Mr. Pierson has over 25 years experience as an acquisition professional with systems engineering, modeling & simulation, software engineering, instrumentation systems, training systems, and program management. He joined PEO Land Systems Marine Corps in April 2007.

Mr. Pierson serves as the Deputy, PEO Land Systems Marine Corps at Quantico. He is responsible for management and oversight of assigned ACAT I and II acquisition programs.

Prior to this assignment, Mr. Pierson served on the Joint Staff J8 (2005-2007) working special projects for the JROC and was the Department of the Army Service Coordinator for the Future Combat Systems (FCS) program (2003-2005), one of the largest DOD acquisition programs to date. He also served in multiple leadership capacities for the Army’s FCS program as Director of Modeling & Simulation (1999-2000) and Director of Systems Engineering & Integration (2000-2002).

Prior to that, he served as the lead systems engineer for the Combat Training Centers (1995-1999) for the Simulation Training and Instrumentation Command (STRICOM) in Orlando, Florida. Mr. Pierson began his career at Picatinny Arsenal first in the Life Cycle Software Engineering Center (1982-1988) and then as branch head in the Measurement Systems Section (1988-1995).

Mr. Pierson is a Certified Level III Acquisition Professional in the Systems Planning, Research, Development and Engineering field and in the Program Management field.

EDUCATION: Wilkes University, B.S. in Electrical Engineering, 1982
Stevens Institute of Technology, Masters of Science in Management of Technology, 1997
Graduate of the Army Management Staff College (AMSC), 1999
Graduate of the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, Master of Science in National Resource Strategy, 2003
Federal Executive Institute (FEI), Charlottesville, VA, January-February, 2010