Director, Office of Aviation Safety
Mr. Haueter has been employed by the NTSB for 25 years and has, in addition to serving as office director, worked as an airworthiness investigator, an investigator-in-charge (IIC) of domestic aviation accidents, and the U.S. Accredited Representative for foreign aviation accidents. Before becoming office director, Mr. Haueter was the Deputy Director for the Office and the Chief of the Major Investigations Division. As Director of the Office of Aviation Safety, he is responsible for the investigation of all domestic aviation accidents and NTSB support of major foreign aviation accidents.
Mr. Haueter was the IIC for the USAir flight 427 investigation, which resulted in the redesign of the rudder system on the Boeing 737. He served as the U.S. Accredited Representative on the accident involving a COPA Airlines Boeing 737; as the IIC for the Atlantic Southeast Airlines Embraer 120 accident at Brunswick, Georgia, which claimed the life of Senator John Tower; and as the IIC for the midair collision at Philadelphia that claimed the life of Senator John Heinz. He was the lead NTSB investigator assisting the U.S. Air Force in the investigation of the CT-43A that crashed near Dubrovnik, Croatia, killing then-Commerce Secretary Ron Brown and 22 others. Additionally, Mr. Haueter was an advisor to the space shuttle Columbia Accident Investigation Board.
Prior to joining the NTSB, Mr. Haueter worked at Tracor Incorporated as a program manager for research and development. Before that, he was employed by Telcom Incorporated as an engineer in the design and application of composite aircraft structures and assessments of emerging technologies. Earlier, he was employed by Pratt & Whitney Aircraft as a structures engineer in gas turbine engine design.
Mr. Haueter holds an M.B.A. in Operations Research and International Business from George Mason University and a B.S. in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from Purdue University. He holds a commercial pilot's license with multi-engine and instrument ratings, and regularly flies a 1943 Stearman airplane that he restored.
National Resource Specialist for Aircraft Structures
Office of Aviation Safety
Brian Murphy graduated from the University of Delaware in 1990 with a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering and his currently the National Resource Specialist for Aircraft Structures at the National Transportation Safety Board. His industry experiences include nearly ten years of performing detailed strength, fatigue and damage tolerance analysis on a variety of metallic and composite structures. While working in industry he participated as a structures stress analyst on several programs including; 777 empennage and 767 fixed leading edge redesign (Boeing Commercial Airplane Group), GV fuselage (Gulfstream), and the BB 609 civil tilt rotor empennage (Boeing Helicopters & The Aerostructures Corporation). Prior to joining the National Transportation Safety Board he worked for the Federal Aviation Administration for two years as a certification engineer in the area of structures on the S61, S76 and S92 (Sikorsky) helicopter programs. Since joining the Safety Board in September 2000 Mr. Murphy has been the structures group chairman for numerous aviation accidents and/or incident including United Airlines Flight 93, American Airlines Flight 587 and US Airways Flight 1549. Mr. Murphy is also a private pilot.
Chief, Vehicle Performance Division
Office of Research and Engineering
Dr. Schultheisz joined the NTSB in 2002 as a research engineer in the Materials Laboratory Division of the NTSB's Office of Research and Engineering. He has since participated in many investigations, including the 2001 crash of American Airlines Flight 587 in New York, the 2006 Big Dig tunnel ceiling collapse in Boston, Massachusetts, and the 2007 collapse of the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In May 2011, he was named the Chief of the Vehicle Performance Division in the Office of Research and Engineering. Before coming to the NTSB, Dr. Schultheisz was a research engineer at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. He holds a B.S. in aerospace engineering from the University of Maryland and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in aeronautics from the California Institute of Technology.
