Program Manager

Program Manager

Objective

Joseph Mica is a remarkable change Agent.
My ideal assignment has challenge.
I love to provide important value to the larger picture or greater good of missions that cannot fail, must be there when needed and support the United States of America such as the three areas I have worked decades during most of my career: Intelligence, Defense, and Space.
My most ideal job I love is one that gives me pride and satisfaction providing the kind of support just mentioned, and I also love when I deal with next generation projects; environments where the scope of accomplishment has never been done before, and the technologies may not exist.

Skills

  • Ran my project’s activity phases to meet top-level Hubble Telescope mission requirements that had hard drop dead launch dates. Only God can change launch
  • Team Building by Creation of New Team. My projects were not allowed to fail.
  • Team Building by repair, modification or replacement of Existing Team.
  • Must be genuine interest in Team support Project goals have ability to do so
  • Concept Development, which may be deliverable of R&D effort compliant with top-level Requirement Definition. Example is creating a spacecraft power system to have certain capabilities and be asked to create concept hardware to demo abilities. This is what I did as principal investigator system engineer. NASA said it was years ahead of time and NASA hired me as NASA to work on all spacecraft systems from current missions and deploy spacecraft to advanced 20 years in future missions.
  • Requirements Development which may be written into implementation contract
  • Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
  • Start to delivery Software Requirement in Statement of Work (SOW), Reviews: Design that may be part of contract negotiation. Verification Testing: Module or sub-system, Integration, Stress or Interference Testing as applicable, Acceptance, Milestone Reviews to Acceptance Delivery Signoff of projects costing $20+ Million. The NAVY put me in Contract to represent them on such a contract.
  • Experienced with conventional software and various Artificial Intelligence types
  • Hardware Development Life Cycle (HDLC)
  • Start to delivery Hardware Requirement in Statement of Work (SOW), Reviews: Design that may be part of contract negotiation. Verification Testing: Module or sub-system, Integration, Stress or Interference or Shake & Bake Testing as applicable, Acceptance, Milestone Reviews to Acceptance Sign-off of projects costing $2.5+ Million
  • Deliver on time or early
  • Deliver within budget or less
  • FBI & CIA taught me special counter intelligence Deception & Denial Methods
  • Since 2009 to now CIA Case Officer and his CIA and Special Forces friends taught me taught me tradecraft useful in business: Find/Recruit Talents/Resources, Recruit/Make someone a True Committed Team Member, and more

