The MEC Team

Mind’s Eye Consultancy Brings Together Over 70 Years Of Expertise In Program And Project Management, Systems Engineering, Strategy, Leadership, And Visualization.

With Experience Across Multiple Industries As Well As Military, Civil Service, And Consultancy Work, The Senior Team Of Ray And Tom Are Well Versed In Complexity.


Between Them, They Have Managed Teams And Supported Programs Affecting Multiple-Billion-Dollar Department of Defense (DoD) Decisions.


A Key Feature Of Their Careers Has Been Providing And Supporting Leadership To Achieve Enterprise-Level Aims For Some Of The Most Complex Programs, Such As The F-35 FPO And The Next Generation Air Dominance Initiative.

Meet Your Team

Ray, An Avid Amateur Equestrian And Rock Climber, Is MEC’s Senior Analyst And Assessment Expert. He Lives In Lexington Park, MD And Brings Over 20 Years Of Military Experience As A Naval Flight Officer, 14 Years As A Civil Servant And A Further 8 Years As A Consultant. A Graduate Of The US Navy’s Test Pilot School, Nearly All Of His 40+ Years Of Experience Is Supporting Organizational Leadership Responsible For Operational U.S. Navy Carrier Aviation, Aviation Test And Evaluation, Modeling And Simulation, Strategic Planning, Decision Support And Solving Complex Problems.

Tom, An Avid Fan Of All Forms Of Auto Racing, Is MEC’s Strategist, Creative And Visual Thinking Expert. He Lives In Cary, NC And Brings Over 30 Years Of Systems Engineering And Management Consultancy Experience, Having Started His Career As A Flight Test Engineer At The Naval Air Test Center (Patuxent River, MD). His Broad Consultancy Experience Spans Strategic Management, Studies & Analysis, And Project Management (Systems Engineering) Support.

Client Engagement Model

Our Process Is a Collaborative One That Ensures Both Parties Appreciate the Challenges in All Their Complexity. If You Have Minimal Interest in Understanding Your Own Complex Environment, We Aren’t the Right Fit for You. But If You Are Leading Anything Like the Complex, Multi-Million-Dollar Government Projects We’re Experienced in Helping, We’d Hope That You’d Want Complete Understanding of What You’re Dealing With. You Should Expect to Be Engaged Throughout All Phases of the Visual-Analytic Framing Process. Activities Are Tightly Coupled to Assure Traceability Across Your Defined Vision and Needs,

Solution Spaces, and Execution Roadmap to Achieve Outcomes. The Analytic Space Is Persistently Used Across All Elements to Support Prioritization and Related Solution Elements Assessments Within the Blueprint Framework. Together, We Build a Plan That Works for You. Multiple Iterations Are Performed Across Each Activity to Define, Refine, and Validate Artifacts With You. The Artifacts Serve as Critical Communication Enablers to Assure Clarity and Rapid Convergence on Solution Options. We Keep Iterating and Improving Until You Reach the Solutions You Need.

Strategic Value

The MEC Strategic Value Offering Is Designed to Cut Through the “Fog” That Complexity Can Create Using a Variety of Visual-Analytic Methods and Frames. MEC’s Main Mission Is to Achieve the Vision in Your Mind’s Eye, Using Proven Consultancy Tradecraft and Visual-Analytic Framing Methods to Achieve Clarity-of-Action.

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