Jim Sencindiver

Jim Sencindiver (Col ’77 CM) retired from the federal government June 3, 2013, after 31 years of service. He began his career as a U.S. Navy submarine officer, graduating from the Naval Nuclear Power School (now the Nuclear Power Program) and Basic Enlisted Submarine School, where he qualified on submarines, earning the “gold dolphins” of the Submarine Warfare Insignia before reporting to the USS James Monroe. Mr. Sencindiver was later assigned to Commander, Submarine Force Atlantic staff as the ballistic missile submarine maintenance and new construction officer. At the end of his shore tour in 1983, he resigned from active duty and joined the Naval Reserve, where he rose to the rank of commander before retiring in 2000. He worked for five years with two defense contractors before beginning work as a civil service general engineer in 1989, supporting various offices in the Naval Sea Systems Command and NAVSEA-related program executive offices in Crystal City, Va., and later, the Washington Navy Yard. In 2008, Mr. Sencindiver transferred to the Marine Corps Systems Command at Quantico, Va., to work as a “system of systems” systems engineer. He currently resides with his wife, Sheila, in a 102-year-old house in Fredericksburg, Va., that will keep him busy in his retirement.