Human factor Engineering, LLC

MICHAEL L. SHUMBERGER President/CEO
3031 Linksland Rd
Mt Pleasant, SC 29466
michael_shumberger@hfellc.net
michael.shumberger@navy.mil
(843) 849.7869 (h)
(843) 218.7003 (w)
(843) 367.8105 (c)

Principle Systems Engineer / Scientist

EDUCATION:
M.S., Electrical Engineering with emphasis in Computer Systems, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, 1997
B.A., Business Administration, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA, 1989
B.S., Chemistry, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA, 1989

CERTIFICATIONS:
*Certified Acquisition Workforce Professional, Program Management: Level II, SPAWAR, Charleston, SC, October 2001
*Certified Acquisition Workforce Professional, Systems Planning, Research, Development and Engineering: Level II, SPAWAR, Charleston, SC, October 2001
*Engineering Duty Officer, US Navy, October 1999
*Command Duty Officer, USS GARY, June 1994
*Surface Warfare Officer, US Navy, April 1994
*Officer of the Deck, Underway, USS GARY, March 1994
*Combat Information Center Watch Officer, USS GARY, January 1994
*Engineering Officer of the Watch, Underway, USS TARAWA, November 1992
*Ship’s Maintenance Management Officer, USS TARAWA, San Diego, CA, November 1991

ADDITIONAL TRAINING:
*Navy Financial and Managerial Accounting Self-Study Course, US Navy, August 1999
*Navy Working Capital Fund Self-Study Course, US Navy, August 1999
*Navy Budgeting Self-Study Course, US Navy, August 1999
*DoD Modeling & Simulation Staff Officer Course, DMSO, Orlando, FL, April 1998
*Business Development Course, NISE East Charleston Communications Systems Department, Charleston, SC, September 1997
*Communications with Applications in Military Systems, Armed Forces
Communications & Electronics Association (AFCEA), Charleston, SC, October 1997
*Engineering Duty Officer Basic Course, US Navy, Port Hueneme, CA, August 1997
*Intermediate Systems Acquisition Course, Defense Acquisition University, August 1997
*Program Management I, Defense Acquisition University, September 1996
*Systems Engineering for Acquisition Managers, Defense Acquisition University, June 1996
*Naval Leader Development Program Course, Surface Warfare Officer’s School Pacific, San Diego, CA, July 1991
*Boilerwater/Feedwater Test and Treatment Supervisor Course, Surface Warfare Officer’s School Pacific, San Diego, CA, July 1991
*Steam Engineering Officer of the Watch (EOOW) Course, Surface Warfare Officer’s School Pacific, San Diego, CA, July 1991

SPECIAL QUALIFICATIONS:
Over 33 years of comprehensive DoD experience, with over fifteen (15) years experience in systems engineering in support of SPAWAR programs. Extensive skill in systems acquisition and implementation, contract and proposal authoring, test & evaluation, human factors engineering, user interface design and system modeling, simulation, and assessment. Accomplished in advisory roles as well as team leadership, with the proven ability to provide leadership in urgent situations. Successful in securing funding for various projects as well as establishing human factors engineering and modeling and simulation labs. Experienced in public presentation and training of others. Three (3) years USN shipboard management experience includes direction of weapons systems, propulsion engineering, navigation, and material maintenance. Additional fifteen (15) years USN experience in acquisition, systems engineering and design of navy systems. Over ten (10) years USAF service including supervision of computer systems operations. Decorated for both USN and USAF service.

SOFTWARE:
Clearview (Eye Tracking Collection & Analysis Tool), UCInet (Statistical Analysis Suite), Microsoft (MS) PowerPoint, MS Project, MS Excel, MS Outlook, SILVACO (Virtual Wafer Fabrication Suite), Cadence, OPNET, MATLAB, C++

SPECIFIC TASK EXPERIENCE:
Human Factor Engineering, LLC
Mt Pleasant, SC
January 1, 2008 – Present
President/CEO:   Startup venture. Develop assessment methodology for the users of the system(s) delivered by the Maritime Domain Awareness project. Usability metrics developed to support both quantitative and qualitative measures of situation awareness, workload, efficiency, effectiveness and satisfaction. Provide expert advice on human factors engineering.

