Christopher C. Foster

2001-2002: President/CEO: Professional Development Solutions (PDS): A Health Care Benefits Software Development company that was preparing to file Bankruptcy. I took this position and was tasked with salvaging the Company and making it profitable. In under 6 months I took a company that was losing $300k per month and achieved profitability, in less than 12 months the company had no debt, and cash in the bank. Renegotiated Leases, worked with Creditors, etc. PDS Develops Web Based Health Care benefits administration software targeted at the Insurance Brokerage vertical. The software was developed on a Microsoft Platform and addresses the complex business rules involved with providing a myriad of benefits to large corporations with geographically dispersed employees. This software enables Brokerage Companies to rapidly add new customers, and automatically interface with over 50 Insurance Carriers, thereby significantly decreasing their error rates. Company was sold and cash distributed to investors.

2000-2001: CTO BusinessMonkey.Com: An Internet start-up company that developed an on-line portal product that offered web-based applications including Sales Force Automation, Project Management, Content publication and distribution, file sharing, individual and group calendaring, etc.. This was an ASP model company. Product was successfully designed, developed, and delivered under my guidance. Took from ground zero to product delivery, designed and built infrastructure, Software design, and Team. Product included both Hardware as a managed services solution and software via the ASP model. Hardware Infrastructure included redundant high availability system: Firewalls, Switches, Load Balancers, multiple web servers, SQL Server farm to Network Attached Storage.

1998-2000: Aviation Logistics Manager for United States Marine Corps V-22 Program Task Force (multi-billion dollar aircraft procurement program), assigned to Deputy Chief of Staff, Aviation. Science and Technology and Logistics subject matter expert for congressional testimony to the House and Senate Armed Forces Committees, and Joint Chiefs Requirements Council. Responsible for coordinating the World Wide Logistics support of over 900 Military Aircraft worldwide and the procurement and logistics support of 4 separate new Military Aircraft Projects on multi-year procurement contracts. Helped develop the Operational Architecture for a Service-Wide Global Supply Chain Management (SCM) system ($200 Million+ program), spearheaded by Sapient Corp. The SCM system includes on line transaction processing (OLTP), a multi-tiered data environment, Web based Front end, Order Management, Inventory Management, Customer Relationship Management, this was a complete process re-design.

1994-1998: US Naval Academy, Associate Chair of Electrical Engineering (over 35 Ph.D. Faculty, 12 Lab Technicians), Divisional Financial Manager, (multi-million dollar budget) developed an automated budget submission program that was adopted College Wide, Enterprise Network Designer and Overall Network Management (10 full-time network support personnel) 500 Client Campus Enterprise Network, included the College Internet and Intranet Architecture. Responsible for scheduling, support, and long-term life cycle replacement of over 30,000 sq ft of Lab Space spanning 12 different Engineering Labs supporting over 1000 Electrical Engineering students annually. Part time Research Scientist at Naval Research Lab designing High Speed Optical Switches.

Director of Aviation Maintenance and Logistics, in charge of aviation logistics support for over 80 jet aircraft and 1,200 Maintenance Personnel, implemented major custom ERP program (Oracle based), long term strategic planning, daily operations, configuration management. Logistics support divisions consisted of avionics repair facility, jet engine overhaul facility, ground handling equipment, hydraulics and machine shop support, IT support, and other divisions. Responsible for planning support and deployment of new systems and continual hardware, software, and firmware upgrades to Aircraft and support systems.

Director, Jet Engine Overhaul Facility: Officer in charge of a jet engine repair facility with over 150 personnel, operation 7 days a week, 24 hours a day. Included Electronic Data and supply support systems, Production Control, manpower management and training.
Increased Production by over 30% thru improved production scheduling and supply chain improvements, as well as improved employee training and utilization.

Avionics Supervisor, Advanced Avionics Shop, ECM, Comm/Nav: Supervisor of 40 person Avionics Shop that provided intermediate and depot repair of Avionics Systems for Navy/Marine Corps Aircraft and Weapons Systems. Fully qualified on Fast Frequency Hopping, Spread Spectrum, TACAN, HF, UHF, VHF, and various additional systems. Additionally, served as a Quality Assurance Inspector, and Avionics Technician.

Education:

U.S. Naval Postgraduate School:
Applied Scientist Degree in Electrical Engineering, emphasis on Optical Switch Design.
MS Applied Physics, emphasis on Electro-Optics and Lasers,
MS Electrical Engineering, emphasis on Digital Communications, Spread Spectrum, and Coding;
Graduated with Honors, won Outstanding Thesis Award

Southern Illinois University
BS Aviation Management
BS Electrical Engineering, Digital Communications

Webster University, St Louis, Mo. (1984-1985, 2/3 complete then transferred)
Graduate MBA work with emphasis on IT systems management.

Additional Professional Activities: Attended numerous conferences on High-Speed Broadband communication systems, presented lectures on Optical Computer Networks (SONET) for IEEE Conferences. CACI Corp. Trained and Certified computer design and simulation software: COMNET.
Certified in Supply Chain Logistics (SCOR certified), attended Penn State School of Logistics Executive Training.

Publications: Published Articles on Integrated Optics, and Optical Signal Processing in Optical Engineering on Integrated Optical Switches (1994). Cover Article for Scientific Computing (1994) on Optical CAD Program for designing Integrated Optical components. Additional articles on Programmable Multi-Variable Psuedo Random Code Generator presented at IEEE Conference (Conference Paper), Published article for DARPA Photonic Symposium for Antenna Applications (PSAA) on Optical A-D Converters.