Redstone Rocket:
Wayne Leonard believes in developing relationships and communication.
He expressed their importance Friday when taking the helm of the Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor System. Leonard became the JLENS product director in an assumption of charter ceremony at the Program Executive Office for Missiles and Space headquarters building 5250.
Leonard received the charter from Col. Terrence Howard, the Cruise Missile Defense Systems project manager.
“Each of you is an important member of the unique team,” Leonard told the ceremony’s attendees gathered in the first-floor conference room.
Among his previous assignments were network team lead at Lower Tier Project Office, deputy for acquisition and system management at PEO Missiles and Space and product manager for fire control and communications for the Missile Defense Agency, Ground-Based Midcourse Defense Joint Project Office.
Leonard, 55, was born at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. He received a bachelor’s in civil engineering at the University of Alabama in Birmingham in 1982. He earned a master’s of business administration with a specialty in operations research from Florida Institute of Technology in 1991 and a master’s in leadership and management from Webster University in 2010.
He and his wife, Mychelle, reside in Huntsville. They have three children.
“I’m honored and humbled by this competent management team,” Howard said. “And I’m confident in its abilities.”