Eagan, McAllister Associates, Inc.
Charleston, SC
June 17, 2002 - December 31, 2007
Systems Engineer IV: EMA Lead for Human Factors Engineering. Received SPAWAR Innovation Award to research operationalizing FORCEnet: “Assessing Sailor-System Interfaces of the Common Systems Employed within FORCEnet Engagement Packs”. Recognized for expert knowledge and experience by SPAWAR Systems Center Charleston (SSCC) and appointed the Human Factors Engineering - Engineering Agent. Provide engineering and technical support to the SSCC Project Manager in the development of the SPAWAR Human Systems Integration (HSI) Usability Lab. Responsible for implementing the Navy Human Research Protection Program at SSCC. Wrote SSCC “Software Engineering Human Factors Engineering Process Model” and “Human Factors Engineering in Command, Control & Intelligence (C2I) User Interface Development Processes: Use of Eye Tracking Methodology”.   Established the SSCC Human Factors Engineering Lab. EMA Lead for Modeling & Simulation (M&S) strategic planning. Appointed by OPNAV M&S Standards Steering Group (MS3G) as Chairperson, Naval M&S Architecture Standards Special Interest Group (SIG). Architected and Built OPNAV Capability/Cost Models for the Explosive Ordnance Disposal, Naval Coastal Warfare and Navy M&S Management Offices. PMS-430 Project Lead for identifying and testing communications requirements to enable deployment of simulation to Naval Forces At-Sea. Represent both Naval Engineering Activities and EMA at Naval and DoD M&S Technical Interchange Meetings and M&S Standards Steering Group meetings. Plan and direct the accomplishment of project engineering objectives. Provide technical guidance and ensure sound engineering procedures and effective use of facilities. Monitor progress of projects, confers with project engineers, and reviews reports to see that development is progressing according to schedule and within budgetary guidelines. Plan and direct the work of the highly skilled engineering staff, placing particular emphasis on research and development to achieve engineering objectives. Organize engineering staff to accomplish goals efficiently and authorizes recruitment of additional personnel as required. Interface with customers to provide strategic direction planning and plan various solutions under budget. Interface with corporate partners, system integrators, HW vendors for technology evaluation and integration. Evaluate customer systems architecture and propose mediation solutions and integration techniques. Perform technical presentations and demonstrations to executive teams. Develop new projects from initial concept to testing. Confer with Business Development team to consider market potential for new projects.

United States Navy August 2, 1990 - August 31, 2002
Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Charleston, SC March 29, 1997 – August 31, 2002
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Principle Investigator (PI): (5/01 - 5/02) PI responsible for modeling and assessment of survivable networking through the Survivable Wired and Wireless Infrastructure for the Military (SWWIM) and Fault Tolerant Networks (FTN) programs. Assessment included service availability that could be guaranteed against malicious behavior and end-to-end cover mode that provided traffic analytic resilience even when several participating nodes had been compromised.
Acquisition Manager/Integration Engineer: (4/99 - 2/01) Team Lead responsible for draft and award of SSCC’s $400M Consolidated, Integrated Installation Contract, designed to consolidate six previously awarded core installation contracts and enable integration of shipboard and shore installations. Leadership resulted in yearlong process being accomplished at an outstanding pace. Appointed by SSCC Commanding Officer as one of six member Technical Evaluation Board to evaluate technical approach of bidding activities. Appointed by SPAWAR 04 to lead architectural development of a distributed data warehouse for managing the state of installation progress for all SPAWAR Surface, Submarine and Shore C4ISR System Installations. Accomplishments include: 2001 Federal Executive Association of the Greater Charleston Area First Place Team Award for reducing the cost of installing a suite of shipboard systems by as much as 45%; Nominee for Department of the Navy Competition and Procurement Excellence Award, received a Letter of Appreciation, RADM G.H. Jenkins Sr., Department of the Navy Competition Advocate General; SPAWAR Award of Merit for Group Achievement, RADM J.A. Gauss for acquisition management during award of SSCC’s major installation contract
Deputy Command Systems Engineer, Modeling & Simulation (M&S): (2/98 - 6/00) Initiated and oversaw strategies that built M&S as a core systems engineering discipline to support acquisition of Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance & Reconnaissance (C4ISR) systems. Provided technical guidance to SSCC Technical Executive Council and Command Chief Systems Engineer. Advisor to the SPAWAR Office of the Chief Engineer and Program Management Offices on initiatives requiring M&S support or directly affecting M&S infrastructure, capability and policy. Member, Navy M&S Standards Group. Accomplishments while in this position include: *SPAWAR Award of Merit for Group Achievement, RADM J.A. Gauss for providing engineering and technical support during the testing of over 230 SPAWAR systems, and performing over 1,500 test events for Y2K vulnerability assessments that minimized the risk of end-to-end failures.
*Appointed SPAWAR Distributed Engineering Plant (DEP)/Systems Integration Environment (SIE) Simulation/Stimulation Lead for testing C4ISR systems slated for installation in the USS EISENHOWER/USS WASP Battle Force.
*Founded the Distributed Simulation Lab and secured funding for the Multiple Unit Link Test & Operational Training System (MULTOTS)/Distributed Sensor Simulation System (DS3) at SSCC, a capability that established SSCC as the ‘Simulation Control Center’ for the SPAWAR SIE. Additionally, provided essential technical guidance that led to the establishment of a ‘Virtual Reality Lab’ at SSCC. Analysis of CAC2S system requirements led to the establishment of the Solids Modeling Lab, tasked with the three-dimensional analysis, specification and validation of systems physical and performance characteristics.
*Drafted SSCC’s Modeling & Simulation Business Plan and was the first Systems Engineer to present an ‘Integrated Engineering Business Process Concept’ to the Systems Engineering Group (SEG). This proposal was ratified by 100% of the SEG and established a Modeling & Simulation Integration Laboratory within the Command Integrated Products Center.
*Successfully marketed the Joint Chiefs of Staff, C4 (JCS J6) to award SSCC the role of Assistant Program Manager, Network Warfare Simulation (NETWARS). This tool will be used in future Quadrennial Defense Reviews to support analysis of DOD C4ISR infrastructure.
*Presented SSCC M&S capabilities to the USMC Deputy Program Manager for Air Defense and Fire Support as part of the Request For Proposal (RFP) process to award the Marine Corps Systems Command (MARCORSYSCOM) Common Aviation Command and Control System (CAC2S) contract.
*Initiated discussions with the Director, War Gaming Department and Director, Decision Support Department, Naval War College, which ultimately led to appointment of SSCC as Engineering Agent for development and modernization of network information technology.
*Authored six Research, Development, Testing and Evaluation (RDT&E) proposals that were funded with $7.5 Million by Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) N6 during FY’00 and FY’01. Authored the SSCC Engineering & Integration Modeling & Simulation Management Plan for CAC2S Milestone I/II Decision (obtained).
*Represented SPAWAR at OPNETWORK ’98 as the Navy panelist on “Standards for Modeling Military Networks” and “OPNET in the Armed Forces.” Hosted on-site technical seminars and sponsored corporate hardware and software product evaluations. Seminars included: DOD’s “High Level Architecture,” Virtual Prototypes’ “Real-time Interface and Simulation Systems,” “OPNET: Technology for Communication Networks” and the “Navy C4ISR Technical Interchange Meeting.” Organized the training of thirty (30) engineers on network modeling techniques, expertise subsequently applied to engineering management, design solutions and source selection.
Command Duty Officer: (8/97 – 5/02) Represented Commanding Officer in absence. Ensured SSCC rapidly met mission obligations during and subsequent to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
Disaster Control Officer: (3/98 - 3/00) Served during hurricane seasons of 1998 and 1999. Ensured Command readiness and took necessary actions during and after Hurricane Floyd, in which two SSCC buildings were destroyed with damages exceeding $2M. Responsible for successful relocation of personnel and restoration of operations within 24 hours of reopening base for assessment.
Various: (3/97 - 3/98) Assigned to Code 524, tasks included software development, satellite time scheduling, overseeing connectivity of building 3637 to campus backbone, several SSCC IPTs.

