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AOS Relevant Technical Experience and Skills:
Introduction
Our personnel have a wealth of experience and expertise gained over the past 50 years – a direct result of careers in numerous different and responsible positions with the commercial airlines, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the Air Force. Our staff has experience in the airside (the cockpit and the vehicle), the ground side (facilities and the airspace management systems) and the regulatory side (policies, regulations, safety, security, etc). Our careers have included numerous tours in the FAA Technical Centers (Atlantic City, New Jersey, Oklahoma), FAA HQ in Washington, D.C., the military command and control systems, the airline operations and the airline maintenance and repair. Our people have been responsible for the research, development and acquisition of infrastructure, major surveillance, navigation and landing systems, assessing acquisition strategies and systems, evaluating new technologies and managing acquisition, evaluation and technical implementation organizations. We have maintained and modified airplanes – and the facilities required to support them. Our people are specialists, experienced and ‘hands-on’ technical and managerial experts that when called upon, provide smoothly functioning projects and organizations.
RESOURCES
Analysts:
Mr. Taras (Terry) Bura is a requirements analyst, writer, and as a result of his career experience, an airspace management technical team member and contributor. Taras’s main tasks are requirements gathering, survey procedures, processes and reports, compiling and producing all deliverables and reviewing Air Space Management Modernization current state and the modernization requirements. Taras is also experienced in financial investment and economic analysis and technical and industrial product evaluation.
As a technical resource he has over 25 years experience in military and civilian aircraft, airports and air traffic control systems and procedures, including aviation systems, en-route systems, airport systems, NAVAIDs and other surveillance systems. He has performed feasibility, cost benefit, business requirement and risk evaluation studies of systems with respect to operations, security and functionality, management and remediation and performed contingency planning, system conversion and implementation. As a member of the Air Force he was the Configuration Manager of software and hardware systems for the mid 1980s North American Aerospace Defense (NORAD) Region Operations Control Center (ROCC) Modernization Project and later the ground surveillance systems manager for the Air Modernization Program in North America, where he was a coordinating and implementing manager for the North Warning System ground surveillance system – the replacement for the Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line along North America’s Arctic Littoral. He is skilled in directing and managing major technical/Systems Integration and communications projects and has specific experience with new technology including biometric and intrusion surveillance, security and detection systems.
Airport Infrastructure Support/Airport Civil Engineer:
Mr. Mauricio Gutierrez is a Senior Civil Airport Engineer with 24 years of experience in airport planning and design as well as project and task management. Educated at the University of Kansas, Mr. Gutierrez has extensive experience and expertise in the airport and air transportation sector in Latin America, including direct experience in Iquique and Puerto Montt airports in Chile. Other Latin America and Caribbean experience includes Cartagena and Cali International Airports, Columbia, Ramón Villeda Morales Airport in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, Juan Santamaria Airport, San José, Costa Rica, Jorge Chávez Airport, Lima, Peru, Rosario International Airport, Argentina and airports in St. Lucia and Aruba. He has lead workshops and made presentations in Latin American Airport Planning and Design, Safety Conferences and Aviation infrastructure workshops. Mr. Gutierrez will be available to assist in the site evaluations, environmental assessments, NAVAIDS and electronics equipment site selection plans, facility requirements and conceptual plans. He also has experience in the development of capital costs and financing strategies.
Airspace Management Systems:
Ms. Loni R. Czekalski is a highly qualified Airspace Management Systems Specialist with a wealth of experience and expertise that she gained over the past 30 years in numerous different and responsible positions with the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and industry. She joined the FAA June 1970 as a mathematician and performed direct research and analysis on enroute and terminal systems. Over her career she advanced in responsibilities and duties and spent numerous tours in the FAA Technical Center in Atlantic City, New Jersey and FAA HQ in Washington, D.C.. She was responsible for the research, development, testing and acquisition of major surveillance, navigation and landing systems for the FAA and assessing and managing major acquisition strategies and systems, evaluating new technologies and managing acquisition, evaluation and technical implementation organizations. As recently as 1997 she was the FAA's Director for Communications, Navigation and Surveillance (CNS) where she managed an acquisition budget of $600 million per year with a staff of 300 federal employees and 700 support contractors. During her tenure as Director of this CNS Group, she and her staff developed and delivered approximately 20,000 new systems to modernize airports as well as the national air traffic control system throughout the United States. Ms.Czekalski has a Bachelor’s degree in mathematics and a Master’s degree in Aviation Management. She is a pilot with ratings for single and multiengine aircraft and is instrument rated.
