Ron Rosenthal enjoyed a distinguished government career with the Department of Defense. He held various positions within the Department of the Navy including Principal Assistant, Acquisition, Programming & Budgeting for Director Air Warfare within the Chief of Naval Operations and was the Head of the Cost Department at the Naval Air Systems Command with responsibilities of providing cost estimating and analysis support to all naval aviation programs. Ron was assigned as the Program Manager for the Navy Enterprise Resource Planning Program where he was responsible for the reengineering and standardization of Navy-wide processes through Business Process Reengineering and the coordination of ERP-related activities within the Department of the Navy. He led the initiative to implement the enterprise-wide modernization of acquisition, financial, and logistics operations using business enterprise software by converging four pilot projects into the Navy ERP Program. Ron led a program team of over 450 personnel. Ron has received many awards for achievement and performance including the prestigious Association of Naval Aviation Edward H. Heinemann Award in 1999, the Presidential Rank Award in 2000, the Department of the Navy Superior Civilian Service Award in 2008, and was a 2008 Federal 100 recipient. Ron has a BS in Systems Engineering from the University of Florida and a Master of Engineering degree in Industrial Engineering from Texas A&M.
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