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Strategy and Executive Consulting Services

Shipley's Strategy and Executive Consulting team supports clients with un-biased, strategic advice. Our team of executive consultants can mentor and coach your leadership team at critical stages of the business acquisition and sustainment cycle... more

We provide expert advice regarding:

Strategic, long-term positioning of your capabilities
Opportunity, customer, and program assessments
Color team reviews at key strategic business acquisition milestones
Source selection awareness and process
Win strategy development

Abstracts of a few of our Strategy and Executive Consulting team are shown below. For detailed credentials or to discuss your specific need, contact us at 888-772-9467 or click here.

Pat Condon. Mr. Condon has over 35 years of successful experience in project engineering, technical management, and leadership in research, development, test, acquisition, and logistics support of aircraft, spacecraft, launch vehicle, and missile systems and subsystems. He has worked at high strategic levels of military leadership in domestic and international venues and has served U.S. interests at the Pentagon, and with the Army, Navy, Air Force, NASA, and commercial customers. He facilitates sessions and color team reviews with clients on many strategic programs. Mr. Condon retired as a major general in the U.S. Air Force after 33 years of active duty service. Expertise: Project engineering, technical management; leadership in research, development, test, acquisition, and logistics support of aircraft, spacecraft, launch vehicles, and missile systems and subsystems.

Tom Miner. Mr.Miner is a former member of the U.S. Government Senior Executive Service and was Executive Director of the Ogden Air Logistics Center, Hill AFB, UT, for the last 10 years of his government service. He has served at three Air Logistics Centers and had two tours at Command Headquarters levels. He was appointed to the Senior Executive Service in 1989. As Executive Director, Mr. Miner oversaw Ogden ALC’s worldwide logistics support responsibility for the F-16 Fighting Falcon, the entire force of Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles, and commodities such as Landing Gear, Secondary Power Systems, Training Devices, and all Air Force conventional munitions. He has developed strategic plans and participated in many color team reviews. Expertise: Strategic and tactical consultation for USAF programs; corporate strategic planning, logistics management, program management, and depot maintenance.

Gene Hathenbruck. Mr.Hathenbruck retired from the US government in June 2004. As Director of Logistics Management Directorate, he was responsible for all Center-wide policy and procedures for the Supply Management Activity Group, foreign military sales, and contract repair activities for OO-ALC supply chain management operations. He was also responsible for supply chain management for F-16 unique components, USAF landing gear systems and secondary power systems, and acquisition and management of engineering data and OO-ALC technical orders. This expertise adds value to clients seeking strategic planning support and critical senior advice at key milestones of strategic pursuits. Expertise: Weapon system management, financial administration, industrial repair, requirements, supply chain management, sustainment and acquisition.

Morris Goodrich. Mr. Goodrich has over 30 years of U.S. Air Force experience: Director, Contracting, and Executive Assistant for Center Commander, Ogden Air Logistics Center. Expertise: Highly specialized military and aerospace marketing, global logistic support services and telecommunication consultation and services for a broad spectrum of U.S. and international engineering, manufacturing and service corporations.

Rick Hauck. Mr. Hauck has over twenty-eight years of military and over 15 years of civilian experience: retired from the US Navy after a distinguished career as a pilot and NASA astronaut, and as a Executive in both the NASA and Navy space programs; Chief Executive Officer of AXA Space, (formerly INTEC); Director, Navy Space Systems Division, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations; NASA Associate Administrator for External Relations; Commander/Pilot for three Space Shuttle missions; member, NASA Advisory Council. Expertise: Space and aeronautics, satellites, finance, budgeting, risk assessment.

Smoke Hickman. Mr. Hickman has over thirty-five years of U.S. Navy and industry consulting experience: Commander, Navy Supply Systems Command; Director, Supply and Ordnance Policy, CNO Staff, Pentagon; Director, Material Management, Defense Logistics Agency; Comptroller, Navy Supply Systems Command; independent consultant in supply chain management and financial management for major defense and commercial industries. Expertise: Supply systems, supply chain management, performance based logistics, financial management.

Les Lyles. Mr. Lyles has over thirty-five years of U.S. Air Force experience: Commander, Air Force Materiel Command, Wright-Patterson AFB; Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force, Pentagon; Director Ballistic Missile Defense Organization, DoD; Commander, Space and Missile Systems Center; Commander, Ogden Air Logistics Center. Expertise: Aeronautical and astronautical research, development, acquisition, supply chain management, technical operations, logistics, leadership, and program management.

Sandy McLeod. Ms. McLeod has over twenty-five years of U.S. Army acquisition and sustainment experience and 14 years of defense sector technical services industry experience: Project manager, heavy tactical vehicles and tank-automotive weapons systems; Commander, Maintenance Battalion; Services Division Director for automotive engineering, logistics support development, and product data management consultant for Army tank and automotive sector. Expertise: Development and support of tracked and wheeled combat vehicles, defense acquisition management system, engineering technical services, manufacturing, and information management.

John Powers. Mr. Powers has over thirty-five years of of U.S. Marine Corps, federal service, and industry experience: Chairman, FirTH Alliance, LLC; principal in Defense Threat Reduction Agency activities; Commissioner and Executive Director, President’s Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection; Director, Office of Federal Preparedness, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA); FEMA Region V Director; Director, Research and Technical Assessment, Department of Energy, PhD in Physics. Expertise: Homeland security, threat assessment, contingency planning, continuity of operations, emergency preparedness and response, and infrastructure assurance.

Dick Scofield. Mr. Scofield has over fourty-five years of U.S. Air Force and industry experience: Commander, Aeronautical Systems Center; Special Assistant to Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition; Program Executive Officer, Bombers, Missiles and Trainers, Pentagon; Program Director, F-117 Stealth Fighter and B-2 Advanced Technology Bomber Programs. In private industry, served as Vice President, Strategic and Space Propulsion Systems and Vice President, Process Integration and Management Systems of major aerospace firms. Expertise: Operational flying, flight testing, weapon system acquisition management and commercial business management to include program management, systems integration, financial management, contracting, logistics support, training/simulation, process integration and political relations.

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