JAMES A. DIMAROGONAS

203 Gabrielino Dr. Irvine , CA 92617. Tel: 732-996-3954, e-mail:[email protected]

 

EDUCATION

 

 

Washington University School of Engineering and Applied Science, St.Louis, Missouri

·        Doctor of Science in Systems Science and Applied Mathematics.                                                    2001

·        M.S. in Systems Science and Applied Mathematics,                                                                    1997

·        M.S. in Mechanical Engineering,                                                                                                   1994

·        B.S. in Mechanical Engineering                                                                                                     1990 

University of California Irvine Paul Merage School of Business

·        Master of Business Administration                                                                                                 July 2009

 

WORK EXPERIENCE

 

The MITRE Corporation, El Segundo CA

Technical Manager                                                                                                                    2007-present

I lead several project initiatives and activities as a member of the Electronics Systems Technology Center, including customers at the Space and Missile Center, internal MITRE and foreign military sales.  I lead the work, interface with the customers, manage the programmatic aspects and provide technical oversight to over 20 engineers

§  Project leader for our Transformational Communications Satellite (TSAT) support.  I lead our support to the System Engineering and Integration office in El Segundo CA as well as the Air Force Terminal office FAB-T increment 3 in Bedford MA.

§  Leading a task for the Japanese Ministry of Defense in the development of a Military Satellite Communications roadmap for the Japan Self Defense Forces.

§  Leading an internal R&D grant for developing a RF connectivity tool for ground, airborne and satellite communications

§  Led a team bidding for an internal R&D effort called the Xtreme Tactical radio Challenge.  Solicitation requested ideas for a novel approach for using commercial systems to create a communications system that could be deployed quickly to our troops in Iraq.  The team was one of the 4 winning teams awarded funds for the creation of a demo.

§  Jordan Border Security Program.  Participated as a subject matter expert and a lead for communications and networking and architecture development in the border survey of the kingdom of Jordan that led to the development of a baseline border security architecture and a set of requirements.  Conducted the on the ground survey of the entire Jordanian Border, led the comms and architecture technical work and interfaced with O-6 and GO officers from the Jordanian Armed Forces.  

§  Led an effort to assess the state of the art of High Performance Computing and its use in the modeling and simulation of large military networks.  Assessment included everything from parallel computing to quantum computing techniques. 

The MITRE Corporation, Eatontown, New Jersey

Program Area Manager                                                                                                              2006-2007

As a Program Area Manager I oversee all analysis projects in our division.  I interface with the customers and adjust our support according to their needs.  I am responsible for business development into new analysis areas.  I ensure that budgets are on track and negotiate funding with the customers.  And I ensure that projects are staffed and delivering on time.  Projects include:

§  Support to Deputy Under Secretary of the Army (Operations Research).  Provide analysis support for ongoing and emerging acquisition programs

§  Support to Training and Doctrine Command Army Capabilities Integration Center (TRADOC ARCIC).  We provide support for analysis and studies into requirements and technical capabilities in the networking and communications areas.

§  Support to TRADOC Analysis Center (TRAC) Ft Leavenworth.  We provide support to their analysis and modeling and simulation activities

§  Support to TRAC White Sands Missile Range.  We provide support to their FCS Analysis activities, their overarching Integrated Network Analysis Plan activities and provide technical support for communications modeling in the CASTFOREM combat model.

As an individual technical contributor I lead high visibility/ high intensity studies across our customer base to include:

§  Development of a Joint Network Architecture and gap analysis for the Communications and Electronics Command (CERDEC) HQ.  Develop architecture views for a total joint architecture and analyze to identify gaps and shortfalls projected for the 2014 timeframe.

§  Conduct an analysis of Blue Force Tracking (BFT) for EPLRS and L-Band SATCOM based forces to evaluate their performance and create hybrid SATCOM and terrestrial alternatives based on commercial and military systems, evaluate them and make recommendations to the commander of TRADOC.

§  Director of the Phase I Modeling and Simulation test for the DARPA CBMANET program.

