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CARL LaPLANTE PROJECT MANAGER <br />Mr. LaPlante will serve as Project Director and Contract Liaison for your effort. He has led formation of <br />four software development and systems engineering services companies. He possesses forty years <br />experience in leadership and leading -edge technology positions, for Iarge and small firms, building <br />organizational infrastructures while constantly interacting directly with military and civilian client <br />management and technical personnel. He has led Sierra Cybernetics from being strictly a provider of <br />military software systems to a fully integrated systems solution provider and IT staffing services firm to <br />private industry, local government agencies, U.S. and foreign military clients. <br />Sierra Cybernetics President 1981-Present <br />.Mr. LaPlante founded Sierra to provide systems engineering and software development services. Sierra's <br />focus has evolved from developing military test and evaluation software to being a recognized IT staffing <br />services provider and developer and integrator of custom software system solutions in the areas of: <br />- Information technology for state and local government agencies. <br />- Document image management systems for private industry. <br />- Command -and -control decision aids and intelligence analysis for the Army, Navy, Air Force, and <br />Marine Corps. <br />From our headquarters' site in Orange County, CA, Sierra's staff of more than forty professionals fulfills <br />the corporate mission to provide quality IT staffing, software integration services, and innovative <br />computer -based products for information management applications. Mr, LaPlante has led projects for <br />clients including all U.S. military branches, many city and local government agencies, Lockheed Martin, <br />San Francisco Department of Building Inspection, South Coast Air Quality Management District, <br />Lawrence Livermore Laboratories, University of California, Berkeley, and The Walt Disney Company. <br />From 1973-1981, Mr. LaPlante served as a Consulting Engineer to the following five firms. <br />Software and Management Systems 1980-1981 <br />Developer of user interface and records management software for a personnel records system for <br />Jordanian Army. Provided on -site business process analysis for Abu Dhabi National Oil Company. <br />LogiconlEagle Technology 1977-1981 <br />U.S. Government's software representative in -plant at Hughes Aircraft during development of joint <br />Army/Marine Corps Position Location Reporting System (PLRS) and Enhanced PLRS (EPLRS). <br />Reported to military and government officials regarding software technical, quality, and schedule matters, <br />Hughes Aircraft, General Dynamics Electronics, SYSCON 1973-1977 <br />Software developer on electronic warfare, undersea surveillance, intelligence messaging systems, <br />Litton Industries Software Developer / Technical Director 1967-1973 <br />Directed software development within Combat Information Center on Navy's DD-963 (Spruance-class) <br />destroyers and Air Force Satellite Control Facility command -and -control and tracking systems. <br />Lockheed Missiles and Space Company Associate Engineer 1966-1967 <br />Software developer for Air Force satellite launch sequence command -and -control at Vandenberg AFB <br />and for data analysis from classified satellite reconnaissance missions. <br />EDUCATION: Stanford University, B.S.,Mathematics, 1966 <br />Post -graduate studies in Statistics and Operations Research <br />U.S. Army War College, National Security Participant, 1998 <br />SIERRA 3-5 SC20-011 <br />CYBERNETICS Santa Ana IT Professional Services <br />