Dean Risseeuw

Experience

SCORE (Service Corps of Retired Executives)
As a SCORE volunteer, I mentored and advised individuals who wanted to start/expand small businesses in Virginia, including non-profits.

Consultants. Various Army, DoD, and industry clients as part of a larger consulting firm.

Textron Systems
Textron Systems develops and manufactures smart munitions, brilliant sensors, and other products for the US Army As a Principal Engineer, developed system models, conducted component trade studies for system optimizations, estimated total system performance, and facilitated their integration into Army force-on-force models. As a Marketing Manager, I worked across the Army Acquisition System to articulate the efficacy of our solutions, demonstrated our products complementing other systems (produced a video - later used by Discovery Channel Future Weapons). As a Principal Scientist, scouted/assessed emerging technologies to identify capabilities that could improve our products' performance.

US Army
Combat Infantry Platoon Leader and Company Commander. As an Operations Research/Systems Analyst, developed and wrote combat simulation models, developed quality assurance tools for very large databases. Served as a Corps Inspector General. Evaluated programs and budgets in the Pentagon on the Army Staff (G4) and Joint Staff (JB)

Publications and Panels
Journal of Methods Time Measurement, National Computer Conference, Army Magazine, Signal Magazine; Global Border Security Conference, Battlefield Sensing Symposium   International:  UK Joint Service Command and Staff College, Australian Land Warfare Conference, NATO Engineers Conference   

Developed/Taught Workshops:  

(1) Presenting Data for Impact and Understanding, (2) Analyzing and Managing Complex Sales Opportunities (government sales), (3) Starting a Business, (4) Starting a Non-profit, (5) Using the Business Model Canvas to plan and manage an enterprise 

Education

BS, US Miliar Academy, West Point, NY 
MBA, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA  
MS Industrial Engineering, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA 
Six Sigma Green Belt, Textron, Wilmington, MA