§  Data collection on Ku SATCOM systems from live tactical units in Iraq.  Assess their network utilization, create traffic models for both unclassified and classified traffic, and use data to model operational user reactions to congested links using game theory approaches.

§  Conduct an analysis of interim force network capabilities and identify short term improvements to their networks in the areas of SATCOM BFT, range extension and dismounted communications.  Study conducted for CERDEC, delivered to the Military Deputy to the Assistant Secretary Of The Army for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology.

The MITRE Corporation, Eatontown, New Jersey

Technical Manager                                                                                                                      2004-2005

As a technical manager in the Integrated Communications, Networking and Sensors Department I lead the Science and Technology section of the department, and I manage a $5M per year work program in the following areas:

·        Project Leader for MITRE support and Technical Advisor to the Space and Terrestrial Communications Directorate of the Communications and Electronics Research Development and Engineering Center (CERDEC) at Ft. Monmouth, NJ.  This includes support to communications and networking R&D projects (SLICE, AJCN, MARCON-i, COMPOSER), as well as general System Engineering, Modeling and Simulation, and C4ISR Architecture support.

·        Project Leader for support to several DARPA Communications and Networking R&D projects (Connectionless, XG, FCS-C, Delay Tolerant Networking, Quantum Information Sciences, ASSIST and OASIS)

·        Project Leader for MITRE support to the Information and Intelligence Warfare Directorate of CERDEC on the Aerial Common Sensor program, the DARPA ASSIST Program and SAR Radar Modeling activities.

·        Principle Investigator for an Internal MITRE R&D program on Clearance of Fires for Army and Marine units using Blue Force Tracking technologies.  

The MITRE Corporation, Eatontown, New Jersey

Principal Modeling and Simulation Engineer                                                                                    2003-2004                                                                       

·        PM FCS SMART Management Office, C4ISR M&S Lead. 

·        Technical and project oversight for developing a Modeling and Simulation Testbed for testing Future Force C4ISR concepts. 

·        Technical Oversight for all Objective Force Architecture development in the Integrated Army Systems Division

·        Technical Oversight for the Communications effects modeling for Force-on-Force combat simulations

·        Project Leader of the Data Analysis Group of the C4ISR On-The-Move Testbed at Ft. Dix. 

The MITRE Corporation, Eatontown, New Jersey

Lead Simulation and Modeling Engineer                                                                                   2001-2003

·        Task Leader for developing a Communications Architecture and a Communications Model for the Future Combat Systems Analysis of Alternatives for TRADOC Analysis Center. 

·        Task Leader for developing a Communications Architecture for the Objective Force Warrior Program.

·        Task Leader for developing Information Exchange Requirements for the Warfighter Information Network – Tactical (WIN-T) Program

·        Task Leader for the Future Combat Systems - Communications project.

·        Task Leader UACEP Communications Model.

·        Team leader for the Future Combat Systems Communications Architecture development.

·        Cell Phone Signal Locating, searching for survivors in the debris field of the World Trade Center disaster

·        Team leader for the Army Battle Command System 7.0 OPNET Communications Modeling.

·        Conducted OPNET Modeling study of Voice Performance over the Battalion Tactical Operation Center Wireless LAN

·        Acquisition support to the Warfighter Information Network – Tactical Program (WIN-T)

The MITRE Corporation, Eatontown, New Jersey                                   

Senior Simulation and Modeling Engineer                                                                              1999-2001

·        OPNET Modeling and Simulation of Tactical Packet Radio Networks: NTDR, SUO

·        Performance analysis of Collaborative Planning, E-mail and DNS over a Battalion area Network

·        Analytical models of Channel Access schemes

·        Speech Recognition over Tactical Communication Channels.

·        Network Data Collection from a live military exercise: Joint Contingency Force Advanced Warfighter Experiment ( JCF AWE)

Washington University, Center for Robotics and Automation                                                

Research assistant                                                                                                                1992 - 1998

 

TEACHING

The MITRE Corporation                                                                                                                2005

§  I taught the networking and advanced technologies section of MITRE’s Network Centric Warfare course delivered to the Japanese War College O-6 level staff

Washington University Systems Science and Applied Mathematics Department  

Instructor                                                                                                                                       1997 - 1998

§   Introduction to Systems Science, a 2-hour lecture and 2-hour lab on basic systems engineering concepts.

