Researcher

Roger Blake is a Lead Systems Engineer at Lockheed Martin. Prior joining Lockheed Martin, he was the Stevens Institute of Technology’s Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC) Chief Engineer. In this position, he was responsible for Technical Manager of the SERC Engineering team overseeing multiple technical direct reports, SERC Engineering group budget, proposals and financial allocations and architecting, designing and implementing numerous engineering systems which greatly enhanced the SERC’s capabilities. These included an initial stage of SERC NAV, the SERC High Performance Computing Cluster, the Mobile Immersion Lab, the initial design of the SERC MBSE Integrating and Interoperability Framework (IoIF), multiple distributive computational Model-Based collaborative visualization capabilities, multiple enhancements and additional capabilities of the the CCSE Lab, working with graduate and PhD students and design and implementation of various software tools. Roger Blake has over 20 years of professional experience having worked as a Systems Engineer with AT&T, Motorola, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, General Dynamics, and Honeywell. He has experience and expertise in Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, Modeling and Simulation and Model-Based Systems Engineering. Roger is certified as a Lockheed Martin Qualified Systems Engineer and is a Lead MBSE Methodology Engineer. Roger Blake earned his bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Widener University and holds a master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Villanova University. He is currently working on his PhD in Systems Engineering at the University of South Alabama. He was elected to the Tau Beta Pi (National Engineering), Phi Kappa Phi (National Scholastic), and Alpha Chi (National Scholastic) Honorary Societies.

Education

Ph.D. Candidate, Systems Engineering – University of South Alabama

M.S., Electrical Engineering - Villanova University

B.S., Electrical Engineering – Widener University

Affiliations

Member of the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE)

Member of the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA)