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Fall 2015
Lessons Learned During My Four Decades of (Apparently) Random Jobs!
Dr. Daniel “Rags” [email protected]
ENGR 181 Engineering Honors Seminar
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• Computing Science Major, Texas A&M 1976-1977
• B.S., General Engineering, US Military Academy 1977-1981
• 2nd Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment 1982-1985
– Operation “Urgent Fury*” Grenada, (1983)
• Principal Instructor and Company Commander, 5th Ranger Training Battalion 1985-1988
• M.S., Computer Science, Naval Post Graduate School 1988-1990
• Senior Research Scientist, Office of Artificial Intelligence Analysis, West Point 1990-1993
• Deputy Product Manager, PEO, Standard Army MIS, Fort Belvoir 1993-1996
• Ph.D., Computer Science, Texas A&M University 1996-2001
• Senior Research Scientist and Director, IT Research Center, West Point 1999-2003
• Chief of Assessment, Coalition & Joint Task Force 180 (CJTF-180), Afghanistan 2002
– “Operation Enduring Freedom”
• Program Director, IT Program, US Military Academy, West Point 2003-2005
• Deputy Commanding Officer, Task Force Thunderbolt, 17th FA Bde, Baghdad, Iraq 2005-2006
– “Operation Iraqi Freedom”
• Vice Dean for Education, US Military Academy, West Point NY 2006-2010
• American Council on Education (ACE) Fellow, President’s Office, Rice University 2009-2010
• Program Manager Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) 2011-2015
• Professor of Practice & Center Director, Department of Computer Science and Engineering and the Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service (TEES) 2015-????
ArmyEducation Research/Program Management
My “Career”
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My “Career”• Computing Science Major, Texas A&M
1976-1977
• B.S., General Engineering, US Military Academy 1977-1981
• 2nd Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment 1982-1985
– Operation “Urgent Fury*” Grenada, (1983)
• Principal Instructor and Company Commander, 5th Ranger Training Battalion 1985-1988
• M.S., Computer Science, Naval Post Graduate School 1988-1990
• Senior Research Scientist, Office of Artificial Intelligence Analysis, West Point 1990-1993
• Deputy Product Manager, PEO, Standard Army MIS, Fort Belvoir 1993-1996
• Ph.D., Computer Science, Texas A&M University 1996-2001
• Senior Research Scientist and Director, IT Research Center, West Point 1999-2003
• Chief of Assessment, Coalition & Joint Task Force 180 (CJTF-180), Afghanistan 2002
– “Operation Enduring Freedom”
• Program Director, IT Program, US Military Academy, West Point 2003-2005
• Deputy Commanding Officer, Task Force Thunderbolt, 17th FA Bde, Baghdad, Iraq 2005-2006
– “Operation Iraqi Freedom”
• Vice Dean for Education, US Military Academy, West Point NY 2006-2010
• American Council on Education (ACE) Fellow, President’s Office, Rice University 2009-2010
• Program Manager Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) 2011-2015
• Professor of Practice & Center Director, Department of Computer Science and Engineering and the Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service (TEES) 2015-????
ArmyEducation Research/Program Management
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Lessons Learned: Your Work
“Choose a job you love and you’ll never work a day in your life” ~Confucius
Ragsdale’s Corollary: “Find out how to love your job and…”
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Lessons Learned: Job Selection
• Three most important aspects of job selection…
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Lessons Learned: “Continued” Education
• Feed the addiction
• Fun/Learning/Interesting People
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Lessons Learned: Required Equipment
Integrity Much, Volkswagen?
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Lessons Learned: Stress Management
https://hrhint.wordpress.com/2014/04/09/productivity-and-stress/
Yerkes, R.M. and Dodson, J.D. (1908), “The relation of strength of stimulus to rapidity of habit-formation”, Journal of Comparative Neurology and Psychology, Vol. 18, p. 459.
Yerkes-Dodson Human Performance Stress Curve
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Lessons Learned: Stress Revisited‘…believing stress is bad for you’ the fifteenth-leading cause of death in the United States, killing more people than skin cancer, HIV/AIDS, and homicide.”
“Embrace the ….
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Lessons Learned: Work/Life Balance
“…Instead of possibilities, I have realities in my past, not only the reality of
work done and of love loved, but of sufferings bravely suffered.…”
Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
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Lessons Learned: Bottom line
• Stress is your friend - comfort is your enemy!
• Find Passion for:
– Learning
– Your Work
– Others
• Integrity
• Success?
– Acknowledge your self-interest
– Seek (and be open to) opportunities to make a positive difference
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• Business• Sociology• Psychology and Behavioral
Science• Policy and Political Science• Economics• History• Cultural Geography and
Anthropology• Mathematics• Statistics• Law• Ethics
• Computer Science• Information Technology• Information Management
“Cybersecurity entails the protective measures that address the inherent
conflict in code for control of interconnected systems and data.”
• Computer Engineering• Electrical Engineering• Mechanical Engineering• Nuclear Engineering• Aerospace Engineering• Petroleum Engineering• Biomedical Engineering• Engineering Technology & Industrial
Distribution• Industrial & Systems Engineering• Civil Engineering• Biological & Agricultural Engineering• Chemical Engineering• Materials Science & Engineering
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Code Red (2001)
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05:29:00 UTC, January 25, 2003
[from Moore et al. “The Spread of the Sapphire/Slammer Worm”]
Only 30 minute later!
