INCOSE Fellow Dave Oliver

Dr. David W. Oliver is currently providing consulting and training in the model based development of complex systems - products, processes, and organizations. He is the INCOSE liaison to the ISO/SC4 AP233 standards body generating an international standard information model for the automated exchange of systems engineering information among tools. He is acting liaison from INCOSE to the Object Management Group that develops UML as a standard for software engineering.

He is author, with Tim Kelliher and Jim Keegan, of Engineering Complex Systems with Models and Objects, McGraw-Hill, 1997.

He graduated in physics from MIT in 1961 and retired from GE-Corporate Research and Development after thirty-two years in science and management.

At GE he led the development of Systems Engineering tools and processes, the Teamwork Ada software tool Sold by Cadre Technologies, and a X-Ray tomographic inspection system for turbine blades. He has contributed to medical and quality real-time diagnostic systems, high temperature crystal growth and materials processing. He assembled and managed the CRD Automation and Control Laboratory for factory automation and the Quality Branch for quality inspection. He managed the CRD Microwave Branch, the CRD Computer Science Branch and the GE-CRD Liaison Group for technical transition and liaison to all the GE businesses. He performed liaison to the Aircraft Engine Business establishing new programs, and evaluated the annual strategic plans for many GE businesses.

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