Mr. Simberg has dual Bachelor's degrees in engineering science and applied
mathematics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and a Masters
degree in Technical Management from West Coast University in Los Angeles,
California.
He has over two decades of experience in project management and systems
engineering in the aerospace and information technology industries. He was
a supervisor of systems engineering, and a project manager for advanced
space programs at Rockwell International, in Downey, California for several
years, where he was responsible for developing requirements from the
functional level down to the subsystems, managing others engaged in such
activities, developing software to support analyses, and managing
government-funded trade studies for new launch systems and space platforms.
He also supported numerous proposal and marketing activities, preparing
reports and briefings, managing several winning proposals.
Since leaving Rockwell in 1993, he has been an entrepreneur and independent
consultant in the information technology and commercial space industries,
including lobbying and the development of federal policy position papers,
some of which have resulted in legislation. In addition, over the past several
years, he has acquired extensive experience in web site design and hosting,
including the development of CGI scripts in Perl, Unix/Linux system and network
administration, and network security, including virtual private networks (VPN).
Most recently, he has developed and refined requirements for a state-of-the-art
secure Internet virtual private network project, which is ongoing.
He is familiar with several programming languages, and OS's, with excellent
written and oral communications skills. In addition to publishing several
policy papers and opinion pieces, he has been the editor of a book on
lobbying for space-related causes.
Mr. Simberg can be reached at (307) 739-1296, or at simberg@randsimberg.com