As Vice President of the Science Mission Business Unit, Mr. Haynes provides leadership and management of the Business Unit’s strategic growth initiatives, customer base expansion, new opportunity identification, program operations performance, and strengthening of customer and partner relationships. He brings over 20 years of technical and management experience leading engineering-based programs with a science and satellite ground system focus. Rob brings a proven track record of managing programs that emphasize technical innovation to the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the Air Force, the United States Coast Guard (USCG), Department of Defense (DoD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), and the U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA).
Prior to joining ERT, Rob held technical and management positions at STi Systems, RGII Technologies, and Integral Systems (later acquired by Kratos Defense), supporting NOAA, USGS, DARPA and the Air Force. Rob started his career as a software engineer, expanding his technical expertise to include system administration and design; systems engineering; network design; virtualization and enterprise architecture roles, and, eventually, project and program management. Prior to this role, Rob served as the Deputy VP of ERT’s Science Mission Business Unit, overseeing management and performance of all of ERT’s NOAA NESDIS programs. Rob holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Virginia Darden Graduate School of Business; a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the University of Maryland, College Park, and a bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from Purdue University.
