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Brian Perkins
President, Dirigo Strategies
During a thirty year career in the U.S. Coast Guard, Brian served in shipboard and shore-based operational and support positions that included command at sea, joint tours, and Project Officer or Branch Chief in a wide variety of efforts in research, tactics, and strategy.
He led teams and personally drafted numerous doctrine publications on search and rescue, law enforcement, security and coastal warfare. He developed a comprehensive and flexible 30 year Capital Asset Management Plan enabling whole fleet planning for the U.S. Coast Guard.
At the time of his retirement from the Coast Guard as Chief of Cutter Forces, he was the senior billeted cutterman responsible for platform management and fleet policies governing a fleet of 280 ships and a community of 8,000 cuttermen worldwide.
Brian holds a B.S. in Marine Science from the U. S. Coast Guard Academy and an MBA with an emphasis in Finance and Operations Research from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He was awarded a Certificate of Public Leadership from The Brookings Institution.
Brian enjoys cheering on the Boston Bruins, playing hockey on a local team, cooking, traveling, skiing, sailing, and activities with his family.
Matthew C. Stanley
Associate
Matt is an acquisition and operations specialist who excels at planning and execution while tracking risk and risk management and ensuring that cost, schedule, and performance goals are met. Matt was a DHS Level III Program Manager for the USCG Heavy Polar Icebreaker Program.
He is a retired Coast Guard Captain (06) with 26 years of decorated rotary aviation and 38 years of total service. He was a career pilot and the Deputy Chief of Aviation Forces managing the cost, schedule and performance of 10 major aviation programs, all in different lifecycle stages. He provided oversight to 30 subordinate aviation commands, 200 aircraft, $400M of facilities and a workforce of over 4,900 people with an annual program value of $4.5B in the employment of 114,000 flight hours in all weather.
Matt has a B.A. in Asian Studies and an M.S. in Quality Systems Management. He is an Instructor Pilot, Flight Examiner and Safety Accident Investigator.
Matt is a voracious reader, particularly of military history, an avid indoor rower, and loves to cook using BBQ grills and wood smoke.
Joseph Rousseau
Associate
Joseph Rousseau is an international, IT minded leader, educated both in the United States and in Europe in the field of information management. He has attained two bachelor degrees and three master degrees while living in five countries.
Joseph is both an experienced business leader and a technological innovator working across diverse industries. He excels at using technology to bring ideas to market and has proven this through projects ranging from the digitalization of processes in the healthcare sector in the Netherlands to overhauling plagiarism detection in higher education to food industry point of sales software.
He is currently helping with software development and IT consulting for rapidly growing startups with $10M in revenue and 100% year-over-year growth, and several large companies across diverse sectors. Joseph also serves in an executive capacity helping to shape the digital strategy of two nonprofits (NABU and Epic Education Foundation).
In his spare time, Joe enjoys traveling, sailing and hitting the beach as much as possible.
Kyle Smith
Associate
Kyle is a retired USCG 06 Captain with 32 years of service. His last position prior to retirement was the Deputy Commander of CGCYBER Command. He managed all aspects of CGCYBER planning and operations from daily tactical briefings and incident response to developing mission assurance for all CG missions; he conducted defensive cyberspace ops and managed operational risk by assessing threats and vulnerabilities, ensured appropriate defensive actions to minimize consequences to CG-wide mission execution.
He has a broad range of experience in the field of electronics, telecommunications and computer engineering, including radar and computer systems design, and multi-disciplinary IT areas (command, control, communications and computer systems supporting multi-missions).
Kyle holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering Technology, and a Master’s in Information Technology Management. He graduated from National Defense University with a Master of Science in Government Information Leadership with a concentration in weapons of Mass Destruction and a Certificate in Chief Information Officer. He completed Course Study for an Executive Certificate in Management and Leadership at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Sloan School of Management, and is a graduate of U.S. Cyber Command’s Joint Advanced Cyber Warfare Course. In 2023 Kyle has become Certified in CISA and CompTIA Security.
