Welcome to OUR Network!

1. Welcome to OUR Network! Doug Parker July 9th, 2014 How did I get to the HotHouse? What does a wildly successful HotHouse coffee and conversation session look like?

2. Welcome to OUR Network! Doug Parker July 9th, 2014 How did I get to the HotHouse? What does a wildly successful HotHouse coffee and conversation session look like?

3. Welcome to OUR Network! Doug Parker July 9th, 2014 • The Package • Food for thought • My day job • Who am I? What do I know? • Who am I, really? • A couple questions • My contact info • Subject references

4. Food for thought ‘High-performance rocket engines are not a collection of parts flying in close formation…relationships matter’ – Dr. Bill Bellows, Aerojet Rocketdyne Associate Technical Fellow and President of the In2:InThinking Network *Relationships matter to high-performance innovative networks too ‘Wisdom comes from having the ability and willingness to act.’ – Norman Seeff, Photographer, Director, Purveyor of the 7-step Creative Process *Innovation will result from OUR network’s collective wisdom ‘By focusing on systems we can have greater impact.’ – Tim Brown, IDEO CEO

5. I work with REALLY SMART PEOPLE. Together we deliver this world’s most POWERFUL SOLUTIONS. Aerojet Rocketdyne Extreme Engineering International Space Station Deep Offshore Drilling Rig Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME) Delta IV Heavy Mars Science Laboratory – Curiosity Rover Molten Salt Concentrated Solar Power Plant Delta IV Heavy NROL-49 Launched January 20, 2011 Vandenberg AFB, CA., Space Launch Complex-6 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWm1jUC5Ags

6. Who am I? What do I know? • 24 years experience helping to design, develop, deliver, assemble, maintain, and operate large, complex high-performance systems • Passionate about developing products and systems that effectively meet our company and customer’s business goals throughout the product lifecycle • Experience: • U.S. Army Tank Crewman • Janitor/Laborer, Space Shuttle Program • Launch Operations Engineer • Supportability Design and Logistics Engineer • Field Operations Engineer • Risk Manager, Development Program • Systems Engineer • Company Culture Project Team Co-founder • Program Manager, AR Extreme Engineering • Education: • Cal Poly SLO, B.S. Industrial Technology • Cal Lutheran, M.B.A. Marketing • Certification: • Pragmatic Marketing, Product Management • Professional Memberships: • Marine Technology Society • In2:InThinking Network

7. Who am I, really? • My Interests include: • Architecture • Art • Brainstorming • Camping • Change Leadership • Connecting the Dots • Construction • Creativity • Collaborative Alliance • Design Thinking • Entrepreneurship • Exercise • Family • Friends • FUN • Getting Things Done • Innovation • Integrated Life Cycle Management • Intrapreneurship • Leadership • Lessons Shared • Listening • Marketing • Mentoring • Music • Networking • Organizational Cultures • Problem Solving • Photography • Product Management • Re-construction • Rest & Relaxation • Scotch Whiskey • Snow Skiing • Systems Engineering • Systems Thinking • Teamwork • Travel • What’s next?

8. Why is INNOVATION important? • It promotes interaction across network silos • Connect the dots - it encourages creativity and finding new connections between existing, but unrelated expertise and technologies • It is a primary way to obtain and maintain a competitive advantage • It enlivens and energizes communities INNOVATION CAN CHANGE EVERYTHING!

9. What does a high-performance innovative network look like? • WE have a unifying common purpose and WE are all invested in this purpose – mission, vision, values • WE all help to create and connect new ideas to solve significant problems – i.e. urgent and pervasive problems that markets are willing to pay to have solved • Idea implementation is the primary function and the ultimate measure of OUR Network’s success • WE co-own and co-promote the network brand ‘A.B.C.D. - Always Be Connecting the Dots’ - Virgin Galactic CEO, Sir Richard Branson

10. I [net]work with REALLY SMART PEOPLE. Together WE deliver POWERFULLY INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS. B- )llll Doug Parker Program Manager Aerojet Rocketdyne Extreme Engineering Canoga Park, CA. / Houston, TX. (o) 818.586.4060 Douglas.Parker@Rocket.com Camarillo, CA. (c) 805.657.5323 www.linkedin.com/in/kickassdoug/ https://www.theportfolium.com/referral/KickassDoug * If you use the above ThePortfulium link I get credits toward gifts. I’m going for a new iPad. **Use the QR code or the adjacent url to the access my ThePortfolium profile. Doug’s Portfolium profile webpage https://www.theportfolium.com/KickassDoug

11. References Popolo Catering, San Luis Obispo, Leon Castillo, Owner – http://popolocatering.com ThePortfolium, a Student and Talent Seekers Resource – https://www.theportfolium.com/referral/KickassDoug Getting Things Done (GTD) , David Allen Group – http://gettingthingsdone.com Breaking through the creative process: Norman Seeff at TEDxBermuda 2012 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rn9bgwsDUWs Design Thinking, IDEO CEO Tim Brown – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgH3XaGIZog Organization Culture and Leadership; Edgar Schein – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Schein In2:InThinking Network – www.in2in.org Kelvin TOP-SET incident investigation system – http://www.kelvintopset.com A Guide to Scotch Whisky – http://www.artofmanliness.com/2009/04/05/the-art-of-manliness-guide-to-scotch-whisky/ Aerojet Rocketdyne Extreme Engineering – https://www.rocket.com/extreme-engineering-offshore-oil-gas SolarReserve, Molten Salt Concentrated Solar Power Plant – http://www.solarreserve.com/what-we-do/csp-projects/crescent-dunes/ Space Shuttle – http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/main/index.html Mars Science Laboratory, Curiosity Rover – http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/ International Space Station – http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/#.U6RZWRa4llI SPACEFLIGHT NOW, space business news and launch schedules – http://spaceflightnow.com United Launch Alliance, launch vehicle videos and photographs – http://www.ulalaunch.com/file-library.aspx Vandenberg Air Force Base, CA. – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vandenberg_Air_Force_Base Drilling 101: How a deep water well is drilled, Shell Deep Water – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Do9dz6ypD7w