Human Performance Division
Office of Aviation Safety
Evan Byrne, Ph.D. is a human performance investigator for the NTSB. He joined the NTSB in 1996 and has served the Office of Aviation Safety as Acting Deputy Director, Division Chief, and Aviation Psychologist. He has served as human performance investigator in more than a dozen major NTSB investigations, including SilkAir flight 185 in Indonesia; American Airlines flight 1420 in Little Rock, Arkansas; FedEx flight 14 in Newark, New Jersey; Fine Airlines flight 101 in Miami, Florida; Emery Worldwide Airlines flight 017 in Sacramento, California; Delta Air Lines flight 1288 in Pensacola, Florida; Continental Airlines flight 1493 in Houston, Texas; the Sunjet Aviation Learjet 35 accident in South Dakota; the Air Midwest flight 5481 accident in Charlotte, North Carolina; the Pinnacle Airlines CRJ accident in Jefferson City, Missouri; the Comair CRJ accident in Lexington, Kentucky; and the Colgan Q400 accident in Buffalo, NY. Before joining the NTSB, Dr. Byrne was a research associate conducting NASA-sponsored research on automation at the Cognitive Science Laboratory at the Catholic University in Washington, DC. He earned his Ph.D. and M.A. at the University of Maryland–College Park in 1993, where he studied physiological measures of mental workload. He graduated with a B.S. in psychology in 1986 from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is an active instrument-rated private pilot and owner of a Cessna 172.
Senior Metallurgist
Materials Laboratory Division
Frank Zakar is a Senior Metallurgist at the Materials Laboratory Division of the National Transportation Safety Board, and has been working at this agency since 1988. He performs numerous failure analysis cases per year, all of which some time or another, covered all modes of transportation investigated by the Safety Board. Mr. Zakar received his Bachelor of Science degree in Metallurgical Engineering from Polytechnic Institute of New York University, and Master of Science degree from Stevens Institute of Technology. Prior to his career with the Safety Board, he worked for Lockheed Martin Corporation, as a metallurgical engineer, where he diagnosed material problems in aircraft and navy vehicles.
Senior Air Safety Investigator
Major Investigation Division
Office of Aviation Safety
Joseph Sedor is a Senior Air Safety Investigator (Investigator in Charge) in the Major Investigations Division at the National Transportation Safety Board's Office of Aviation Safety. He acts as Investigator in Charge (IIC) for domestic air carrier accidents and incidents and as a United States Accredited Representative for foreign air carrier investigations.
Notable domestic investigations include Comair 5191, Lexington, Kentucky; FedEx Express flight 647 MD-10, Memphis, Tennessee; American Airlines flight 587; and American Airlines flight 1420 MD-82, Little Rock, Arkansas. Notable foreign investigations include Turkish Airlines flight 1951, Amsterdam, Netherlands; XL Airways A320, Perpignan, France; Lear 45 XC-VMC, Mexico City, Mexico; Qantas flight 30, Manila, Philippines; China Airlines flight 611, Boeing 747, Makung, Taiwan; Singapore Airlines flight 006, Boeing 747, Taipei, Taiwan; Swiss Air flight 111, near Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Prior to joining the Safety Board, was a flight test engineer/pilot with the Cessna Aircraft Company where primary responsible for development and certification of the Citation X business jet.
Structures and Maintenance Team Leader
Office of Aviation Safety
Pocholo Cruz is the current Structures and Maintenance Team Leader for the National Transportation Safety Board's Office of Aviation Safety. He has worked for the Board for seven years. Mr. Cruz has over 20 years of Aviation Engineering and Maintenance experience.
Prior to joining to the Board, he was the Engineering Technical Manager for ASTAR Air Cargo/DHL Airways, a PART 121 Cargo Carrier. At ASTAR, he managed and oversaw all aspects of the Engineering, Aircraft Reliability, Maintenance Programs and Configuration Control for the airlines DC-8, 727, and A300-B4 fleet of airplanes.
Prior to ASTAR Air Cargo/DHL Airways, Mr. Cruz worked for United Air Lines, Inc. for 11 years. During his tenure, he has held several Engineering positions where he was responsible for the design and technical support of the Airlines' 737 and 747 fleet.
Mr. Cruz graduated from Parks College of St. Louis University with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Aerospace Engineering.
