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Bryan, TX

Brad attended Texas A&M University on a President’s Endowed Scholarship, gained a year’s work experience as a co-op with the Central Intelligence Agency, and graduated Magna Cum Laude with a bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering in 1988. He went on to work for the CIA as a missile analyst and SIGINT collection specialist; worked for Lockheed Martin Missiles and Space in Sunnyvale, California as a systems engineer and project lead; MRJ, Inc. in Northern Virginia as a consultant to the National Reconnaissance Office; and ultimately, as a co-founder, chief technology officer, project manager and system architect for BIT Systems, Inc. Brad designed a number of satellite mission management systems, wrote several hundred thousand lines of software code, and was ultimately responsible for generating over $200 million in contracts at BIT Systems. His travels include Iraq and Pakistan, with extensive time in the United Kingdom and Australia. He retired in 2014 after 28 years of support to the US intelligence community. Brad served on Texas A&M’s Aerospace Engineering Advisory Board from 2014 until joining the faculty as a Professor of Practice from 2019-2022, where he was twice awarded the Thomas U. McElmurry Excellence in Teaching Award by the Aerospace student body. He was honored in 2023 by the College of Engineering with the Outstanding Alumnus Award, and received the Department of Aerospace Engineering’s Outstanding Alumnus Award in 2018. He currently serves The Association of Former Students as a representative at large. Brad is actively engaged as a seed investor in five technology startups, serving as Chairman of the Board for three of them. He holds an Airline Transport Pilot rating in Citation business jets and a commercial helicopter rating, and is currently pursuing a certified flight instructor rating. Brad and his wife, Liz, have two daughters: Alyssa and Haley ’18.