Mr. David Jimenez is the President, Maya Engineering and Technical Services, LLC. His previous job was Vice President for Research, Development, Test and Evaluation for Jacobs Technologies. Prior to joining Jacobs, he was the Vice President of Command, Control, Computers, Communications, Cyber, Intelligence, and Reconnaissance (C5ISR) programs, SAIC after having retired from the government with over 38 years of service. He retired as the Deputy Under Secretary of the Army for Test and Evaluation in 2019. In that capacity, he served as senior advisor and subject matter expert for test and evaluation across the Department of Army while also performing duties as an OSD test and evaluation executive in the area of chemical and biological defense.
Additional assignments included Technical Director and Deputy to the Commander of the Army Test and Evaluation Command where he led the execution of the Army’s test ranges, test execution and infrastructure investments for the Department of Army nationwide; Director, Army Test and Evaluation Center, the Army’s independent evaluators for weapon system compliance, test design, operations systems analysis, evaluation, and reporting to Congress on weapon systems effectiveness; Executive Director, Developmental Test Command, exercising executive leadership over all Army ranges; Director, Space and Terrestrial Communications; and Deputy Director, Systems Engineering, the Communications and Electronics Center (CERDEC).
Mr. Jimenez served for 26 years in Program Management (PM) MILSATCOM, GPS, WIN-T, MILSTAR, SCOTT in Program Executive Officer (PEO) C3T, Director of the Product Realization Directorate (logistics and sustainment engineering), and other positions of technical leadership in the areas of space communications.
His awards include the David Packard award, Meritorious Service Medal (2), Superior Civilian Service Medals (4), DA Staff Instrument, Order of St. Barbara, and other awards and distinctions.
EDUCATION
National Defense University, M.A., National Resource Strategy
Florida Institute of Technology, M.S., Engineering Management
University of Puerto Rico, B.S., Electrical Engineering