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Patrick J. Ryan

Experience Highlights:

Mr. Ryan has over 30 years’ experience in the analysis, design, and development of innovative technology applications, with specialized expertise in requirement analysis, simulation and modeling, systems integration, and prototype development.  Mr. Ryan is the founder of MicroSystems Integration, Inc., a multi-disciplinary technical services company primarily focused on development of technology-based applications for commercial and government customers.  He has more than 20 years of experience in strategic planning, performance measurement, operations analysis, modeling and simulation, and systems development.  His experience includes enterprise process improvement, requirement analysis, and design and implementation of commercial information systems.  He serves as Principal Investigator for Coast Guard projects including strategic planning, operations analysis, modeling and simulation, performance measurement, and implementation planning projects.

Professional Experience:

MicroSystems Integration, Inc.                                                                               1989 – Present

Mr. Ryan serves as the Principal Investigator/Program Manager for all Coast Guard projects, including:

• Coast Guard Evergreen IV.   Providing support to the Coast Guard's strategy development and strategic renewal to develop and describe future worlds and identify capabilities 15 to 30 years in the future. Evergreen is used to inform budget formulation planning efforts and explore specific areas of strategic interest and to signal a cause for action and to guide decision makers about future steps.
• Mission Need Statements (MNSs) and Concept of Operations (CONOPS) Support for CG-771.   Supporting development of MNSs and CONOPS that will guide the formulation and resourcing of the Coast Guard’s maritime trident (Maritime Patrol Forces, Deployable Specialized Forces, Shore Based Forces) functionality. MNS documents will provide the foundation for future acquisition programs.
• Deployable Specialized Forces (DSF) Implementation Team.   This high-profile project had the attention of all senior leadership in the Coast Guard and was reported to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as the Coast Guard’s leading priority.  This effort includes providing support to Coast Guard subject matter experts in implementing recommendations from the DSF Stem-to-Stern Review and development of chartered deliverables and other work products related to this initiative, including reallocation of DSF personnel.
• Coast Guard Fleet Mix Analysis.   Provides maritime requirements and capability development and validation to establish baselines for future operational capabilities and budget requirements for the Coast Guard.  This effort includes development of Mission Performance Plans for all Coast Guard missions, projections of capability requirements, and operational effectiveness assessments of alternative fleet mixes of cutters, aircraft, C4ISR, and logistics.
• DHS (Office of the CFO) Cutter Fleet Study (CFS).   This comparative assessment of operational effectiveness for alternative fleet mixes involved varying the major cutter (NSCs and OPCs) fleet composition.  Effort included supporting DHS CFO in conducting a Multi-Mission CFS that provided senior leadership with a rigorous and comprehensively developed business case analysis of multiple discrete fleet mixes.  The Coast Guard Maritime Operational Effectiveness Simulation (CGMOES) was used to project the operational effectiveness achieved by the system of assets and capabilities.
• Deployable Specialized Forces (DSF) Stem-to-Stern Review.  This review of the effectiveness of DSF and ability to retain proficiency involved hundreds of high-ranking Coast Guard subject matter experts and analyzed all areas including resources, force management, operations, training, requirements, and organizational structure.  Effort included development of many products in a very short time frame, including resource management documents in support of a full analysis of the effectiveness of over 1,300 DSF personnel in performing their mission and sustaining proficiency.  The analysis resulted in a collection of recommendations to improve the entire DSF program.
• Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) Cost Analysis.  This modeling and simulation effort compared the operational cost of the Navy-designed LCS with the Coast Guard Patrol Frigate.  Modeled scenarios were developed and the operating costs to carry out the missions for each class of vessel were analyzed.  Dependent on mission and LCS outfitting, the Patrol Frigate was found to be more cost-effective in the majority of the scenarios.
