INCOSE Fellow James Martin

James N. Martin is a systems engineer at the Aerospace Corporation in Chantilly, Virginia. He received his M.S. in mechanical engineering from Stanford University in 1984 and his B.S. from Texas A&M University in 1981. He worked at AT&T Bell Labs from 1983 to 1996 on wireless communications systems and underwater fiber optic systems. He now works for Aerospace on satellite and communication systems.

He has been involved in process improvement activities for systems engineering. He developed a standardized process for systems engineering that was selected as the "best current practice" for use throughout AT&T. This material was later expanded into a full textbook called the Systems Engineering Guidebook, published by CRC Press in 1996. He also developed standardized methods and tools at AT&T for requirements management, configuration management, test management, and technical reviews.

He was selected to lead the effort in developing a US national standard on systems engineering, now published as ANSI/EIA 632. He has presented tutorials and seminars on this standard throughout the United States and in the United Kingdom. Within INCOSE he has served on the board of directors, founded the requirements management working group, and now serves as the chairman of the Standards Technical Committee.

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