Technical Specialist, Airframe Branch
Seattle Aircraft Certification Office
Federal Aviation Administration
Patrick Safarian is the fatigue and damage tolerance technical specialist at FAA. Since 1997 he has been involved in ensuring safety of the existing fleet as well as certification of new products in Seattle Aircraft Certification Office, such as 787 and 747-8. Prior to that he spend eleven years at the Boeing Company. During that time he contributed to development of methods and allowables for fatigue and fracture mechanics standards for stress engineers, performed analytical and numerical stress computations of highly complex structures, including failure analyses in support of design improvements, in-service problems and accident investigations.
Patrick received his BSME from Northrop University in 1983, MSME from California State University, Fullerton, in 1985, and completed his PhD work in Mechanical Engineering at University of California, Davis, in 1987. In June 2004 he also completed his Doctorate in Theology at Bakke Graduate School. Patrick has taught damage tolerance and advance engineering mathematics courses while at Boeing for ten years. He has been teaching post-graduate engineering courses in the fields of fatigue, fracture mechanics and finite element analysis in University of Washington and Central Washington University since 1998. Patrick is married to Shohreh, and together they have five children.
Richard Young is a senior research engineer in the Structural Mechanics and Concepts Branch at NASA Langley Research Center. Since 2005 he has been leading research efforts in aging and durability of advanced materials and structures for airframe and propulsion structures under the NASA Aviation Safety Program. Prior to that, he conducted research at NASA in structural concepts for multi-functional and adaptive structures for five years, and for nine years conducted both analytical and experimental research on the structural integrity of composite and metallic structural components with damage. He was lead structural analyst for the NASA Aircraft Structural Integrity Program (1992-1998) and lead and responsible researcher for the Robust Structural Integrity Project (1999-2001). He has contributed to development of computational methods for predicting the nonlinear response of complex structures with large deformation or significant damage. In addition, he served as a structures technical authority on mishap investigation teams for the American Airline Flight 587, AirTransat Flight 961, and the X-33 LH2 Tank Failure investigations.
Richard received BS degrees in Physics and Mechanical Engineering from SUNY Fredonia, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, respectively, in 1986. He received a MS in Engineering Mechanics from Virginia Tech, 1987, and completed his PhD in Engineering Mechanics from Virginia Tech in 1996 while working at NASA.
Structures Specialist (Airframe)
National Aircraft Certification Branch
Transport Canada
Hin Tsang has been with Transport Canada National Aircraft Certification Branch as a Structures Specialist (Airframe) since 1988. His experience includes overseeing the structural certification and compliance for a number of Part 25 aircraft certification programs such as DHC-8-400 and CL300. He is currently the leading Structures Specialist (Airframe) for the DHC-8-100 Service Life Extension Program, covering both the fatigue and damage tolerance aspects of the service life extension.
Prior to joining Transport Canada, Hin Tsang was a Senior Structures Engineer in the aerospace industry and, for a time, a Process Engineer in the nuclear industry since graduating in 1979. He received his B.A. Sc and M. A. Sc in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Toronto and is a registered member of Professional Engineers of Ontario.
Senior Technologist
Agência Nacional de Aviação Civil - Brazil
Oswaldo Oliveira graduated from the Sao Paulo State University in 1989 with a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering and he is currently the leader of Continued Airworthiness Team at the National Civil Aviation Agency (ANAC), Brazil. His experiences include nearly five years in the Brazilian Air Force as an officer in the area of aircraft maintenance and parts design/production. In 1994 he joined the Aerospace Technical Center (CTA) where he worked as a certification engineer in the area of mechanical systems and as a program coordinator manager on the EMB-145 and ERJ 170/190 projects (Embraer).
Mr. Oliveira has been transferred to the ANAC since March, 2006 when the Agency was established by a federal decree. Since then he is the leader of the Continued Airworthiness Group of the Product Certification Branch.
Structures Section Manager
Certification Directorate
European Aviation Safety Agency
Richard Minter is currently the Structures Section Manager within the European Aviation Safety Agency's Certification Directorate. Together with his team of fellow specialists he is responsible for the structures aspects of certification and continued airworthiness for the wide range of aircraft products under EASA's remit.