• System Engineering Integration (SEI).   An analysis of performance management information stored in a variety of decision support tools and methods to achieve integration for improved decision making.  Performance measurement and simulation information was updated and combined to identify critical relationships for performance improvement.
• Capstone Concept of Operations.   The Capstone Concept for Coast Guard Operations describes the fundamental concept of how and why the Coast Guard employs its resources across a wide array of demanding geographical and tactical areas of operation.  This translational concept bridges the high-level Coast Guard strategic documents such as Evergreen and Publication 1, with the collection of Coast Guard strategy, plans, and policy.  It is guided by national strategy as articulated in the National Security Strategy of the United States of America, the National Strategy for Homeland Security, and the National Strategy for Maritime Security.  This capstone document provides a framework to guide Coast Guard operational construct and related mission support elements and frame recapitalization efforts.
• Requirements and Capability Analysis and Management Doctrine (Pub 7-0).   Provides Coast Guard Doctrine outlining the roles, responsibilities, and guidance for analyzing and managing requirements within the Coast Guard and developing or sustaining capabilities to satisfy those requirements.  Pub 7-0 is a Capstone Doctrine with several supporting process doctrines providing more detailed guidance in focused areas.
• Coast Guard Lexicon.   A Coast Guard reference lexicon providing alignment of terms and acronyms throughout the Coast Guard.  The lexicon was originally populated from over 400 Coast Guard, DHS, and Department of Defense (DoD) references.  The lexicon supported both recommended definitions and supporting definitions for terms used in specific applications in the Coast Guard.
• Coast Guard Doctrine Development.   A Draft Doctrine and Process Guide governing the establishment and management of a doctrinal pyramid structure for promulgated policy and doctrine within the Coast Guard.  The doctrine provided clear guidance on the appropriate use and development of policy, doctrine, and tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTP) in the Coast Guard.  The Process Guide outlined development and review processes and defined templates and format for each type of promulgated guidance.
• Joint Interagency Task Force (JIATF) West.   Provides ongoing Strategic Planning and Decision Support Services with DoD and interagency experience and expertise, planning, facilitation, development, enhancement, and review support to JIATF West since 2005 in development of planning processes, Strategic Plans, supporting plans, and leadership offsites.
• Western Hemisphere Transit Zone (WHTZ) Performance Gaps Analysis.   Provides maritime, land, air, and intelligence requirements and capability development and validation to establish baselines for future operational capabilities and budget requirements for the Drug Interdiction Interagency.
• Coast Guard Modernization.  Provides planning, facilitation, and analytical support for the Coast Guard Modernization, including organizational design, alignment, change management, measurement, and information system management.
• Coast Guard Management Blueprint (CGMB).  The blueprint provides an overall framework for planning and decision-making support that identifies essential initiatives and systems and an implementation plan.  Developed in conjunction with the Coast Guard Office of Performance Management and Decision Support (G-CPD).  The CGMB is a set of management methods and management tools that collectively contribute to minimizing public risk, maximizing readiness, and promote responsible stewardship of resources according to a coherent and authoritative management framework.  Primary designer of the Unified Performance Logic Model (UPLM), which provides a framework for the relationships between resources, Coast Guard activities, and the goals they intend to achieve.  The conceptual model links the strategic goals to support goals by way of capability and readiness measures with the purpose of aligning support activities with operational activities.  The UPLM serves as the central alignment framework for the CGMB.
• Commandant’s Strategy for Boat Forces.   Synthesizes 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.
• Coast Guard Maritime Homeland Security Strategy Deployment Plan.   Provides the Coast Guard’s strategy implementation framework for Maritime Homeland Security.  It includes supporting objectives and performance standards.  The components are intended to be guidance and planning factors upon which additional planning, validation, and resourcing efforts will be performed.
