Mr. Richard Lee Suslick SOHO: 703-207-3020
3708 Pleasant Ridge Road Fax: 703-996-3401
Annandale, Virginia 22003 Office: 703-747-8930
Cell: 703-625-3778
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Richard
Suslick is a Senior Manager at Deloitte Consulting Inc. He is responsible for
architecture, orchestration, design, staff coordination, and eventual
implementation of large and “mega-deal” proposals and contracts. As the lead
technologist and capture solutions lead he was successful in creating $1.84
billion new bookings in 2007 & 2008. In his 38 years in the information
science field, Mr. Suslick has worked with an impressive variety of verticals
and applications in numerous fields and supported an extremely wide variety of
clients. His experience ranges from conducting research in Artificial
Intelligence and speech recognition as a staff member at Carnegie-Mellon
University to holding a position as an appointee of the U.S. Supreme Court
supporting the courts. He has been a Chief Technologist and Enterprise
Architect on a number of large ($100+ million) DoD
procurements. As an entrepreneur, founder, President, and CEO of Cedar Cliff
Systems Corporation, he led his company into award winning positions,
receiving awards
in 1993 and 1994 as one of Washington’s Fast 50 growth corporations. Cedar
Cliff Systems achieved national recognition as an Inc. 500 Company
growth firm in 1993 (#53) and again in 1994 (#137). Mr. Suslick has appeared on
various national news reviews, including CBS and others. Mr. Suslick supports
contracts in the public and private sectors for both DoD
and civilian agencies. Beyond growing and running a successful business, his
management and business skills are technically oriented and span a diverse
skill set, having performed computer science AI
research in speech
recognition and the cognitive sciences, marketing, sales support
and analysis and hardware/software training and development. He has managed
a wide range of design and consulting assignments, covering almost all facets
of computer systems’ science, security, telecommunications, networking,
applications, and other designs.
He holds an
active fully adjudicated TS SCI clearance with CI poly.
Attached at the end of this resume are the following additional documents:
Project Summary;
Management
Style Commentary
May 2009 – Current; Senior Manger,
Chief Technologist, Deloitte Consulting, Tyson’s Corner, Virginia
March 2006; Senior
Manager, Chief Technologist, Solution Architect, Solution Lead, Public Sector
Solutions Group, BearingPoint, Tyson’s Corner, Virginia
August 2004 - March
2006; Enterprise Architect / Solution Architect,
EDS, Herndon, VA.
November 2002 - August 2004;
Enterprise Architect / Solution Architect, EDS,
Herndon, VA.
September
2001 - November 2002; Enterprise Architect,
EDS, Herndon, VA.
July 2001 - September 2001; Lead Technologist, Rockville Solution Center, EDS, Rockville, MD.
November 2000 July 2001; Systems & Solutions Architect, EDS, Rockville, MD.
April 1997 - October 2000 President (founder). S&S Industries Inc., Alexandria, Virginia
November 1995 - March 1997 CEO, Cedar Cliff Systems Corporation (CCSC), Springfield, Virginia
June 1987 - October 1995 President, CEO (founder), Cedar Cliff Systems Corporation, Springfield, Virginia
September 1984 - May 1987 Vice President, Technical Operations (principle), Datacomp Corp., Alexandria, Virginia.
April 1983 - August 1984 Marketing Director, Infosystems Technology, Inc., Greenbelt, Maryland
· Responsible for the
planning, staff coordination, distribution marketing, and sales of the UNIX
DBMS package RUBIX. Marketing Plans included distributor programs, marketing
literature, sales and technical support. Extensive training and support
functions were also performed.
July 1981 - April 1983 President, CEO (founder), Systems Applications Inc., Springfield, Virginia
January 1981 - April 1983 Senior Research Computer Scientist, Federal Judicial Center, Washington D.C.
October 1979 - January 1981 Technical Marketing Coordinator, American Management Systems, Inc., Arlington, Virginia.
· Masters of Science,
Industrial Administration (MSIA/MBA) 1979
Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Primary Studies: Corporate Planning. Finance, Applied Probability and Statistics, Marketing, Financial Accounting, Behavioral Management
Primary Studies:
Computer Science: software-engineering methods, compiler construction, programming languages, real-time processing, programming systems, database theory, speech recognition and artificial intelligence.
Mathematics: calculus, statistics, automata theory, and higher math.
Psychology: cognitive psychology, cognitive process, child psychology, and developmental psychology.
Essentials of UNIX File System Maintenance; /u/fortune, A three part series August, September, November 1987.
Cognitive Models for Spatial Representations in Congenitally Blind; (Rosencranz, Suslick. New Outlook for the Blind) July 1976
Parameter Independent Machine Segmentation and Labeling. (Goldberg, Reddy, Suslick) IEEE, April 1974
Speech Perception in Consonant Vowel Recognition. (Suslick, Michael, Shockey, Just) Perception, July 1978.
