The Jeff Grady Award
The Jeff Grady Outstanding Service Award honors the long standing and committed service of a San Diego Chapter member. Like the awards namesake, Jeff Grady, the award is only given to those who have demonstrated consistent, long-term excellent service to the Chapter either by serving in numerous Chapter service positions, such as a Board member, or by continually supporting the Chapter through technical presentations, tutorials, and seminars, and by furthering INCOSE goals through system engineering technical activities in our community. This award is given in memory of Jeff Grady, an original founder of INCOSE, a member of the San Diego Chapter for over 20 years, a leader in furthering the discipline of systems engineering, and a frequent teacher and mentor to many in the San Diego Chapter and community. The San Diego Chapter was proud to give this award and honor first to Jeff Grady in 2016.
2019 Winner – Ted Mulder
Ted led the INCOSE SD chapter to its first ever Platinum and Outstanding Chapter awards. Note that only one chapter out of 70 received this Platinum and Outstanding Chapter award in 2018
2018 Winner – Jim Gottfried
In March 2019, INCOSE San Diego awarded board member Jim Gottfried the Jeff Grady award. Jim has been a tired-less champion of INCOSE and the San Diego Chapter. He has served multiple board positions, to include chapter president, and he currently leads the Ambassador program.
His professional credentials include over 30 years of software and systems engineering management, including as a program manager of system development projects during his 20 years for SAIC, 10 years for Lockheed Martin Aerospace, and 11 years for Hughes Aircraft. Jim currently works as a consultant supporting proposal development and review, independent project reviews covering both technical and management concerns, and system engineering process improvement including risk management and CMMI. Jim has been a mentor to other board members, and has been an active supporter of INCOSE activities.
2017 Winner – Mark Halverson
In Feb 2018, INCOSE San Diego awarded Mark Halverson the Jeff Grady award for his 13 years of dedicated service to the San Diego chapter. All board members are volunteers, and during his tenure, Mark served many roles to include 2015 Chapter President.
Mark retired from the board in Jan 2018 but will remain an active INCOSE and San Diego Chapter member. He has also volunteered to help on special projects outside the scope of current board members’ duties, to include the annual auditing of the chapter.
Please join us in recognizing the contributions of our dedicated chapter members!
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