• Institutional Research (INRE) Workgroup Support.   A Guidance Team and Working Group to investigate ongoing Institutional Research (INRE) initiatives within the Coast Guard was chartered by the Chief of Staff.  Investigation included making recommendations on multiple INRE initiatives value, contribution, and “implementability.”  The Working Group identified and considered more than 50 candidate initiatives within the Coast Guard and produced a “road map” that clearly identified executable segments, sequencing, and priorities.
• Global Concept of Operations (CONOPS).   The Concept of Operations (CONOPS) provides the overarching guidance for the employment of current and future capabilities.  It describes in broad terms how the Coast Guard will plan, allocate resources to, and execute operations across the full range of maritime missions through 2020.  The CONOPS links Coast Guard visions and concepts with emerging DHS, DoD, and joint and interagency operational concepts and describes the capabilities that an integrated Coast Guard will contribute.  The CONOPS operationalizes Coast Guard 2020 and the Integrated Deepwater System (IDS) concept and the logistics required to support effective operations.
• Integrated Deepwater System (IDS) Modeling and Simulation (M&S) Support.   Requirements analysis, design, development, integration and support of full spectrum of M&S tools to support the IDS acquisition.  Modeling areas include Operational Effectiveness Assessment, Total Ownership Cost (TOC) Assessment, System Requirements Compliance Assessment, and Concept Evaluation and Selection Support.
• Coast Guard Law Enforcement Planning & Assessment Systems.  Planning, development and implementation of Coast Guard law enforcement projects, including Strategic Plan Development (AMIO, LMR, MPS), Planning and Assessment System, Law Enforcement Asset Needs (LEAN) Projection Model, and Commandant’s Strategy for Fisheries Law Enforcement.
• CG-6 Transition, Enterprise Architecture and eCoast Guard Business Plan.   Support to the Assistant Commandant for Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Information Technology (CG-6) to stand up the new integrated headquarters program and focus its efforts on delivering and supporting effective C4&IT systems to support Coast Guard mission and business objectives.  Key elements of this initiative include development of a CONOPS, System Development Life Cycle, Enterprise Architecture, and eCoast Guard Business Plan.  Support included the planning, preparation, development of materials, and meeting facilitation in support of the strategic planning, policy and doctrine development, business process reengineering, and cross-program alignment.
• Coast Guard Maritime Homeland Security Strategy and Deployment Plan.   Provides the Coast Guard’s strategy deployment framework for Maritime Homeland Security.  It includes supporting objectives and performance standards.  The components are guidance and planning factors upon which additional planning, validation, and resourcing efforts will be performed.
• Coast Guard Law Enforcement Planning & Assessment Systems.  Planning, development, and implementation of Coast Guard law enforcement projects, including:
• Coast Guard Law Enforcement Strategic Plan Development (AMIO, LMR, MPS)
• Coast Guard Law Enforcement Planning and Assessment System
• Coast Guard Law Enforcement Asset Needs (LEAN) Projection Model
• Commandant’s Strategy for Fisheries Law Enforcement

Previous Experience:

TechnoSolutions, Inc. & AmeriSys Corporation                                                       1990 – 1994

As Founder and Principal Engineer, Mr. Ryan developed a multi-disciplinary technical services company that focused on developing technology-based applications for commercial and government customers, including maritime simulator systems and stair-climbing wheelchair development. 

Ship Analytics, Inc.                                                                                                       1985 – 1988

As Department Head, Software Development, Mr. Ryan was responsible for all aspects of system and software design and development associated with government and commercial training systems and simulators including surface and submarine warfare trainers. 

National Evaluation Systems, Inc.                                                                               1984 – 1985

Responsible for all technical, management, and budgetary aspects of software development for custom developed education and training microcomputer products. 

Various assignments in the U.S. Coast Guard                                                            1975 – 1987

Shipboard assignments included Operations Officer on a WMEC and Commanding Officer of a WPB.  Shore-based assignments included Instructor in the Computer Science Department, U.S. Coast Guard Academy, and managing reserve mobilization and information systems for the Coast Guard Reserve at Reserve Unit First District Office.

Education:

M.S., Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1981

B.S., Computer Science, U.S. Coast Guard Academy, 1975

Skills and Expertise:

Updated 20 June 2013