Dr. Pyster is a Distinguished Research Professor at Stevens Institute of Technology and the Stevens Director of the Applied Systems Thinking Institute (ASysT). He shares leadership responsibility for ASysT with the Analytic Services Director, Randy Beardsworth. During his more than 30-year career, Dr. Pyster has served in a number of executive and technical positions. Most recently, he was the Senior Vice President and Director of Systems Engineering and Integration for SAIC. Previously, Dr. Pyster was the Deputy Chief Information Officer at the Federal Aviation Administration, Chief Technical Officer at the Software Productivity Consortium, director at Digital Sound Corporation, manager of systems engineering at TRW, and an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Among his accomplishments are establishing and operating the Federal Aviation Administration’s information security program; directing the creation and application of three CMMs – the integrated CMM, Integrated Product Development CMM, and the Systems Engineering CMM; architecting TRW’s early integrated digital environment; prototyping the spiral process for software development; and directing the creation and application of advanced methods to design real-time systems, reuse software, and specify real-time requirements. Dr. Pyster has a Ph.D. in Computer and Information Sciences from Ohio State University, is a distinguished Alumnus of the Engineering College of Ohio State University, and has authored two editions of the book Compiler Design and Construction.