Eric“Erob”Robinson
I'm a About Me
Proven founder, creator of $135M in federal contracts, published MIT grad, Air Force operational expert.
Proven Founder: Founded 4 internal DoD startups worth over $135M in federal contracts.
Solutions Architect: Deployed containerized microservice & AI products in secure government enclaves.
Technical Writing & Business Communication: 2017 Theodore Von Karman Award recipient for peer-reviewed journal article. Briefed Congressional Representatives, 4-star generals, Pentagon officials.
Operational Expert: U.S. Air Force instructor pilot in Iraq, Afghanistan, North Korea, and the Pacific.
Proven Founder
93%Solutions Architect
85%Technical Writing & Business Communication
90%Operational Expert
90%Million in federal contracts created.
Users onboarded into Puckboard, the largest DevSecOps application in the DoD.
Flight hours as an Air Force Pilot (671 instructor hours)
Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Master of Science, Operations Research
GPA: 4.0
- Published 2x conference papers on NASA & Draper Laboratory projects with later journal acceptance.
- Thesis: Coordinated Planning of Air and Space Assets: An Optimization and Learning Based Approach
United States Air Force Academy
Bachelor of Science, Mathematics
GPA: 3.98
- Graduated Class Valedictorian (#1/1035). Elected Team Captain of NCAA Division I Swim Team.
- Researched satellite orbit propagation algorithms at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in 2010.
Experience
Founder and Director, Puckboard
Multiple Locations
- Founded Puckboard, a collaborative, intelligent aircrew flight and training scheduling system.
- Scaled from inception to 182-person team, $74M in federal contracts, 24,464 users, 87 squadrons.
- Puckboard (puckboard.dso.mil and puckboard.apps.dso.mil)
Chief of AI Research in Command and Control (C2) Systems
Air Force Artificial Intelligence Accelerator, Cambridge, MA
- Built on-prem data pipeline for cloud & edge AF C2 / chat systems for triage and prioritization.
- Trained or fine-tuned language models (Transformers, LSTM) on 618th Air Operations Center chat data.
Air Mobility Command Instructor Pilot
60th Air Mobility Wing, Travis Air Force Base, CA
- Piloted and instructed 9 years / 2,146 hours (671 instructor), primarily the C-17A cargo aircraft.
- Delivered Ukrainian aid, repatriated U.S. remains from North Korea, closed Bagram Air Base.
Cofounder, Airmen and Supra Coders & Director, Travis Phoenix Spark
60th Air Mobility Wing, Travis Air Force Base, CA
- Founded $59M digital upskilling program, 30-person team adopted by Spec Ops, Air Force, Space Force.
- Innovation lead for 7K Airmen, directed $5M lab launch. Managed 100 projects / $14M portfolio.
Founder, Director, and Lead Engineer
Tron Air Force, Hickam Air Force Base, HI
- Pacific Air Force’s first DevOps Software Factory. Built 15-person team, 3x software products, first DoD application in Platform One, $64M in AFWERX and GSA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR).
- Launched/scaled C2 chat platform to 48,000 DoD users. Primary Kabul evacuation comm platform.
- Tron Air Force (tron.dso.mil and software.af.mil)
C-17A Instructor & Staff Officer
15th Wing, Hickam Air Force Base, HI