Marvin Gechman has 57 years of practical experience in all aspects of software engineering including the role of President or senior management in four software engineering consulting firms for 18 years, plus five years in the government and 34 years in the Aerospace industry where he focused on managing the software aspects of space, communications and missile defense systems. After graduating from Georgia Tech with a BS in Industrial and Systems Engineering he worked for the National Security Agency; during that time he obtained a MS degree in Systems Engineering and Computer Science providing his systems perspective focused on Software Engineering.