Dr. James E. Coolahan Chief Technology
Officer Coolahan Associates, LLC 3013
Boones Lane Ellicott City, MD 21042
jim.coolahan@comcast.net 410-440-2425
(cell) SUMMARY Dr. James E. Coolahan
is the Chief Technology Officer of
Coolahan Associates, LLC, having
retired from full-time employment at
the Johns Hopkins University Applied
Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL) in
December 2012 after 40 years of
service. Within Coolahan Associates,
Dr. Coolahan teaches short courses on
digital engineering and on modeling
and simulation (M&S) in systems
engineering, and provides consulting
services in the U.S. defense industry.
He chaired the M&S Committee of
the Systems Engineering Division of
the National Defense Industrial
Association from 2010 through 2016,
and teaches courses in digital
engineering and in modeling and
simulation for systems engineering in
the JHU Engineering for Professionals
M.S. program in Systems Engineering,
for which he also serves as Outreach
Manager. He holds B.S. and M.S.
degrees in aerospace engineering from
the University of Notre Dame and the
Catholic University of America,
respectively, and M.S. and Ph.D.
degrees in computer science from JHU
and the University of Maryland,
respectively. Dr. Coolahan has a
technical background in M&S,
computer simulation
systems/architectures, real-time data
acquisition systems, systems and
software engineering, aerospace
engineering, and missile system test
and evaluation (T&E). He has
program management experience as a
project manager, program manager, and
program area manager; line supervisory
experience as a group supervisor and a
branch supervisor; and corporate staff
experience. Dr. Coolahan also served
as a member of the National Research
Council (NRC) Committee on Modeling
and Simulation Enhancements for 21st
Century Manufacturing and Acquisition
in 2000-2002.