Experience

  • Bombardier Deputy Lead Engineer $65 Mil Project – 2007-2008 PROGRAM MANAGER SUPPORT AND DEPUTY LEAD SYSTEM ENGINEER ON INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM FOR TRAIN PROPULSION SYSTEM FOR MONTREAL COMMUTER TRAIN SIMILAR TO OTHER TRAIN CONTRACTS FOR WASHINGTON DC AND CHICAGO
  • Technical Authority f27 widely diverse engineers, wide depth & breadth, on-time, on budget, international effort
  • Deputy Lead Engineer $65 Mil Project, supervised 27 widely diverse engineers, wide depth & breadth, on time, on budget, international effort: US ($65 M), Montreal (Prime Contract), Sweden (Sub Contract), Included my leading of telecom commutations between two International Engineering Teams to mitigate Problems and coordination. Included my System Engineering of these disciplines: Network Engineering of Distributed Computer Network Control System, Electrical Engineering of Electric Commuter Train Propulsion System, Radio Frequency Engineering EMI-EMC, Hardware Firmware, Software Distributed Computer Network Control, Mechanical Engineering and System Engineering
  • Navy Panama City Florida: SUPPORT FOR NAVY PROGRAM MANAGER, System Engineer Littoral Combat Ships – 2006-2007
  • Teledyne Brown Engineering System Engineer & Program Manager Support, Aero Tech Engineering Contract
  • Lead Engineer for Modeling and Simulation (M&S) on Navy’s new Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) Program that has an ISR mission. He reported directly to the Modeling and Simulation (M&S) Government manager at NSWC-PC on base. His job was a critical one in that he helped facilitate the smooth engineering flow from Mission Package (MP) development through integration and test to be ready for accreditation and ship acceptance. His roles included being the Systems Engineer where he helped write the Systems Engineering Plan, and the Working Group Charter that defined his roles and responsibilities and the functions of these work areas with respect to the rest of LCS community. Joe also was tasked to be the Mine Warfare M&S Lead Engineer. Joe was also was asked by the government manager to attend meetings for the manager.
  • Office of Navy Research (ONR) ISR Programs (DCS Contract) 8-2005 – 2-2006 PROGRAM MANAGEMENT SUPPORT, PRINCIPAL SYSTEM ENGINEER, CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT, and Artificial INTELLIGENCE SYSTEMS
  • Responsibilities included working in house with Navy Marine Corp government ISR Program Manager supporting dozen projects creating very advanced new S&T concepts that are used to generate funding for programs and ultimately generate the requirements for industry and academia to bid on and work from. I monitored current contractors including Northrop and others. Represent ONR ISR at meetings with other government agencies, and contractors. Created the content, forged the agenda for such meetings, or provided needed support: concepts development through to QA, Verification & Validation acceptance recommendation.
    • Represented government ISR program manager at US & allied forces ISR one star meeting to assemble report for two star military.
    • Development of S&T Tactical Persistent Surveillance programs out to 2012, Sensors from EMID to THz, & UAV, UGV, MAV, GPS
    • Advanced ISR concepts development, system engineering, program development for Marines and Navy Littoral Combat ship: plus current development, system engineering, program management support for about dozen programs, System of Systems Intelligence
    • DARPA ASSIST, Biometrics, Ontology, Covert RF Communication Systems, Terahertz THz (Active & Passive Systems), Antennas
    • Ontology, OWL, NIST, DARPA & Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), plus use of advanced NANO Technology, EOIR
    • Advanced IED & terrorist detection: Detect hidden IED devices in urban combat and battlefield, Detect terrorist attack or IED
    • Anticipate terrorist plans. I developed, and know, very advanced well-grounded conventional or artificial intelligence concepts.
    • Modeling Adversarial Decisions in Complex Operational Warfare (MADCOW) for Intelligence Surveillance Reconnaissance (ISR) Process, SOA
    • Artificial Intelligence Methods, Ontology, Predictive Methods, MULTI-INT Fusion, CONOPS, DCGS Distributed Common Ground System
    • Agile Sensors a distributed networked MULTI-INT, Multi-Platform, Biometric systems, Tagging Tracking Locating (TTL), AF DIB
    • Data fusion, Data Extraction, Network Centric Warfare, Operate/control MULTI-INT sensors by region, Low power/very small/disposable/non-disposable agile sensors, detection of hidden Improvised Explosive Device IED and Weapons Detections, MULTI-INT: EO/IR, THz, Acoustic, Seismic, Biometric, Sonar, EMID, RADINT, SIGINT, MASINT, HUMINT, Open Source, Non-cooperative targets, RFID, Optical, Biometrics, MASINT support of un-tagged persons, vehicles, secondary identifiers
  • Naval Research Lab (NRL) – Washington DC (ITT Contract) 8-1-2004, 5-13-2005
  • PROGRAM MANAGER SUPPORT on PROJECT, SYSTEM ENGINEER Artificial Intelligence application development for antiterrorism & DHS
  • Worked on the integration of AHEAD Analogical Reasoning component software modules, written in Lisp or JAVA. Developed antiterrorist Task Method Knowledge (TMK) CONOPS Models to anticipate terrorist attacks and applied Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). Worked on JAVA GUI Man Machine Interface. NRL/DHS sponsored training as Intelligence Analyst by people from FBI & CIA. Worked with the Principal Investigator.
  • (2-1991,1-2001) National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA) Have full government SF50 Rehire Status.
  • Joseph Mica was a Contracting Officer Technical Representative (COTR) and is very similar to a combined role of System Engineer and Project Manager role.
  • NASA trained Joseph Mica as a Contracting Officer Technical Representative (COTR) and several times over a decade as NASA was assigned to be a COTR on several NASA government contracts. When assigned on in flight space missions millions of dollars hardware used to monitor spacecraft within the Space Shuttle bay while the astronauts performed satellite service missions. As COTR Joseph Mica wrote the Statement of Work (SOW), reviewed contractor proposals to execute the SOW, made recommendations to suggest ways of reducing cost and time to execute the SOW, chaired contractor milestone reviews as government, monitored status reports, and final delivery review.
  • Sometimes acted as part of team of COTR and government engineers when reviewing very advanced, complex entire instrument replacement upgrades to the instrument change outs and had huge consequence in cost, risk, and value added to the Hubble Space Telescope Service Mission.
  • Joseph Mica took active roles during Hubble Spacecraft service missions and was stationed at Johnson Spaceflight Center (JSC) Mission Control Center to support monitoring the Hubble Space Telescope while it was docked in the Space Shuttle bay for astronaut servicing.
  • Photo of Joseph Mica working on Hubble Space Telescope at NASA JSC Mission Control. Slide 142
  • Coauthored IEEE CRC Industrial Electronics Handbook: advanced AI control using fuzzy logic 1997, FUZ-IEEE Japan exhibit, +7 papers
  • Chairing a Professional Conference has combined roles of Project Manager, System Engineer and Subject Matter Expert (SME)
  • Chaired Conference at NASA in Washington DC area on a NASA base, gave presentation and live demonstration as shown in the VIDEO.
  • Conference Program Chair on: 6th, 7th, 8th, SCS, NASA, SPIE, IEEE, INNS and also IEEE/Simulation Technology 92, 93, 94. Published papers on artificial intelligence and fuzzy logic.
