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Brian BarryZazi Fellow
After graduation from the United States Naval Academy, Mr. Barry spent twenty years on active duty with tours of duty that included service as Main Propulsion Assistant on a nuclear powered aircraft carrier, Engineer Officer of a nuclear powered cruiser, and Commanding Officer of a destroyer. After leaving the Navy he became a partner in a start-up engineering and professional services company. This company provided software application development, network design, installation, operations and maintenance services as well as various other business services, mainly to the Department of Defense. Acting as Chief Operating Officer, he contributed to the rapid growth of the company to annual revenues of $60M. The company was sold to a publicly traded company in October, 2001 at which point Mr. Barry began acting as an independent consultant. Mr. Barry received training in the techniques of System Dynamics from MIT and has been actively practicing these methods for over five years. He has produced models that described the impact of retention and attrition patterns on manning levels within the Navy’s submarine force, the wasted effort and depreciated dollars that result when standard Defense Department budgeting calculation methods are employed for O&M budgeting, the impact of late funding and erratic loading of repair activities on the cost of maintenance, the reason the Navy personnel and training commands find it difficult to generate inventories of newly defined skills within reasonable periods of time, and the causes of endemic interface problems within an important ship design and production organization. |
