Carol M. Craig is our President, CEO, CFO and additionally functions as a Senior Software Engineer. As such, Carol is focused on applying her vast educational and employment experiences to give Craig Technologies the necessary edge when developing solutions to complex problems. She leads a team of consultants and engineers that stands ready to provide to customers with a wide range of services including avionics software development, project management, software systems engineering, web design, data warehousing and more.
Carol holds a BA in Computer Science from
Knox College, a BS in Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois and an MS in Electrical Computer Engineering from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Carol is presently pursuing her PhD in Electrical Computer Engineering at Florida Institute of Technology.
Carol’s achievements include over 18 years of software engineering experience along with extensive knowledge of and experience in the design, development and operation of many complex military systems. Carol served on active duty as a P-3C Orion Naval Flight Officer, specializing in Anti-Submarine and Subsurface Warfare. Prior to her service, she was a key computer engineer for Naval Air Warfare Center-Indianapolis where she concentrated on the integration of Global Positioning Systems and Cockpit Display development for several Navy and Marine Corps aircraft.
Carol has in-depth knowledge of military IT security and installation as a result of her tenure as the Automated Information Security Manager for the Strike Fighter Weapons School, Pacific in Lemoore, CA. She previously represented Craig Technologies through a contract at the Strike Fighter Weapons School, Atlantic in Virginia Beach, VA where she instructed Navy Portable Flight Planning System (N-PFPS) software and developed mission planning training courseware.
Carol also has a broad knowledge of the healthcare Insurance industry and the challenges it faces with data collection, processing and storage. She specializes in the transition from legacy reporting processes to the current standards of data warehousing. Carol’s expertise allowed Craig Technologies to provide clients such as Amerigroup Corporation and Magellan Healthcare Services with successful solutions to their data migration issues.
In 2008, Carol was selected as the “Space Coast Outstanding Woman Engineer” of the year. She currently serves as the Vice Chair of the University of Central Florida Industrial Engineering & Management Systems Executive Advisory Board. She is a board member for Junior Achievement of East Central Florida and serves as Secretary for the Foundation for Prader-Willi Research (FPWR), an international non-profit organization dedicated to funding research and finding treatments for Prader-Willi Syndrome. Carol is mother to Danny and Gillian Craig and wife to CAPT (sel) John W. Craig, USN.