Phyllis Marbach retired from Boeing Defense Space and Security (BDS) with over 40 years of experience in aerospace programs such as satellites, chemical lasers, the International Space Station, and various propulsion systems. Phyllis was a Boeing Designated Expert in agile software development, software engineering and systems engineering. Phyllis is currently a member of the INCOSE Technical Operations Leadership Team as the Associate Director of the Transformational Enablers Working Groups where she works closely with several working groups on Model Based Systems Engineering.
Ian Symington holds a 1st Class Masters Degree in Engineering (MEng) from the University of Durham and is a chartered engineer (CEng) registered with the Institute of Mechanical Engineering (IMechE).
Ian has spent the last thirteen years of his career working in the field of engineering analysis and simulation. During his career Ian has had the opportunity to work for companies involved in the creation and support of engineering simulation tools, as well as for companies using engineering tools on a daily basis to design and validate engineering products, including a 5 year period working in the UK Nuclear industry where competency management was a key issue.
In his current role, Ian helps to guide the direction of NAFEMS technical activities. This involves working closely with fourteen different technical working groups and the Professional Simulation Engineer Board which provides the strategic direction for the PSE Scheme.
Bernardo A. Delicado has been a professional systems engineer for 32 years in the aerospace and defense sector. For the first eight years he was employed by INTA, the aerospace research institute of the Spanish government working on a great number of European research projects. Following that time, he spent twelve years with Airbus Defense and Space assuming a wide range of systems engineering roles with transnational responsibilities within military aircraft programs developed among the UK, France, Germany, Italy and Spain. In 2011, Bernardo moved to MBDA Missile Systems (Airbus Group), assuming the role of Engineering Director to Spain, conducting a large part of his responsibilities embedded in multinational Systems Engineering teams in France and the UK. In March 2020 he joined Indra Sistemas as Engineering Director as part of the Future Combat Air System (FCAS) Program, a tri-national program between France, Germany and Spain. Since January 2023 he has been an internal advisor in Systems Engineering to Indra engineering projects.
He is an Expert Systems Engineering Professional (ESEP) and has a PhD in Interdisciplinary Engineering, M.S in Physics and a B.S in Aerospace Engineering. He is the INCOSE Outreach Director and a member of the BoD of INCOSE Central. He is active on the: Systems Engineering Body of Knowledge (SEBoK), INCOSE SE Handbook 5th Edition, ISO/IEC/IEEE 15288 standards and the Certification Advisory Group ( CAG ).
Hans Peter de Koning is an independent consultant specializing in the advancement of digital engineering standards, methods and tools. He graduated with an M.Sc. in Applied Physics from Delft University of Technology in 1984, after which he worked almost 40 years as an expert thermal, software and systems engineer. He worked mainly on space systems, first in industry and then more than 20 years at the European Space Agency (ESA). Up to retirement from ESA by the end of 2019, he led the development and application of MBSE methods, tools and standards for ESA’s Concurrent Design Facility and space projects in general. He’s been a main author or contributor on many ISO, ECSS and OMG engineering standards. Currently, he is a core member of the SysML version 2 team at OMG. He is also a member of the NAFEMS-INCOSE Systems Modeling and Simulation WG, where he leads the Standards Focus Team.
Alexander Busch, Ph.D., CSEP is a Senior Application Engineer at Ansys. Alexander works on Model-Based Engineering incl. both System Simulation and Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE). He has 20+ years of experience in engineering of various sorts and in various fields ranging from diving to refrigeration. He actively participates in the NAFEMS INCOSE Systems Modeling and Simulation Working Group where he leads the Focus Team “Refine the understanding of Systems Modeling and Simulation”. He was part of the German translation team of the Systems Engineering Handbook v5 and lectures undergraduate fluid mechanics.