Kyle Loves playing golf, has been playing the game for 35 years and still has a few more bucket list courses to play. Playing pickleball is a new interest for the last 4 years.
Paul Lattanzi
Associate
Following a distinguished 25-year career, Paul retired from the U.S. Coast Guard as a senior officer to assist private and public organizations with navigating Federal regulatory safety and security requirements for ships, facilities, and waterways. Paul has served as the Officer in Charge of Marine Inspection with a two-state AOR, lead the federal review for America’s first operational offshore wind energy project, served as a United Nations consultant to 39 nations regarding international shipping conventions, and was lead author for an International Maritime Organization manual regarding contingency planning.
In addition to serving as a pollution response subject matter expert, Paul recently completed the creation of the Navigation Safety Risk Assessments for Ørsted’s 1.1 gigawatt Ocean Wind Farm off the coast of New Jersey and for the $3.8B Hampton Roads Bridge and Tunnel Expansion project.
Paul holds a Bachelors’ degree from The United States Coast Guard Academy, a Master’s degree from Tufts University, is a qualified NIMS Incident Command System Incident Commander, and a licensed Merchant Marine captain.
When not at work or on the sidelines of his sons’ sporting events, Paul might be found fishing for stripers in Casco Bay, singing loud enough to drown out his mediocre guitar playing, or hiking – he recently completed the 12 hour, 21 mile, 8 mountain peak Presidential Traverse of New Hampshire’s White Mountains.
John C. Bourcet
Associate
John retired after a 20-year career in the U.S. Coast Guard, serving in the Office of Shore Forces and other shore-based operational positions that included counter-terrorism, search and rescue, maritime security and safety, and emergency management.
He commanded a law enforcement detachment tasked with counter-drug operations in the Pacific Ocean and deployed to the Persian Gulf in 2003, ensuring waterway stability and security in the aftermath of the fall of Saddam Hussein’s government. His final assignment was Chief of Boat Forces at Coast Guard Atlantic Area, where he was the senior expert responsible for more than 250 boat force units. He led an effort to update their staffing and to acquire the best vessels for each unit’s mission areas.
Currently he serves in Production Control at Newport News shipyard troubleshooting critical-path pop-up challenges.
John holds a B.S. in Management degree from the U. S. Coast Guard Academy and an M.A. in Organizational Psychology from Columbia University.
John is an avid reader, focusing on leadership, science, history, and the best short stories. He is passionate about music, attending many concerts and voraciously consuming new music across all genres. John is a certified yoga instructor, focusing on meditative breathing and mental focus. John and his wife, Sondra, enjoy decorating their home in mid-century modern art and furniture.
Bruce Viekman, Ph.D.
Associate
Bruce crafted major portions of the U.S. Coast Guard’s human resource system, and brings scientific and analytical approaches from his Doctorate in Physical Oceanography. He led the service’s military assignment, career management, and recruiting operations; capping a 30-year military career. He reshaped workforce specialties and reformed recruiting operations across the United States. He was recognized by the Secretary of Homeland Security for his work in reshaping recruiting. Bruce later served as a senior policy advisor in the $4B Coast Guard mission support enterprise, and was the primary author of the 2016 Human Capital Strategy. He deployed and applied the modernized business model in new areas, crafted policy for engineering technical authority, and guided senior leadership through strategic plan development. Bruce also guided a team that developed criteria for U.S. Navy System Engineering Technical Reviews.
In addition to his deep experience in workforce systems, Bruce holds a Ph.D. in Physical Oceanography from the University of Rhode Island. As an operational oceanographer for International Ice Patrol, he integrated real time sea currents with historical data. His scientific work centered on the structure of turbulence near the seabed, with application to the atmospheric boundary layer. He also published several peer-reviewed papers on the dynamics of circulation in Lake Superior.
Bruce enjoys exploring the waters and beaches of Cape Cod, choral singing, and studies in systematic theology.
