management articles and speeches.
GEOGRAPHICAL EXPERIENCES:
Lived in Naples, Italy from May 1983 to 1984. Visited every European country, Egypt, South Africa, Algeria, Morocco, Turkey, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Bahrain, Kuwait, Pakistan, Vietnam, Thailand, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Philippines, Singapore, Lebanon, Australia, Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rico, Honduras, Panama, Nicaragua, Cuba, Haiti, Puerto Rico, Barbados, Grenada, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Martinique, Jamaica, Iceland, Greenland, Canada, El Salvador, Virgin Islands, every state in America, Kowloon, Okinawa, Matsu, United Arab Republic, Midway Island, Guam, Wake, Marshall, Solomon and Mariana Islands, Diego Garcia.
SECURITY CLEARANCE: Top Secret, DISCO
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