Colonel James J. Raftery, Jr., Ph.D.
COL Jim Raftery is an Academy Professor in the
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science at the United States Military Academy at West
Point, NY. He is the department’s lead researcher
within the Photonics Research Center. He graduated
as a Distinguished Military Graduate from Washing-
ton University in St. Louis in 1988 with a B.S. degree
in electrical engineering and was commissioned as a
second lieutenant in the U.S. Army Signal Corps. He
holds a M.S. degree in electrical engineering from the
University of Missouri – Columbia, a Master of Stra-
tegic Studies from the U.S. Army War College, and
a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has 15 years ex-
perience as an Army Acquisition Corps officer and
has served three years as the Product Manager for
Information Warfare within the Army’s Program Ex-
ecutive Office for Intelligence, Electronic Warfare, and
Sensors. He is DAWIA Level III certified in both the
Program Manager and the Science and Technology
Manager career fields. He is a senior member of the
IEEE, and a member of the Optical Society of America
and the American Society for Engineering Education.
He is an author/co-author of more than twenty peer
reviewed publications. His research interests are in
semiconductor lasers and power-energy technologies.
Dr. William (Bill) Doe III
Dr. William (Bill) Doe is the CEO of Veterans Green
Jobs, a 501 (c) 3 national non-profit, headquartered in
Denver, Colorado. Bill is a career Army veteran hav-
ing served on active duty in the Army Corps of En-