DAVE BAIOCCHI baiocchi@rand.org ​
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310.393.0411 x 6658 ​
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Santa Monica, CA Technology­Driven Design • Thinking Across Verticals • Elegant Solutions Strategist • Engineer • Designer • Project Architect • Author • Keynote Speaker Highly motivated to predict, characterize, investigate, simplify, structure and solve the key technology­driven questions that will enhance and disrupt our collective future. End­game focused, agile thinker and doer who bridges technology, design and project management expertise to explore potential outcomes and deliver actionable results. Strengths include compelling communication, relationship building, business development and team management. Talent for translating complex technical issues into intuitive and accessible solutions and answering the question behind the question. HIGHLIGHTS FROM CAREER PORTFOLIO CHALLENGE: Traditional Ph.D. programs produce specialized graduates who lack insights into global power players and new problem solving techniques. SOLUTION: Brainstormed disruptive methodologies and visited 20+ start­ups and research and academic institutions to explore models, missions and engagement mechanisms. Integrated concepts and research to redesign prototype and program. CHALLENGE: The Pentagon requested an improved performance measurement model for its $30B national laboratory enterprise. SOLUTION: Interviewed Department of Defense (DOD) lab directors to understand their accountability metrics. Designed new model using Department of Education precedent (as analogous hierarchical, decentralized system to DOD). CHALLENGE: The Air Force Maui Optical and Supercomputing Site faced $30M annual loss in federal funding. SOLUTION: Designed business plan to introduce fee­based approach for governmental users after extensive due diligence on “customer” needs. Researched and presented international best practices for staffing and operating telescope facility. CHALLENGE: Over one third of active­duty Army personnel were not deployed in Iraq, with conflicting data points and no defensible explanation. SOLUTION: Analyzed millions of personnel datasets to explain deployment trends over seven year period. Developed user­friendly visual model to track utilization, resulting in major policy change and additional rest for soldiers between deployments. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE RAND CORPORATION, Santa Monica, CA ​
2008–Present Senior Engineer ​
(2015–Present) Independent research institution providing practical forward­thinking solutions to complex global issues. Generated 15 client­funded projects worth $4.5M in revenue since 2008. Manage $1.9M FY2016 budget across six projects and 30 direct reports. Clients include National Science Foundation, NASA, Air Force Research Labs, National Reconnaissance Office and Office of the Secretary of Defense. ●
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Build and access relationships with intelligence community, interdisciplinary experts and other sources to collect, prioritize and interpret information and solve multi­layered foreign policy, national security and other pressing issues, including fresh approaches to “unsolvable problems.” Secured $1.1M project to characterize space debris problem and develop remediation strategies. Assessed satellite characteristics to determine if modularization could reduce 10­year lead time. Provided critical support for Air Force decision on sensor for unmanned aerial vehicle. Using infrared and video, analyzed if sensor’s detection of adversary movement met expectations. Conducted two­day exercise for joint NASA/FEMA project on strategies in event asteroid were to collide with Earth. Educated FEMA on technical, investigative and communication strategies. Led evaluation instrumental to 2010 change in Army deployment policy in Iraq and Afghanistan. Published 16 peer­reviewed reports resulting in military, NASA and other U.S. policy changes. Dave Baiocchi,​
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Supervise summer internship and recruitment program that hosts 50 Ph.D. students. Designing weekly summer seminar series to familiarize interns with multidisciplinary research approach. PARDEE RAND GRADUATE SCHOOL, Santa Monica, CA 2013–Present Professor ​
(2013–Present) Original and largest Ph.D. public policy graduate program in the United States. ●
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Managed redesign and supporting implementation of new, forward­looking model for creative and rigorous graduate program with 100 Ph.D. candidates in residence. Serve on dissertation committees (five in total) to address thesis topics and funding. Lead 2015­16 dissertation workshop for second year Ph.D. candidates to formulate a research objective and questions, identify method(s) and data sources and produce a completed research proposal to seek out a dissertation chair/committee and pursue research funding. Topics are wide­ranging, from reformation of drug courts to new public health policies in India that mitigate heat wave effects. SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES, Albuquerque, NM 2004–2008 Senior Member of Technical Staff Department of Energy laboratory that innovates technical solutions to complex national security issues. ●
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Designed and built optical sensors for space satellites (11 currently in orbit). Led research teams to develop creative technical solutions to resolve remote sensing issues. Served on multidisciplinary team to achieve requirements definition, design creation, design methodology implementation, quality control and testing initiatives. THE COLLEGE OF OPTICAL SCIENCES, UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, Tucson, AZ 1998–2004 Research Associate World’s premier research institution in optics and photonics. ●
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Pushed boundaries of optical engineering, using optical design techniques to create novel concepts and instrumentation, including mirrors for astronomical telescopes. Partnered with domain experts to design and fabricate cutting­edge projects. Innovated design for world’s lightest half­meter diameter active glass space mirror to support ambitious mission goals, including monitoring Earth from greater distances in space. Developed framework to optimize design of lightweight mirrors for next generation telescopes to increase capacity to capture high­resolution images and allow deeper view into space. EDUCATION University of Arizona, ​
Tucson, AZ
Ph.D. and M.S., Optical Engineering DePaul University​
, Chicago, IL
B.S., Physics with honors 2004 and 2001 1998 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Interests include photography (​
www.studiobaiocchi.com​
), illustration, design, crosswords, baking bread, snow sports and walking (180 miles per month).