Mr. Minter joined British Aerospace as an undergraduate apprentice in 1980 and graduated from Hatfield Polytechnic in 1984 with a BSc in Aeronautical Engineering He subsequently joined the structures department at BAe Hatfield, primarily on the BAe 146 programme, performing static, fatigue and damage tolerance analysis. This period also included monitoring of full scale fatigue and damage tolerance test programmes, investigation of test results and resolution of manufacturing concessions and service difficulties.
Having progressed to the level of principal stress engineer, Mr. Minter left BAe in 1993 to join the UK Civil Aviation Authority as a Structures Surveyor. Whilst there he continued to develop his knowledge of airframe structural design and manufacture, through participation in airframe certification activities, design and manufacturing organization audits and rulemaking tasks. He represented both the CAA and JAA on several international working groups including those responsible for developing rules and advisory material for fatigue and damage tolerance for rotorcraft and damage tolerance for repairs and alterations to large transport aeroplanes. Helping to ensure the continued airworthiness of several types of transport aeroplanes was a significant element of Mr Minter's work at the CAA.
In 2005 Mr. Minter joined EASA as a Structures Certification Expert in Cologne, Germany, and became Structures Section Manager in 2008. In addition to performing certification and continued airworthiness tasks, his section also provide support to the Agency's rulemaking, organisation approvals and standardization activities. Mr Minter was part of the EASA team that certificated the Airbus A380 and he is chairman of the EASA Working Group developing European standards for ageing aircraft.
Chief Scientific and Technical Advisor for Fatigue and Damage Tolerance
Federal Aviation Administration
Mr. Eastin has over 41 years of experience in structural analysis and design of primary airframe structures with specialization in the areas of fatigue and damage tolerance. The majority of his experience was with large aerospace companies where he was involved in aircraft engineering development programs that included the DC-10, B-1A, Space Shuttle Orbiter, KC-10 and C-17. For the last 14 years Mr. Eastin has served as a scientific and technical advisor to the FAA. Mr. Eastin earned a BS in Aerospace Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology and an MS in Engineering Mechanics from Old Dominion University.
Mr. Eastin has been employed by the FAA as the Chief Scientific and Technical Advisor for Fatigue and Damage Tolerance since June 1997. In this position he advises on structural fatigue and damage tolerance issues involving analysis, test, operation and research and development on transport airplanes, general aviation airplanes, rotorcraft and engines. He has also served as an advisory member on several Aviation Rulemaking Advisory Committee (ARAC) Working Groups tasked with recommending changes to civil aviation rules and advisory material for transport category airplanes and rotorcraft.
Mr. Eastin has authored many papers, made numerous technical presentations and conducted workshops on the fatigue and damage tolerance of metallic aircraft structures.
Mr. Eastin is currently the Chairman of the Government Steering Group for the Metallic Materials Properties Development and Standardization (MMPDS) effort (formerly MIL-HDBK-5).
Chief Stress and Weights Engineer
Bombardier Aerospace, Belfast
David Patterson graduated with a 1st Class Honours Degree in 1978 from Ulster College, The Northern Ireland Polytechnic. David is a Chartered Engineer and a Member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in the UK. David is currently the Chief Stress Engineer for Bombardier Aerospace in Belfast.
His 33 years of experience in the Design, Certification, Manufacturing Support, In Service Support and Continued Airworthiness of Aircraft Structure began at Short Brothers PLC, and has continued with Bombardier Aerospace from they acquired Short Brothers PLC in 1989.
This experience covers the Short Brothers PLC and Bombardier Aerospace range of Aircraft which includes Commercial Aircraft Regional Jets, Turboprops & Business Jets, and Military Trainers & Transport Aircraft.
David is currently focused on the development of the Composite Wing and Advanced Metallic Fuselage for the Bombardier C Series Aircraft.
