Rich Heinze, founder and president of Heinze Consultants, graduated with a BSEE from Carnegie-Mellon University and has taken MSEE coursework at Stanford University. Richard's began his career as an electrical engineer for the Naval Electronic System Engineering Center. He went on to design and develop microprocessor-based hardware and software for a complex ESM system. In the early 2000's, he shifted his focus to the USAF where he designed and developed a major modification to an air traffic control system.

Richard joined the team at Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems (AS). He worked on TRITON UAV project in requirements verification for Environmental Requirements of various pieces of equipment onboard the UAV. He founded Heinze Consultants, a high tech electrical engineering and business consulting company based in San Diego, California, in 2016.