General Dynamics Mission Systems Leadership

Andrew Foor is a Chief Engineer, Sr. Technical Manager, Trusted Space Solutions at General Dynamics Mission Systems and is based in Scottsdale, Arizona. He studied at Arizona State University between 2004 and 2006.

Experienced Vice President with a demonstrated history of working in the Defense & Space industry. Skilled in Management, Revenue Recognition, Business Process Improvement, Variance Analysis, and Financial Analysis. Strong finance professional graduated from Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management.

Chris Haider is a Chief Engineer, Airborne Systems at General Dynamics Mission Systems and is based in Minnesota. He has worked as Design Engineer at General Dynamics Mission Systems; System Architect and Technical Lead, Mission Computing Systems at General Dynamics Mission Systems; and Senior Business Development Manager at General Dynamics Mission Systems. Chris studied at Saint Mary's University of Minnesota between 1995 and 1999, Cretin-Derham Hall, and University of Minnesota between 2000 and 2004.

Chris Taggart is a Chief Engineer Undersea Systems at General Dynamics Mission Systems and Senior Business Manager at General Dynamics Mission Systems and is based in Fairfax, Virginia. He has worked as Doctoral student at North Carolina State University, Senior Manager at GENERAL DYNAMICS CORP, and C4I Resource Officer at SPAWAR Reserve Program. Chris studied at University of Washington between 1990 and 1992, North Carolina State University between 2002 and 2008, and University of Rochester between 1978 and 1982.

Experienced information architect with a long track record of producing successful, enterprise-caliber, web applications. Exceptional knowledge and experience in web technologies, databases, information architecture, content management, project management and implementation. Also a professionally published technical writer and frequent public speaker at technical events.

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Specialties: - Internet strategist for a variety of clients; also developed and sold an online web business.

- Web application development.

- Diverse web technologies (HTML, Ruby on Rails, .NET, JavaScript, CSS, XML, AJAX).

- Extensive database experience: Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase, MySQL, PostgreSQL, others.

- Java Technologies: JSP, J2EE, Tomcat, JFreeChart, Hibernate, Metro (JAX-WS web services), Maven, Log4J, Castor, others.

- Requirements analysis, technical documentation, proposal writing.

Senior Engineer, Technical Leader, and Business Executive

P&L responsibility for $135 million software development line of business with expertise in management of large $100+ million development programs, engineering management of geographically dispersed multi-disciplined development teams, chief engineer of deployable communication and information systems, and software architect of distributed, near-real time applications exceeding a million lines of code.

Core Competencies and Strengths:



• Planning & executing technical development

• Strategies & solutions for competitive proposals

• Bidding & estimating

• Data-driven project planning & status measurements

• Contract negotiations & conflict resolution

• Root cause analysis & corrective actions

• Software Architecture

• Personnel development & performance management

• Intellectual property & investment planning

• Large scale software development and deployment

• Budgeting & resource management

• Human-centered design & system development

Experienced Senior Engineering Manager and team leader with an extensive background in software analysis and design processes. Skilled in all phases of the system development life-cycle, from requirements analysis, system and software design, implementation, to test and deployment. Proven experience designing and tailoring engineering processes, including Agile methods, to meet business objectives. Experience mentoring both junior and senior engineers in engineering processes and methods.

Jason Dickerson is a Chief Engineer at General Dynamics Mission Systems and is based in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. He has worked as Systems Engineer at Electric Boat Corporation and Senior Advanced Engineer at General Dynamics Mission Systems. Jason studied at Rensselaer at Work between 1999 and 2000, Union College between 1991 and 1995, and Union College between 1995 and 1997.

Experienced Chief Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the Defense & Space industry. Strong professional skilled in Systems Engineering, Embedded Software, VxWorks, C4ISR, Proposal Writing, and Java.

I am a Servant Leader who is passionate about Lean-Agile and DevOps principles. I have led multi-disciplined engineering teams for over 20 years developing 8 real-time embedded communication product families from commercial satellite telephony/broadband to “Smart-Phone” like Software Defined Radios for US soldiers. For 2+ years I was the GDMS Agile-DevOps Champion responsible for transforming GDMS to achieve better outcomes through adoption of Lean-Agile, SAFe, & DevOps principles. Currently I am a Chief Scrum Master for a large 190-person Ground Station Development Effort.

I have built a reputation as a Leader that can deliver the right, high quality solution on time.

Major strengths include multi-team leadership, product architecture, software design and development, project management, people management, and product marketing. Advanced education includes an MS in Computer Science and a BS in Electrical Engineering.

SAFe Program Consultant (SPC5), Product Owner/Manager, Scrum Master

Certified Trainer for SAFe Product Owner, Scrum Master, & DevOps.

Center of Excellence Department Leadership

Real time embedded software development

Various Embedded OS experience: Linux, VxWorks, ThreadX, Nucleus

C, C++, UML, MBSE

Network Protocols, Board Support Package (BSP), Drivers

Radio/Phone/GPS/Device Management

TS/SCI clearance