LEE-ANN SEELING

Lee-Ann Seeling recently joined Innovative Media Solutions (IMS) as a Senior Program Manager after being director of Intelligent Transportation Systems for Trichord, Inc. Her professional experience as a systems engineer began with Rockwell International’s Strategic Systems, in the Nuclear and Directed Energy Effects group working on what most folks just called “Star Wars” during the Reagan years. A transfer into the Advanced Systems Engineering group lead to assignments in system engineering analysis and program management.

In the mid-90’s, she took advantage of the opportunity to move to a brand new industry, that of Intelligent Transportation Systems or ITS, where the challenge with applying system engineering techniques and sound program management practices was something new to the Transportation industry. The diversity of assignments encompassed systems engineering a 148 mile expansion to metropolitan Detroit’s existing freeway operations center with a hybrid communication network, helping develop the National ITS Architecture Team for Federal Highway (FHWA), and creating early deployment plans in Florida and Michigan. As a Program Manager for Iteris (formerly Odetics) in charge of day to day operations of the National ITS Architecture Team, Lee-Ann lead an extensive outreach program to transportation professionals across the nation in developing both regional and project architectures while updating the national architecture to reflect more integration opportunities.

She expanded her breadth of systems experience at the birth of another industry - the mobile Internet - as a Senior Project/ Product Development Engineer for Connexion by Boeing before rejoining the ITS world as Director of the west coast office of Trichord. Lee-Ann has a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and a Master’s in Business Administration from UCLA. Her involvement with INCOSE includes serving as the Exhibits Co-Chair for the 2007 International Symposium and she also plays a key role for the INCOSE-LA newsletter.