Faculty Profiles
| Bill Robinson |
 Bill Robinson has more than twenty-five years experience in business leadership and corporate performance improvement. For many years, Bill was Vice President of Quality and Reliability for Bell Labs. Other leadership positions Bill has held include Vice President of Quality and General Manager for EasyLink Services Corporation. Currently, Bill is President of Innovation and Quality Solutions, and is also the Director of Systems Engineering Graduate Programs at Stevens Institute of Technology. Bill has received numerous quality, reliability and innovation leadership awards and has authored several technical and process quality papers. Bill received his BSEE from the University of Connecticut and his MSEE from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He is a senior member of the American Society for Quality and a Master Black Belt. |
| James Armstrong |
 James Armstrong received a M.S. in Systems Management from the University of Southern California. He is currently an Industry Professor in the School of Systems and Enterprises at Stevens Institute of Technology. Earlier, Mr. Armstrong served as Technical Fellow and lead systems engineer for the Systems and Software Consortium (SSCI) where he consulted on and taught systems engineering and process improvement for consortium member companies and government agencies. Before joining SSCI, Mr. Armstrong served as Vice President, Operations of Systems Management and Development Corporation providing systems engineering and program management training and support for Lockheed Martin, Rockwell Collins, Northrop Grumman, USAF, and other organizations. He was responsible for significant systems engineering improvements in several major programs. Earlier, Mr. Armstrong was an acquisition officer in the USAF for over 21 years on various space, air traffic control, strategic and tactical communications, shipborne radar, and strategic missile test support programs. All of these programs were joint, inter-agency, or international. His responsibilities included program manager, headquarters lead, chief engineer, test manager, systems safety and configuration management. With specific regard to C3 systems, Mr. Armstrong managed the installation and check-out of the early digital microwave DCS links in Europe, was USAF lead for the TRI-TAC tactical communications program, managed testing of a DCS technical control improvement program, was responsible for command center display requirements for the DSP program, and assisted in installation planning for a NATO command facility in Germany. As an instructor at DSMC, he consulted with DISA on a major acquisition resulting in significant improvement in the acquisition process for that program. Mr. Armstrong currently consults for the Office of the Secretary of Defense, SAIC, and other companies. Mr. Armstrong has authored over 20 technical papers and co-authored one book: SCAMPI Distilled. He has participated on author teams for most systems engineering standards and models. He is a Certified Systems Engineering Professional and member of the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE). He is an Authorized Lead Appraiser for the CMMI. |
| Anthony Barrese, PhD |
 Anthony Barrese came to Stevens from NCR where he was a company officer, and Vice President & General Manager of the Teradata Industry Application Division and the Network Products Division. He has had thirty-five years of corporate planning, systems engineering and architecture, product management, product development, manufacturing and quality management experience. Prior to NCR, he worked at Bell Laboratories and AT&T on a variety of voice and data communication programs. He teaches courses in System Engineering. |
| Jennifer Bayuk |
 Jennifer Bayuk is an Industry Professor in the Secure Systems Engineering Program at the School of Systems and Enterprises. She is also an independent consultant on topics of information confidentiality, integrity, and availability. She is engaged in a wide variety of industries with projects ranging from oversight policy and metrics to technical architecture and requirements. Jennifer has a wide variety of experience in virtually every aspect of the Information Security. She was a Chief Information Security Officer, a Security Architect, a Manager of Information Systems Internal Audit, a Big 4 Security Principal Consultant and Auditor, and a Security Software Engineer. Jennifer frequently publishes on information security and audit topics. Jennifer has lectured for organizations that include ISACA, NIST, and CSI. She is certified in Information Systems Audit (CISA), Information Security Management (CISM), Information Systems Security (CISSP), and IT Governance (CGEIT). She has Masters Degrees in Computer Science and Philosophy. |
| Howard G. Berline |
 Professor Howard Berline has a distiguished background in corporate development, acquisitions and divestitures, and strategic and operational planning that spanned international businesses in the telecommunications, information services, and computer/technology fields. Berline has broad experience in market research, marketing planning, information systems, financial analysis, and busines modeling. Before joining Stevens as an industry Professor, Berline was the Vice President of Planning and Development at McGraw-Hill, and Vice President of Strategic Planning at GTE Corp. |
| John T. Boardman, PhD |
 Dr. John Boardman is a distinguished service Professor of Engineering Management at Stevens. Before coming to Stevens he was Professor of Systems Engineering (since 1995) at the De Montfort University, UK . Before that he was first GEC Marconi Professor of Systems Engineering and Director of the School of Systems Engineering, and then Dean of the College of Technology, at the University of Portsmouth. |
