Dr. Denise Rose Stevens Email Address

Director of Operations and Chief Learning Architect

As a trusted systems integrator for more than 50 years, General Dynamics Information Technology provides information technology (IT), systems engineering, professional services and simulation and training to customers in the defense, federal civilian government, health, homeland security, intelligence, state and local government and commercial sectors.

Dr. Stevens is the Chief Learning Officer for General Dynamics Information Technology’s Training and Simulation Sector. She has over twenty four years of experience in the application of all aspects of the Instructional Systems Design (ISD) process and Human Performance Technology in applied research and product development for Government and education. Dr. Stevens has extensive experience in the design of Training and Performance Support Systems and Job Performance Measures for the Veterans Benefits Administration. Dr. Stevens has been involved in large-scaled effort that involved conducting job/task analysis, learning objective development, instructional and performance-centered design for various training platforms, such as web-based, classroom-based, or blended deliveries, conducting test reliability and validity procedures, conducting individual and small group trials and sequential validation procedures. Dr. Stevens also participated in pioneering the first extensive Computer-Based Training (CBT) foreign language training program with voice recognition capability. She has published work on cultural and linguistic diversity in American schools as well as various Government publications on cost and training effectiveness analysis. Dr. Stevens is also an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Instructional Technology at the University of Central Florida.