Galen Valentine is a Senior Staff Engineer and Associate Tech Fellow for Systems Engineering at Bell Textron Inc. He draws on decades of experience (and lots of grey hair) in the defense and video game industries to help translate vision into reality. Back in the old days, before UML or SysML, Galen was introduced to modeling in software design. He has journeyed from defense programs like the Multiple Launch Rocket System to a NATO Exercise, Unified Vision 2018, to the latest United States Army aviation program. Since transitioning from software to systems engineering and earning a graduate degree from Georgia Tech in 2017, Galen dived head-first into Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) at L-3 Harris. Working with thought-leaders throughout the corporation to help bootstrap MBSE initiatives, he earned an Enterprise Collaboration Award in 2021. At Bell, Galen collaborates closely with both Bell and customer technical leadership to help make MBSE initiatives successful.