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Curriculum Vitae, Dr. Doug MacKinnon

Office Address:
1411 Cunningham Road, Glasgow-West, Rm 3008
Monterey, CA  93943
(831) 656-1005 (office)
djmackin@nps.edu

Education

  • Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University (2007)
  • Engineer’s Degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University (2006)
  • M.S. in Information Technology Management, Naval Postgraduate School (2000)
  • M.S. in Operations Research, Naval Postgraduate School (1992)
  • B.S. in Operations Research, U.S. Naval Academy (1985)

Defense Experience

TOP SECRET/SCI clearance.  Retired from U.S. Navy in 2005 with 20 years of Naval Service including over eight years at sea, specifically:

  • Director of Analysis for Commander, Naval Recruiting Command (2000-2002)
  • Operations Officer and Smart Ship Project Manager, USS Yorktown (CG-48) (1995-1997)
  • Operations Officer, USS Moosbrugger (DD-980) (1993-1994)
  • Fire Control Officer, USS South Carolina (CGN-37) (1988-1990)
  • Navigator, Deck, Engineering, USS El Paso (LKA-117) (1985-1988)

Teaching and Academic Experience

  • Naval Postgraduate School (Research Associate Professor, 2007 – present)
    • Co-Director of 30 person Distributed Information Systems Experimentation (DISE) Group testing and evaluating new technologies determining Department of Defense utility
  • Stanford University (Graduate Teaching Assistant, 2006)
    • (Graduate Research Assistant, 2005-2007)                    
  • Naval Postgraduate School (Lecturer, 1998-2000, 2003-2005)
  • University of Arkansas (Lecturer, 2001-2002)
  • Park University (Lecturer, 2002)
  • Crichton College (Lecturer, 2002)
  • University of Memphis (Lecturer, 2001)

Research Focus

Study of knowledge flow (learning and forgetting), knowledge inventory, and knowledge management.  Conducted graduate research at Stanford University and Naval Postgraduate School (2003-2007). This field research regarding knowledge growth and decay was conducted with Professors Ray Levitt and Michael Ramscar (Stanford) to explore how managerial interventions that impact individual learning and forgetting of skills among individuals in project groups quantitatively affect project organizations. This research triangulates grounded theory data from empirical learning situations, synthetic experiments, and computational simulation modeling and leveraged findings from direct and participant observation, as well as unstructured interviewing. Lately, we are engaged in data mining research involving an agent learning technology to train synthetic, computer agents to automate the task of recognizing patterns, separating, and visualizing important keywords from unstructured data (e.g., text documents), to facilitate and reduce the workload of decision makers and intelligence analysts by automating this process. We also examine and develop case studies leveraging social media to discover authentic archetype personas.

HONORS AND AWARDS

  • Received the Wayne E. Meyer Award for Teaching Excellence in Systems Engineering, Mar 2014
  • "Best Student Paper" for "Knowledge as Inventory: Near-Optimizing Knowledge and Power Flows in Edge Organizations (Phase One)" at International Command and Control Research and Technology Symposium (ICCRTS) conference, McLean, VA, (2005)
  • Recognized for Outstanding Instruction in Operations Research, Naval Postgraduate School, Fall 2004 
  • 2 Navy Commendation Medals for superior instruction, Naval Postgraduate School (2000 and 2005)
  • Navy Commendation Medal for superior analysis, Navy Recruiting Command (2002)
  • Navy Commendation Medal for superior leadership aboard USS Moosbrugger (1994)
  • 3 "Battle E" medals for superior ship of the class and 4 "Sea Service Deployment Ribbons" one for each six-month deployment

TEACHING RESPONSIBILITIES

Stanford

  • Co-taught Research Methodology with Professor Ray Levitt (CEE 316)
Naval Postgraduate School
  • Managerial Decision Making (GE 4043 and MN 4043) (both resident and distance learning)
  • Operations with Supply Management (GE 3042 and MN 4349) (both resident and distance learning)
  • Capability Engineering with Simulation (SE 3250)
  • Probability and Statistics (OS 3101/OS 3105)
  • War Gaming Analysis (OA 4604)
  • Computer Simulation (OS 3380)
  • War Gaming (OS 3603)
  • Methods in Operations Research (OS 3000)
  • Probability and Statistics for Systems Engineers (OS 3180/SI 2012)
  • Operations Research for Information Warfare (OS 3003)
  • Analytic Planning Methodology (OS 3008)
  • Modeling and Simulation (OS 3301) (distance learning)
  • Operations Management (GB 3042)
  • Decision and Data Analysis (OS 3604)

University of Arkansas

  • Computer Applications (OMGT 5823)
  • Principles of Operations Research (OMGT 4873)

Park University

  • Operations Management (MG 375)

Crichton College

  • College Algebra (MA 2044)

University of Memphis

  • Introduction to Information Technology (ISDS 2755)
  • Business Management (MGMT 3110)