Senior Expert Fatigue and Damage Tolerance
EADS Airbus
Nikolaus Ohrloff graduated from the Technical University of Clausthal-Zellerfeld with a Master Degree In Mechanical Engineering and is currently a Senior Expert in the field of fatigue and damage tolerance of fuselage structures. His experience includes nearly 30 years of fatigue damage tolerance work on Airbus aircraft. In this period he concentrated not only on the analytical work but gained experience in all stages of the product development starting from the concept phase up to in ser-vice support. Main topics are:
He was member or lead of the fatigue and damage tolerance group working on the following projects: A310, A300-600, A330/A340, A320 and variants, A380 and A400M.
Senior Engineering Manager - Structures
Chief Engineer's Office
Ricardo Vidal has been recently appointed as Senior Engineering Manager, responsible for the Structures technology in the Chief Engineer's Office at Embraer. He is responsible to provide technical oversight, policy and direction for the engineering groups, and act as principal advisor to the Embraer Chief Engineer and other senior officials, in the field of advanced structure materials, design and analysis, on subjects associated to the technical readiness and maturity of Embraer projects.
It is also his responsibility the definition and implementation of corporate strategies for attaining and maintaining technical excellence of the technology.
Ricardo Vidal has over 20 years of experience on design, development and certification of aircraft structures, from the early stages of the conceptual design through entry into service phase, of products developed for the commercial and executive market. As stress engineer he participated in various projects for commercial aviation including ERJ145, Bombardier Q400, Embraer 170/175. As Engineering Manager he was responsible for the structure design, development and certification of various Embraer projects like the Embraer 190/195, Phenom 100, Phenom 300, Lineage 1000, Legacy 650 and the Legacy 500.
Ricardo Vidal earned his bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering from the University of São Paulo, in 1989, and Graduate Specialization, Aeronautical Engineering with emphasis in structures, at Instituto Tecnologico de Aeronáutica - ITA.
Chief Structures Engineer - Technical Support
Boeing Commercial Airplanes
Steve Chisholm is the Boeing Commercial Airplanes chief structures engineer for technical support. Named to this position in March 2008, Chisholm is responsible for providing technical leadership for structural requirements and compliance to Boeing airplane business units while supporting daily program technical activities, continued airworthiness and the in-service fleet.
Before this assignment, Chisholm was the structures integration leader for the 787 program, where he provided functional leadership across the various 787 teams. He also provided structures technical leadership for several years for Commercial Airplanes programs in Renton, Wash.
Chisholm is a strong supporter of airplane safety. He is an Authorized Representative, he has long been involved in safety and compliance issues, and he was a member of the Boeing Technical Fellowship before entering management. Chisholm has been an active member of several airplane accident investigations and continues to provide leadership to the structures team that supports investigations.
Chisholm joined Boeing in 1986 as a structural stress analyst on the 747 and 767 programs. He holds a Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering from the University of Washington and a Master in Business Administration from Seattle University.
737 Manufacturing Operations
Deputy
Boeing Commercial Airplanes
Erik Nelson in June 2011 was appointed deputy to the vice president of Manufacturing Operations for the 737 Program in Renton, Wash., where he is responsible for leading the manufacturing operations team.
Prior to moving to manufacturing in March, 2010, Nelson held several key management positions in engineering. Most recently, Nelson led the engineering unit responsible for aircraft structure; and manufacturing, tool and equipment engineering support for both the Next-Generation 737 and the P-8 Programs. Additional responsibilities for the 737 included fleet safety and process improvement. P-8 responsibilities included leading a complex, inter-company development effort between commercial, military and supplier groups. Nelson also has been the research and development manager for interiors and the electrical responsibility center, and an operations manager on the 747 Program.
Nelson has held various positions in which he was responsible for engineering teams supporting airplane delivery, airplane repair in service and flight test and certification in locations around the world.
In 1988 and 1993, Nelson earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics and a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering respectively from University of Washington. He holds a Master of Science in Management; Master of Science in Aeronautical Engineering; and is a Leaders for Global Operations Fellow - all from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Senior Quality Manager - Commercial Aviation
ELECTRICAL ENGINEER graduated by FACULDADE DE ENGENHARIA INDUSTRIAL (FEI) in 1985.
BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION post-graduated by FACULDADE ARMANDO ALVARES PENTEADO (FAAP) in 1999.
