My name is Dan Hestand. I’m mostly retired at this point in my life but I spent almost 50 years creating software systems and enterprise systems for various companies, in various verticals, both as an employee and as a consultant. I currently teach two versions of a Foundations of Systems Engineering graduate course at University of Connecticut, College of Engineering, Pratt & Whitney Institute for Advanced Systems Engineering. One version is a 7-week publicly available (not open, though) course and the other is a semester long version.
I have a B.S. in Physics from David Lipscomb University, B.S. in Meteorology from Penn State, M.S. (no thesis) in Physics from the University of Tennessee Space Institute, M.S. in Computer Science from UMass Lowell, and Ph.D. in Computer Science from UMass Lowell. I also have a deep love of Mathematics and have enough credits for a B.S. in Mathematics, although I’ve never finished that route.
When I’m not contemplating system architecture, enterprise architecture, and systems engineering, I love to fish! I’ve even gone so far as learning how to build custom fishing rodes, custom baits, and custom lures. Everything is a system if you look at in the right way, and fishing is no exception.