Robin Felix

Email: 65jf68 at felix.org

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Work Summary:

Professional Timeline: Overview of the Years
31 years of Navy and defense industry experience in cryptology, information operations (IO), national sensors (ISR), maritime domain awareness (MDA) and counterterrorism, network and information security, knowledge management and collaborative tools, and defense industry operations management. In industry, has executed project, general operations, and high-level executive management. For customers, has performed design and execution of operational field experiments, systems engineering and test, and software development. Extensive public speaking and technical writing experience. Licensed California attorney and Certified Business Intelligence Professional (CBIP).

Professional Experience:

200601 – Present

Director, Technology Applications, SAIC

Keywords: RDEC, MDA, exercise, experimentation, collaboration

Currently serves at SPAWAR Systems Center, San Diego designing and executing supporting operational field experiments in maritime domain awareness and counterterrorism, notably Project FAIRGAME sponsored by U.S. Strategic Command (STRATCOM). Also provides West Coast support to the Research and Development Experimental Collaboration (RDEC) network on behalf of the Director of National Intelligence's Disruptive Technology Office (DTO).

200410 – 200601

Account Manager, Stanley Associates

Keywords: MDA, exercise, experimentation, collaboration.

Deputy for Project FAIRFIELD, a $2M/yr maritime homeland security initiative for which SPAWAR Code 272 is Technical Direction Agent. Sponsors included Missile Defense Agency, US Northern Command, the National Security Agency, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, and the U.S. Coast Guard. Responsible for overall project management including scenario development, equipment evaluation, procurement, and installation, control of exercise play. Prepare technical reports, provide legal opinions, and deliver briefings for flag and SES-level audiences. Prepared Project FAIRFIELD briefing materials for presentation to POTUS.

200210 – 200409

Director, Decision Systems at Titan Corporation (subsequently acquired by L3 Corp.)

Keywords: MDA, exercise, experimentation, collaboration, crypto, KG-3X

Deputy for Project FAIRFIELD as described above. Security Engineer for KG-3X cryptographic system at SPAWAR Code 280.

200110 – 200209

Navy CAPT (O6) at Commander, Naval Security Group Command

Keywords: HLS, HLD, MDA, SIGINT, COMINT, ELINT, ONI

Noble Eagle Navy Reserve recall to COMNAVSECGRU HQ at Ft. Meade, MD as Director, Homeland Security. Led post-9/11 Navy SIGINT efforts to address the maritime terrorism threat. Worked with NSA, ONI, USCG, and Navy operational commands to institute new processes and improved programs to address this threat

198901 – 200209

Navy LCDR - CAPT (O4-O6) at Naval Reserve Security Group Command

Keywords: CO, XO, TELMON, IAM

U.S. Navy cryptologic reservist. Served as unit executive officer, commanding officer, national mission manager, and two tours as Assistant Chief of Staff to the Commander: ACOS for Information Operations (N9) and ACOS for Operations (N3). Architect of the Navy’s Own Force Monitoring program, for which NRSG was solely responsible within Navy and which resulted in the first-ever nomination of a Reserve component for NSA’s Rowlett Trophy in Information Assurance.

200004 – 200109

Director, MIS for Titan Corporation (subsequently acquired by L3 Corp.)

Keywords: AIS, ERP, CRM, Deltek, Costpoint

Responsible for the IT/MIS infrastructure integrating 22 acquired companies with over 160 nationwide locations into the Costpoint financial system. Merged four existing WAN backbones, renegotiated major corporate telecommunications and software enterprise agreements, and implemented corporate-wide enterprise resource planning (ERP) system handling almost $2B in yearly revenue. Created collaboration architecture and implemented set of secure, collaborative web-based tools to enable proposal, marketing, contract management, and other intranet services across the Titan enterprise.

199910 – 200004

VP and General Counsel at R. L. Phillips Group

Keywords: Firewall, VPN, TACLANE, routers

Full-time support to SPAWAR HQ as Director of Navy INFOSEC Laboratories coordinating $20M R&D efforts by 50 researchers at SSCs San Diego and Charleston and NRL in designing secure Navy network architectures.

199606 – 199909

Law Office of Robin Felix

Keywords: Contracts, business law

Provided transactional legal services to small businesses.

199101 – 199909

Director, San Diego Operations at Delfin Systems (subsequently acquired by Titan Corp. who was then acquired by L3 Corp.)

Keywords: GCCS-M, NTCS-A, JOTS, C4I, COP, IV&V, T&E

Responsible for all Delfin Systems business activities in San Diego including office management, program and contract management, marketing, bid and proposal, and contract execution. Business base was primarily C4I software development, systems integration, test, evaluation, and installation in support of SSC San Diego Code 242. Personal project work in addition to management included analytic support to HFDF algorithmic development, development of Measures of Effectiveness (MOEs), software test and evaluation, and systems administration.