Mr. Charles R. (Chuck) Reavis is a dedicated aviation expert and professional with more than 45 years of experience in the aviation field. Mr. Reavis was employed for 33 years with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in the field of air traffic control, five years in the United States Air Force Security Service and almost six years with Booz Allen Hamilton in McLean, Virginia. Mr. Reavis has extensive expertise in air traffic control, air traffic field facility management, airspace design and management, aviation environmental studies including experience with the NEPA process, international and oceanic aviation including work with ICAO, IATA, NATO and other international organizations, air traffic flow management, and extensive working knowledge of the FAA headquarters, regions and field organizations.
Raytheon Technical Services Company - Air Traffic Control Optimum Training Solution
Washington Consulting Group – ATC Subject Matter Expert
Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc. - Aviation Safety Reporting System
Booz Allen Hamilton – Runway Safety
Booz Allen Hamilton – Traffic Management/Departure Spacing Program
Booz Allen Hamilton – International Aviation Operations
Booz Allen Hamilton – Aviation Environmental Analysis
Booz Allen Hamilton – Aviation Subject Matter Expertise
Federal Aviation Administration
FAA – Field and Regional Facilities
FAA - Headquarters
FAA – International
FAA – Environmental
Electronics and NAVAIDs Engineer/Air Traffic Specialist:
Mr. Burton Gifford His career encompassed over 35 years in the FAA with diverse experience responsibility in the development and deployment of communication, navigation, and surveillance systems in support of the US’s National Airspace System. He was instrumental and a lead in conceptualizing and designing modeling and simulation capabilities for use in the evaluation and development of procedures for airspace and airport activities as well as analysis of the national aviation airspace and airports infrastructure. During his tenure with FAA he managed the National Airspace Review Program (a consortium of government and industry) which produced over 1000 changes to procedures and policies across all aviation aspects of the FAA and Canadian airspace. He participated in the identification of requirements for and development of:
The requirement document for the System Evaluation and Modeling Facility (SEMF) which is reflected in the present Air Traffic Control System Command Center/Facility and the National Laboratory;
Communication systems and applications ranging from major telecommunications networking and switching systems to satellites;
Navigation systems, from airport precision landing systems to satellite C surveillance;
Broadband radar to electronic data presentation and automation dependant surveillance;
Automation, from major administrative systems to operational national air traffic control systems.
He also initiated and oversaw the development, evaluation, and simulations for establishing requirements, standards, and procedures, for multiple simultaneous parallel ILS approaches to meet the planned expansion of the Dallas Fort Worth airport as well as the new Denver airport and additional planned new runways at various United States airports.
He is completely familiar with airspace and air technologies modernization and regularly conducts high level briefings on new technologies and the applications to user groups within the industry.
Engineers:
Mr. Lucier has spent 45 years in private industry and government (FAA) in systems engineering and management where he has been responsible for developing large electronics and communications systems from end-to-end. He has specific experience with electronic navigation systems, policies and procedures and has implemented 21st century navigation, communications, aeronautical, and space systems within the FAA systems. He was the Chief Technical Advisor and Chief Scientist for Information Technology (AIO) for the FAA from 2001-2006 where he provided expert technical and scientific advice and guidance on all aspects of information technology with special emphasis on information assurance, information management, process engineering, and information architectures, strategic planning and investment analysis. During his career he managed FAA Telecommunications Infrastructure Solution Implementation Requirements, developed FAA Infrastructure Mission Needs Statement and Investment Analysis given National Airspace System architecture and successfully managed physical/capital resources, personnel, and course materials to deliver legislatively mandated ARS training course on schedule and within cost. He was responsible for developing NAVAID systems for FAA, including the Mode-S which was the pre-cursor system to ADS-B.
