David Hetherington is a leading Model-Based Systems Engineering(MBSE) consultant serving multiple defense and commercial industry sectors. He has extensive personal experience in designing and leading design teams for both software and hardware covering an unusually broad range of system types. These complex systems have varied from real-time control, to software internationalization, to offshore oil drillships, to enterprise software applications, to automotive radar chipsets, to electronic publishing, and more. In addition to MBSE, he has a strong concentration of domain knowledge in safety, reliability, maintainability, and diagnostics. He uses this broad domain knowledge in combination with his MBSE skills to assist clients at two levels: - Individual Skills - He teaches engineers across a wide variety of disciplines to sharpen their systems thinking and produce higher quality work products by using MBSE tools and techniques to clarify the requirements and objectives of their specialized designs.- Organizational Transformation - He supports executives faced with the challenge of bringing teams with legacy, siloed, "document-centric" development habits into the integrated digital engineering future. David is an active member of: - INCOSE - International Council on Systems Engineering- IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers- SAE - Society of Automotive Engineers- United States Naval Institute David speaks Japanese and German fluently as well as some Chinese and Spanish. He lives in Austin, Texas.