198901 – 199012

Senior Engineer at Delfin Systems

Keywords: MOE, MOP, C, Pascal, GUI, RDBMS

Assisted in evaluation of national sensor systems, developing measures of effectiveness and measures of performance for use in simulations. Developed software in C and Pascal, notably a graphical use interface for a neural network-based manual morse automated translation system.

198507 – 198812

Navy LCDR (O4) at CINCPACFLT

Keywords: DIRSUP, SESS, TACC

Staff, Commander-in-Chief U.S. Pacific Fleet (CINCPACFLT) as the Fleet Command and Control Countermeasures (C3CM) Officer and Officer-in-Charge of the CINCPACFLT Red Cell, performing analysis of surveillance data and modeling adversary surveillance system capabilities. Also served as CINCPACFLT Cryptologic Planning Officer, responsible for Fleet input to new cryptologic systems and capabilities such as BGPHES, CILOP, SSES improvements, OUTBOARD, COMBAT DF, and prototype specialized signal collection systems

198210 – 198506

Navy LT - LCDR (O3-O4) in USS FIFE (DD 991)

Keywords: OUTBOARD, COMBAT DF

Served as afloat cryptologic officer, EW Officer, CIC Officer, and TAO in USS FIFE during deployments to Indian Ocean, Arabian Gulf, Red Sea, and African coast.

198010 – 198209

Navy LTJG - LT (O2-O3) at Naval Postgraduate School

Keywords: OUTBOARD, COMBAT DF, HFDF, POSLOC, NOSCLOC, FALCONFIX

Attended Naval Postgraduate School in the Operations Research curriculum. Studied high frequency direction finding algorithms under Prof. Steven Jauregui and Prof. Richard Huffman.

197910 – 198009

Navy ENS – LTJG (O1-O2) at COMNAVSURFPAC

Keywords: OUTBOARD, SESS, CSTAR, Van, TACC

Served as Force Cryptologic Officer for Commander Naval Surface Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet, responsible for cryptologic equipment and training for all Pacific Fleet ships preparing for deployment.

197804 – 197909

Navy ENS (O1) at NSGD Kamiseya, JA

NEATICC, CSG, DIRSUP

Served as Assistant Operations Officer and Current Support Group analyst at Naval Security Group Detachment, Kamiseya, Japan. Participated in Direct Support missions as required.

197604 – 197712

Navy Petty Officer (E4), various duty stations

Keywords: NPTU

Attended Navy training for qualification as a nuclear reactor electrical operator.

Education:

• Business, MBA, University of San Diego School of Business, 1998
• Law, JD, University of San Diego School of Law, 1996
• USD Law Review
• First Place and Best Brief, 1995 Moot Court Competition
• Extern to 4th Circuit Appellate Court, Hon. Richard Huffman
• Operations Analysis, MS, Naval Postgraduate School, 1982 (with distinction)
• Engineering Science, BA, Dartmouth College, 1975

Professional Licenses and Certifications:

• California Attorney, Bar #182457
• Certified Business Intelligence Professional (CBIP), Mastery Level
• Screen Actors Guild, #HI-001014

Computer Proficiency:

Operating Systems:

UNIX, Solaris, HP/UX, LINUX, MS Windows 2.0 – XP, MS-DOS, CP/M

Hardware:

x86, SPARC/RISC, UYK-20

Software:

• Languages: C, Pascal, APL, TCL, Perl, shell, PHP, SIMSCRIPT, SPSS, LISP, Ultra-16, x86 assembler. Some Java, REXX, and Ruby.
• Applications: database (Oracle, Sybase, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Berkeley DB), ERP (Costpoint), web (OpenACS, Drupal), system security (tripwire, nmap, nessus, saint), forensic (grave-robber, mactime, lazarus), graphics (gimp), audio (SONAR, Project5), video (Pinnacle Studio), misc (Eclipse, Mathematica), all standard UNIX system apps (e.g., BIND, Sendmail), and office (MS Office, OpenOffice, MS Project, Visio)

Professional Associations and Memberships:

• Past President of San Diego chapter of National Defense Industrial Association
• USD School of Business Alumni Council, 2003-2006
• Sigma Xi, AFCEA, Naval Institute, Naval Cryptologic Veterans Association

Publications:

• “High Frequency Direction Finding: Errors, Algorithms, and OUTBOARD,” Robin Felix, Naval Postgraduate School, 1982.
• “Securing LINUX Step-by-Step Version 1.0,” SANS Institute, 2000 (contributor).

Public Presentations:

• "Data Mining for Counterterrorism," Classified Advanced Technology Update (CATU) Conference, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, August 2006.
• "Project FAIRFIELD," Classified Advanced Technology Update (CATU) Conference, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, August 2005.
• "Maritime Counterterrorism Strategy," National Defense Industrial Association Luncheon Speaker, San Diego, CA, December 2002.
• "Introduction to Operations Research for Analysts" (five day course), National Reconnaissance Office, Washington, DC, Fall 1989.

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Updated September 2007