Twenty five years experience in the industrial business
Eighteen years experienced in Quality Management
Ten years experienced in Quality for the Aeronautical Industry
Areas of Expertise:
a) Structures
Production of Metal Primary parts - all Embraer Programs
Production of Composite parts - all Embraer Programs
Fuselage Assembly - ERJ 145 and EMBRAER 170/190
Wing Assembly - EMBRAER 170
Painting - all Embraer programs
Sealing - all Embraer programs
b) Assembly
Equipage - ERJ 145 and EMBRAER 170/190
Final Assembly - EMBRAER 170/190
Flight Preparation - EMBRAER 170/190
Suppliers Quality Management - Commercial and Executive Aviation
c) Documentation
Aircraft Technical Documentation - Commercial and Executive Aviation
Acting Deputy Director
Aircraft Certification Service
Federal Aviation Administration
Frank Paskiewicz has served with the FAA since 1986 and held several technical and management positions in the Aviation Safety organization. He is currently the Acting Deputy Director, Aircraft Certification Service. In this position he shares with the Director the responsibility for advising and assisting the Associate Administrator for Aviation Safety in directing, coordinating, and assuring the adequacy of safety regulations and policies; and national programs, plans, and procedures which govern the airworthiness of aeronautical products, parts, and appliances. The scope of the effected functions includes: type certification; production certification; original airworthiness certification; and continued airworthiness programs, including the issuance of Airworthiness Directives; and delegation systems.
Manager, Airbus Metal Technology Germany
Airbus
1989-1993:
Material Technology study at University of Applied Science - Osnabrueck
1993-1996:
Material Science study at Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg
1996-1999:
PhD at Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Advanced Materials, Bremen on Metal Foams
1999-2001:
R&D Project Leader Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Advanced Materials, Bremen for Powder Metallurgy, Metal Injection Molding.
2001-2010:
Project Leader - Airbus Metal Technology Germany, Aluminum Aircraft Structure Products.
Since 2010:
Manager, Airbus Metal Technology Germany. Head of the German sub-domain for Metal Aircraft Structure Products.
Principal Quality Engineer, Quality Assurance
Bombardier Aerospace, Belfast
Trevor Mills was born and lives in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Trevor joined Short Brothers plc in 1988, a year before the company was acquired by Bombardier Inc. He completed a technical apprenticeship while studying Aeronautical Engineering at the Belfast Institute of Further and Higher Education. Upon completion of his apprenticeship, Trevor moved to the Quality Department. His experience includes quality support of various aircraft programs, but he has focused his efforts on maintenance and development of the company's quality system. This includes ensuring compliance with a range of regulatory requirements, including Production Organization Approvals, Maintenance Organization Approvals and AS9100 Rev C.
Manager, Airframe Branch
Los Angeles Aircraft Certification Office
Gregory S. DiLibero became the Manager of the Airframe Branch of the Los Angeles Aircraft Certification Office (LAACO), in August, 2001. As the branch manager, Greg is responsible for the design certification and continued airworthiness of aircraft manufacturers and modifiers located in the FAA's Western Pacific Region. Greg oversees a branch of approximately 14 aircraft structural engineers who carry out the Aircraft Certification Service's mission.
At the time of his appointment, Greg was a senior engineer in the LAACO Airframe Branch. Greg joined the FAA in 1994 as a structural engineer in the airframe branch. Before that, he worked for McDonnell Douglas Space Systems for 5 years doing structural analysis and design on the International Space Station. From 1987 to 1990, Greg was an engineer at Douglas Aircraft where he did structural analysis and design on MD-80 and MD-90 commercial aircraft.
Greg was born and raised in Southern California, where he earned a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from California State University Long Beach in 1986 and a masters degree in civil engineering structural mechanics from the University of Southern California in 1990. Greg and his wife, Carol, have two children and reside in Huntington Beach, California.
