Michael J. Vinarcik, P.E., ESEP-Acq is the Digital Architecture and Requirements Engineering (DARE) Director in SAIC's Engineering Innovation Factory, an adjunct professor at the University of Detroit Mercy and CIDESI (Mexico). He has over thirty years of automotive and defense engineering experience and presents regularly at national and regional conferences. Michael has contributed to several books, most notably

Taguchi’s Quality Engineering Handbook and the MBSE chapter for the third edition of Systems Engineering: Principles and Practice. He received the 2017 Cameo Award for Modeling, Simulation, and Analysis Excellence for his thought leadership in MBSE and was the 2023 Individual Modeler of the Year at the first World Championship of Systems Architecture. Michael is a past Treasurer of INCOSE, a Fellow of the Engineering Society of Detroit, and the President and Founder of Sigma Theta Mu, the systems honor society.