·        Probability and Statistics for Engineers.  Required for all engineering students.  Gave the lectures and supervised four teaching assistants in grading and conducting help sessions.

·          Introductory Robotics lab course.

·        Helped supervise students in the capstone design course for the Mechanical Engineering department.

 

AWARDS

 

·        National Research Service Award, 1992-1997

·        MITRE Spot Recognition Reward, 1999

·        MITRE Senior Vice President and General Managers Award, 2000

·        MITRE Spot Recognition Reward, 2002

·        MITRE Award for Patriotic Service to the Nation, 2002

·        MITRE Program Recognition Award, 2002

·        MITRE Directors Award, 2002

·        MITRE Division Spot Awards, 2003, 2003 (two awards)

·        MITRE Special Recognition Award 2005

·        MITRE Program Recognition Award 2005

·        MITRE Department Spot Award 2005

·        MITRE Program Recognition Award 2006

·        PEO Command Control and Communications-Tactical (Ft Monmouth, NJ) Award 2007

·        MITRE Directors awards 2007, 2007 (two awards)

·        MITRE Program Recognition Award 2008

 

PROFFESIONAL SERVICE

 

·       Workshop Chair “Diagnosis and Prognosis of Interoperability Challenges” IEEE International Conference on Composition Based Software Systems (ICCBSS) ’08

·       Invited Workshop Chair “Diagnosis and Prognosis of Interoperability Challenges” IEEE International Conference on Composition Based Software Systems (ICCBSS) ’09

·       Session Chair “Earth Terminal Systems” AIAA International Communications Satellite Systems Conference ‘08

·       Panel Organizer “Enterprise System Engineering for Military Satellite Communications” IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM) 2008 (submitted)

 

 

PUBLICATIONS AND CONFERENCES

 

 

·        J. Dimarogonas, P. Gutgarts, W. Henry, J. Kanski,  G. Kinal, S. MacConduibh, J. Marshall, B. McLaren, R. Piccola, J. Rush, G. Schlueter, R. Wexler  “Present Issues In Enterprise System Engineering Of Military Satellite Communications” Classified Proceedings IEEE MILCOM 2008 (submitted)

·        R. Edell, J. Dimarogonas, K. Weinstein  “A Quick Network Analysis Tool (QNAT) For Evaluating Joint Force Communications Performance”, Proceedinsg IEEE MILCOM 2008 (submitted)

·        C. Cerasoli, J. Dimarogonas "The Generalization of Information Entropy to MANET Metrics" Proceeding IEEE MILCOM 2008 (submitted)

·        J. Dimarogonas “Redefining Interoperability for Design”, IEEE International Conference on Composition Based Software Systems (ICCBSS) ’08, invited presentation.

·        C. Cerasoli, J. Dimarogonas, C. Edwards, W. Franklin “An Analysis of a Stochastic Urban Propagation Model Using Ray Tracing Generated Results”,  Proceedings IEEE MILCOM 2007

·        H. Abelson, D. Bauer, E. Beeker, C. Cerasoli, J. Dimarogonas, G. Gilbert, M. Hamrick, E. Paige, W. Smith (alphabetically) “State of the Art in High Performance Computing (HPC) and Its Use in Modeling and Simulation of Wireless Networks”, MITRE Technical report MTR060198 2007

·        B. Luczynski, E. Ivanyutin, J. Dimarogonas “Estimating The Utilization Of Combat Services On A Network With Bandwidth Constrained Links: A Game Theoretic Approach” , Classified Proceedings IEEE MILCOM 2006

·        J. Dimarogonas, T. Schmidt  “Deriving Traffic Models From Netflow Tactical Data Collection” , Classified Proceedings IEEE MILCOM 2006

·        J. Dimarogonas, S. Spoenlein , “Identifying A Framework For Evaluating Large Network Design Alternatives In Modeling And Simulation”, Huntsville Simulation conference 2005, (Presentation)