| John V. Farr, PhD |
 John V. Farr is a Professor of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management and Associate Dean for Academics in the School of Systems and Enterprises at Stevens Institute of Technology. He was the founding Director of the Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management at Stevens from 2000 to 2007. Before coming to Stevens in 2000, he was a Professor of Engineering Management at the United States Military Academy at West Point where he was the first civilian professor in engineering and Director of their Engineering Management Program. He is a former past president and Fellow of American Society for Engineering Management, a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers, and a member of the Army Science Board and Air Force Studies Board of the National Academies. His is a former editor of the Journal of Management in Engineering and the founder of the Engineering Management Practice Periodical. He has authored over 100 technical publications including one textbook. He earned his undergraduate degree from Mississippi State University and Masters and PhD in Civil Engineering from Purdue and the University of Michigan, respectively. He is a registered Civil Engineer in the states of Mississippi and New York. |
| Ralph Giffin |
 Ralph Giffin has over twenty-five years of professional experience in executive leadership and management. He currently serves as Associate Provost at Stevens Institute of Technology and Distinguished Service Professor within the School of Systems and Enterprises. Mr. Giffin’s responsibilities include operational leadership of the Institute and teaching graduate-level courses for the School of Systems and Enterprises, whose sponsors include IBM, Northrop Grumman, SAIC, General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin, L-3, Sandia National Labs, U.S. Navy, U.S. Army, NASA, NSA, and FAA. Prior to joining Stevens in 2006, Mr. Giffin held a number of executive management positions at Lockheed Martin. His most recent position was Vice President for Operations at Lockheed Martin Simulations, Training & Support. He also served as the senior Lockheed Martin procurement executive responsible for the global source selection of all maintenance and support equipment for the Joint Strike Fighter Program. He successfully led a number of company initiatives including the expansion of lean manufacturing and six-sigma into the Lockheed Martin manufacturing and supplier base, the successful implementation of an Enterprise company IT system, and focused growth of a wholly-owned manufacturing business based in La Mesa, Mexico, where he served as the company’s Sole Administrator. Mr. Giffin previously was responsible for Lockheed Martin’s Underwater Business Unit’s functional supportability organization with division-wide charter including supportability engineering and logistics planning. The predominate focus was on open systems, COTS-based programs including the Next Attack Submarine Program (C3I system integrator) and the Navy’s Fixed Distributed System. The organization also supported a broad base of space, air, surface, and underwater programs. He successfully led an organizational re-engineering, enabling the transition from logistics engineering and support of traditional fully developed Mil-Spec products to supportability engineering and support of COTS-basedweapons systems. Mr. Giffin has authored and co-authored a number of publications addressing COTS supportability and issues related to the support of COTS intensive weapons systems. Mr. Giffin served six years in the United States Naval Submarine Service. He is a Graduate of Harvard Business School’s M&D Presidents Class program and holds a B.S. from George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. |
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| Rashmi Jain, PhD |
 Prof. Jain has consulted on large and complex information technology (IT) projects involving substantially the entire life cycle from business requirements, systems requirements, high level design, detailed designs, development, testing, prototyping to production. She also has extensive experience in business requirements gathering from stakeholders and translating them into systems requirements. The clients have ranged from Fortune 100 companies to new dotcom startups in industry sectors like energy, telecom, utilities and financial services (foreign exchange, investment banking and capital markets). She has led teams responsible for designing and implementing IT systems using diverse kinds of technology/systems including SAP, Oracle, Unix, Sybase, Electronic Commerce Systems and several Database Management Systems (DBMS). Many of her consulting projects involved business process reengineering in areas like order management; contracting; invoicing; accounts payable/accounts receivable; brokerage, clearing and exchange fee management. Prior to joining Accenture in 1997, Prof. Jain worked with management research and consulting organizations in India from 1985 to 1992. Her work was in industry sectors like cement, oil and natural gas, light commercial vehicles, engineering projects consultancy, management institutions, financial Institutions, chambers of commerce and industry. Clients were large corporations, the Indian federal government, the state governments, state financial institutions, the Intermediate Technology Development Group (ITDG), UK etc. |
| Wiley Larson, PhD |
