Wink received his Ph.D. in Industrial Organizational Psychology from Texas A&M University in 1995. He is currently the Readiness Product Line Lead for the Airman Systems Directorate located at Wright Patterson AFB Ohio. He is a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology and the Association for Psychological Science. He is also an Air Force Research Laboratory Research Fellow and a Fellow of the American Psychological Association. He is the USAF representative to the NATO Modeling and Simulation Group (NMSG). He has been involved in the modeling  and simulation research and practice community for over 30 years. He is spearheading the Combat Air Forces migration to proficiency-based training and is conducting research related to the integration of live and virtual training and performance environments to improve mission readiness and job proficiency. He leads research that has developed methods to monitor and routinely assess individual and team performance across live and virtual environments and evaluating game-based approaches for training, work design, and job restructuring. He maintains an active presence in the international research and practice community through his work on various professional committees and his contributions in professional journals and forums including I/ITSEC. Over the past few years he  has co-edited a handbook on work design and job analysis, a textbook on skill retention and decay, and a textbook on remotely piloted aircraft systems.