Manager, Structures
In-Service Engineering, CRJ series
Bombardier Commercial Aircraft
Jean started his career in aviation in 1986, as a maintenance technician for local regional airlines, in Montreal, Canada. After becoming a licensed aircraft mechanic and avionics technician, Jean progressed into the function of quality manager for an airline's Aircraft Maintenance Organization. In 2001, Jean joined Bombardier's CRJ Customer Support group, as a technical specialist. During the following seven years, Jean was responsible for all CRJ200 landing gear systems and structural related issues. During that period, Jean also completed a Bachelor of Science degree, which included a major in Aeronautics. In 2008, he accepted the position of Manager for the CRJ In-Service Engineering Structures team. His main responsibility is to ensure that all Bombardier CRJ customers get the support they need when any structural issue affects in-service aircraft.
His main focus is on maintaining an organization that can support and resolve any type of structural issue, on a 24/7/365 basis.
EASA Representative
Washington DC.
Trained in Bristol UK as an aircraft engineer and worked for a variety of European operator/maintenance organisations, spending 6 years at British Airways as a Boeing 747 heavy maintenance manager. Joined the CAA UK as an airworthiness Surveyor in 1998 and was seconded to the Joint Aviation Authorities in the Netherlands for 4 years with responsibility for foreign maintenance approvals and their standardisation. Following this he joined EASA as the Continued Airworthiness organisations section manager in 2004. He was selected as the EASA Representative to Washington DC in 2008 and now covers all aspects of EASA's interface with the FAA and US industry.
He is an FAA A&P mechanic, multi rated EASA Part 66 licensed engineer, and also holds an MBA.
See Panel 3 above
Senior Airworthiness Engineer
Rafael Marques graduated in Aeronautical Engineering from Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Brazil, in 2000.
Senior Airworthiness Engineer at Embraer SA.
Current position: Certification Technical Leader for structures, cabin safety and airworthiness limitations.
Continued Airworthiness engineer with nearly nine years of experience on several Embraer programs, including the EMB-145 family and ERJ 170/190. Analysis of fleet service difficulties, risk assessment and discussion of airworthiness directives.
Implementation of the 14 CFR Part 26 requirements at Embraer. Company representative on the Airworthiness Assurance Working Group (AAWG) and FAA Airworthiness Directive Implementation - Aviation Rulemaking Committee (AD ARC).
Specialist in Aviation Safety and Continued Airworthiness from Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica (ITA), Brazil, in 2004.
See Panel 3 above
American Eagle
Bill Jacobson currently works for American Eagle Airlines as the Manager of Regulatory Compliance / Technical Publications. With over 30 years of aviation experience he has served in a wide range of aviation disciplines. Bill has filled the position of Planning Manager of the airlines 145 certified repair station and Maintenance Manager of the airlines in-house heavy maintenance facility.
Most recently Bill has worked as the EMB and CRJ fleet analyst, responsible for managing the airlines maintenance programs. Bill currently serves as the Chairman of the Embraer Industry Steering Committee, General Working Group.
Chief Scientific and Technical Advisor for Human Factors in Aircraft Maintenance Systems
Federal Aviation Administration
Dr. William Johnson is the FAA Chief Scientific and Technical Advisor for Human Factors in Aircraft Maintenance Systems. Bill spent 25+ years as a Senior Executive and Scientist for Engineering Companies specializing in Technical Training and Human Factors. Joining FAA in 2004, he is the top FAA person responsible for research and technical programs related to human performance in maintenance/engineering.
He is an Aviation Maintenance Technician and a pilot for over 45 years. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in 1980, where he also served as a Professor at the Institute of Aviation. Since then, he has published extensively on human factors and technical training in many industries. He has delivered hundreds of speeches in nearly 50 countries.
Dr. Johnson is a long-standing member of the International Socienty of Accident Investigators, and the Human Factors and Ergonmics Society. He is a member of the Flight Safety Foundation and the International Federation of Airworthiness.
He is a past winner of the FAA Plain Language Award and will apply that plain language in his conference presentation.
