Raymond Wolfgang brings his unique needs, requirements, verification and validation expertise to a variety of national systems in his role as a Systems Engineer at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, NM, part of the US Department of Energy laboratory system. He has led requirements authorship and analysis for several programs, at both the systems-level and also for system components. He has deployed several process improvement initiatives in requirements management, and currently leads an effort to complete a large program’s use case portfolio. His INCOSE papers focus on requirements state-of-practice, and injecting MBSE into current programs that are already midway into the lifecycle. Raymond currently serves on the INCOSE Requirements Working Group, and as a member of the INCOSE Technical Leadership Institute (TLI).
Raymond also currently offers training for new systems engineers, intermediate tips for those in the field for several years – as well as “soft skills” content in his online courses, LinkedIn posts and YouTube channel.
Before Sandia, while working for the US Navy (NAVWAR in San Diego), Raymond managed installation requirements for a critical ship-board technology refresh and served as a systems engineer and electrical engineer on several research and development programs. It was there Raymond picked up skills in Information Assurance, including a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) credential, from ISC2. He maintains several other certifications: the Certified Systems Engineering Professional (CSEP) from INCOSE, the Project Management Professional (PMP) from PMI, as well as a GIAC Security Essentials (GSEC). Raymond has a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University (USA), and also attended the Pennsylvania State University for an undergraduate degree. One of his passions continues to be Toastmasters International, where he recently earned a second Distinguished Toastmaster (DTM) award. He is originally from the Philadelphia, PA, USA area.
Do you have a value chain to develop, either in a safety-centered environment or for critical infrastructure protection? There are processes at the plant, and on the shop floor designed to keep us safe, and our enterprises up and running. This presentation will share how Systems Engineering can help us look at our process and value chain to make sure we are not missing a step, or adding too much process to deliver the value, the product, or the up-time that our organizations and customers are asking for. We will cover the very basics of systems engineering – from needs, requirements, through design (of a product or process), then through verification and finally validation and acceptance. General examples will be used, from the energy / critical infrastructure sector using examples from the open media. The listener will then be able to evaluate and improve their processes through using a systems engineering approach to what the process is intended to perform in the first place. The result will be a more robust system with reduced redundancy – in other words, reduced risk for the same resources.
Learn about the very basics of Systems Engineering