USS GARY (FFG-51)
September 1, 1993 - August 29, 1994
Ordnance Officer/Fire Control Officer: (12/93 - 8/94) Directed operation, maintenance and repair of weapons systems and associated equipment. Established and supervised weapons-related training, scheduled and organized safe firing drills and directed the handling, care, stowage and use of missile and battery armament.
Ship’s Navigator: (9/93 - 1/94) Directed navigation department, maintaining accurate plot of ship's position by means of celestial navigation, piloting, electronic devices, navigation tables and formulas, fathometer readings and ranges and bearings on land objects. Advised commanding officer of location and recommended course.

USS TARAWA (LHA-1)
July 4, 1991 - May 21, 1993
Ship's Material Maintenance Management Officer: (3/93 - 5/93) Directed maintenance of main propulsion and auxiliary machinery, including 720 psi boilers and controls, turbines, evaporators and associated equipment. Planned and coordinated Engineering Department ship's force, tender and shipyard work packages. Integrated maintenance workload with ship's operational schedule. Coordinated procurement of spare parts and repair parts. Investigated causes of equipment malfunctions and determined methods of repair in unusual and difficult cases.
Main Propulsion Division Officer: (4/91 - 3/93) Administered ship's engineering division operations and maintenance supervising 55 personnel. Directed fireroom and auxiliary machinery room operations. Supervised equipment procedures and initiated work requests and requisitions for repair parts. Monitored engineering records and reports to ensure optimum equipment performance.

United States Air Force
October 7, 1977 - March 25, 1988
Computer Operations Supervisor: (6/81 – 3/88) Supervised computer systems operation at the Pentagon, Fairchild AFB and McChord AFB.
Presidential Honor Guard: (1/78 - 3/81) Participated in details at the White House, ceremonies for distinguished foreign guests at the Pentagon and Andrews AFB and various Air Force public relations and media events.

AWARDS:
Meritorious Service Medal, August 2002
Navy Achievement Medal (2nd award), March 1999
Navy Achievement Medal (1st award), August 1994
National Defense Service Medal, 1991
Sea Service Deployment Ribbon w/ Bronze Star, 1992 & 1993
Southwest Asia Service Medal w/ Bronze Star, 1992 & 1993
Kuwait Liberation Medal, 1992
Air Force Outstanding Unit Award, 1979
Air Force Good Conduct Medal w/ two Oak Leaf Clusters, 1980, 1983, 1986
USAF 92nd Bombardment Wing, Non-Commissioned Officer of the Year, December 1982