Phil Woodcock
Associate
Philip has been involved in the renewable energy industry since 2011 firstly as General Manager and Operations Director of a Dutch-based ship management company and now as a consultant in North America. Philip provided operational and commercial management to a fleet of crew transfer vessels that operated on both construction and O&M projects in the United Kingdom, The Netherlands and Denmark working both from base ports and accommodation vessels. Philip also provided operational and commercial management for a diving support vessel providing services to cable repair and unexploded ordnance removal contractors. Before leaving Europe, Philip initiated a joint venture operations and maintenance company that was to provide topside and subsea inspection and maintenance to wind farm and oil and gas clients. Philip was also a member of the Renewable Energy Working Group of IMCA and the Safety Forum of the Workboat Association with a focus on improving safety and operations in the renewable energy industry
Philip is a maritime problem solver with 30 years of experience in onboard ship operations and onshore ship management, auditing, ship survey, inspection, S&P and regulatory affairs within the merchant navy and offshore oil, gas and renewable energy sectors.
His consultancy, Wyndward Maritime, assists clients with a variety of projects including registering ships within the Canadian registry, developing and implementing safety management and planned maintenance systems, and performing safety and security audits. He also conducts a variety of research and investigations and is acting as owner’s representative for reviewing the maritime logistics for an onshore wind farm that will be constructed in the Yukon Territory of Canada.
Philip is a board member of the St Michaels University School Alumni Association and the British Columbia Branch of the Nautical Institute. Philip is certified as a Master Mariner by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency of the United Kingdom and holds an MSc. In Marine Policy from the University of Wales. Philip has spoken at conferences and written for trade journals such as Western Mariner, BC Shipping News, Offshore Wind Journal and Offshore Shipping Journal on the topics of offshore wind, safety and marine operations.
Philip enjoys playing and watching cricket, fly fishing, walking with his Golden Retriever, Sasha, and exploring the world with his family. He is still trying to master Dutch.
Victoria Mastromarino
Vice President
Victoria began her career in Boston in the field of International banking and quickly moved into the legal field after attending Bentley College’s Paralegal Program. At Bingham, Dana & Gould (now Bingham McCutchen), she worked in Litigation for a Senior Partner on Antitrust cases; performing research, writing drafts and smoothing documents. In this position she was also responsible for maintaining confidential information for those Massachusetts attorneys being considered for judgeships.
After moving to Washington, D.C. to work as an Administrative Assistant/Paralegal for a large NH corporation, she was tasked with research projects in the hazardous waste field. She wrote many briefs for the company and reported on the Love Canal hearings on Capitol Hill. While in D.C. Victoria also worked as a paralegal for Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Kampelman and Steptoe & Johnson. She subsequently received a Judicial Appointment to the position of Administrative Assistant to Judge June Green in the U.S. District Court.
On moving to Maine, she pursued other interests including partnering in a British import business, and holding positions in Business Development, Sales and Marketing in the media fields of Internet, radio and print. For the past four years, Victoria has been Executive Assistant to Brian Perkins, President of Dirigo Strategies, LLC and in August 2022 was appointed Vice President.
Victoria enjoys cooking, Latin dance, travel, all things Italian, and fun times with her children and grandchildren.
Dr. Jack McCready, Ph.D., CMMC-RP
Associate
Jack’s extensive R&D activities include prototype development across multiple areas including Mobile platforms and applications, Information Management & Decision-Support Systems; Cyber Security; Data Mining/Visualization, Cryptology, SIGINT, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles; Acoustics, Electro-optics, & Infrared Sensors; RADARS; Communications; GPS & AIS Navigational aids; Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, & Explosive Weapons detectors; and biological/invasive species control.
He has worked at all levels of R&D, most recently as the Coast Guard’s Director of Strategic Analysis & Development, providing executive level leadership, strategic analysis and forecasting.
He has developed partnerships with other government agencies, as well as with industry and academia. He has written position papers and focused short notice REACTs – Rapid Evaluation of Critical Technologies where a three week deadline is specified and has given numerous presentations and talks.
