Mr. Wendel is a former Naval Surface Warfare Officer with extensive experience in the use of modeling & simulation technologies to support engineering design, test & evaluation and warfare analysis. Mr. Wendel held Combat System and Engineering positions while in uniform and, following his military service, he embarked on his civilian career as a military technical liaison with LORAL Advanced Distributed Simulation, Inc. while supporting the Synthetic Theatre of War (STOW) Program. Prior to founding AVW Technologies, he was a simulation technology manager with Coleman Research Corporation, Inc. supporting both the AAAV and LPD 17 Programs. Throughout his civilian career he has utilized his engineering management skills to create modeling & simulation strategies to support major acquisition programs, and has worked in concert with ship designers, test & evaluation professionals, and naval engineers to develop cost-effective approaches and reutilization of modeling & simulation tools to support all facets of the acquisition cycle. Mr. Wendel currently supports the CVN 21 Program as a Simulation Technologist and the LPD 17 Program as the lead analyst for the Probability of Raid Annihilation Assessment. Mr. Wendel is fluent in the use of 3-D Product Models, Integrated Data Environments, Distributed Integration Testing, and High Fidelity Distributed Simulations. He is a graduate of Villanova University, BS, ME, and Naval Post Graduate School, MS, ME.