R E S U M E - Stevens Institute of Technology



William D. Miller

PO Box 554

Berkeley Heights, NJ

(908) 759-7110

Fax (908) 665-1364

william.d.miller@

Program Management, Systems Engineering, and Systems Engineering Management for Information Technology, Data Networking and Telecommunications Systems

EDUCATION: The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania

DEGREE YEAR MAJOR FIELD OF STUDY

Bachelor of Science 1971 Electrical Engineering

Master of Science 1973 Electrical Engineering

Additional Education:

Post graduate courses in engineering mathematics and data networking at Columbia University

Bell Labs continuing education in queueing theory, traffic engineering, engineering economics, systems engineering, and earned value analysis

AT&T product management certification

EXPERIENCE: Thirty-five Years in Systems Engineering, Program Management, Project Management, and Product Management

Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ (2002-2008):

Industry Professor, School of Systems & Enterprises. Teach graduate courses in 1) Systems Engineering Fundamentals: Operational Effectiveness and Life-Cycle Analysis, 2) Systems Architecture and Design, and 3) Systems Integration. Developed the Systems Integration course. Consult with Stevens Institute clients on systems engineering / systems integration processes, training, and execution on programs.

Consultant in Communications and Information Systems (1998-2008):

Systems Engineer for large-scale systems integration programs for military/aerospace contractor. Developed and delivered customized systems engineering training (2004-2008). Responsible for concept of operations, functional analysis, system requirements, requirements trades, and systems integration and test (2002-2005). Lead Systems Engineer for Advanced Networking Concepts program. Responsible for requirements, sizing, configuration, integration, and verification of commercial networking and storage technologies into defense platforms (2000-2002). Systems Engineer responsible for requirements management of commercial Waveform Division Multiplexing (WDM) transmission system (1999).

Consultant in requirements management to aerospace supplier. Responsible for requirements management database, supplier specifications, validation and verification plans, and traceability reports (2005-2006).

Consultant to privately held software company. Assessed potential Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) access to company's flagship product. Characterized markets for the company's technology planning and decision support products. Assessed the form, fit, and function of the intial versions of these products to current and potential market segments. Recommended long-term strategy and product improvements (1998).

Consultant to New Jersey Department of Education. Business representative co-chair for test specification directory and framework documents for Cross-Content Workplace Readiness Standards, part of the New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards (1998-2000).

Bell Labs and AT&T Telecommunications and Defense Projects (1973-1998):

Retired from AT&T under the special Voluntary Retirement Incentive Program (VRIP) in 1998.

Program Manager for the AT&T Fixed Wireless Services Program. Budget in excess of $100M. Established program discipline for balancing requirements, business case and schedules. Successfully met business case, technology demonstration and market entry objectives (1996-1997).

Systems Engineering Manager at Bell Labs division for AT&T Advanced Technology Systems. Identified and nurtured business to leverage AT&T Network Wireless Systems technologies for tactical military communications (1993-1995). This effort led to successful demonstration of Army Tactical PCS by Lucent Technologies in 1996-1997.

Member of the ATS management team responsible for strategic planning of R&D investments for both commercial and defense technologies. Member of the Bell Labs ATS Systems Engineering Process Management Team (PMT) responsible for systems engineering metrics and Lead Business Unit (LBU) support to other AT&T business units. Acted as ATS champion for systems engineering methodology and tools (1993-1995).

Systems Engineering Manager at Bell Labs for the US Army Combined Arms Command and Control Advanced Technology Demonstration (CAC2-ATD). The CAC2-ATD with US Army CECOM at Fort Monmouth, NJ was responsible for formulating, assessing, and verifying the information architecture for the Army's digitization of the battlefield initiative. The architecture integrates Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers, computers with situational awareness displays, and tactical digital VHF radios in Army combat vehicles and command posts (1993-1995).

Systems Engineering Manager at Bell Labs for the development of specialized communications and signal processing programs ranging in value from $1M to $40M. Responsible for negotiating requirements, interface control, specialty engineering, technololgy trade-off studies, program reviews, change control board, risk management, system test, and system buy-off (1990 - 1993).

Systems Engineering Manager at Bell Labs responsible for survivable command control communications and management information systems under subcontract to General Electric Company for the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) Systems Engineering and Integration (SE&I) program (1987 - 1989).

Systems Engineering Manager at Bell Labs responsible for distributed tactical command and control communications support to the U.S. Army 9th Motorized Division at Fort Lewis, Washington under the CECOM High Tech R&D contract (1985-1989).

U.S industrial representative to NATO for prefeasibility studies of future main battle tank fire control, communications, computer, and electronic warfare systems; led multinational communciations and electronic warfare subteam (1985-1988).

Systems Engineering Manager at Bell Labs responsible for Army combat vehicle fire control and command control communications contracts. Promoted to Bell Laboratories supervisor in March 1985 (1983 - 1987).

Rotational assignment to AT&T General Departments and American Bell Inc. as Staff Manager for project management of the development of the System 85 Communications System in the Product Management Division of AT&T Business Marketing. Served as acting product manager for the product line's Applications Processor (1979 - 1983).

Member of Technical Staff in the Bell Telephone Laboratories Network Planning Division responsible for step-by-step switch measurements, the “Network of the Future” study that was a predecessor to ISDN, and operations support for the controlled introduction of Electronic Tandem Network (ETN) service. Defined positive business case for ETN Operations Support System (OSS) in lieu of manual processes and worked with AT&T General Departments to negotiate a cost share agreement among Bell System companies to fund the development of the OSS (1973 - 1979).

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS: Assistant Director for Knowledge for the technical operations team on the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE); INCOSE Secretary (1997-1998, 2003-2004, and 2005-2006); co-chair of the INCOSE Human Systems Integration Working Group (2002-2003); co-chair of the INCOSE Metrics Working Group (1994-1996); co-founder and president of the DOORS requirements management software tool users group (1994-1997); member, IEEE Communications Society; member, National Defense Industrial Association; member, Association of the U.S. Army.

PUBLICATIONS: Co-author of refereed papers in the Bell System Technical Journal (BSTJ 1976), the International Symposium on Subscriber Loops and Services (ISSLS 1977), IEEE Military Communications symposium (MILCOM 1995), Complex Systems Engineering Synthesis and Assessment Technology Workshop (CSESAW 1994), 7 papers in International Symposia of the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE 1993-1996), author of a paper for the INCOSE Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference (2000), and co-author of one paper for the Oceans 2000 MTS/IEEE Conference.

SECURITY CLEARANCES: Top Secret/SBI

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