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Ph.D. Engineering Management, Old Dominion University, 2007
Dr. Adams is an Assistant Research Professor at Old Dominion University. He
holds a B.S. in Ceramic Engineering from Rutgers University, an M.S. in
Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering and an M.S. in Materials
Engineering both from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a
Ph.D. in Engineering Management from Old Dominion University.
Prior to joining the faculty at ODU, Dr. Adams had more than 25 years of
program, financial, project management, technical management, and
consulting experience in positions of increasing responsibility in the
military and private industry.As a program manager he was responsible for
all aspects of a geographic region for a large information technology
company with an annual budget of $300 million.He served as the chief
financial officer for a large Navy industrial activity with responsibility
for customer funding and contracts valued in excess of $750 million.
As a project manager he supervised and coordinated two highly complex
nuclear submarine overhauls each worth in excess of $240 million. As a
technical manager he was responsible for the introduction, development, and
maintenance of formal software engineering methods and tools for a large
U.S. Department of Defense central design activity responsible for the
maintenance of all Navy depot maintenance software systems.Finally, he
provided specialized consulting services for business information,
enterprise resource planning, and scheduling systems to a wide variety of
federal government clients.
Dr. Adams is a retired Navy submarine engineering duty officer, a senior
member of the IEEE, a member of the American Society for Engineering
Management, the American Association of University Professors, and the
United States Naval Institute.
Dr. Adams' research interests include software engineering project
management frameworks, systems engineering methodologies, system of systems
engineering, the design and implementation of Enterprise Resource Planning
(ERP) systems, and the use of enterprise architectures. | 