Mr. Heinbuch has a diverse background in DoD acquisition from multiple services and types of weapon platforms during all phases of the acquisition life cycle. He has served as a systems engineer, electronics engineer, reliability and maintainability engineer, industrial engineer and engineering professor. His experience also extends into joint programs as well as foreign military sales programs.
Mr. Heinbuch began his 30-year engineering career in the US Army Engineering Intern Program that consists of one-year classroom training and one year on the job training. After completing the Maintainability Engineering Intern Program, his on the job training and follow on assignment at the US Army Aviation and Missile Command was managing the Man Portable Air Defense Systems stockpile surveillance programs. His work resulted in the first service life extension of the STINGER Basic missile and the retirement of the REDEYE missile system. He also played a key role in the development, testing, and fielding of several Air Defense Command and Control Systems. His next assignment was supporting the US Army Space and Missile Defense Command in the development and testing of the Theater High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) anti-ballistic missile system. The main effort of this assignment was the development of reliability models and simulations to support test assessments and logistics support analysis. Mr. Heinbuch transferred to Naval Aviation Systems Command (NAVAIR) supporting the PMA-265 and PMA-209 in the development, testing, and fielding of the F/A-18E/F computers and display upgrades. His next NAVAIR assignment was the supporting PMA-231 in the development of the Advanced HAWKEYE. Mr. Heinbuch played a key role in preparing the reliability and maintainability elements for milestone B, the System Requirements Review, System Functional Review, and the Integrated Baseline Review. Mr. Heinbuch served as a professor of systems engineering management at Defense Acquisition University from 2003 through 2017. He taught the Systems Engineering (ENG), Production Quality and Manufacturing (PQM), and Intermediated Systems Acquisition (ACQ) DAWII certification courses. He served as the course manager for the PQM level 2 courses, worked with OUSD R&E in the development of the R&M Engineering curriculum for DAU, and served as the regional Lean and Six Sigma champion for the DAU Mid-Atlantic Region.
Mr. Heinbuch’s formal education includes a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of South Florida; Master of Science in Engineering in Systems and Industrial Engineering from the University of Alabama, Huntsville; and Maintainability Engineering from the US Army School of Engineering and Logistics. He has been certified by the American Society for Quality as a Certified Reliability Engineer, and by the International Council on Systems Engineering as a Certified Systems Engineering Professional. He is certified to teach ENG and PQM levels 1 through 3 as well as ACQ level 2. He was awarded the Superior Civilian Service Award in 2017.
Mr. Heinbuch currently works part time as a Reliability and Maintainability Engineering subject matter expert consultant for General Dynamics Information Technology.