John Michitson

Current

Project Leader at MITRE

Past

City Councilor, President at Haverhill City Council
Product Manager at Lucent Technologies

Education

Merrimack College

Connections

249 connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

Employee Spotlight

John Michitson’s Experience

Project Leader

MITRE

(Non-Profit; Information Technology and Services industry)

August 1981 — Present (28 years 5 months)

Served 20+ years as an engineer, project leader and resource manager at MITRE.

I am currently leading a cross-functional team applying acquisition program and technical guidance across several programs to ensure interoperability. I am currently spearheading two internal research proposals that leverage open innovation and prediction markets for Federal Government markets.

I was Project Leader for the USAF Net-centric Enterprise Solutions for Interoperability (NESI) team with a focus on net-centric IT and networking technical guidance for the warfighter’s tactical edge.

I led an effort that identified the key functional requirements for the joint aerial layer network to serve as DoD’s airborne network backbone.

I was the project leader for the Transformational Satellite Communications System (TSAT,) a major program to extend the Global information Grid (GIG) to space by adapting commercial networking protocols to meet the needs of highly mobile users in an unstable networking environment. I led a corporate-wide assessment of the TSAT network architecture.

I also served as project leader for the Royal Saudi Air Force (RSAF) Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence (C4I) modernization study. The highlight of the study was definition of the kingdom-wide network architecture which introduced the RSAF to net-centric warfare.

Upon returning to MITRE in 2002 after six years in the telecommunications industry, I helped to define the architecture for the Objective Gateway (OG), a key system needed to integrate existing data links (e.g. Link 16) with IP-based networks for net-centric operations.

I also served as a resource manager for a large group of engineers.
City Councilor, President

Haverhill City Council

(Information Technology and Services industry)

1996 — 2006 (10 years )

Served as City Councilor for 10 years; the last 2 of which I served as President.
Product Manager

Lucent Technologies

(Public Company; LU; Telecommunications industry)

November 1997 — June 2002 (4 years 8 months)

As a networking product manager in marketing and a system engineer in Bell Labs’ R&D organization, I gained extensive commercial networking experience at Lucent (now Alcatel-Lucent.) I helped to formulate and drive the integrated roadmap for Lucent’s portfolio of core and edge multi-service switches and led development of Lucent’s next generation WaveStar broadband network management and auto-discovery system.

John Michitson’s Education

Merrimack College

BS , Electrical Engineering , 1977 — 1981

Graduated Magna Cum Laude

Additional Information

John Michitson’s Websites:

Employee Spotlight

John Michitson’s Interests:

1. Currently engaged in extensive business networking in emerging technologies across the Merrimack Valley region in Massachusetts and my hometown of Haverhill Massachusetts to help in economic development to provide opportunities for workers now and future generations; 2. Served on Haverhill City Council for 10 years; President for last two; 3. Founded Danny's Mentoring and Tutoring program in 1994, which served Haverhill's youth for almost 15 years; 4. Currently Chairman of the Board of Trustees at the Hillview Montessori Charter School in Haverhill; 5. Currently working with Team Haverhill, youth agencies and schools to establish Haverhill Youth Mentoring Network.

John Michitson’s Groups:

The Enterprise Architecture Network
Boston Innovators
Biotech & Pharma Professionals Network
Professionals in Pharmaceutical Industry and Biotech Industry
Green
Green Jobs & Career Network
MITRE CONNECTIONS
Emerging Technology Group
Merrimack College Alumni
Green Chemistry Network
Massachusetts Life Sciences Start-up Initiative - MALSI
Cleantech Professionals Network
FEDERAL BIZ Network - Government Stimulus Teaming Jobs PMI Consulting Funding Sales Opportunities
Midas Oracle = Prediction Markets + Market Predictions
The MITRE Corporation
Merrimack Valley Venture Forum (MVVF)
GreenBiz.com -- Green Business Professionals
Merrimack Valley Business Development Group
Boston World Partnerships
The MITRE Domain
Telecom Tigers - Innovative Networking for Telecom Professionals
e-Books for e-Learning
Prediction Markets Cluster
Ebooks, Ebook Readers, Digital Books and Digital Content Publishing
QUE™ by Plastic Logic
Open Innovation and Crowdsourcing
Haverhill's Green Chemistry Demonstration Center
Open Innovation & Brokering in Federal Government Markets
Prediction Markets for Federal Government Acquisition-Program Risk Management
Industrial Green Chemistry
Sustainable Minds Subscribers
Facebook & Twitter For Business