Felix A. A. Rausch

Felix started his career in aerospace developing a quantitative aviation safety model for the C-5A at Lockheed. He was a consultant for Booz Allen Applied Research and Westinghouse doing work for the Navy and DOT. In 1972, he joined the FCC and became an expert in managing large projects in software conversion and systems reengineering that included the first ever successful fixed price large application software conversion at the FCC.

In 1979, he was responsible for transitioning ten acres of computing infrastructure, software, and people at the Social Security Administration to a new Data Center, the largest logistics and systems engineering project ever undertaken at the SSA. He did this without interruption of service and completed the project under budget. Back in Washington, Felix became Assistant Commissioner for Systems Integration at INS. He was the CIO at Interpol and became Deputy CIO at the White House (EOP) for four years. In 1990 he began development of the FAA National Aviation Safety Data Analysis Center (NASDAC), the first Data Warehouse in Government, before moving to Systems Engineering and taking over the missionary task of developing a National Airspace Space Information Architecture.

When he left Government Felix became Director for Government Services for an Enterprise Architecture Modeling company for 2 years. EA became his love and he and Dr Bellman started the FEAC Institute to address the issues of training and Certification in this important emerging discipline. Felix attended Gymnasium in Germany and has an Applied Math degree from the University of Alabama and an MS in Information Science from Georgia Tech and has done MBA work at Loyola in Baltimore. Felix is a frequent board member and presenter at EA conferences