  • Chaired a special 1991 NASA conference on base in Washington DC area that with my special world-class expert guest speakers that included the keynote address fro Lotfi Zadeh the original creator of the discipline of the artificial intelligence method of Fuzzy Logic.
  • NASA Conference Keynote speaker Dr. Lotfi Zadeh, group photograph. Slide167
  • NASA 50 foot 6 degree of freedom robot arm that was validated by 2 Hubble Astronauts as just like the real Shuttle arm in functional operation.
  • Joseph Mica Coauthored a IEEE CRC Industrial systems handbook on advanced AI control systems, co-authored about half dozen AI robotics control system papers,
  • Co-chaired 3 times a NASA & IEEE sponsored fuzzy logic AI systems located in Houston Texas, San Francisco, Washington DC
  • Presented a paper and demonstration on Fuzzy Logic AI control of a 50 foot 6 degree of freedom Remote Manipulator System (RMS) robotic arm having a resolution within 1 inch at NASA IEEE Washington DC conference and at the FUZZ IEEE Fuzzy Logic 1995 conference in Yokohama Japan.
  • See the video presentation and demonstration of my RMS arm.
  • Click NASA Conference PHOTO and you may see a very special rare photograph of my special guest speakers of my NASA Fuzzy Logic AI Conference I was Program Chair at NASA that included Dr. Lotfi Zadah the man that created the discipline of Fuzzy Logic along with several other very gifted persons in the field.
  • Project Manager & Principal System Engineer: overall systems design, requirements management, and hands-on Directed 60 diverse technical crew including a smaller half dozen set of my Core Team professionals of Doctors, Engineers, other managers and technicians on day/night shifts for RMSS. See photographs below and the VIDEO.
    1. NASA Photo of RMS Arm with Space Shuttle Mockup (Slide 160)
    2. NASA RMS Evaluation: Joseph Mica, 2 Hubble Astronauts (Slide 164)
    3. NASA Photo of RMS Arm Operational views (Slide 161)
    4. NASA RMS FOX TV Reporter Demo by Joseph Mica (Slide 163)
    5. NASA RMS FOX TV Reporter Interview (Slide 162)
    6. NASA Photo of RMS Project Team (Slide 159)
  • Project/Operations Mgr & principal engineer on a physical Remote Manipulator System Simulator (RMSS) control system for 50 foot 6 degree of freedom Space Shuttle robotic arm; FPGAs, Embedded real-time control software C, Forth, fuzzy logic control system, Till Shell, HW design; computer links, digital optical resolvers, analog sensors, hydraulics, mechanical engineering, human safety.
  • Supported HST Shuttle Mission CONOPS development through reach and clearance studies. Had astronaut RMS JSC training.
  • Program Managed design, Delivered $2.5M EFMDM Hubble Spacecraft sensor link, $100K under cost & beat accelerated 10 month schedule by 3 months. Wrote requirements, & environment tests of Shuttle Enhanced Flexible Multiplexer Demultiplexer (EFMDM)
  • Project Proposal Manager and Systems Engineer of NASA teams: Supported Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Service Missions 1, 2, 3 power & electrical systems, COTR, trained in FARS, systems engineer, task lead & QA, IV&V, GPS
    • As System Engineer I worked on the Service Missions change out of the Hubble Spacecraft Power System, Batteries, and Solar Arrays
    • Proposal Manager, Principal Engineer, Lead Team of 3 companies w/corporate presidents or vice-presidents, 5 Senior Engineers. Real time Astronaut Vision Enhancement Network (RAVEN) a fuzzy logic vision video enhancement processing on Space Shuttle. Met with 3 astronauts during requirements generation.
    • RAVEN enhanced the astronauts ability to work in the hard to control conditions of space, enhance the Remote Manipulator System (RMS) operator’s vision to control a Space Orbiter Shuttle robotic arm used to grapple the spacecraft from space place it in shuttles flight support system docking fixture for servicing. Astronaut strapped by foot restraint rides the RMS robotic arm into the work site.
    • Proposal manager of team for a manned shuttle experiment for welding in space. Team was: four NASA Centers, the Air Force, NBS, 3 Universities, Paton Welding Institute in the Ukraine, Rockwell, and 3 other companies. NASA built experiment. Gave Space Construction talk at ESA Norwich The Netherlands1993. Supported NASA exhibits at Paris Air Show 1993 at invitation of NASA HQ.
  • GS13-861 Electrical Engineer and GS13-850 Aerospace Engineer, Lead Engineer & COTR. Worked directly for Lead Scientist Architect of Missions
    • Managed System Engineering on Autonomous NANO Technology Spacecraft (ANTS). ANTS is an AI highly autonomous OPEN AGENT ARCHITECTURE 1000 spacecraft SWARM of 1 KG spacecraft, the next generation PICO size, for year 2030.
    • Wrote Systems document won NASA HQ funds twice for AI ANTS SWARM & made NASA patent disclosure.
    • Published ANTS (Autonomous nano-technology swarm): An artificial intelligence approach to asteroid belt resource exploration, in: Proceedings International Astronautical Federation, 51st Congress, October 2000. Also worked on many advanced spacecraft & missions.
    • Complete spacecraft systems, Autonomy, Payloads, Electrical Power Systems (EPS), C&DH, Deployment, Space Shuttle, Robotics
    • Lead Engineer responsible for all systems engineering & wrote ANTS heterogeneous satellite proposal to NASA HQ: instruments, on-board flight Ops, navigation, communication, heuristic systems, fuzzy logic, genetic algorithms, neural nets, planning systems, rule base systems, distributed artificial intelligence, spacecraft autonomy. Made patent disclosure 1999. Co-authored AI team paper.
    • Systems engineer on new spacecraft & proposals that were not nano technology: AURORA LITES, DIPPER, and Explorer Platform EPS, Space Power Platform autonomy orbital power station.
  • (1990) NASA JSC, Space Station System OPS, Managed and system engineered: Requirements Concepts for Command and Control Interface between Space Station Freedom Control Center and Engineering Center Ops.
    • (1990) NASA JSC System design: Engineering Support Center Concept Document Facility Requirements,
    • System Engineer for Artificial Intelligence tasks, AI project estimator for Requirements definition.
    • Mission time-lines CONOPS. Pier-to-Pier OSI Open System Command network interface.
  • (1986) McDonald Douglas St. Louis MO Principal Investigator/Lead R&D Engineer on Computer Controlled Spacecraft Power System IRAD done in McDonald Douglas St. Louis MO. Developed proprietary distributed agent processor firmware real-time embedded HW SW network control system, blackboard. Hired by NASA in 1991 because IRAD demonstration was years ahead.
  • (1984) Joseph Mica was put in the Navy contract for the Launch Control Group (LCG) as the Tomahawk Weapons Systems-Systems Engineering Integration Agent (TWS-SEIA), Was the person the LCG Software reported to for all technical milestones as well as daily incidents evaluation, status definition, and resolution process. Joseph Mica as TWS-SEIA was a Leader as Systems Engineer in 1984 for the government with offices in McDonald Douglas St. Louis MO, VITRO Silver Springs MD, and Washington DC. The contract was worth over $20M; one of two contractor Deputy program managers reported to me on problem status and interfaced contractor program manager during milestone reviews and as needed. I was also the Integration Agent between my contractor and the other major companies and sections of the NAVY. I reported to a NAVY Commander Gauss on base and other meetings. My principal regular contact was Don Shinn and sometimes Bill Kieldsing from NSWC Naval Surface Weapons Dahlgren VA. Don Shinn gave me a half dozen technical staff for monitoring software testing at the contractor site. The Navy Plant Representative Officer NAVPRO gave me a private office at the contractor site.

