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Thomas J. Rogers

Summary:
Mr. Rogers has over 28 years experience in maritime law enforcement, operations management, and operational analysis and research with the U.S.Coast Guard.  More than 10 years post-graduate experience with mission/ operations analysis and planning associated with the USCG and other maritime organizations.  Has served as Project Leader and/or supported several tasks requiring systems engineering concepts, operational analysis and research of maritime operations, management and technical expertise in strategy development and deployment, and operational effectiveness assessment.

After a distinguished 20 year USCG career encompassing the breadth of USCG maritime operations, Mr. Rogers has added more years experience in significant USCG projects, such as leading:

• Development, refinement and execution of comparative Operational Effectiveness assessments for USCG capability employed in the Deepwater operating area.

• Support for the Deepwater Program Alternatives Analysis and Fleet Mix Analysis.  These projects focused on cross-mission analysis of requirements coupled with operational analysis and assessment of capabilities to address the requirements.

• Development efforts supporting the USCG Maritime Security Strategy and Ports, Waterways and Coastal Security Strategy Deployment Plan (SDP), including establishing and implementing a risk management framework (RMF) to manage and execute the mission.

• Development of the Commandant’s Strategy for Boat Forces, synthesizing previous studies into a coherent, executable plan that establishes a comprehensive strategic framework, an implementation sequence for improvements, and a measurement plan to evaluate both force readiness and plan progress.

• Development of the USCG Intelligence Program Management Plan.  The plan provides for the structured approach to implement improvements in the collection, analysis, production, and dissemination of intelligence; includes assessment and feedback of Intelligence Program contributions to operational effectiveness and informs USCG policymakers of Intelligence Program impact on national security and USCG goals.

Education:
M.S., Engineering, University of New Orleans, 1999
B.S., Marine Science, U.S. Coast Guard Academy, 1981

Mr. Rogers has completed Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program (HSEEP) training on developing, facilitating, conducting, and evaluating drills and exercises.  He has also successfully completed the Basic Incident Command System, National Response Framework and National Incident Management System Training Courses.

Current Responsibilities:
MicroSystems Integration, Inc., 2001 - Present

Senior Project Manager/ Analyst with primary responsibilities in strategic planning, maritime operations management and analysis with the Coast Guard, Department of Homeland Security and other maritime organizations.

• Integrated Deepwater System (IDS) Modeling and Simulation (M&S) Support - Requirements analysis, operational analysis, design, development, integration and support of full spectrum of M&S tools to support the IDS acquisition.  Modeling areas include Operational Effectiveness Assessment, System Requirements Compliance Assessment and Concept Evaluation and Selection Support.  Primary contributor to refinement of Modeling and Simulation Master Plan (MSMP), Modeled Concept of Operations (CONOPS) and Experiment Plans for development and implementation of selected simulations.USCG Deepwater Program Alternatives Analysis – Supported conduct of the Deepwater Alternatives Analysis that assessed the potential of alternative platforms to be considered in force structures for the Coast Guard’s Deepwater asset mix.

• USCG Fleet Mix Analysis (Offshore and Aviation) – Participated in the conduct of the Coast Guard’s Fleet Mix Analysis (Offshore and Aviation) that examined cross-mission requirements and assessed alternative force structures to attain expected performance levels.  The effort included development and refinement of Mission Performance Plans across the eleven legislated missions of the Coast Guard, development of the Objective Force to attain mission performance and comparative operational effectiveness assessment of the selected force mixes.

• USCG Law Enforcement Planning and Assessment System - Task leader for analysis and development efforts of the Law Enforcement Planning and Assessment System, including decomposition, review, validation and revision of the Law Enforcement Asset Needs (LEAN) Projection Model and development of an appropriate modeling application.

• Ports, Waterways and Coastal Security (PWCS) Strategic Plan & Deployment Plan - Task leader for development efforts supporting the USCG Maritime Security Strategy and Ports, Waterways and Coastal Security Strategy Deployment Plan (SDP).  The Maritime Security Strategy provides guidance on USCG policy and concepts for attaining and maintaining maritime security.  The SDP provides the USCG’s strategy deployment framework for Ports, Waterways and Coastal Security (PWCS) including establishing and implementing a risk management framework (RMF) to manage and execute the mission.  It includes supporting objectives and performance standards – what is required to be accomplished and to what level – and provides for major initiatives with associated milestones – how the USCG will progress toward the objectives.  The components are intended to be guidance and planning factors upon which additional planning, validation and resourcing efforts will be performed.

• Commandant’s Strategy for Boat Forces - Task leader for development of the Commandant’s Strategy for Boat Forces.  Efforts synthesized the results of previous studies into a coherent, executable plan that establishes a comprehensive strategic framework, an implementation sequence for improvements, and a measurement plan to evaluate both force readiness and plan progress.

• USCG Intelligence Program Management Plan - Task leader for development of the USCG Intelligence Program Management Plan.  The plan provides for the structured approach to implement improvements in the collection, analysis, production, and dissemination of intelligence; includes assessment and feedback of Intelligence Program contributions to operational effectiveness and informs USCG policymakers of Intelligence Program impact on national security and USCG goals.

Previous Experience
U. S. Coast Guard, 1981 - 2001

Career commissioned officer with multiple leadership and management positions encompassing the breadth of Coast Guard maritime operations.

• As Chief of Law Enforcement in the Eighth Coast Guard District, responsible for development, execution and analysis of law enforcement and intelligence operations encompassing 26-state area with over 2,000 personnel involved.  Reorganized operations process and implemented business plan that achieved 8% improvement in observed fisheries regulations compliance with 42% reduction in effort over three years.

• As Deputy Chief of Contingency Preparedness, responsible for development, execution and evaluation of testing program of regional contingency plans, this included military operations, disaster response, and environmental hazard response.

• As Combat Systems Department Head aboard a High Endurance Cutter, was responsible for the management of 60+-person department using latest technology to meet organizational goals – this included all installed electronics, communications, sensor and weapon systems.  Supervised installation of two major weapon systems; first time installation completed on time, within budget ($1,000,000+).  Developed operating procedures for integration of weapons/sensor systems into ships’ activities - used throughout the USCG as the standard.

• Served as Deck Watch Officer and Senior Boarding Officer on two High Endurance Cutters conducting Alaska Patrols, including the Gulf of Alaska and Bering Sea.

• Other staff and operational assignments include Weapons and Training Officer for Tactical Law Enforcement Team, Human Resource Services Director, and Operations Department Head aboard Medium Endurance Cutter.

Relevant Research and Analysis skills:

• Operational Decision Support.

• Concept of Operations (CONOPS) Development.

•  Risk Analysis and Management.

•  Requirements, Alternatives, Cost, and Operations Analysis.

• Workforce and Staffing Analysis.

• Platform-specific Systems Engineering for boats, cutters, aircraft, information systems, sensors, communications equipment, etc.

• System architecting to capture the huge complexity of modern data-sharing systems, model data structures, and define an architecture framework that provides the data and capabilities needed by different sets of end-users.