INCOSE Fellow Jeff Grady

Since 1993 Jeff Grady has been the President of JOG System Engineering, Inc., a system engineering consulting firm focused on assessment of company current capability coupled with education leading to planned improvements. Formerly, engineering manager of Systems Development at General Dynamics Space Systems Division working on space transport and energy systems. Other experience over a period of 30 years in industry included: system engineer with GD Convair on cruise missiles; system engineer, project engineer, and field engineer with Teledyne Ryan Aeronautical on unmanned photo reconnaissance, ELINT, electronic warfare, and target aircraft; and customer training instructor with Librascope on underwater fire control systems. Served ten years in the U.S. Marines in the aviation communications field.

Author of five recent books in the system engineering field (System Requirements Analysis, McGraw-Hill, 1993; System Integration, CRC Press,1994; System Engineering Planning and Enterprise Identity, CRC Press,1995; System Validation and Verification, CRC Press, 1997; and System Engineering Deployment, CRC Press, 1999) and system engineering papers. Lecturer in systems engineering certificate programs at University of California San Diego and University of California Irvine. Member UCSD and UCI System Engineering Certificate Advisory Boards. Jeff is a member of SOLE, and IEEE. He is also a charter member of, the first elected Secretary for, and the initial Journal Editor for the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE). Currently education portfolio manager for the San Diego Chapter of INCOSE.

Jeff holds a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics from San Diego State University and an MS in Systems Management from University of Southern California.

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