Meet the Leadership
Meet the CEO & Chairman
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Chairman, and one of the original founders of D&W Marine Systems Management, Inc., is Mr. Jere R. Widhalm. Continuing a long and successful career of leading continuous quality improvement (CQI) initiatives with a deliverables history vital to the nation’s security in military, economic and international relationship terms, Mr. Widhalm provides strategic planning and tactical execution direction for D&W: in addition to managing the overall operations and resources of the corporation.
A decorated American veteran with over 35 years of experience in the military and marine engineering domains, he has proven extraordinarily effective at overcoming adverse roadblocks to achieve quality and productivity goals while simultaneously integrating new production disciplines and improving employee morale.
Jere Widhalm - CEO & Chairman, Continued
An engineer with multiple ABET accredited degrees and over 190 semester hours of higher education centering around mechanical engineering, design, and manufacturing; he delivers intellectual capital by applying multiple disciplines and best practices in the integration and conceptual deployment of the theory of constraints (TOC); lean manufacturing (LEAN); failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA); failure mode, effect, & criticality analysis (FMECA); both classic and streamlined reliability centered maintenance (RCM) principles; and just plain, good ole common sense.
Jere is a retired naval officer who spent seventeen consecutive years on sea duty while serving on seven ships in a variety of repair and engineering roles: including service on two submarine tenders, two destroyer tenders, an aircraft carrier, a large deck amphibious ship, and a twin hull deep diving, salvage, and submarine rescue ship. Upon conclusion of his career military service, Jere traveled the United States teaching RCM principles to engineers from a wide assortment of naval engineering codes including, but not limited to electronic, structural, mechanical, damage control, and habitability disciplines.
Mr. Widhalm served as the RCM subject matter expert to the team that drafted the first US Government recognized national RCM certification program and when, upon short notice the scheduled presenter was unable to attend, delivered an RCM tutorial on the application of streamlined Reliability Centered Maintenance at the national Reliability and Maintainability Symposium (RAM) held in Seattle, WA in 2002.
Jere spent nine years after 9/11 in the middle east as a Sr. Port Engineer for the USN. His assignment resulted in substantial service life extension and dramatically increased operation availability for multiple Patrol Coastal Class warships, equating to tremendous cost avoidance for both the US Government and the US Taxpayer.
Dave Dwyer - President
Dave serves as D&W’s President. He retired from the U.S. Navy as a Captain (O6) after more than 38 years of distinguished service as an Engineering Limited Duty Officer (LDO).
Dave possesses broad experience and expertise across all facets to include: training, operations, quality assurance, safety, and preventive and corrective maintenance in the marine industry.
He holds a Master’ Degree in Business Administration (MBA) from Excelsior School of Business, Albany, NY.
Chuck Widhalm - Chief Technology Officer
Chuck Widhalm brings 30+ years of experience in commercial and DoD RF and wireless systems development to D&W Marine Systems Management. Mr. Widhalm is a Registered Professional Engineer in the State of Texas with a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology in Rapid City, South Dakota.
Mr. Widhalm brings experience in antenna and RF systems design, working on state of the art military aircraft defense systems. He has lead multiple R&D teams establishing emerging RF technologies resulting in lower cost solutions for premier DoD RF defense systems. During his tenure at Texas Instrument’s Defense Systems and Equipment Group leading various engineering development teams, resulting in his presenting a paper at the 1993 ARPA Symposium as part of the Raytheon-Texas Instruments Joint Venture titled “Application of a Statistical Design Process to Increase Predicted GEN-X Module First Pass Yield”. This paper was also selected as one of 4 papers to be presented, out of 140 submitted, at the TI Technical Ladder Recognition Day in 1994.
Mr. Widhalm then turned his attention to creating an organization to convert defense & security technology to a commercially viable entity, establishing a field sales, installation and maintenance organization generating $80M of revenue within two years.
Mr. Widhalm has focused on analyzing major cost drivers, new products, product enhancements, and new markets to increase revenue and profitability within companies, utilizing predictive and preventative maintenance concepts for energy management programs within multiple Fortune 100 companies. He has established multiple relationships with software and hardware manufacturers in various industries to bring technology showing predictive maintenance, remote control and monitoring to the forefront of the decision making process.
