Dick Hutchinson

rlhutch2@gmail.com

Experience

I received my BS degree in chemical engineering in 1966 from Pennsylvania State University and my MS and Ph.D. degrees in chemical engineering from Lehigh University in 1967 and 1971, respectively. I worked as a civilian project manager within the US Army at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, for most of my career focusing on research and development projects involving chemical and biological weapons defense, chemical weapons treaty verification, and preparing US cities to respond to biological terrorist attacks. I had the good fortune of attending the US Army War College resident program in 1977. While at Aberdeen Proving Ground, colleagues and I discovered and successfully applied a novel problem-solving approach, the "wicked-problem approach," that provides access to the full human potential to resolve complex problems. I retired from civil service in 2001 and do consulting in addition to my pastimes—sailing and falconry.