POSITIONS HELD

ACADEMIC

Loughborough University, UK: Wolfson School of Mechanical, Electrical & Manufacturing Engineering

PI, Vehicle as a Complex System, EPSRC/JLR Programme for Simulation Innovation:  through 2018

Royal Academy of Engineering Chair of Systems Engineering: October 2007 – September 2012

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lexington, Massachusetts, US: March 1988 – June 2003

Research Staff, MIT Lincoln Laboratory

The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., US: September 1978 – May 1980

Lecturer, Department of Mathematics

Doctor of Philosophy, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, US: 1980

Research: Calculation of the semi-classical approximation in quantum electrodynamics

 

AEROSPACE

BAE Systems, Reston, Virginia, US: July 2003 – September 2007

Technical Fellow for Systems Engineering, Electronic & Integrated Systems Operating Group

Lockheed Skunkworks, Burbank, California, US: January 1986 – February 1988

Research Engineer, Advanced Avionics Systems

Northrop Advanced Systems, Los Angeles, California, US: November 1984 – January 1986

Survivability Analyst, Advanced Air Vehicles

Center for Naval Analyses, Alexandria, Virginia, US: July 1980 – October 1984

Operations Research, Flight Test Analyst; Marine and Naval Operational Evaluation Groups

 

GOVERNMENT

Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Washington, D.C., US: January 2000 – June 2003

Director of Architecture, Office of the Chief Engineer of the US Navy

Aegis Program Office, Arlington, Virginia, US: July 1997 – December 1999

Aegis Systems Engineer, US Navy Ballistic Missile Defense Program

Note: government service was a secondment from MIT under the Inter Personnel Act (IPA)

 

SIGNIFICANT ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Facility, algorithms, and methods for Constraint Driven Design of Complex Systems

As Investigator of the Vehicle as a Complex System, EPSRC/JLR Programme for Simulation Innovation

Development, formalization, and application of Relational Orientation to Systems Engineering

As RAEng Chair of Systems Engineering in collaboration with Professor Mavris at Georgia Tech

Development and demonstration of Capability Based Acquisition for US Naval systems of systems

As Director of Architecture in the Office of the Chief Engineer for the Assistant Secretary of the Navy

Development of advanced capabilities for Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System

As Aegis Systems Engineer leading a technical team from the prime contractor and the defence labs

First dynamic and complete radar measurement of near specular enhancement over rough surfaces

As the Fight Test Designer, Director and Analyst for the technical team from MIT Lincoln Laboratory

 

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND POSITIONS

International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE)

Technical Operations Assistant Director (AD) for Analytic Enablers: beginning July 2016, previously was AD for Knowledge from March 2015; the purpose is to facilitate the INCOSE technical working groups.  

Chair, Architecture Working Group (AWG): 2005 – 2015. The purpose of the AWG is to advance the System Architecture body of knowledge; and to support international bodies such as ISO. Also, I personally wrote or contributed to over half a dozen sections of the latest INCOSE Systems Engineering Handbook (v.4).

IEEE Systems of Systems Engineering

IEEE Senior Member: also plank holder in the International Consortium for SoSE, which has evolved into the annual SoSE conference with research outlets to the IEEE Systems Journal. I am a contributor to both.

Chair, Mathematical Formalisms SIG, the Object Management Group (OMG)

This Special Interest Group (SIG) seeks to facilitate the use of mathematical formalisms to reduce complexity in system design and increase precision for model specification and transformations.