 Dr. Wiley Larson received his doctorate from Texas A & M University in Space Systems in 1988. He is an experienced leader and internationally-recognized author and editor in space-related development, operations, education and training. Dr. Larson served in the Air Force as a GPS spacecraft engineer, spacecraft launch controller, flight test engineer, spacecraft program manager and associate professor of Astronautics. He is currently contributing to US space efforts by creating an integrated set of 18+ published books detailing “how to” design, develop, launch and operate space systems.In addition to directing the space system engineering program at Stevens, Dr. Larson is co-author, managing editor and program director of the joint NASA and DOD Space Technology Series at the United States Air Force Academy, CO, Department of Astronautics, a position he’s held for two decades. He leads efforts of 362 international authors and editors to develop a series of books and tools for space mission analysis and design, as well as space system engineering—payloads, spacecraft, launch systems, operations and infrastructure. Between 1994 and 2005, Dr. Larson co-founded and served as President of Teaching Science and Technology, Inc. (TSTI), a corporation devoted to education and training in astronautics, space systems, operations and technology. TSTI created national and international continuing education and training programs for 37 Government and industry organizations. The corporation delivered over 80 courses per year. During this time Professor Larson served as Program Director for the international space system-engineering master’s program, SpaceTech, with the Technical University of Delft, Netherlands. Dr. Larson also served as head of engineering for International Space University, Strasbourg, France, for two years. Dr. Larson continues to work with NASA, European Space Agency, French Space Agency, German Space Agency and over 10 national and international corporations as consultant, educator and mentor. He was certified as a major program manager within DOD. Dr. Larson is an active member of the International Academy of Astronautics. |
| Roshanak Nilchiani, PhD |
 Dr. Roshanak Nilchiani has joined the faculty of the School of Systems and Enterprises in 2006. She received her Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering at MIT, where she worked on flexible space systems design, particularly for communications satellites and DARPA's Orbital Express program. During her time at MIT she also worked on projects related to JPL's Next Generation Mars Rover and Nuclear-powered missions to Mars. She has also served as a mission anaysis and design consultant to 4Frontiers, a commercial space exploration company aiming at commercial colonization of Mars, the moon and near earth asteroids.At Stevens, Dr. Nilchiani is engaged in research n risk-based complex engineering systems design and critical infrastructure systems resilience, with particular focus on energy, transportation and telecommunications infrastructure. She has also engaged in resesarch on system of systems testing and evaluation, dynamics of disruptive technologies, systems and enterprise architecture. |
| David R. Nowicki, PhD |
 Professor Nowicki brings over 15 years of industry experience to the academic world. He has focused his efforts in the areas of Supply Chain Management (SCM), technology architecture and logistics modeling. Mr. Nowicki has held executive positions at i2 Technologies where he built i2’s European development organization and later ran their Consumer Packaged Goods consulting and solution practice. Professor Nowicki also held executive positions at Servigistics and Tools for Decision (TFD). At Servigistics, David was responsible for product management in the field of Service Parts Management. At TFD, he focused his efforts on modeling LCC, Spares Optimization, LORA solutions to drive new business. In his earlier years, Mr. Nowicki conducted supportability studies for the SDI program while working for DRC and programmed sonar displays for IBM. Professor Nowicki received his Masters Degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Virginia Tech and both his bachelors and doctorate degrees in Industrial Engineering from the University of Wisconsin – Madison. Professor Nowicki’s research efforts now focus on applying advanced analytical techniques to solve Supply Chain Management problems from a Systems Engineering context. Specifically, Professor Nowicki research is concentrated on Performance Based Logistics modeling and multi-asset optimization. Additional areas of interest are in the fields of reliability theory and spares optimization. |
| Arthur Pyster, PhD |
 Dr. Art Pyster is a Distinguished Research Professor in the School of Systems and Enterprises at Stevens Institute of Technology and the Deputy Executive Director of the Systems Engineering Research Center, which is a Department of Defense’s University Affiliated Research Center. During much of 2007 and 2008, he also served as the Director of the Software Engineering Program at Stevens Institute as well as the Stevens Director for the Applied Systems Thinking Institute. Before joining Stevens in March 2007, Dr. Pyster served as the Senior Vice President and Director of Systems Engineering and Integration for SAIC. Earlier, Dr. Pyster served as the Deputy Chief Information Officer for the Federal Aviation Administration, where he oversaw information technology investment and policy, created and operated the agency’s information security program, created the agency’s enterprise architecture, operated their process improvement program, and achieved a “green” score