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Qualifications
Summary
Over twenty-five years
experience in enterprise and systems architectures, systems engineering,
project management, and software design and development using advanced
information technologies. Mr. Tucker is especially strong in rapidly
understanding customers’ business objectives and complex operating
environments. He formulates creative solutions to improve productivity and
introduce new value-added services.
Professional
Experience
The MITRE Corporation, McLean, Virginia
(May 1999 to Present)
Senior Principal Enterprise Architect
Enterprise
Architecture and Engineering
- Developing a conceptual and
logical architecture for the IRS
Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 program, charged with
issuing secure and interoperable smart card credentials to government
employees and contractors for physical and online access.
- Developed a plan of action for
the U.S. Chief Information
Officers Council for improving the ability to develop and use enterprise
architectures across federal agencies.
- Contributed to the Department of Justice Case Management Common Solutions
Architecture, including its current-state architecture for all types
of case management and the target architecture for litigation case
management. Also contributed to
the development of the FY 2006 budget submission materials (Exhibit 300)
for the litigation case management initiative.
- Provided advice to the Federal Health Architecture
line-of-business initiative managed by the Department of Health and
Human Services, and prepared most of the FY 2006 budget submission
materials for the initiative.
- Provided architecture
leadership for the development and enhancement of the U.S. Coast
Guard's Enterprise Architecture Program. MITRE presented a Program
Recognition Award for this work in 2003 and a Knowledge Management Award in 2004.
- From 2001 to present, led the
MITRE Enterprise and Systems Architecture and Engineering Technology
Area Team and guided the development of annual technology
assessments on architectures for the MITRE Chief Engineers
Council. Advised the MITRE CIO/CTO and
Chief Engineers Council regarding architecture technology investments
for the MITRE Technology Program.
Advised prospective principal investigators in formulating their
research proposals.
- Primary MITRE reviewer of the
Department of Homeland Security’s
Enterprise Architecture.
- Supported the Department of Treasury’s efforts
to establish a consolidated program for department-wide infrastructure
and enterprise architecture investments.
- Supported the General Services
Administration in establishing a foundation for its enterprise
architecture program, preparing EA submissions to the Office of
Management and Budget, and communicating and coordinating EA activities
with GSA services and staff offices.
- As part of a cohesive team,
developed an overall technical approach for modernization of the U.S.
Customs Service. Developed acquisition materials including a
comprehensive request for proposals for a modernization prime
contractor, and also transition plans for existing systems.
Led development of the initial three task statements for the Prime
contractor. MITRE awarded a Program Achievement Award for
this work in June 2000, and the President's Award in August 2001.
- Responsible for the overall
baseline report on International Trade Data System activities
when they were transferred from Treasury to Customs.
- Led development of the Treasury Enterprise
Architecture Framework for the U.S. Department of the Treasury,
providing clear guidance to all Treasury bureaus and the Departmental
Offices for developing and implementing enterprise architectures.
- Key lead supporting the Internal
Revenue Service in preparing for and assessing the enterprise
architecture prepared by its prime contractor.
Geospatial
Decision Support
- Currently contributing to the
development of the Geospatial
Profile for the Federal Enterprise Architecture.
- Provided MITRE leadership in
advising Department of Homeland Security and Coast Guard geospatial
program activities. Supported
the Coast Guard in instituting Enterprise Data Management practices and
Geospatial Resource Management practices.
Information Security
- Currently developing a
conceptual architecture and plan for IRS to implement Homeland Security Presidential
Directive 12 (HSPD-12)—Policy for a Common
Identification Standard for Federal Employees and Contractors.
- Project leader for MITRE's
support to the Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Cyber
Security, responsible for establishing, controlling, and assessing
all cyber security program activities and synchronizing them with VA's
overall enterprise architecture activities. Established VA requirements
for its Central Incident Response Capability (CIRC) procurement.
Concept Five Technologies, Inc., McLean, Virginia
( February 1996 to May 1999)
Strategic
Planning, Enterprise
Architecture and Engineering
- Applied C5’s
Secure Application Integration MethodologySM
for United Parcel Service, aimed at developing reusable business
components to be integrated into multiple customer applications and with
electronic commerce (EC) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) packages. Developed business strategy and
associated IS strategy, architecture including component requirements,
and business process models.
- Led development of an
object-oriented architecture for SmithKline Beecham to
reduce the time and effort for clinical trials design and processing.
Performed object-oriented analysis of current and proposed business
processes and systems, using IDEF0 for the
process model, use cases, and UML for the
object model. Developed architecture for implementation using
distributed object technology.
- Developed Strategic Plan for Drug Discovery Informatics
for Parke-Davis. Defined roadmap for incorporating tools for data
management, data movement, metadata management, project management, and
software integration.
- Participated in the Object
Management Group’s Life Sciences Research Domain Task Force.
- Created Internet strategy for the MOST/HONOR ATM
Network. Created an IS roadmap to implement electronic commerce, home
banking, and customer relationship services for it and its members to
deploy via the Internet, intranet, and extranet. Ensured that
information security was integral to all applications.
Decision Support
- Developed corporate decision
support strategy for Amoco. Provided recommendations for establishing a common
infrastructure of processes, products, and services to support the
business drivers of its business units. Roadmap included: staging and
reconciling transactional data from SAP and other operational systems
into data marts/data warehouses; using metadata repositories for
information management; using OLAP tools and
report management tools; and web delivery.
- Developed
concept for Concept Five’s Internet-based customer relationship
management system
that matched targeted customer segments for a business’s products with
customer profiles to make a customized selection of products and
promotions for each customer. System incorporated marketing
effectiveness metrics via data mining and data analysis techniques to
analyze the target marketing campaign.
