Jeff Grady is the President of JOG System Engineering, Inc., a system engineering consulting firm focused on the assessment of a company's current capability coupled with education initiatives leading to planned improvements. Over the past thirteen years Jeff has provided training and consulting services for companies producing a broad range of products for a wide range of customers. Products have included aircraft, missile, farm equipment, medical equipment, unmanned aircraft, railroad, construction equipment, radio, radar, ship, nuclear, automotive, and battlefield management systems. These firms have included DoD contractors, commercial firms, and government agencies. Jeff is formerly, the Manager of System Development for General Dynamics Space Systems Division working on space transport and energy systems. Other experience, over a period of 30 years in industry, has included: system engineer with GD Convair on cruise missiles; system engineer, project engineer, and field engineer for Teledyne Ryan Aeronautical on unmanned photo reconnaissance, SIGINT, electronic warfare, and target aircraft, and customer training instructor for Librascope on underwater fire control systems. Served in the US Marines in the aviation communications field.

Author of six books in the system engineering field. His sixth book, System Requirements Analysis, was published by Elsevier Publishers (Academic Press) in January 2006. His prior work includes System Requirements Analysis, McGraw-Hill, 1993; System Integration, CRC Press, 1994; System Engineering Planning and Enterprise Identity, CRC Press, 1994; System Validation and Verification, CRC Press, 1997; and System Engineering Deployment, CRC Press, 1999 as well as many technical papers. He has lectured in system engineering at or for UC San Diego, Berkeley, Riverside, and Irvine, University of Alabama, Huntsville, Indiana-Purdue Fort Wayne, Old Dominion University, and Long Beach State. Jeff is a graduate of San Diego State University with a bachelors degree in mathematics and holds a Master of Science in system management from the University of Southern California (USC). He also has a certificate in information systems from USC.

Jeff is a charter member, past Secretary, and founding editor of the Journal for INCOSE. In 2001 Jeff was honored by INCOSE with the Fellow Award and in 2002 with the Founder's Award."