1978 Management Intern, Citibank, NA New York
1976 Instructor, Carnegie-Mellon University Computer Science Department
1975-77 Systems Programmer, Carnegie-Mellon University Computer Science Department
1973-75 Research Programmer, Carnegie-Mellon University
1970-72 Research Programmer, Northwestern University Chemistry
1969-70 Computer Programmer, Operator and Coordinator for WNTH Radio, New Trier High School; Part-time programmer for Hewlett Packard.
References Furnished by Request
PROJECT SUPPLEMENT (Highlights) Richard Lee Suslick
During 2007 Mr. Suslick has led and participated in the following successful awarded proposal efforts:
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· HHS ESD CMS $4.8 billion, 10 year IDIQ thru NGIT as team partner |
· NGA NCE |
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· DHS USCIS TWP (ICE), $20 million 5 year |
· DLA CCR Security design and operations |
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· Office Comptroller Currency STARS IDIQ $66 million 8 yr |
· DISA NECC FDCE orals support |
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· Office Comptroller Currency FACDR $12 million |
· Office Secretary of Defense NSA NCES CND |
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· Treasury TEGE IDIQ part of TIPS $4.8 million |
· Dept of Treasury Financial Crimes Enforcement (FinCEN) |
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· USDA PMO Support contract |
· OCC SNC |
During 2006 Mr. Suslick has participated in coordinating proposals totaling over $70MM and provided IP activities for DoD proposals and other Military and Public Sector operations.
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· DoD 3000.05, Stability Ops |
· DIACAP planning new intellectual property development |
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· Proposals involving HSPD-12, NBC, DOI, IRS |
· DLA CCR Security design and operations |
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· US Department of Education Integrated Partner Management |
· FBI Joint Task |
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· Internal Revenue Service TE/GE PM and RM Support. |
· USMEPCOM |
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· Navy NCOIC NCES NCEC |
· OSD operations |
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· Other IP activities involving Logistics & Life Cycle Management (DoD 5000.3) |
· DODAF and other Architecture Design view activities including SOA, BPR, and Business Capture methodologies |
· Navy Marine Corp
Integration (NMCI)
Enterprise design for Navy application hosting including defense in depth security design, COOP, and all operational aspects of the web enabled Navy Standard Information Personnel System (NSIPS W/E). Design supports all NMCI security aspects as well as non-NMCI access methodologies. Concept to implementation responsibilities including design and security. NSIPS supports all Navy personnel with an expected utilization of 20,000 concurrent users. DIMHRS design and contract proposal responsibilities. DIMHRS is the DOD version of NSIPS which will transcend all the military services providing a common HRS for all military personnel. EMPRS, NEMAIS, and other proposal and design specifications. Staffing and technical oversight for Navy Hosting facilities and application management at New Orleans and Millington TN operations.
· MCI WorldCom
Communications
Integration and ERP planning for internal applications and intranet commerce. Y2K System Compliance. Integration services and design of real-time messaging services for financial systems and legacy telecommunications systems using broker messaging and real-time EDI interfaces, discussed below. IBM implementation of MCI's CCAP project Y2K requirements were also reviewed. UNIX training for key staff personnel. .
UNIX training for key staff personnel.
· WSA International
Traditional
Corporate gateway project integrating Legacy applications with electronic
commerce services.
Customer web interfacing, utilizing PROGRESS’ Aptivity and WebSpeed products as
well as Java scripts. Interfacing included integration of a
custom legacy UNIX (SCO) based manufacturing system to the Internet for
customer information access. Additional B2B graphics EDI and EAI project work.
· Kemp Mill Music
Y2K conversions and
compliance.
· Foxwoods Casino
Conversions and
compliance for casino EDI / ERP management of the legacy Ferry / Reservation
system interfacing.
Preliminary design discussions for Gateway reservation system access
· MCI Wireless
Project consisted of two phases. The
first consisted of management consulting in which a design and implementation
plan was created to revamp and replace legacy Unisys systems with DEC 8400
systems. Custom work included the design and implementation of fail over /
failsafe backup system design, raid design, backup and restoration interfaces
as well as other aspects of the system. Uptime requirements of better than
99.9999% for the 1500+ simultaneous users were required and special interfacing
to deal with redundant system control and dual processing were necessary.
Telephony and redundant networking interfaces were also addressed.
· Foxwoods Casino
Project included design completion and
implementation of a reservation system to provide limousine and ferry services,
ticketing, tracking, reservation interfacing, billing and financial reporting.
Integration with other casino systems was also required for this
implementation. Additionally, some work for data-mining and Oracle-web
interfacing was also involved.
· WSA International
This project included the design and
integration for a full production/manufacturing system. With assistance from
WSA, S&S designed and implemented a fully integrated manufacturing system
custom designed for the manufacturing of annunciator
panels. A UNIX implementation was used, integrating legacy databases with CAD
design and full project tracking. Custom interfacing for customer interfaces
including automatic fax retrieval, custom EPROM burning, and email. All aspects
of the manufacturing cycle were included in this project.