on the President’s Management Agenda. Earlier assignments included being the Chief Scientist for Software Engineering for the Federal Aviation Administration, Chief Technical Officer for the Software Productivity Consortium, Director at Digital Sound Corporation, Manager of Systems Engineering at TRW, and Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of California at Santa Barbara. During his career, Dr. Pyster directed the creation of three Capability Maturity Models, oversaw more than $10 billion in investment, directed the creation of several software and systems engineering methods, delivered commercial telecommunications systems with extremely low defects, and managed training programs for thousands of engineers and managers. His professional and research activities emphasize systems and software engineering, especially the integration of those two disciplines and their application to enterprise operations. Currently, he is leading two international research projects. The first effort is creating a reference curriculum for graduate software engineering education. Notably, that reference curriculum explicitly integrates systems engineering into the education of software engineers. The second effort is creating a body of knowledge for systems engineering as well as a reference curriculum for graduate systems engineering education. Dr. Pyster has authored many papers and one textbook – Compiler Design and Construction. He is an INCOSE Fellow, the Chairman of the Corporate Advisory Board of the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE), a member of the INCOSE Board of Directors, and a senior member of the IEEE. |
| Jose E. Ramirez-Marquez, PhD |
 Dr. Ramirez-Marquez comes from Rutgers University where he was involved in research focused on developing methods for optimizing system performance. He has also worked on modeling complex systems that have numerous performance levels. |
| Brian Sauser, PhD |
 Brian Sauser holds a B.S. from Texas A&M University in Agricultural Development with an emphasis in Horticulture Technology, a M.S. from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in Bioresource Engineering, and a Ph.D. from Stevens Institute of Technology in Project Management. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the School of Systems & Enterprises at Stevens Institute of Technology. He teaches courses in Project Management of Complex Systems, Designing and Managing the Development Enterprise, and Systems Thinking. In addition, he is a National Aeronautics and Space Administration Faculty Fellow, Editor-in-Chief of the Systems Research Forum, an Associate Editor of the IEEE Systems Journal, and the Associate Editor of the ICST Transactions on Systomics, Cybernetics, and e-Culture. |
| Alice Squires |
 Alice Squires received her MBA, graduating Summa Cum Laude with Recognition, from George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia and her Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, graduating Magna Cum Laude, from University of Maryland in College Park, Maryland. She has completed the requirements for a Master’s in Systems Engineering at the Stevens Institute of Technology, and is applying those courses as a PhD candidate towards a doctorate in Systems Engineering. Her current research focus is in systems engineering education with an emphasis on asynchronous remote distance learning pedagogy. She is a Certified System Engineering Professional with both the base level of certification and the Acquisition designation through The International Council of Systems Engineering (INCOSE). Alice is currently the Technical Director of the School of System and Enterprises’ Online program and also serves as a faculty member in Systems Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology. Alice has over 25 years of experience, the three most recent years focused in academia as she completes her doctorate. Prior to entering academia, she served as a Senior Systems Engineer consultant to Lockheed Martin, IBM, and EDO Ceramics, for Advanced Systems Supportability Engineering Technology and Tools (ASSETT), Inc. Before ASSETT, Alice served as a senior engineering manager for General Dynamics (GD) where she managed the department that developed the requirements and performed the integration and testing for the vehicle electronics on the Advanced Amphibious Assault Vehicle (AAAV) built for the United States Marines. Prior to GD, she served as a senior systems engineering manager for both the production control of Lockheed Martin’s radiation hardened manufacturing line and the hardware development and design verification for the payload design carried by the Asia Cellular Satellite (ACeS) System launched on February 12, 2000, and still in use today. Alice served as a technical lead for IBM for nearly ten years after graduating with her Electrical Engineering bachelor’s degree, and she began her professional career as an analyst for Delex Systems, Inc where she developed code for and demonstrated the HARPOON Interactive Tactical Training System (HITTS). |
| Stanislaw Tarchalski |
 Industry Professor Tarchalski comes to Stevens from Johns Hopkins University. He is a senior executive leader with more than 30 years of global experience in large scale/highly complex program management, systems engineering, system and software development; IT operations management; strategic business planning; new product development; and large scale organizational transformation. Successful application of agile, model based techniques within the Government, Aerospace, Automotive, Electronics, Communications and Architecture/Engineering/Construction industries.
