Summary:
Mr. Kmiecik has over 22 years in project and personnel management both in a Coast Guard operational environment and in technical management environments. He has significant experience in strategic planning, business processes management, and system business case development, design, and implementation to meet mission goals and objectives. Mr. Kmiecik possesses a unique combination of business acumen and technical experience capable of fully understanding and translating business needs into technical requirements and implementation

Education:
B.S. Electrical Engineering, U.S. Coast Guard Academy, 1984
M.S. Electrical Engineering,  U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, 1990

Current Responsibilities:
MicroSystems Integration, Inc., August 2004 – Present

Task Leader and support for several projects including:

·        Coast Guard Modernization Design – Identification and maintenance of several models to test and validate the proposed design of the Coast Guard modernization effort – the migration from current HQ/Area organization to DCO/DCMS/OPCOM/FORCECOM organization.  This includes identification and categorization of all functions of the Coast Guard, it’s organization, and the personnel billet assignments necessary to support the manpower requirements of each organizational element.

·        Coast Guard Planning Doctrine – Identification and development of collection of enduring best practices to provide guidance on planning within the Coast Guard from Strategic to Operational Planning.  A collection of doctrinal publications being developed to categorize the policy and planning doctrine and support an identified overall doctrine hierarchy for all operations within the Coast Guard.

·        Capability and Business Process Management Alignment – Development of alignment policies including a Common Activity Library categorizing and aligning of all activities performed within the Coast Guard including logistics support, enterprise architecture, and manpower requirements analysis.

·        Unified Performance Logic Model – Development and support of a web-based model to serve as an alignment mechanism across all performance measurement and logic model development throughout the Coast Guard.  A unique visualization interface was developed to provide user control and visualization of relationships across models.

Lead instructor for the Coast Guard System Development Life Cycle governing the identification, business justification, alternative and cost analysis, design, and development of C4&IT systems within the Coast Guard.  This includes interfaces to major system acquisition and DHS system acquisition requirements.

Professional Experience:
CG-6 Policy and Practice Development
Technical contributor in the development of a family of Coast Guard Policy and Practices to establish the roles, responsibilities, and business processes for the newly established CG-6 Headquarters Directorate.  MSI’s principal author for investment management Policy and Practices governing IT investments within CG-6.

USDA Telecommunications Manual and Procedures
Task Leader for the development of a revised telecommunications policy and procedures for the Office of the CIO, US Department of Agriculture.  The USDA is creating a streamlined process for developing and managing telecommunication policy and procedures.  IT management procedures across the board will be reviewed to reflect current government regulations and Departmental needs.

Business Justification Support for a Risk Based Decision Making System
MSI’s principal author on development of the business justification submission (OMB 300) for a Risk Based Decision Making Information System.

CGDN21 Functional Requirements Development
MSI’s technical contributor to the development of the Coast Guard Data Network for the 21^st Century (CGDN21) Functional Requirements.  Principal author of the draft Information Assurance Plan and other System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) products to move the CGDN21 system through the Planning and Requirements phase of the SDLC.

Telecommunication and Information Systems Command (TISCOM) Business Plan
Task Leader for the review and update of the 5-year TISCOM Business Plan outlining the unit’s strategy for successful completion of assigned missions, roles, and responsibilities.  The Plan includes key strategic and supporting objectives for the unit along with unit performance measures; an explanation of the desired “end state” for the unit; and strategy elements, major initiatives, and key projects to be accomplished in order for the unit to be successful..

Legacy Asset Sustainment Model (LASM)
Design and implementation of the LASM web-based application to support CG-4 in the analysis of projects within the CG-4 System Directorate in an objective, systematic and documented method.  The web-based application identifies optimal combinations of cutter and aircraft investments that maximize sustainment of capability given budget constraints. User input/output a critical component of success of the process.

Integrated Support Strategy Model
MSI’s principal author of CG-4 System’s Directorate Integrated Support Strategy Model (ISSM) outlining the processes necessary to review and develop CG-4’s five-year Capital Asset Management Strategy (CAMS).

Previous Experience:
Chief, Information Services Division, U.S. Coast Guard Academy. (4/99-7/04).  Responsible for the telecommunications infrastructure at an accredited military higher education institution consisting of: over 1,600 users, $2.5M budget; 25 personnel; and, development of the organizations IT Strategic Plan.  Placed an emphasis on customer communications and understanding to support the business case for a 100% increase in the budget for technology allowing the Academy to move at a pace faster than the growth of technology – significantly reducing the gap between leading technologies and implementation at the Coast Guard Academy.

Major Accomplishments:

• Implemented processes to significantly improve and measure customer support services and software development processes by applying the Commandant’s Performance Challenge Criteria.
• Strengthened governance structures of IT planning decisions increasing user input and awareness.
• Completed needs analysis and implemented a centralized support structure for all Academy IT support.
• Developed Coast Guard’s first performance based major IT support contract.
• Contributing member to the Academy’s 10-year NEASC Accreditation.
• Coordinated the Coast Guard’s inaugural Innovation Exposition.  Proven success of the initiative established the annual conference with over 150 booths, 50 presenters, and over 2,500 participants throughout industry.
• Served as key member of Academy’s Strategic Map Implementation Team and Unit of Choice programs.

Instructor, Electrical Engineering, U.S. Coast Guard Academy. (6/94-5/99).  Faculty member in charge of developing highly technical curriculum in support of a NEASC and ABET accredited Engineering program.  Instructor for senior level courses in Project Management and Communication Systems.  Served as Assistant Section Chief responsible for managing all funds and support personnel.  Acted as computer system planning and implementation officer for entire Department of Engineering.

Major Accomplishments:

• Introduced advance technology in student labs including Digital Signal Processing, Field Programmable Gate Array and Digital Down converters.
• Planned and implemented a network for the entire Department of Engineering’s over 220 workstation infrastructure.
• Completed and successfully demonstrated for Allied nations the first operational mobile indoor geolocation system capable of tracking a hand-held transmitter to within three feet accuracy.
• Re-developed the internationally attended Radio Navigation course.
• Integrated electronics hardware with Electrical Engineering’s MATLAB program; reducing project development time for hardware interfaces by 80%.

U.S. Coast Guard  (5/84-7/04).  Other duties within the Coast Guard include:

• Commanding Officer, USCG Cutter PENOBSCOTT BAY -- Absolute responsibility for the safe operation, management and navigation of a $25M, 140 foot ice breaking tug, its crew, and its mission under the direction of the Captain of the Port of New York serving other units, civilian and government agencies.
• Engineer, USCG Electronics Engineering Center – Loran project engineering responsible for the communications upgrade of the Coast Guard’s world-wide Loran navigation system and initial Planning Officer for the Coast Guard’s Loran Consolidated Control System.
• Executive Officer, USCG Cutter RED BEECH – Personnel and cutter management of three department, 37 member crew.
• Operations Officer, USCG Cutter MARIPOSA – Planning and organizing the cutter’s mission.