· MCI Wireless
Project included two phases. The first
consisted of a management consulting phase in which a design and implementation
plan was created and in which hardware vendors were interviewed and their
proposed solutions were evaluated on technical merit. The second was the
complete overhaul and upgrade to MCI Wireless’ legacy accounting system.
Requirements included upgrading the existing terminal based system to a fully
networked interface solution. Uptime and redundant systems designs which would
limit down time to less than 8 minutes per year were required. Fail over / fail
safe design, operational and hardware design were included as part of this
project. Performance improvement of over 1000% was also required.
· Cedar Cliff Systems
Dealing with fast growth is difficult
at best. Dealing with explosive growth is almost impossible. Managing an Inc
500, "Fastest Growing Company" is in itself a major project. As
founder, owner, CEO, and active President of Cedar Cliff Systems, Inc. (CCSC),
I was involved in almost all aspects of this entrepreneurial business. CCSC was
a self-funding organization. As such, the financial needs of the company with
its short past history required more attention and care than most
larger organizations require. Personal arrangements with banks and other
lending institutions were among many of the weekly activities. Financial
management and planning were critical to our success.
As a Government contractor, the legal
implications of dealing with the U.S. Government were also among my priorities.
Inevitably, if you win a large U.S. contract it will be protested and
challenged. Interfacing with our legal advisors and assuring that the company,
and its staff, stayed within the requirements of the Government’s standards and
contracting requirements was also a major activity.
One of the cornerstones that founded
CCSC was its revenue generating training classes. From CCSC’s onset, I provided
training in a number of areas. As a UNIX expert, I (and later we) provided
training to commercial and governmental organizations. As a certified PROGRESS
trainer I provided training across a number of relational DBMS systems. I have
personally trained over 2000 students. We also provided Microsoft, networking,
and other specialized computer software training.
Of course, as a small organization
there are always the requirements of staffing and staff management which
occupied much of my remaining time. These activities included almost all
aspects of personnel management.
During my
ten years with CCSC, I was directly involved with many contracts. Below are a
highlighted few:
- Department of Labor, OSHA. Designed and integrated computer systems for national and limited international distribution. Supported and installed 350 high-end multi-user UNIX systems at 350 installations across the U.S. and its Territories. The systems provided support and management information about OSHA staff and operations. I was directly involved in the design of the equipment, its integration, distribution, installation, and support. Each of these systems supported a user base from 16 to 48 users, depending on the OSHA site, with communications and DBMS information uploaded/downloaded from Washington D.C. The total user community was about 7500.
- Library of Congress, Overseas Operations. Similar in scope to the OSHA contract, CCSC supported Library of Congress staff in the design and implementation of their multi-user UNIX based systems. This contract involved international operations and most of the sites were overseas. The complexities of international shipping, support, communications, and logistics were also involved.
- U.S. Geological Survey. CCSC shipped and supported X-Station terminals to USGS sites across the country. Again support, installation, and repairs were all part of the logistics involved in this project.
- Social Security Administration. CCSC sold both hardware and training to SSA. I participated in both the hardware sale and, as a certified PROGRESS Trainer, I provided much of the training, installation, and database design to SSA staff. UNIX training and support were also provided.
- Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)
- Central Intelligence Agency
- Coast Guard
- Bureau of Prisons and Bureau of Prisons Industries
- Social Security Administration
- Library of Congress
- Nation Wide Cellular Service
- MCI Wireless
- Army Corp of Engineers
- GTE Spacenet
- …and a long list of other commercial accounts
Project descriptions
for activities prior to 1986 will be furnished by request
Describe
your management style:
I expect each employee to own the
tasks they are handed and to take on the personal responsibility to accomplish
those goals. Those who cannot, are not [employees].
Employees are expected to contribute ideas towards common goals. To that end it
is essential that employees be provided with the training and tools needed to
accomplish these goals. It is not my job to micro-manage,
but to make each employee aware of the company’s common goals, and how his/her
work contributes to the achievement of those goals. My job is to see the bigger
picture and to ensure that employees are working together towards these goals,
orchestrating each of the human instruments along that path.
In what type of corporate culture are
you most successful:
One in which the
environment is charged with excitement about where we are and what we are
doing. Where each employee is encouraged to contribute to the success of
the workplace, is eager to do so, and is rewarded for making contributions.
One where each employee continually expands his or her
capabilities.
What would motivate you to consider a
new career opportunity:
An interesting
problem, an opportunity to work with other top people in my field, new
technology, and of course, money.
What words would colleagues use to
describe your personality:
Smart, competitively
aggressive, an industry "elder," loyal, responsible, generous, a
leader. Someone who likes to "shine."
Please describe your leadership style:
Much like my management style, the
best leader fosters an environment where it is possible for all positive ideas
to be heard. Companies produce the most when "the best" and
"all the rest" know where you are, where you are going, and why. To
be a successful leader your staff, and their staff, must perceive that you have
the skills and talents necessary to lead the entire group to success.