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Meet OUR team

Our Team: Leading the Way to Tomorrow

nou Systems has grown in large part due to the talent and dedication of its people. Our employees are exceptional, giving us a competitive advantage by innovating solutions with a strong sense of mission and integrity.

Our Team is made up of:

Technical experts who can analyze complex problems, decompose them into their essential components, and develop innovative solutions. 

Operators knowledgeable of the tactical employment of military systems and equipment.

Professionals that can create a productive and pleasant environment for the workforce.

In all cases, we are looking for high-energy, motivated individuals who can LeadLearnCollaborate, and Communicate. 

nou Systems Leadership

Rebecca Romine
Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Becky Romine, founder and CEO of nou Systems, Inc., is a native of North Alabama and a graduate of the University of Alabama in Huntsville.  She began her technical career as an employee of Nichols Research Corporation where she researched camouflage, concealment and deception techniques and led the development of software products for the Army Corp of Engineers.  Subsequent to her employment at Nichols Research, Becky was a Research Scientist in Georgia Institute of Technology’s School of Civil Engineering.  In this capacity, she worked as part of a dynamic team of professors and researchers in the Georgia Tech CASE Center in the development of a structural engineering analysis product called GTSTRUDL.  As a mathematician and computer scientist, Becky developed software that increased the utility and ease of use of the product and provided other technical support to GTSTRUDL customers.  Becky also pursued graduate studies at Georgia Tech in Computer Science focusing on computer graphics and user interface design. 

 

Brent Romine
President

Dr. Brent Romine, President and partner of nou Systems, Inc., began researching defense systems and applying technology to solve defense-related problems twenty-five years ago in graduate school at Georgia Institute of Technology, where he received a PhD in Electrical Engineering.  For over sixteen years, Brent was employed by MIT Lincoln Laboratory (MIT/LL), a Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) that applies advanced technology to problems of national security. During this tenure at MIT/LL, Brent rose from the ranks of the Technical Staff to the position of Assistant Head of the Air and Missile Defense Division where he oversaw more than 450 people executing an annual research and development portfolio of approximately $120M.  During his career, Brent has demonstrated the ability to develop, organize, cultivate, and lead teams as they tackle technical problems. He has substantial experience designing, planning, and executing complex flight and ground tests and is an acknowledged Ballistic Missile Defense System and associated sensor technology subject matter expert.

 

William Brower
Vice President

Dr. William Brower, Vice President and partner of nou Systems, Inc., has over twenty years experience in radar, data fusion, and the Ballistic Missile Defense System. Bill started his career with MIT Lincoln Laboratory, a Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC), and worked on a variety of advanced topics including synthetic aperture radar, radar imaging, classification of ground targets, automatic target identification, and information and data fusion algorithm development and design. Bill was promoted to line management at Lincoln Laboratory to assist with the leadership of the Huntsville Field Site, and served as the Director of the Missile Defense Agency’s Sensors Knowledge Center. Bill received a BS degree in Physics from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and MS and PhD degrees in Experimental Particle Physics from the University of California, San Diego.

 

Frank Mello
Vice President

Dr. Frank Mello, Vice President and partner of nou Systems, Inc., has over twenty-five years of experience as an engineer, researcher and tester. Frank began his career with Northeast Utilities providing engineering support for three commercial nuclear power plants in Connecticut. After graduate school, Frank joined Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque NM, a Department of Energy laboratory.  Frank worked in the Engineering Mechanics department as a researcher and code developer before taking an assignment to support the Director, Operational Test and Evaluation (DOT&E) to coordinate oversight of missile lethality testing and weapon effectiveness modeling. Frank then served as the Technical Director for the Department of Defense High Performance Computing Modernization Office before returning to DOT&E to oversee operational testing and evaluation for missile defense programs. Most recently Frank was a Principle Research Engineer with Georgia Institute of Technology and served as the Director of the Ballistic Missile Defense System Capability Assessment Team, a role he took over from Brent.  Frank received an ScB degree in Engineering from Brown University, a MS degree in Structural Engineering from the University of Connecticut, and a PhD in Computational Mechanics from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

 
nou Systems supports customers throughout the United States. 

nou Systems supports customers throughout the United States.