is an Industry Professor in the SDOE program, at the School of Systems and Enterprises at Stevens Institute of Technology. Formerly he worked at Bell Laboratories, as a member of the Technical Staff on the concept formulation, development, introduction and operational improvement of commercial telecommunications services and then as the Systems Engineering Manager in the concept formulation, development, introduction and operational improvement of specialized communications systems for government and defense. He was Product Manager for a business communications product in the AT&T General Departments and Program Manager for development of advanced technology for the last mile in the AT&T Local Infrastructure and Access Management organization. He is a systems engineering consultant for industry and government. He is the former secretary of the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) and a member of the IEEE. He holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University