Jack enjoys small woodworking projects, crossword puzzles and travel on ocean cruises, rivercruises, and visiting historical sites.
Mark Walsh
Associate
Mark is a licensed Captain who served with American Cruise Lines. He served over 24 years in the U.S. Coast Guard aboard five cutters and in various leadership positions ashore, including duty as a joint operational planner of U.S. Northern command and is an operations and maintenance scheduler.
Over a 4-yer period he led the U.S. Coast Guard Command and Operations School, responsible for the training of prospective Commanding Officers for all U.S. Coast Guard cutters. As the Atlantic Area Chief of Operational Forces, he was responsible for the oversight of 37 units, comprised of 3500 men and women conducting frontline operations.
Mark holds a B.S. in Government from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy and a M.A. in National Security and Strategic Studies from the Naval War College. He is a graduate of the U.S. Navy’s Maritime Advanced Warfighting School, and an alumnus of the Partnership for Public Service Excellence in a Government Fellows Program
Michael Balding
Associate
Michael is a retired U.S. Coast Guard Captain with 27 years of service. His last position, prior to retirement, was Deputy Commander of Sector Puget Sound. He led and managed all aspects of USCG planning and coordination (federal, state, tribal and local port partners) and USCG operations in Puget Sound, from daily tactical briefings and risk management oversight to incident response for all CG statutory missions.
In addition to his Sector operational tours, Mike has a broad range of program management experience, including guiding USCG platforms , coordinating with DoD, and guiding interagency operational and strategic level policies.
As the Program manager for the Office of Boat Forces, he provided direct oversight for all boat acquisition and support contracts for USCG boats, oversight for personnel protective equipment for boat crews, and guidance in CG policy for all boat operations, training, and maintenance.
Mike holds a BS in Political Science from Old Dominion University, a Masters in Military Studies from the USMC Command and Staff College and is a NIMS qualified Incident Command System – Incident Commander.
Mike enjoys the global sport of “Cowboy Action Shooting,” which is a combination of shooting competitions with period-correct clothing (40-60s Hollywood) in timed events. He competes alongside his two children. Mike also enjoys WWI and WWI wargaming with miniatures.
Stephen Matadobra
Associate
Steve is a strategic thinker with over 43 years of extensive Coast Guard operational and tactical level experience having served aboard 13 cutters and multiple Commands at Sea. Known through the Coast Guard enterprise as a Human Resource Management expert, he has broad cross-programmatic experience developing short and long-term objectives and executing HR policy in support of Human Capital Strategy.
At the time of his retirement, he served as Chief of Enlisted personnel for the U. S. Coast Guard, where he oversaw all aspects of the development and management of the 34,000 enlisted active-duty workforce including training, recruitment, work-force strength analysis, assignment, and separation.
In addition to his operational and HR expertise, Steve has a broad range of management and programmatic experience that includes strategic oversight of the Marine Transportation System throughout the Pacific and Gulf coasts. As part of his assignment, he collaborated with The National Marine Fisheries Service and NOAA, developing and executing fish management and enforcement policies throughout the mid-Atlantic coastal region.
Steve holds a B.S. in Political Science from Columbia and has extensive post-graduate studies in Environmental Policy and Management.
Steve is also an avid nature and wildlife photographer, an active birder, a certified master gardener and a member of the Waterfall Keepers of North Carolina – a group dedicated to promoting and advancing the cultural, economic, ecological and historical significance of North Carolina waterfalls. He also enjoys spending time with his four grandchildren.
Lee Scruggs
Associate
Lee Scruggs is a retired United States Coast Guard Captain with an extensive background in the military, private sector, and academia. He specializes in developing and executing comprehensive technology strategies across complex programs and projects.
