Daniel A. Burgess
Insightful · Impactful · Influential
I turn data into decisive impact — delivering trusted, insight-driven solutions that cut costs, accelerate decisions, and expand influence. With 19+ years at Lockheed Martin and a career that bridges enterprise AI engineering, behavioral science, and clinical practice, I bring a combination no other candidate in any applicant pool has.
What I Do Now
I serve as a Staff Data Analyst (E4) in Lockheed Martin Aeronautics’ Finance & Business Operations Digital Transformation organization, leading a 17+ project portfolio of automation, AI/ML, and dashboarding solutions across F-35 Production, FP&A, Billings, Tax, and Compliance spanning five sites. I’ve delivered $3M+ in quantified cost savings and earned 5 consecutive Exceeded performance ratings (FY2021–FY2025).
In April 2026, I received the Aero Star Team Award — given to less than 1% of Aeronautics employees annually — for my contributions to the Tariff Mitigation Strategy Team, which built the mitigation framework and real-time tracking system that reduced enterprise cash impact by hundreds of millions of dollars.
The Combination
What makes my profile unusual is the intersection of disciplines. I hold four degrees: an M.A. in Counseling Psychology and an M.S. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from John F. Kennedy University, plus dual B.S. degrees in Corporate Finance and Business Management from Utah Valley University. I’m a dual-state Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (California & Utah) with 10+ years of post-licensure clinical experience.
This means I can build production RAG pipelines and LLM evaluation harnesses and speak credibly to behavioral AI ethics, fairness frameworks, and human-centered transparency documentation. For AI safety, responsible AI, trust & safety, and behavioral-health technology roles, the combination is genuinely rare.
Independent Engineering
Outside Lockheed, I operate a production Cloudflare Workers fleet (60+ Workers across 5+ D1 databases with R2 storage, OAuth 2.0, and REST APIs), build LLM fine-tuning and evaluation pipelines over a 10,000+ paper research corpus, and have shipped a forensic content-watermarking SaaS (ContentShield Pro) from concept to integration testing.
Clinical & Research
I founded and operate Ascent Family Therapy (Provo, UT), specializing in couples therapy, family systems, and intimacy. I’ve analyzed 10,000+ peer-reviewed papers on therapeutic models, sexuality, and treatment outcomes, and am authoring a book-length manuscript, Sacred: How Divine Sexuality Brings Wholeness.
Certifications
Alteryx Core Certified (2024) · Lean Six Sigma Green Belt · EVMS Practitioner · CAM Certified · Black Belt Mentor/Facilitator (2008–2016) · MIT xPRO Systems Engineering Certificates (Architecture of Complex Systems, Quantitative Methods, Model-Based SE)
Awards
2026 Aero Star Team Award — Lockheed Martin Aeronautics (<1% of employees) · 2010 Shining Star Award · 15 Years of Service (2021) · 30+ peer and leadership recognitions · Significantly Exceeded ratings (FY2018–2019) · 5 consecutive Exceeded ratings (FY2021–2025)
What People Say
Daniel is an asset to Lockheed Martin. His exceptional work ethic, collaborative spirit, expertise for getting to the heart of the needs of the project, and his personal dedication to resolve issues is beyond impressive.
— Derrick Wehner, Lockheed Martin Space
Recognized as the ‘database guru’ connecting internal and external data sources, creating workflows, and ensuring data integrity for the high-visibility F-35 withholds automation project.
— Stacee Taylor, F-35 Production
Daniel has worked tirelessly… worked weekends to learn Python and understand machine learning in Alteryx to create a workflow that literally ‘reads’ data in paragraph form.
— Tonya Hersh, F-35 Withholds