·        M. Acriche, C Holsinger, A. Staikos, J. Dimarogonas, R. Sonalkar, “Multi-Dimensional, Assured, Robust Communications For An On-The-Move Network (MARCON-i)”, Proceedings IEEE MILCOM 2005

·        M. Farah-Stapleton, J. Dimarogonas, P. Deason, R. Eaton   “Proposing a C4ISR Architecture Methodology for Homeland Security”, Proceedings 2004 Command and Control Research and Technology Symposium

·        E. Lindy, J. Dimarogonas, J. McConnell, M. Farah-Stapleton “Representing C4ISR Architectures Into A Modeling And Simulation Environment For Analyzing Communications Architectures”, Proceedings IEEE MILCOM 2004

·        J. Dimarogonas “A Theoretical Approach To C4ISR Architectures”, Proceedings IEEE MILCOM 2004

·        E. Lindy, J. Dimarogonas "Representing Operational Architectures Into A Modeling And Simulation Environment For Analyzing Communications Architectures", Huntsville Simulation Conference 2003 (Presentation)

·        N. Burkhardt, T. Devine, J. Dimarogonas, J. Galanis, P. Fernandes, A. Rodriguez, "C4ISR On The Move Testbed System of Systems Report", MITRE Technical Report MTR03W0000054, 2003

·        J. Dimarogonas, A. Dufort, S. Duffalo “A Battalion level 802.11b Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) Implementation Study: Network Performance and Radio Frequency (RF) Propagation Analysis”, Proceedings OPNETWORK 2003

·        Y. Barsoum, J. Dimarogonas, W. Kenneally, K. Kelly, C. Mahon, F. McBride, B. Meinert, J. Mullins, K. Osgoodby, J. F. Providakes, S. Wiener, T.J. Walsh “C4ISR Architectural Design Tenets For Future Tactical Army Systems”, Classified Proceedings IEEE MILCOM 2002

·        K. Osgoodby, J. Dimarogonas, F. McBride “FCS C4ISR Architectural Tenets”, MITRE Product, MP02W0000011, January 2002

·        J. Dimarogonas, K. J. Harrold “Optimizing E-mail Server Locations in the Battlefield”, Proceedings OPNETWORK 2001, Washington D.C., September 2001

·        J. Dimarogonas, “Model of the Vertical Vestibular-Ocular Reflex (VOR) of the Squirrel Monkey”, Doctoral thesis, St. Louis, August 2001

·        J. Dimarogonas, M.D. Snyder and V.M. Mosera “Performance Analysis of Collaborative Planning over a Multi-hop Near Term Digital Radio (NTDR) Network”, Proceedings IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM) 2000, Los Angeles, October 2000 

·        J. Dimarogonas, M.D. Snyder and Y. Barsoum “TCP Performance over a contention based wireless multi-hop network”, Proceedings IEEE Wireless Communications and Networks Conference 2000, Chicago, September 2000

·        M.D. Snyder,  J. Dimarogonas, “Simulation and Performance Analysis of Collaborative Planning traffic over a Multi-Hop Near Term Digital Radio (NTDR) Network”, Proceedings OPNETWORK 2000, Washington D.C., September 2000

·        J. Dimarogonas, M.D. Snyder,  H. Allen  “Performance Analysis of the Defense Messaging System (DMS) over a Near Term Digital Radio (NTDR) Network” MITRE Working Note WN 99W0000073, September 1999

·        J. D. Dimarogonas, R. Arikan, A. Ogielski, T. J. Tarn, S. M. Highstein, "End-to-end Model of Vertical Vestibulo-Oculomotor System for Research on Cerebellar Function and Motor Learning", Computational Neuroscience Conference, Big Sky, Montana, July 1997.

·        J. D. Dimarogonas, Y. Zhang, S. M. Highstein, "PVP Cells Recorded During Vertical Visual-Vestibular Interaction in the Alert Squirrel Monkey”, Society for Neuroscience conference, Miami, Florida, November 1994.