Dick Van Orden
• Served as senior executive and manager of large technical organizations.
• Became a leading advocate of decision analysis methodologies and techniques and facilitator of Structured Management Conferences to assist organizations to improve their performance and build teamwork for more efficient and effective operations.
• Lead role in the development of satellite communications for Naval ships and aircraft.
• Following retirement from the Navy, continued with research into medical and scientific innovations, and assisted companies with strategic planning, problem solving, and decision making.
• Conducted programs to cure spinal cord injury, to perfect a synthetic substitute for human blood, and to investigate the production of, and uses for, structured water.