RESEARCH GRANTS

  • Principal Investigator for DIA research entitled: "Undiscovered Secrets: Leveraging Lexical Link Analysis (LLA) to Discover New Knowledge Using Open Social Media Data Sources." $250,000 awarded Mar 2015.
  • Naval Warfare Development Command, Norfolk, VA for "Shipboard Unmanned Aircraft Systems Employment
  • Co-Principal Investigator with Zhao, Y., Gallup, S., MacKinnon, D., NPS acquisition Program for the FY14 research project: "Application of Lexical Link Analysis Web Service to Acquisition Visibility Portal." $100,000 awarded October 2013.
  • Co-Principal Investigator with Zhao, Y., Gallup, S., MacKinnon, D., DIA FY14 research project: working title: "Authenticity Verification of Social Network Participants," $200,000 awarded July 2013 for FY14.
  • Principal Investigator for Naval Warfare Development Command, Norfolk, VA for "Shipboard Unmanned Aircraft Systems Employment Issues (Shipboard Unmanned Aircraft Systems Overland/Littoral Employment Tactics)," at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, $230,000, Mar 2013.
  • Co-Principal Investigator with Zhao, Y., Gallup, S., MacKinnon, D., NPS acquisition Program for the FY13 research project: "Application of Lexical Link Analysis Web Service to Acquisition Visibility Portal." $100,000 July 2012.
  • Co-Principal Investigator with Zhao, Y., MacKinnon, D., Brutzman, D., NPS Acquisition Program for the FY13 research project: "Applying MMOWGLI Social Media Brainstorming with Lexical Link Analysis to Strengthen the Acquisition Process." $100,000, Aug 2012
  • Principal Investigator Navy Warfare Development Command (NWDC), Norfolk, VA, for "Shipboard UAS Employment Tactics (TACMEMO) at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, $190,000 for FY2012.
  • Co-Principal Investigator with Gallup, S.P. for Fleet Forces Command for Innovation and Experimentation Program in Support of Trident Warrior 2011 at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, $900,000 for FY2012.
  • Co-Principal Investigator with Gallup, S.P. for Fleet Forces Command for Innovation and Experimentation Program in Support of Trident Warrior 2011 at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, $927,000 for FY2011.
  • Co-Principal Investigator with Gallup, S.P. for Fleet Forces Command for Sea Trial support for Trident Warrior 2011 at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, $900,000 for FY2011.
  • Principal Investigator with Zhao, Y. for "MDA Acquisition: Toward Real-time Program-awareness via Lexical Analysis" by Maritime Defense and Security Research Program, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, $30,000 for FY2011.
  • Principal Investigator with Zhao, Y, Gallup, S for "Towards Real-time Program-awareness via Lexical Analysis," Navy Recruiting Command, Millington, TN, $71,000 for FY2011.
  • Principal Investigator with Zhao, Y, Gallup, S for "Towards Real-time Program-awareness via Lexical Analysis," Graduate School for Business and Public Policy, Naval Postgraduates School, Monterey, CA, $100,000 for FY2010.
  • Principal Investigator with Zhao, Y. for"MDA Acquisition: Toward Real-time Program-awareness via Lexical Analysis" by Maritime Defense and Security Research Program, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, $50,000 for FY2010.
  • Principal Investigator for "Improving Healthcare Delivery for PTSD:  An Interrelated Approach Leveraging Systems Engineering and Organizational Design," with Gallup, S.P. Kennedy, Q., and McKenzie, S by National Center for PTSD, VA Palo Alto Health Care System, $30,000 for FY2010.
  • "Matching Navy Recruiting Needs Using Social Networking and Lexical Link Analysis," with Zhao, Y. and Gallup, S., $87,000 for FY2010
  • Principal Investigator for Distributed Joint Information, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) via Empire Challenge 2009 (EC09) final Lessons Learned Report, $100,000 for FY2009.
  • Principal Investigator for Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) Spiral-1 Capability Assessment at the Naval Postgraduate School, Cebrowski Institute, $800,000 for 2008 and 2009. 
  • Center for Edge Power grant from the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Networks and Information Integration (OASD/NII), through its Command & Control Research Program (CCRP) and managed by the Center for Edge Power, Naval Postgraduate School, approximately $105,000, for 2005 - 2007.
  • The Clarkson H. Oglesby Fellowship Fund at Stanford University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, $10,000, for spring 2007.

UNIVERSITY SERVICE

  • Chief of Staff for the Distributed Information Systems Experimentation (DISE) Research Group of 33 researchers accomplishing approximately $11M of reimbursable research from FY 2007 to FY 2012.
  • Internal Review Board (IRB) Representative to the DISE Research Group (2007 to present)
  • Developed and executed the Technical Risk Reduction Limited Objective Experiment (TRRLOE) for Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) at SPAWAR San Diego, lab 140, to identify risks for FAIRGAME exercise and to further assess MDA (June 2008).
  • Developed and executed the Process Engineering Workshop (PEW) for Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) to further understand knowledge and workflow details in support of the MDA decision making process (Jan 2008).
  • Classified Research Custodian, Operations Research Department (2004-2005)
  • Selected as Site Leader to establish MORS chapter for Naval Postgraduate School (1998)
  • Faculty Council Member, Naval Postgraduate School (1998-2000)

PROFESSIONAL COMMUNITY SERVICE

  • Science Fair Judge, Monterey Peninsula Unified School District (2004, 2008, 2009, 2013, and 2014)
  • Math Tutor San Carlos School (2011-2012)
  • Served as Site Coordinator, 66th and 72nd MORS Symposium (1998, 2004)
  • Security Custodian, Operations Research Department (2003-2005)
  • Science Fair Judge, Monterey Peninsula Unified School District (2004, 2008, 2009)
  • Science Fair Judge, Colton Middle School (2004)
  • Represented Navy Recruiting at 69th MORS Symposium (2001)

AFFILIATIONS

  • Military Operations Research Society (MORS) member (1990 – present)