Industry Professor at Stevens Institute of Technology in the School of Systems and Enterprises. He is co-director of the Agile Systems and Enterprises graduate certificate and teaches SDOE-780 and SDOE-790, courses focused on the design and implementation of agile and resilient systems, system-of-systems, and enterprises. He was co-principle investigator of the 1991 project at Lehigh University that gave birth to the concept of Agile Enterprise, and he led the subsequent Agility Forum's research and industry involvement activity. He chaired the Technology Review Board of the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences in its formative years and led the development of its first research agenda. His commercial experience is start-up and turnaround management, where he ran companies producing software, manufacturing machinery, fine wine, rapid manufacturing strategic planning services, and interim executive services; and he has had executive responsibility for engineering, R&D, IT, information security, and marketing in a variety of organizations. His research interests include principles for agile/resilient systems, systems concepting and design as an art, security strategy featuring agile/resilient characteristics, systems-of-systems interoperability, and self organizing systems. He has a BSEE from Carnegie Mellon University, and did graduate work toward a PhD in Computer Science at UC Berkeley. His books include Response Ability: The Language, Structure and Culture of the Agile Enterprise, and Value Propositioning: Perception and Misperception in Decision Making.