Leadership

Leonid J. Tasheiko, Esq.

Chief Executive Officer

Leonid J. Tasheiko, Esq. is the Chief Executive Officer of LJT & Associates, Inc. At its inception, LJT & Associates, Inc. began providing Computer Science, Communications and Information Technology services to the U. S. Air Force and the U. S. Navy involving several tactical command and control weapons systems. The breadth of the technical services provided by LJT & Associates, Inc. quickly expanded into other disciplines resulting in a full-service engineering company. Currently, LJT & Associates, Inc. provides engineering services to NASA and various DOD agencies involved in the national space programs as well as major weapons systems. As CEO of LJT & Associates, Inc., Mr. Tasheiko provides the overarching vision and guidance to a team of exceptional engineers that spans all major engineering disciplines.

Robert J. Conrad

President and Chief Operating Officer

Robert J. Conrad is President and Chief Operating Officer of LJT, overseeing day-to-day management and execution of all LJT operations, and also serves on LJT’s Board of Directors.  Prior to his appointment to company President, Mr. Conrad served as Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Vice President of Business Development and Vice President of Federal Space.

Prior to LJT, Mr. Conrad was Vice President of Operations at TSI TelSys, Inc. overseeing a technology manufacturing company supporting the remote sensing market. Before TSI, Mr. Conrad spent 10 years with Allied Signal Aerospace Technical Services and its predecessor Bendix Field Engineering Corporation. Mr. Conrad served as Deputy Director of Space Services and before that held various engineering and management positions supporting the aerospace sector.

Mr. Conrad is an Advisor to the LJT Board of Directors and also serves on the Leadership Advisory Board to Capitol College.  Mr. Conrad holds a United States Patent on a Continuous Tunable High Rate Communication Receiver and is a licensed Sea Captain by the U.S. Coast Guard and the U.S. Merchant Mariners.

Mr. Conrad holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Capitol College in Laurel, MD, and a Masters of Science in Electrical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD.  He currently resides in Burtonsville, Maryland, with his wife Jennifer and three children.

Don Hough

Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Don Hough is Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for LJT managing its finance and administrative operations including Human Resources, accounting, and contracts, as well as holding a membership position on LJT’s Board of Directors. Mr. Hough has more than 20 years experience in organizational and administrative management in the federal contract sector.

Previous to LJT, Mr. Hough served in various accounting and financials roles with SAIC, American Systems Corporation, ATF, the Space Telescope Science Institute, and the MedStar Research Institute.

Mr. Hough holds a Bachelor of Science in Financial Management and minors in Economics & Accounting from Clemson University and a Masters of Business Administration from Marymount University. He is an active Certified Public Accountant in the State of Maryland.

Mr. Hough resides in Baltimore, Maryland, with his wife Robin and two children. 

Randy Hunter

Vice President of Business Development

Randy Hunter joined LJT & Associates in April of 2007 as the Director of Business Development. In April of 2009 Mr. Hunter was promoted to Vice President of Business Development.

For the 7 years prior to LJT, Mr. Hunter was the Assistant Vice President of Systems Engineering & Integration and Business Development – Space Coast Operations for SAIC. He was responsible for the management and direction of engineering and operations activities associated with Expendable Launch Vehicles, Software Engineering, Space Lift Range Services Radar Engineering and Reliability Engineering activities for NASA. These responsibilities included Software Engineering, Database Architecture, Safety & Mission Assurance, Reliability, and Range Systems.

Mr. Hunter spent 14 years with McDonnell Douglas – Boeing at the Kennedy Space Center as a Senior Manager and Program Manager on what is now known as the KSC ELVIS Contract. He also managed all voice, data & video systems engineering for Boeing on the Payload Ground Operations Contract (PGOC). Before that he worked with the Shuttle Electrical Payloads Department as the Manager of Payload Electrical Engineering. He started in the Shuttle Payload community as a Senior Systems Engineer and was the lead electrical engineer for the planetary missions (Galileo, Magellan, and Ulysses) as well as the STS-26R return to Flight Mission.

Mr. Hunter graduated from Ohio Northern University in 1983 with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Minor in Business Management.  Mr. Hunter holds an Extra Class Amateur Radio License and is a licensed private pilot.

Mr. Hunter lives in Merritt Island, Florida, with his wife Kim. 

James W. Bishop

Vice President of Operations

James W. Bishop joined LJT & Associates in August of 2002 as the Director of Federal Space. He is currently the Vice President of Operations and his responsibilities include both overseeing all of LJT operations and business development.

Mr. Bishop's career began at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in 1995 with the Microelectronics branch in the Engineering Directorate. Having graduated from the University of Maryland at College Park with a BSEE, he continued his graduate work pursuing his doctorate in semiconductor device physics until his departure in late 1995 as a founding member of TSI Telesys Inc., where he served as Director of Engineering and Vice President of Operations responsible for producing high rate telemetry products.

Mr. Bishop lives in Ellicott City, Maryland, with his wife Lori and three children.

Hubert Chang

Vice President and Chief Technologist

Hubert Chang serves as LJT’s Vice President and Chief Technologist. He has over twenty-eight years of professional experience in engineering, management and business development supporting the DoD, NASA and IRS sectors.

Prior to joining LJT, Mr. Chang was with TSI Telesys for three years as the Director of Information Technology and Director of Business Development, for Satellite Ground Station Development. Prior to TSI Telesys, he worked with eGlobe as a Director of Network Planning, leading network engineers in the design and planning of the international long distance telephone switches and carriers.

In other previous assignments, Mr. Chang has supported many DoD projects including Worldwide Military Command Control Systems, Medical Information Systems for Army and Air Force, and LAN/WAN design for Marine Corps at Okinawa, Japan. In the mid 1980s, Hubert joined Honeywell DDN (Defense Data Network) team to implement TCP/IP protocols, Telnet and FTP (File Transfer Protocol).

Mr. Chang holds a Bachelor of Science in Atmospheric Physics from Culture University in Taiwan and Master of Science in Computer Science from Minnesota State University. He has received five outstanding achievement awards from NASA HQ, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and Wallops Flight Facility.