Gibson (Gib) Kerr

Provides expert facilitation, coaching and services as a Master Trainer in a variety of tools that improve individual and team awareness and skills resulting in improved outcomes. Work focuses on addressing challenges and relieving "Organizational Pain".

Conducts Mission Assistance workshops to help Major Programs and Dept. of Defense organizations improve the efficacy of their organizations and teams using a variety of tools and instruments determined and selected by the requesting organization.

Facilitates and develops graduate level instruction for Executives, Flag and General Officers in the areas of Leadership, Team Building, Strategic Planning, Process Improvement and Program Management.

Senior Executive (Technical) responsible for providing analyses, engineering, and test expertise and products connecting Research, Development, and Acquisition to the operational end-user. Expands the Science and Technology Directorate's analytic and systems engineering competencies in support of the Homeland Security Enterprise as DHS Components acquire operationally focused, best value solutions that can be successfully transitioned to operational use.

Responsible for the development and implementation of Acquisition Policy for DHS. Served as the Executive Secretariat for the Investment Review Board and Component Acquisition Executive Council. Primary representative and interface to other governance bodies in DHS.

Responsible for overall operations and strategic direction for a $40M 70 employee company that produced “ruggedized”, high performance, Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) computer servers and data storage systems for DoD and commercial customers. Transitioned company to Lean Manufacturing techniques. Turned the company around from losing 1% on $25M in my first year there to 7% profit on $45M when I left the company.

Responsible for the development and acquisition of modern sonar systems for the U.S. Navy. Led the Acoustics Rapid COTS Insertion (A-RCI) program; the premier COTS technology insertion program for the U.S. Navy, a $350M per year Major Program. The Program produced a new hardware baseline every two years, and a new software baseline every year resulting in the meshing of software and hardware solutions that provided an annual improvement in capability to the entire U.S. Submarine Fleet. The program was cited repeatedly as the best example of rapid fielding of capability, and became the model program for technology insertion in use today.

Submarine and Engineering Duty officer serving as a leader in a variety of organizations. Qualified as a Naval Nuclear Engineer and qualified for Command of Nuclear Submarines before transitioning to Engineering Duty to help design, build, and acquire systems for nuclear submarines.