Carl M. Burnett
(240) 696-1906
cmburn@live.com
PROFESSIONAL CAPABILITY SUMMARY
CWO Four (Ret) Carl M. Burnett is a retired U.S. Army Chief Warrant Officer with 22 years of active-duty service in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. His background includes facilities engineering, emergency electrical power, information technology, organizational leadership, business management, nonprofit service, and higher education.
Since 2004, Mr. Burnett has served as an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University and Montgomery College, where he teaches information technology. He earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in information and Telecommunication Technology from Johns Hopkins University in 2003, graduating summa cum laude.
In 1977, while serving as a Specialist Four, he became a certified and licensed Third-Class Nuclear Reactor Operator through the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. In 1979, he was appointed as a Warrant Officer One and became a certified and licensed U.S. Army Nuclear Power Plant Warrant Officer Technician. In 1984, General John A. Wickham, Chief of Staff of the Army, selected him to serve on the Department of the Army Total Warrant Officer Study. As the study’s warrant officer staffing requirements analyst, he developed an artificial intelligence expert system that supported analysis of the warrant officer force and the requirements for the W5 pay grade. In 1989, he was selected as the U.S. Army representative to the Department of Defense Warrant Officer Study. Congress approved the CW5 pay grade for all Armed Services in 1991, with the passage of the Warrant Officer Management Act (Public Law 102–190). In 1993, as commander of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Prime Power Detachment at Fort Shafter, Hawaii, he served as the regional Facilities Engineering Officer in Charge for Emergency Support Function 3, Emergency Electrical Power. His work supported federal responses to Typhoon Omar in Guam and Hurricane Iniki in Hawaii. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Federal Emergency Management Agency recognized his contributions with a Meritorious Service Medal.
After retiring from the Army in 1994, he founded and led Prime Radiant Productions, Inc. and The Real Estate Cable Network, Inc. from 1995 to 2000. In 1996, he developed the GEOCODE process and the Geospatial Media Recorder. Patent applications submitted in 1999 were approved in 2003. The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers recognized related technology standards for analog and digital cameras in 2000. From 2003 to 2005, he served as a Senior Associate at Booz Allen Hamilton. He later founded and led Globalfindability, Inc. through 2006. In 2007, the Internet Engineering Task Force adopted the GEOCODE data format. That year, he founded Geocode-LA, Inc. to license his approved standard-essential patents to international companies. In 2009, he worked as a Senior Project Manager with General Dynamics Information Technology, providing specialized information technology support to the U.S. Senate.
Mr. Burnett served in several leadership positions with the United States Army Warrant Officers Association, including chapter president, national vice president, and national president from 1984 to 1986. In 2001, as a founding member of VETSPAC, he helped advocate for Combat-Related Special Compensation for combat-disabled military retirees. Combat-Related Special Compensation (CRSC) was enacted by Congress in 2002, as part of the Bob Stump National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2003 (Public Law 107-314). In 2022, while serving as Vice President of the International Pickleball Federation, he helped secure recognition of the federation by The Association for International Sport for All. He is a lifetime member of the United States Army Warrant Officers Association, the 1918 Society, the Society of American Military Engineers, AMVETS, the Military Officers Association of America, and the Association of the United States Army.
Colleges and Universities
Learning Sites
