Richard Taylor

Adjunct Faculty

B.A., Mathematics, State University of New York at Binghamton

Mr. Richard Taylor recently retired after a distinguished 38-year career at Lockheed Martin Mission Systems. As a certified senior systems architect, Mr. Taylor was the systems architect of a wide range of large systems, including the Data Capture System for the US 2000 Decennial Census, U.S. Customs modernization, Classified Intelligence System, Operational Control System for the Global Positioning System, Wide Area GPS System Augmentation, Identification, Tasking, and Networking for FBI fingerprinting, Collection management system for Smithsonian Institution and National Gallery of Art, Insurance processing for USAA Insurance Company, Gate scheduling system for British Airways and Credit card processing for American Express.

Mr. Taylor has made numerous presentations on systems architecting at international conferences and has published several articles on system architecting in trade journals. He has received five outstanding achievement awards from IBM and Lockheed Martin. GCN magazine recognized the Decennial Census 2000 program, for which he was the architect, as one of the three most outstanding government programs developed in 2000.