BLACK ENGINEER OF THE YEAR AWARD WINNERS
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Douglas J. Ash Vice President and CIO Global Training and Electronic Systems
Lockheed Martin Corporation
opportunity. The youngest of 11 children, his Baha- mian parents immigrated
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to the United States in 1952. By the time Ash left high school, eight of his siblings were already college graduates. He earned a bachelor’s degree in Engineering Technology at the University of South Florida in 1985, and since then has taken on many a chal- lenge during his 25-year career. In the first decade of his career, he moved from software engineer to various managerial positions in IBM’s then-$500 million AS/Entry Systems and the Applica- tion System/400 (AS/400). More than 400,000 were installed worldwide. Ash was recognized as a key contributor to IBM’s 1990 Mal- colm Baldrige National Quality Award, given for performance excellence. Following the 1997 Lockheed and Martin Marietta merger, Ash, newly signed on as a Director, was also instrumental in leading improved service delivery, which helped eliminate a total cost of $2 billion between 2000 and 2007. He consolidated 14 help desks into a single desk, moved 23 legacy email systems to a Microsoft Exchange platform, and eased collaboration for joint customer and Lockheed Martin product development. In 2007, as the Vice President of Health Service and Solutions, he led the $200 million annual sales for a new Lockheed Mar- tin health line of business. Ash was also at the helm when the corporation announced a $56 million federal contract in 2008 to provide both medical and administrative staffing for clinical services to 85 federal facilities in 21 states. In 2009, Ash took on Lockheed Martin’s health and civil technology programs and was responsible for building $800 million in new health information opportunities ranging from electronic health record management to food safety, and network to cloud computing. Currently, he is responsible for a $3 bil- lion portfolio which provides military and commercial training products and IT services to four hundred locations in twenty-five countries. Ash’s team of eleven thousand employees set up com- puting infrastructure to enable the Joint Strike Fighter program and support a thousand customer contacts. An avid offshore fisherman, he also serves in a number of professional associations and nonprofit boards.
Ash served as a director for the National BDPA (Black Data Processing Associates) in 2006-2007, was vice chair for of the Information Technology Senior Management Forum—an
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organization of 180-plus industry chief information officers that prepare African-American IT professionals who are employed in corporations, government agencies, and universities for senior level jobs—in 2010-2011. Ash is also active in Lockheed Mar- tin’s African American leadership Forum, providing professional mentoring and career development for employees throughout the company. In 2011, he was appointed to the Howard University Board of Visitors, providing advice to the college president, pro- vost, deans and the Board of Trustees. Ash is a co-founder of the For Kids’ Sake charity.
Abe Bushra Director, Threat Systems Engineering Missile Defense Agency
neer. He has more than 20 of systems and software engineering experience in
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industry and government. In 1989, he earned a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Hous- ton, followed by a master’s degree in Industrial Engineer- ing from Texas A&M University in 1990. The same year, he began his career with the Department of the Army, where he was the lead engineer responsible for test and evaluation of fire-finder radars, designed to locate mortar and artillery positions.
Bushra also served as an independent evaluator of unmanned air vehicles systems and as a system analyst for validation of new Army search and target acquisition of visual and infrared models that predict visual and infrared sensor performance in cluttered terrain. In 1997, he joined aviation and information technology systems and services provider, Rockwell Collins. There, Bushra held a number of high profile project engineering jobs. In one, he was responsible for developing software to integrate the forward observer forward air controller system with the U.S. Navy’s helicopter and communication systems and, Combat Net Radio currently used by the United States and allied mili- tary forces. Another project was developing software for a cockpit electronics display system for the Boeing 767-400 airplane.
In 1999, Bushra joined the Naval Space Command and worked on system engineering and integration related to the mission processing computing system, which is used to detect, identify launch location, and track ballistic and satellite launches around the globe. He joined the Missile Defense Agency February 2000. Currently, he is responsible for development of ballistic missile threat data to support the development and testing of America’s Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS). Without the threat and scenario data
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