Delta Air Lines
Gregg Pattison is a Sr. Principal Structures Engineer for Delta Air Lines and is the airline's subject matter expert for corrosion prevention, fatigue cracking inspection programs and other aging aircraft programs. Pattison has 24 years of various airline operations experience including day-to-day aircraft structural repair design, fleet specific safety, reliability and configuration control, integration of maintenance programs, and developing and implementing corporate long range strategies for aircraft structural reliability and integrity.
Pattison is currently a member of the Airworthiness Assurance Working Group (AAWG) industry team and has worked with industry developing aviation rulemaking for 15 years. He has also been an NTSB accident investigation team member.
While Pattison was earning his BSME, he partially designed, built, and taught himself how to fly an ultralight aircraft per 14CFR103. He has since become a licensed private pilot and has restored his 1945 tail dragger.
US Airways
Mike Tallarico is a Principal Engineer for US Airways. His primary responsibilities are designing and analyzing aircraft structural repairs for aircraft in heavy maintenance and day-to-day line maintenance. He is currently an DER structures candidate for US Airways.
Tallarico joined US Airways in April 1999. He has served on several NTSB investigations for US Airways as the structural engineering representative with the most recent investigation being the Flight 1549 incident where a US Airways A320 aircraft landed in the Hudson River in New York City in January 2008. His current duties also involve representing US Airways on the Airworthiness Assurance Working Group (AAWG) industry team.
Tallarico came to US Airways from the Boeing Company where he served for 4 years as a Liaison Engineer in Final Assembly for the 747, 767, and 777 in Everett WA. Prior to joining Boeing, he spent 12 years with St. Louis MO based McDonnell Douglas as both a Liaison Engineer and as a flight test engineer on the multiple military aircraft development programs.
Tallarico earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Aeronautical / Astronautical Engineering from the Ohio State University.
Chief Scientific/Technical Advisor, Nondestructive Evaluation
FAA
Dr. Alfred L. Broz has been involved in Nondestructive Evaluation (NDE) for over 37 years. Prior to his transfer to the FAA, Dr. Broz spent fifteen years as a civilian/manager with the Army in NDE, in a role similar to his FAA position. Dr. Broz received his formal education in Physics and holds a Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame.
GE Energy
Jeff Register received his FAA Airframe and Power Plant license in 1982. He continued his education by completing the NDT course at Hutchinson Technical College. His career started at Kennedy Space Center as a NDT Technician, followed by an NDT Specialist in the NDT engineering group at McDonnell Douglas working C-17 development and commercial aircraft sustaining programs. Jeff then led the NDT program at Northwest Airlines for eighteen years. While managing the NDT program at NWA, Jeff's group amassed millions of dollars in cost saving initiatives with advanced NDT applications. Jeff left the airlines to start a successful aviation consulting & service company in 2005. In 2009 Jeff accepted the position of US Sales Manager for Sonatest Inc. and worked in the capacity of North American Sales Manager till August 2011. In August, 2011 Jeff accepted the position of Key Account Manager – Airlines & Military Aviation for GE Energy.
Center for Nondestructive Evaluation, Iowa State University
Lisa Brasche (CNDE Iowa State) serves as Associate Director of the Center for Nondestructive Evaluation at Iowa State University. Her responsibilities are focused on transition of results from the academic environment to practical use. She has served as program manager for major aerospace inspection programs including the FAA-funded Center for Aviation Systems Reliability, the Engine Titanium Consortium, and Air Force-funded programs to address inspection of Aging Military Aircraft. She has a BS degree from North Carolina State University in Materials Engineering and an MS in Metallurgy from Iowa State University.
Sandia National Laboratories
Mike Bode is a Senior Member of the Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories, working in the Airworthiness Assurance Nondestructive Inspection Validation Center (AANC). The AANC started as an FAA sponsored program with core activities centered on inspection technology evaluation, transfer and development, but more recently has expanded activities to support other airworthiness activities. Mike has worked in the AANC program for the past 12 years performing evaluations of emerging and conventional NDI technologies. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree from New Mexico State University in 1982 and a Master's of Aeronautical Science degree from Embry Riddle Aeronautical University in 2001. He is a member of ASNT and holds a Level III certification in eddy current. Mike's hobbies include being an instrument rated pilot.
