Ron VanLaningham joins TAI's senior consulting team with an outstanding career profile:

• Thirty years of successful experience in applying Systems Analysis and Systems Engineering skills to the development and integration of highly complex space systems
• Experienced in all phases of a program's life cycle beginning with emphasis on performing/ evaluating front-end conceptual studies to providing oversight in assuring mission success
• Company focal point for Risk Management and Mission Success requirements compliance
• Key technical strengths include:
  • Ability to decompose Big Picture into appropriate requirements, analyses, trade studies, and performance metrics
  • Ability to develop/tailor Risk Management strategies and assess effectiveness of Risk Management and other Systems Engineering functions
  • Ability to lead/perform mission and systems analysis/trade studies
  • Ability to enhance success of proposal/project via technical oversight
  • Ability to influence project direction with insightful presentations
• Key personal abilities include:
  • Leadership
  • Critical Thinking
  • Dedication
  • Accountability
  • Perceptiveness
  • Creative Problem Solving
  • Effective Communication
• Career assignments have included:
  • Titan II/Titan III performance assessments
  • Mars Viking flight team
  • Modernization of ADCOM
  • Advanced development of classified satellite programs
  • System Integration of large classified program
  • On-site technical interface with intelligence community
  • Managing five analysis home shops in Central Systems Engineering department
  • Managing 30 person System Performance group on large classified program
  • Providing technical review for major proposals and on-going programs
  • Developing Corporate Best Practice for Risk Management
  • Leading Mission Success compliance assessments for all program products