DAVID BOYD

John "David" Boyd has been with the Chapter since 2004. As a member, David volunteered for various miniconferences, CSER 2006, CSER 2008 and served as Chapter Secretary and Chapter Vice-President. In 2007, he and a dedicated team of volunteers worked together to offer webcasting of monthly the chapter's speaker meetings. One of his goals for the chapter is to continue to help members, potential members and local companies realize and use the value of INCOSE as a resource for systems engineering knowledge and as an opportunity to network with the talented engineers that comprise INCOSE.

David is a Sr. Software Systems Engineer at SAIC and he is working within Boeing's Software IPT on its C-130 Avionics Modernization Program (AMP). He is currently one of thirteen engineers on the qualification test team that is responsible for formal qualification test of the operational flight plan (OFP). In his prior years, he has worked as a systems engineer on projects such as GE's Advanced Automated Train Control System for BART, traffic control systems in Southern California and nuclear plant monitoring systems. David received his bachelors in aerospace engineering from The University of Texas at Austin in 1990. He began his career at Norfolk Naval Shipyard working as a nuclear test engineer on Nimitz-class aircraft carriers such as the USS Roosevelt and the USS Eisenhower.