Young Professional Board Member

Staff Engineer
Lockheed Martin

Alex is a staff engineer at Lockheed Martin. He joined Lockheed Martin in 2002 after graduating college and has spent the majority of his career working on programs supporting the Intelligence Community around Washington, DC.

In 2009, he was one of five employees selected from across Lockheed Martin to participate in the Executive Development and Growth Enhancement (EDGE) program. The two year program is sponsored by Corporate Strategy and Business Development and consists of special assignments across the corporation.

Alex’s first EDGE assignment was at Washington Operations where he assessed the impact of legislation on the corporation’s direct combat and missile defense programs. Next as part of the Corporate New Business Strategy group he supported business strategy development for Cyber Security, Energy, Healthcare, and Nanotechnology. Starting this summer he will focus on ISR and UAV capabilities while at Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Development Programs division (also known as the “Skunk Works”).

Alex first joined Lockheed Martin as a system engineer and spent two years working in roles of increasing technical responsibility on an imagery exploitation program. He next led the infrastructure stand up of a 100 person product center on schedule and budget. Moving into technical leadership, Alex was the product lead for a 20 person engineering development team. Lastly, he directly supported members of the government Senior Executive Service while acting as the contractor lead in charge of building an agency-wide ten year strategic roadmap.

Alex was raised and currently resides in Maryland with his wife Julie. He attended Duke University, receiving a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering and Computer Science. As a National Science Foundation sponsored undergraduate, he published research on cooperative robotics and sensor fusion. Alex also completed a summer research fellowship on medical robotics at the Johns Hopkins University and later returned for a Master of Science in Systems Engineering.