ISR Seminar: INCOSE President John Thomas: Future challenges for the system engineer

Tuesday, March 27, 2012
10:00 a.m.
1146 A.V. Williams Building
Stephen Sutton
301 405 4199
ssutton@umd.edu

ISR Seminar
Future challenges for the system engineer and the system engineering discipline

John Thomas
President
International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE)
Sr. Vice President and Chief Systems Engineer
Booz | Allen | Hamilton

Abstract
A systems engineer will need certain characteristics in order to advance in their careers, given how the systems engineering discipline is evolving. These characteristics are critical to developing systems of systems. Along those lines, the discipline will need to better intertwine test and evaluation, and have verification and validation of systems of systems present.

Special note: ISR students will meet with John Thomas at noon for lunch and discussion about the systems engineering profession.

Biography
John Thomas is a Senior Vice President at Booz Allen Hamilton and its Lead Systems Engineer. He leads teams that plan and execute multi-million dollar complex system programs. His clients include U.S. government and industries worldwide. John’s current focus is supporting complex systems development activities for the U.S. federal government. With John’s Systems Engineering and Integration (SE&I) stewardship, Booz Allen (a $5 billion strategy and technology consulting firm) has invested in its Systems Engineers and SE methodologies for the purpose of enhancing the SE profession and its practitioners.

John’s leadership assignments span program and engineering management, strategic planning, stakeholder communications, conflict management, business process analysis, activity-based costing, solutions concept development, systems synthesis (systems architecting, design, alternatives evaluation), systems integration, and systems verification/validation testing and operational test and evaluation.

John also is a business coach and mentor to a number of Booz Allen’s senior technical and management professionals. He is a spokesperson for Booz Allen, speaking to groups and media to help raise the relevance and importance of Booz Allen’s systems engineers and SE&I services.

Audience: Graduate  Undergraduate  Faculty  Post-Docs  Alumni  Corporate 

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