David Walden

David D. Walden, ESEP, is co-owner and principal consultant for Sysnovation, LLC, an SE consulting and training firm he formed in 2006. Previously, Mr. Walden was with General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems for 13 years and McDonnell Aircraft Company for 10 years. Mr. Walden was the PM of the INCOSE Certification Program from 2007-2013. He is an INCOSE liaison to ISO/IEC JTC1/SC7 Working Groups 10 and 20 and the lead editor of the INCOSE SE Handbook Fourth Edition. He has an M.S. in Management of Technology (MOT) from the University of Minnesota, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering and in Computer Science from Washington University in St. Louis, and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Valparaiso University in Indiana. Mr. Walden was one of the first to earn the INCOSE Certified Systems Engineering Professional (CSEP) credential in 2004 and was awarded the INCOSE Expert Systems Engineering Professional (ESEP) credential in 2011.