Jose Ramirez

Jose Ramirez is vice president of government services at OptTek Systems, Inc. He served as the Warfighting Analysis Division Chief (Colonel) in the Joint Staff J-8, where he led, managed, and provided analytical guidance to a 40-personnel team of analytical modelers, national defense strategists, and cybersecurity personnel. He has guided campaign-level, state-of-the-art, discrete-event modeling and simulation and data analytics supporting the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Combatant Commanders. He has strategized and conducted operational assessments of capabilities vs. peer adversaries for insights on future equipment modernization investment options and implemented advanced data analytics technology on the DoD’s global munitions requirements process. Dr. Ramirez holds a B.S. in civil engineering from the University of Notre Dame, an M.S. in government information leadership from the National Defense University’s College of Information and Cyberspace, an M.S.E. in operations research and industrial engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, and a Ph.D. in operations management (operations research) from the University of Colorado at Boulder.