Daniel Ramirez, President & CEO

Mr. Daniel Ramirez is the President and CEO of Advanced Logistics Support Corporation (ALS). ALS was founded in March 2006 to provide Engineering and Logistics services for Government and commercial entities. Headquartered in Las Cruces, NM. ALS is SBA 8(a) certified.

Prior to founding ALS, Mr. Ramirez was a System Engineer for TMC Design Corporation (TMC), headquartered in Las Cruces, NM. He was also on TMC's Executive Board of Directors. While at TMC, Mr. Ramirez was the Project Manager on multiple system design projects. Mr. Ramirez has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from New Mexico State University.

Joe Ramirez, Vice President, Embedded Software Division

Joe Ramirez has a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from New Mexico State University and a Master's of Engineering Management from New Mexico Institute of Technology and Mining.

Joe Ramirez was one of the original founding members of Your International Computer Systems (YICS) in Las Cruces, NM. in 1994.

Jose worked for Lockheed Martin Information Systems at Kirtland Air Force Base from 1998 until 2000. At Lockheed Martin he developed software for virtual reality trainers. This included a virtual-reality airfield control tower simulator, inertial/sonic motion tracker software, and GUI interfaces.

After Lockheed, Jose joined Honeywell International in Albuquerque, NM. At Honeywell, Jose started his career as an embedded software engineer on the T-45 avionics suite. Jose continued to develop embedded software on additional avionics systems such as the F-15, F-18, F-16, B2, OH-58, and CH-47. Jose became an expert in embedded systems, especially real-time embedded software. He has expertise in C, C++, Assembly, VxWorks, and Green Hill Integrity. After a decade of software engineer, Jose became a technical manager and a systems engineer. He completed a 1 year ex-pat assignment in Puerto Rico where he helped establish a new Honeywell engineering facility in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico.

Jose left Honeywell to become the Director of Operations at TriLumina Corp, a great startup company with an amazing laser technology.

Jose was then asked to become Vice President of Embedded Software Innovations. As Vice President at ESI, Joe is responsible for customer satisfaction, business development, financial administration, staff development, and engineering. And when the engineers are not looking, he will sneak in after hours and develop some code. :-)

Carolyn Keen, Director, Technical Conference Division

Ms. Carolyn Keen, the Project Manager, is an expert in conference/meeting/symposium/report writing session support and production. She has 30+ years in the management of government conferences and general meetings.

Her management experience includes over 450 conferences/meetings/symposiums/report writing sessions, over 30 Summer Studies, report writing sessions, and exhibitions for the DoD, Navy, Army, Air Force, NASA, EPA, FAA, DTRA and commercial customers at more than 25 sites in the United States, Canada and Europe.

The New Mexico Technology Flying 40 awards annually recognize the 40 fastest-growing technology companies headquartered in New Mexico. The program, now in its thirteenth year, invites companies to participate in one of three categories:

1. The top revenue growth companies with revenues between $1 million and $10 million
2. The top revenue growth companies with revenues of more than $10 million. (Categories 1 and 2 will be calculated on the percentage of revenue growth between 2004 and 2009).
3. The top revenue-producing technology companies irrespective of revenue growth.

The Flying 40 awards are sponsored by the Business Outlook section of the Albuquerque Journal, KPMG LLP, New Mexico Bank & Trust, Technology Ventures Corporation, the Sandia Science and Technology Park Development Corporation, and the Albuquerque Isotopes.