Meet the Team

The Leadership Team at S &T Consulting and Program Management are experts in their respective fields of health behavior and human resource management.

Dr. Susan Woodruff
President

Dr. Susan Woodruff is President, co-founder, and manager of S & T Consulting and Program Management, LLC, an R&D and management consulting firm. With Professor Emeritus status, Dr. Woodruff recently retired as a behavioral epidemiologist and Professor at the School of Social Work at San Diego State University, and Director of Center for Alcohol and Drug Studies and Services. Dr. Woodruff has over 25 years of experience in the area of health research, much of it with underserved, high risk, and understudied populations, including the military. Her primary area of interest over the past few years has been tobacco and drug use prevalence, risk factor assessment, and intervention. In addition, chronic disease behavioral risk factors among military personnel has been an ongoing area of research. Recently, Dr. Woodruff served as the lead epidemiologist for Naval Health Research Center’s Combat Trauma Registry and principal investigator on a study assessing environmental influences on alcohol misuse among Marines. She was formerly a Leidos consultant and co-investigator of the Wounded Warrior Recovery Project for the Navy Health Research Center.

Dr. Woodruff has served as principal investigator, co-investigator, or statistician on several large epidemiological and intervention studies, including a large DoD-funded effort to assess relapse prevention strategies for U.S. Navy women smokers; evaluation of the U.S. Navy’s health and physical readiness program; a prospective study of the impact of smoking at entry into boot camp on subsequent career and medical events; evaluation of the U.S. Navy’s Healthy Back program; program evaluation of the Navy’s remedial conditioning program for those service members failing components of the physical readiness test; an assessment of traumatic brain injury in Iraq and its medical, performance, and social impact; a prospective study of mental health morbidity among young military women; and evaluation of an experimental treatment for excessive bleeding on the battlefield.

Dr. Woodruff has a master’s degree in experimental psychology and a doctorate in epidemiology from the University of California, San Diego/San Diego State University. She has authored and co-authored 200 articles in scientific journals.

Tom Blanco
Vice President

Tom Blanco is Vice President and one of the founders of S & T Consulting and Program Management, LLC, an R&D and management consulting firm. Tom Blanco is a senior-level program manager with over 40 years of demonstrated experience managing large, complex management science and IT projects related to improving Navy Manpower, Personnel, Training, and Education (MPTE) enterprise-wide business processes, including Navy Selection and Classification (S&C), personnel distribution and assignment, and training resource management. Overall experience in management of these programs includes development and implementation of a $25M+ training reservation (NTRS) and quota management system (NTQMS) for Navy enlisted personnel supply chain and a $25M+ fleet-wide active sailor and reservist career counseling and force management system, Career Waypoints (aka Fleet RIDE). Over Mr. Blanco’s career, he has provided regular high-level status briefings to Assistant Secretary of the Navy and Admirals at major functional Commands (Recruiting, Personnel Planning, Training, and Fleet Operations).  Mr. Blanco currently serves as expert consultant to the Director, Navy Selection and Classification Office, OPNAV-132G.

Before establishing S & T Consulting and Program Management, Tom worked for the global technology and information services company, HP Enterprise Services, where he was responsible for business development, customer relations, project management, and team leadership for all Navy Selection and Classification Business Process Engineering contracts. During his 16-year tenure, Tom led BPR engagements for Navy leadership, resulting in streamlined selection and classification business processes, improved Career Counselor productivity, and better Sailor career outcomes. He also conceptualized and realized an end-state vision of standardizing and optimizing career entry and conversions, centrally managing active and reserve reenlistments, and transitions (active duty to reservist; reservist to active duty).

Tom has a Project Management Professional (PMP) certification from the Project Management Institute and has DoD and private industry certifications in Business Process Reengineering. Tom has a background in both Military Personnel Research Management and IT Program Management, with a professional publications track record on Navy Manpower, Personnel, Training, and Education (MPTE) research and development (R&D) topics. Tom has a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering and a Master’s degree in Business Administration (M.B.A.) with emphasis on operations research.

MG Frank Muth (retired)
Senior Consultant

Retired Army Major General Frank Muth is an Agile executive leader and Army Ground and Aviation Subject Matter Expert, with a demonstrated record of anticipating and driving change to modernize outdated organizational systems and processes. His specialization is visionary leadership, strategic innovation, and human resources, with a proven track record of successfully spearheading unique initiatives, managing geographically dispersed organizations, and solving complex problems on a global scale.

Major General Muth has extensive experience cultivating key partnerships and relationships across the Office of Secretary of Defense, Joint Forces, Army, Industry, Congress, and the civilian sector. A captivating speaker, he possesses the charisma and interpersonal skills to build and grow strong teams in an ever-changing operating environment quickly and effectively.

After 34 years in the U.S. Army, Major General Muth worked for 4 years in the Defense Industry as a Vice President and finally Senior Vice President for Strategy and Innovation at Textron Systems. In this role, he was responsible for strategic planning, sales, marketing, advertising, communications, organizational growth, and mergers and acquisitions for Textron’s multi-billion-dollar business, consisting of a broad range of products and services supporting defense, homeland security, aerospace, and other customers around the world.

Janet Held is a military testing expert and senior consultant for the S & T Consulting and Program Management Company. She signed up with the company right after retiring from a civil service personnel researcher career with the Navy, specializing in applied psychometrics in validating selection and classification tests that place Navy applicants into their best fit occupations. Job duties include providing  technical and policy guidance to Chief of Naval Personnel, Navy Recruiting Command, and Naval Education and Training Command as to how testing policy impacts recruiting, allocation of human resources, and training outcomes. As a PI and research team leader, Janet briefed high level civilian and military personnel on research outcomes regarding the Navy’s setting of Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) test composites and cutscores, both in content and use in establishing and revising the cognitive standards for enlisted occupations (ratings).

Janet was the Navy’s Technical Representative to the Manpower Accession Policy Working Group (MAPWG) for almost 20 years supporting the Navy’s interests in special classification tests that enhance (a) the performance predictive power of tests used in the ASVAB standards, (b) inclusion of diverse groups in rating assignments, and (c) setting cutscores that balance both trainee success while at the same time qualifying as many incoming Navy accessions as possible for over 80 ratings. Much of Janet’s research has been published either as technical reports or journal articles that benefit professionals in fields such as Industrial-Organizational Psychology. One work published in the journal Applied Psychological Measurement (1994) involved a mathematical/statistical explanation for accuracy of the general multivariate formulas rather that the univariate formulas for correcting the validity coefficients (e.g., correlation of ASVAB scores with training performance scores) for restriction in range due to selection effects. Her key Navy ASVAB validation/standards work provided a solution to the multiple ASVAB standards operational for the Nuclear Field ratings, which had contributed to a critical manning shortage.

Janet Held holds a BS degree in Social Science and MS in Psychology with concentration in Industrial-Organizational Psychology. Her current projects include a revalidation of the Nuclear Field standards during a challenging recruiting environment and support for Department of Defense to adopt the Navy’s special classification test, Coding Speed, for all of the military services. The Coding Speed test improves diversity and classification outcomes and is a low maintenance test with a short testing time.