Dr. Douglas Orellana is Director of Engineering Solutions in the Solutions and Technology Group at SAIC. As the director of engineering solutions he also serves as the corporate lead for digital engineering. In his role, he is in charge of keeping SAIC in the forefront of industry’s digital engineering transformation and ensuring, SAIC is seen as a thought leader and has repeatable services and solutions that can be widely used throughout SAIC’s national security, defense systems and civilian customer groups.

Douglas has been recognized for his academic excellence, professional work, and community involvement. In 2019, his paper on the Systems Engineering Ontology, was awarded best forward thinking paper at the Conference in Systems Engineering Research and the Engineer’s Council awarded him Outstanding Engineering Achievement Award for his research contributions to the Systems Engineering Book of Knowledge. In 2012, INCOSE awarded him the JHU APL Alexander Kossiakoff SE Research Award. In 2010, Great Minds in STEM named him HENAAC’s Most Promising Engineer (Masters) and SHPE selected him in 2009 as Promising Engineer for Technical Achievement.

Douglas earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering and Masters in Systems Engineering from Johns Hopkins University, and his Doctorate in Astronautical Engineering from the University of Southern California. His doctoral research focused on integrating human considerations into the system architecting process though the use of Model Based Systems Engineering and Ontologies.