Education

Joseph Mica received a BSEE degree 1978 and completed a graduate program in Artificial Intelligence 1990, both at Washington University in St. Louis Missouri.

Joseph Mica at Washington University also completed contract law along with many other classes and curriculums such as Computer Science, advanced mathematics, Acoustics, Biomedical Electronics, Conventional Power Transmission and Alternative Energy Generation at Washington University St. Louis while completing a BSEE degree at the same time as the BSEE.

Completed at Washington University St. Louis Graduate School in Computer Science focused on Artificial Intelligence 1990.

Washington University Artificial Intelligence Graduate School included a final project which was an AI program – a Sherlock Holmes type game dealing with imperfect knowledge of events, allowing the fugitive to disappear and reappear, played against a human that had the role of fugitive. The Sherlock Holmes AI game program executed on the school computer beat the computer science professor that played it twice, earning an “A” grade for my effort in the final project and class.

Joseph Mica also completed Graduate School independent Study in Photography Special Effects with the art department chairman at Webster College St. Louis used as humanities credit for my BSEE degree. See a special effects self-portrait among other work the Webster College Art Chairman liked a lot. See Self Portrait from Webster College Art graduate independent study.

Other

Joseph Mica holds Government SF50 Rehire document from NASA.

Schedule A Hiring Authority Letter 5 CFR 213,3102(u)

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