Meet the Team

As chief architect and systems scientist at Exunum Strategic Solutions, Jennifer brings more than twenty years of systems engineering experience in aerospace and defense R&D. She holds three MIT degrees, including a Ph.D. in Space Systems, and has worked at Draper Laboratory, Raytheon Technologies, and most recently Chenega Systems, supporting the Air Force’s Enterprise IT as a Service (EITaaS) modernization effort. She is also a co-inventor on a computing security patent.

Her passion has always been the front end of systems work: deriving architectures from first principles, finding the true need upstream of any presumed solution, and asking whether a system will actually accomplish its mission, not just meet its specifications. She has deliberately worked across domains, from secure computing and autonomous platforms to space systems, naval operations analysis, and enterprise IT, sharpening her eye for what systems have in common. She applies the same rigor to a large-scale defense program as to a small business’s tangled workflow.

Her MIT doctoral thesis applied entropy-based principles to strategically evolving complex systems. Afterward, questions about the foundational nature of systems kept surfacing. Setting aside received interpretations, she studied the empirical evidence directly, across scales and domains. Her co-authored chapter in Springer’s Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Complex Systems (2017) made the case for a different way of looking at systems. At the firm, she leads the technical and scientific work, steps in as a fractional CTO or chief architect for clients who need one, and serves as primary author of The Skeptical Systemist^™.

An Air Force veteran, Eric brings more than two decades of federal program management, defense contracting, and business development across a wide range of DoD portfolios. He has built his career at the intersection of government relationships, contract execution, and the organizational dynamics of getting things done inside complex defense programs — the same territory where the Exunum Strategic Solutions approach matters most.

He has managed business areas exceeding $110M and led more than thirty capture activities spanning the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Space Force, including proposals valued up to $1B. His experience with defense innovation channels — particularly through SBIR — and his familiarity with non-dilutive funding mechanisms connect the firm with the programs that support early-stage R&D.

Eric’s relationships across Hanscom AFB and the broader AFLCMC community, and his familiarity with programs ranging from secure processing and NC3 to enterprise IT transformation, position the firm to engage where structural problems are visible and the analytical stakes run high. At the firm, he leads business development, capture strategy, government contracting, and pipeline management.