Professor Tarchalski is an educator in graduate level technical management, focused on program management and systems engineering. Involved in transforming traditional curricula to include agile methods, model based approaches, technical governance and leadership, and using distance learning and collaborative techniques and technologies. |
| Richard Turner, PhD |
 Dr. Richard Turner has thirty years of experience in systems, software and acquisition engineering. He has developed and acquired software in the private and public sectors and consulted for government and commercial organizations. He is currently a Distinguished Service Professor at the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey. Most recently, he was a Fellow at the Systems and Software Consortium, where he supported technical projects and provided technical exposure for the Consortium through publications, speaking and consulting. Ongoing work with DoD includes working with a wide range of research organizations to identify and transition new software-related technology and supporting the initiative to revitalize systems engineering in acquisition programs. A member of the author team for Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI), he has led process improvement initiatives in information technology, system engineering and software acquisition.He conceived and evolved the concept of the DoD Acquisition Best Practices Clearinghouse. Currently being developed by Computer Sciences Corporation, the Fraunhofer Center at the University of Maryland, and the Defense Acquisition University, the Clearinghouse is the first repository of context-specific empirical information about software and systems practices. He is co-author of three books: Balancing Agility and Discipline: A Guide for the Perplexed (Addison-Wesley, 2004), co-written with Barry Boehm, CMMIsm Distilled (Addison-Wesley 2000, 2004), and CMMI Survival Guide: Just enough Process Improvement, co-authored with Suzanne Garcia (Addison-Wesley 2007). Both CMMI titles are part of Addison-Wesley’s SEI Series in Software Engineering. |
| Dinesh Verma, PhD |
 Dinesh Verma is Dean of the School of Systems and Enterprises and Professor in Systems Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology, while concurrently serving as the Executive Director of the Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC), the first University Affiliated Research Center established by the DoD for Systems Engineering Research. He also serves as the Scientific Advisor to the Director of the Embedded Systems Institute in Eindhoven, Holland. Prior to this role, he served as Technical Director at Lockheed Martin Undersea Systems, in Manassas, Virginia, in the area of adapted systems and supportability engineering processes, methods and tools for complex system development and integration. Before joining Lockheed Martin, Verma worked as a Research Scientist at Virginia Tech and managed the University’s Systems Engineering Design Laboratory. While at Virginia Tech and afterwards, Verma continues to serve numerous companies in a consulting capacity, to include Eastman Kodak, Lockheed Martin Corporation, L3 Communications, United Defense, Raytheon, IBM Corporation, Sun Microsystems, SAIC, VOLVO Car Corporation (Sweden), NOKIA (Finland), RAMSE (Finland), TU Delft (Holland), Johnson Controls, Ericsson-SAAB Avionics (Sweden), Varian Medical Systems (Finland), and Motorola. He served as an Invited Lecturer from 1995 through 2000 at the University of Exeter, United Kingdom. His professional and research activities emphasize systems engineering and design with a focus on conceptual design evaluation, preliminary design and system architecture, design decision-making, life cycle costing, and supportability engineering. In addition to his publications, Verma has received one patent and has two pending in the areas of life-cycle costing and fuzzy logic techniques for evaluating design concepts. Dr. Verma has authored over 100 technical papers, book reviews, technical monographs, and co-authored two textbooks: Maintainability: A Key to Effective Serviceability and Maintenance Management (Wiley, 1995), and Economic Decision Analysis (Prentice Hall, 1998). He is a Fellow of the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE), a senior member of SOLE, and was elected to Sigma Xi, the honorary research society of America. He serves an a member of the External Advisory Board on Systems Engineering at SAIC, on the Systems Engineering Advisory Council (SEAC) of the Systems and Software Consortium, and the Advisory Board of the Center for Systems Engineering at the Air Force Institute of Technology. |