Ron McHenry has provided program management and systems engineering support to major NOAA programs and systems acquisitions since 1983. Ron comes to ERT from Nortel Government Solutions (NGS) where he served as the Director of NOAA Programs since June 2005 with operations/P&L responsibility for $4M/yr in satellite ground systems and network support contracts with NESDIS. Ron also served as the capture manager for all NGS NOAA new business including key wins like the Instrument Processing Engineering Support contract with NESDIS OSD and blade cluster support to the NWS MADIS program. Prior to NGS, Ron worked at Raytheon for over 12 years. He played a key role in winning the $300M Raytheon AWIPS O&M contract in 2005. Ron was the Raytheon SNITS Program Manager (2001-2005) and acting Deputy PM for the entire $50M QSS SNITS contract with NWS. Ron was the acting Deputy PM of the $25M Raytheon SETSS contract at NWS and the PM of the $10M Raytheon SEASS contract with the AWIPS Program Office (1999-2001), providing systems engineering, database management, web publishing, program management and other services. Ron also provided program management and systems engineering support to FAA weather systems (1988-1993) and systems engineering support to the NEXRAD JSPO (1983-1988). Ron has a BA in Physics from Catholic University and an MS in Physics from Purdue University. |