A proven leader with 20 years of military experience. Uses a systems thinking approach with today’s most advanced data science tools for solving problems. Areas of expertise are supply chain, logistics, aviation maintenance, information technology, and analytics. Currently working in the healthcare space with Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Health System and the Commonwealth of Virginia’s Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services (DBHDS). His work is focused on hospital informatics, hospital information systems, and precision medicine with genetic datasets. Active in the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS) and the System Dynamics Society (SDS). 

Mr. Dixon, for data science and analytics, developed a series of forecasting models for U.S. Marine Corps Bill of Material (BOM) and maintenance repair support. Models incorporated machine learning, natural language processing, forecasting, and data visualization best practices. He performed literature review and research into additional machine learning models and algorithms applicable to U.S. Marine Corps supply and maintenance business practices. The tools used were R, python, SAS Enterprise Miner, Apache Spark, Amazon Web Services, Databricks, and Microsoft Power BI. 

Mr. Dixon has 20 years of analytics and process improvement experience where his primary career focus has been the alignment of People, Process, and Technology. Mr. Dixon quickly learned that culture and analytics are two critical pieces to achieving alignment of people, process, and technology for maximum organizational effectiveness. Mr. Dixon has held several U.S. Navy operational assignments, one U.S. Navy IT product development assignment, and a Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Aviation program management assignment. He has a wide and deep domain knowledge in the logistics space that he is leveraging and transitioning to the healthcare space, more specifically, personalized medicine. 

Personalized medicine is a very challenging concept where you are aligning the most recent research and healthcare techniques to a specific patient with information that can be acted on to reduce hospital costs and improve patient outcomes. Significant process, information technology, analytical frameworks, and cultural challenges all exist. Mr. Dixon believes his Navy background and training has set him up well to pursue this.