Thomas Meissner: TMA Director - Mr. Meissner has 35 Years of Government experience, including 11 years in the U.S. Navy as a guided missile and radar technician. After being honorably discharged from the Navy in 1975, he was employed for seventeen years as a civilian by the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, first as a Nuclear Electrical Systems Technician, and later as a Nuclear Electrical Systems Inspector. He then worked as a cost systems control manager in project management for eight years, where he was instrumental in implementing cost / schedule control systems and in establishing Navy industrial standards. In 1994 he became a program integrator for the Defense Logistics Agency and became the chief of the east and north San Francisco Bay operations team until his retirement from federal service in 2001. Mr. Meissner graduated, cum laude, with a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Technology from Southern Illinois University. He received a QASAR (Quality Assurance Significant Achievement Recognition) award from the National Aeronautics & Space Administration in 1997 for his role in restoring the production of a defense contractor critical to the space program.
