James Russell

Current

• Senior Consultant at Foundation for Enterprise Development
• Consulting Employee at SAIC
• Independent Consultant at Self Employed

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Past

• Senior Vice President for Corporate Development at SAIC
• Manager of Communications and Info Sys at Research Analysis Corp.
• Operations analyst at Johns Hopkins University

• 2nd Lieutenant at US Army

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Education

• University of Idaho

Connections

3 connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

James Russell’s Summary

Senior corporate executive and consultant with over 40 years of experience, business acumen, and technical expertise in both government and commercial markets. Demonstrated success in developing new business and implementing a broad range of solutions and enabling technologies. Board of Directors for several companies.

James Russell’s Specialties:

New business capture, operations research, information technology, telecommunications, physical and cyber security, wireless systems, identifications systems, proposal writing, database design and development, document imaging, optical character recognition, policy and analysis studies,

James Russell’s Experience

• Senior Consultant

  Foundation for Enterprise Development

  (Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

  January 2005 — Present (3 years 10 months)

  Provide management and technical consulting services to small businesses to develop improved methods for marketing, technology transition and commercialization of their products and services.

• Consulting Employee

  SAIC

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SAI; Information Technology and Services industry)

  2004 — Present (4 years)

  As a consulting employee, perform business development functions such as capture management for large opportunities.

• Independent Consultant

  Self Employed

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  2004 — Present (4 years)

  Advise and assist companies, universities and others in developing and meeting their growth objectives. Member of Information Technology Advisory Council for George Mason University, Consultant to University of Nebraska and State of Oklahoma

• Senior Vice President for Corporate Development

  SAIC

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; sai; Information Technology and Services industry)

  January 1972 — September 2004 (32 years 9 months)

  Made major contributions to the growth of SAIC for over 30 years.In the early years, managed 2 divisions to provide clients with systems development and integration services: requirements analysis, data base design, hardware and software development and integration, operations and maintenance.

• Manager of Communications and Info Sys

  Research Analysis Corp.

  (Telecommunications industry)

  1961 — 1972 (11 years)

  Became leading expert on management of radio frequencies and call signs for military tactical radios. Guest lectureer in use of operations research methods at DoD Executive Operations Research. Published reports on military communications and presented briefings to senior Pentagon personnel.

• Operations analyst

  Johns Hopkins University

  (Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)

  1960 — 1961 (1 year)

  Applied operation research and systems analysis methods to provide improved military communication systems.

• 2nd Lieutenant

  US Army

  (Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; USA; Military industry)

  1957 — 1960 (3 years)

  Supervised instructors and course preparation staff in teaching courses in guided missile electronics and propulsion systems for missiles.

James Russell’s Education

• University of Idaho

  1952 — 1956

  Activities and Societies:

  President Senior Class, Member Student Activities Committee, All-star in intrmural basketball and baseball, currently a member of the President's Circle

Additional Information

James Russell’s Interests:

Golf, tennis, fishing

James Russell’s Contact Settings

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