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In today’s episode James interviews his Uncle, John Silvas, a Distinguished Engineer in the Aerospace Account currently supporting the U.S. Space Force, Space Command and Control Program Office as a Chief Engineer in El Segundo, CA. John is also the Booz Allen Director for Digital Engineering leading a distributed team of highly talented engineers implementing cutting edge methods, techniques, and tools in support of numerous clients across the DoD and other Federal agencies. John also became a certified International Council on Systems Engineering – Expert Systems Engineering Professional (ESEP) in February 2018.

Topics Discussed:

Family Dynamics

What John learned from the Air Force

How he climbed the ranks at Booz Allen

How to set goals

How to think about systematically