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Roger Burkhart, Technology Architect, Deere & Company

Roger Burkhart is a Technology Architect at Deere & Company. He is one of the architects of the System Modeling Language (SysML) which extends the Unified Modeling Language (UML) from software to systems of all kinds. At both INCOSE and the Object Management Group (OMG), he helped drive the development of SysML to enable adoption of Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE). At OMG he has served as co-chair of the SysML Revision Task Force and the Systems Engineering Special Interest Group. At INCOSE, he is active in the MBSE Initiative and the Systems Modeling and Simulation Working Group (SMSWG). Roger assumed the role of SMSWG Chairman in July 2016. 

Roger's research work seeks to expand the use of computer-based models to collaborate across diverse business and technical concerns. Previously at Deere, he developed databases and decision-support systems, with applications from factory design to production agriculture. He has developed research tools for agent-based modeling and simulation, managed a software tools group, and introduced the use of object-oriented programming and distributed computing within Deere. He began at Deere as a summer intern in the 1970's while studying mechanical engineering at MIT.

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