Bachelor of Science, United States Military Academy (Engineering) Master of Science, The Georgia Institute of Technology (Operations Research). Certified LEAN Six Sigma Black Belt. Green Belt Trainer with 42 years of active Army and defense contract experience.
Rick is a retired Active Army Airborne Ranger Infantryman with leadership, operations, and functional staff experience in Light, Mechanized, Intelligence, Special Operations, and Airborne units. As a defense contractor, he provided project and program expertise as a principal engineer, senior mission assurance manager, and senior continuous improvement engineer.
His experience includes project and program team web sites with embedded process performance measures. His commitment to excellence is inspired by The Cadet Prayer, United States Military Academy: “Make us to choose the harder right over the easier wrong, and never be content with a half truth when the whole truth can be won.”