- Developed web-based
demonstration
to assist unsophisticated users specify and understand complex data
validation problems in an intensive data processing environment
at SmithKline Beecham. Proved concept to
client that skills required to perform the data cleaning job would be
reduced and that the process for resolving data errors would be improved
by removing manual steps and by introducing technologies such as
decision trees and case-based retrieval.
Knowledge Management
- Led assessment of knowledge
management technologies for USAA. Defined KM
architecture with an emphasis on facilitating access to knowledge across
enterprise systems via an enterprise metadata server. Examined vendor
products to support metadata storage and synthesis, structured data
extract/transform/load, unstructured (e.g. text) data indexing and
search, and knowledge interaction including decision support/OLAP. Prepared roadmap with recommendations.
The MITRE Corporation, McLean, Virginia (March 1981
to February 1996)
Geospatial
Decision Support
- Project Leader for Army mapping and geospatial
projects across multiple sponsors and other organizations with
conflicting priorities and schedules. Responsible for managing the
development of the Terrain Evaluation Module (TEM) mapping
toolkit software product for the Army's Common Operating Environment.
- Developed an Army Mapping Strategy
for the Army Program Executive Office for C3 Systems.
- Presented technical and
programmatic information and issues on Army mapping activities to
Government, military, and MITRE personnel at all levels (general officer
and below).
- Principal Army representative
to the Joint Mapping Toolkit (JMTK) working
group for the Defense Information Infrastructure (DII)
Common Operating Environment (COE), chartered to combine mapping
toolkits from all the military services.
- Established the Army's
layered architecture for implementing map/terrain-based decision support
for the Program Executive Officer for Command and Control Systems. MITRE
awarded a Program Accomplishment Award for this work in June 1991.
- Project Leader for the
Joint Tactical Information Distribution System (JTIDS)
Integrated Siting Tool which applied
standard intervisibility algorithms to assist
in deploying communications equipment.
Advanced Information
Technologies Center
and the Artificial Intelligence
Center
- Responsible for managing
technical staff with broad expertise in information technologies,
including geospatial information systems, natural language processing,
advanced human-computer interfaces, planning and scheduling, robotics,
intelligent agents, and software architectures.
Military Command, Control, and
Communications
- Supported several key phases
of the AirLand Battle Management Advanced
Technology Transition Demonstration (ALBM ATTD) project conducted by the Army. Participated in
developing the request-for-proposal package, source selection, and
technical review of the contractor's software architecture. The purpose
of the ALBM ATTD was
to apply decision support technology for Army command and control.
- Directed a project in support
of the Army's Battle Command Training Program. Army simulation
support expert tools were prototyped with an objective of improve the
effectiveness of opposing forces personnel supporting Warfighter exercises.
- Key member of a team that
developed a very rapid prototype
for configuring a military communications network of Mobile Subscriber
Equipment (MSE).
- Developed a knowledge-based battle management
architecture and testbed to investigate
the issues involved in integrating independently-produced, distributed
knowledge-based systems for the Air Force's Rome Air
Development Center.
Air Traffic Control
Automation
- Worked on prototyping
software components of the Automated En-Route Air Traffic Control (AERA) project for the Federal Aviation
Administration.
- Responsible for enhancing an
expert system for suggesting aircraft conflict resolutions and
integrating the expert system with algorithmic modeling software.
- Responsible for all aspects
of the AERA prototype's distributed messaging
protocols.. Also responsible for designing and implementing tools for
prototyping menus and screen images for AERA.
- As part of an Independent
Research and Development project investigating applications of computer
graphics technology to air traffic control, developed an air traffic
planning system with three-dimensional displays. Also, developed a
software system for rapid prototyping sequences of user interface
screens on both raster and vector graphic displays.
MIT Laboratory for Computer Science, Cambridge, Massachusetts
1980
- Produced microcode to perform
IEEE-standard floating point arithmetic for the custom processing unit
used in MIT's prototype dataflow machine.
Naval Surface
Weapons Center,
White Oak, Silver Spring,
Maryland
1972 to 1975 (Summers)
- Worked as a student aide
under the Federal Junior Fellowship Program for one summer in the Alloys
Analysis department, and then for three summers in the Computer
Applications department working primarily in the field of computer
graphics for Computer-Aided Design.
Education
George Mason
University, Fairfax,
Virginia
August 1994 to 1997:
Extended Studies in Information Security, Database Management
The George Washington
University,
Washington, D. C.
February 1988: Master of
Science, Computer Science—Software and Systems
Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
June 1980: Bachelor of
Science, Computer Science and Engineering
Professional
Honors
- MITRE Corporate Knowledge
Management Award for Enterprise
Architecture – Sharing the Practice, 2004.
- MITRE Program Recognition
Award for Coast Guard Enterprise
Architecture Program, June 2003.
- MITRE President's Award for
Customs Modernization, August 2001.
- MITRE Program Achievement
Award for Customs Modernization, June 2000.
- MITRE Program Achievement
Award for the Terrain Evaluation Module project, June 1994.
- MITRE Special Recognition
Award for development of Build 5 of the Terrain Evaluation Module
project, 15 October 1993.
- MITRE Special Recognition
Award for technical and programmatic leadership of the Terrain
Evaluation Module project, 21 August 1992.
- MITRE Special Recognition
Award for AI Center's map-based decision support program, 10 February
1992
- MITRE Program Accomplishment
Award for Smart Maps project, June 1991
Personal
History
Mr. Tucker is an avid
tiddlywinks player and recognized expert on the game. He is also a game and
puzzle collector.
Last Updated: 2 August 2005
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