Scruggs served 30+ years in the Coast Guard, both reserve and active duty. Most recently he served as the Chief Technology Officer and (CG-26) for Coast Guard Intelligence. In this role, he led the implementation and support of the Coast Guard’s intelligence technology solutions, and USCG integration with intelligence sharing efforts within the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Defense, and the intelligence community. He also led the Intelligence Information Systems Processing Center at the Coast Guard Intelligence Coordination Center where he guided efforts to maintain and service the Coast Guard’s classified and maritime domain awareness networks, and served as the Reserve Chief of Planning for the Coast Guard Fifth District where he provided leadership and strategic support for efforts to improve mobilization readiness for over 750 Coast Guard Reserve members throughout the Fifth District.
In his civilian career, Scruggs worked in the performance transformation practice at Grant Thornton, LLP where he led multiple consulting engagement teams through the entire lifecycle of program and project management for public sector clients including U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, United States Coast Guard, The Joint Staff, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Prior to that he served as director of the technology and business center at William & Mary where he was also an adjunct professor. He has worked in other capacities in the private sector, consulting and finding technology solutions for higher education clients.
Scruggs has a B.A. in economics, and a Masters of Business Administration both from the College of William & Mary. He also holds a Project Management Professional and Six Sigma Green Belt certification.
In his spare time, Lee enjoys boating, fishing, and playing guitar.
Robert I. Desourdis
Associate
Robert I. Desourdis, Solutions Architect Master and Founder and CEO of Desourdis Collaboration LLC (DCLLC), spent decades of his career as a technology executive and solutions architect before leaving the government contracting space to develop DCLLC. Over the course of his time in industry, he became alarmingly aware of challenges the Government faces – particularly during catastrophic security events — in which preplanned, exercised, reliable and consistent collaboration between parties simply did not exist. This realization led him to spearhead an initiative of cross-functional/discipline collaboration to deliver innovative technology and system solutions. He sees the need for an augmented human collaboration capability to create innovative solutions to complex technological problems for which there is no existing “cookie-cutter” solution makes him an asset to both local and national agencies. His expertise, within which he has authored and co-authored 17 books, includes human collaboration, command and control, emergency, public safety, and ionospheric communications. Robert is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with a Master of Science in Technology and Policy. He also holds a Master of Science, Electrical Engineering and Bachelor of Science and Mathematics from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI).
Bob’s passion has resulted in his creating an initiative to create a nationwide World War II Memorialization System in Italy called the Freedom for Italy Initiative (FFI). He is a long-time model and historic diorama builder as well as a writer. In 2023, he completed a B-25J Strafer for his friend, Jack Ottaway who was killed in an air-to-air crash over Honolulu in 1944.
Igor Myachin
Associate
Igor has 45 years of operational and logistic expertise in the maritime and aviation industries worldwide. He has sailed extensively as a licensed U.S. merchant mariner in the commercial sector, and with Military Sealift Command. He is a subject matter expert in ship-to-ship replenishment at sea, aviation replenishment at sea, and technical diving ops as well as salvage ops.
He has deep expertise in the south polar region (Antarctica and Southern Ocean) including wintering and seasonal teams on the Continent. This includes logistics resupply for maintaining stations, establishing new stations, and requirements for road trips deep into the continent and establishing ice landing airstrips.
He is rated as an ATP unrestricted Rotorcraft Pilot, CFII Rotorcraft, Comm/IFR Fixed Wing, and CFI. He is NVG qualified and has been a Test Engineering Pilot Rotorcraft in non-production units. He is experienced in EMS (Expeditionary Medical Ships) requirements.
Igor attended the Merchant Marine Academy in Leningrad, Russia (USSR) from 1978-1983 and earned a Master’s Degree in Ocean Navigation. He came to the U.S. in 1994 and settled in Midcoast Maine, working in flight training and commercial fisheries both in the Atlantic and NW Pacific. Igor was naturalized in December 2003. He holds a Master’s Degree in Ocean Navigation and Electromechanical Control Systems and holds a Master Mariner, Any Oceans, license and is a Master of Towing Upon Oceans. All licenses are current including FAA First Class Medical.
Igor enjoys sailing, flying, hockey, free diving, swimming, friends and working group dogs.