Dr. John Heurtley - Presently Dr. John Heurtley consults for industry and government principally on radar, satellite and optical systems. He holds a doctorate in physics from Syracuse University. Dr. Heurtley has more than 40 years experience working with military surveillance, Global Positioning System, and air traffic control surveillance systems and navigation systems. Prior to his retirement from government in 1997 he worked for Xerox Corporation, United States Department of Defense (USDOD), United States Army (USA), United States Central Intelligence Agency (USCIA), United States Federal Aviation Administration (USFAA) and the United States Department of Transportation (USDOT). For USDOD Dr. Heurtley designed radar and satellite tracking systems and algorithms for those systems and worked with the Global Positioning System. During his tenure with the FAA he managed a division in the Office of System Management that developed concepts and systems for the future air traffic control including satellite surveillance, automatic dependent surveillance and discrete addressing radar system Mode S. While a division manager at the FAA’s Technical Center he was responsible for testing and evaluating all new navigation aides and concepts e.g. GPS, surveillance concepts and systems including the Mode S radar system, Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System, Long Range Radar (ARSR-4), Airport Surveillance Radar (ASR-9), Airport Surface Surveillance System (ASDE) and Automatic Dependent Surveillance (ADS-B). At DOT’s Transportation System Center again Dr. Heurtley developed new airport radar and satellite surveillance systems. In Dr. Heurtley’s last position while in government at FAA’s Headquarters he managed the FAA’s radar research. In that position he worked with industry leaders e.g. Sensis, Westinghouse, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, ARINC as well as government groups including DOD, MIT’s Lincoln Laboratories and Mitre Corporation, government industry groups e.g. Radio Technical Commission of America (RTCA) to develop the best new systems for Air Traffic Control surveillance. His expertise in radar and satellites is highly regarded and unquestioned.
Engineer/NAVAIDS Expert:
Mr. Ed Mack has spent over 40 years with the FAA in ever increasing responsibilities and functions. He has been involved from the ground up in the IT infrastructure, having spent time in the LAN and communications roles (including Fiber Optics) and has spent the last 20 years in the ground systems testing environment. He was a team member in the testing and evaluation of various aspects of NAVAIDs and of the National Airspace System (NAS), a new air traffic control (ATC) system under development. He performed the evaluation of antennas and modulation techniques at VORTAC test sites, did flight tests to determine the azimuth accuracy of different antenna configurations, aided in data collection and reduction into meaningful results and was assigned a project to determine the most feasible method of supplying radar data to the NAS test-bed from Air Route Traffic Control Centers, ARTCCs, scattered around the United States.
Regulatory Specialist:
Ms. Wendy Chapman, an FAA/ICAO manager and regulatory expert. Wendy has been an FAA manager (Airway Facilities Division, Kansas City, MO, (8/97-10/01)) and Director (Deputy Director, Communications, Navigation and Surveillance Requirements, Washington, DC, (9/96-8/97)) for a large part of her over thirty year FAA career. In these positions she was responsible for the executive direction of the maintenance and operation of all National Airspace System (NAS) communications, navigation/landing, radar, automation systems and infrastructure within the FAA’s regulatory and budget structure. She led the development of policy for regional requirements, budget, and operational airspace management service improvements; strengthened operational performance requirements; managed negotiations with two distinct unions within the same workforce. She also supported the development of new programs for the agency's capital investment plan by managing the development of mission need statements, participation in program reviews and recommended program funding priorities and provided oversight of problem resolution for the national implementation of major equipment acquisition programs with significant technical problems, including new radar systems. She also assisted in training and professional development by developing course requirements and basic course content and then managing the development and completion of a comprehensive requirements training course for all employees within her directorate.
Financial Analyst Specialist:
Mr. Vijay Rao possesses 25 years of management experience in a range of business disciplines for multinational corporations. He has solid expertise in the financial craft, including strategic and profit center business planning, financial operations, budgeting and control, project analysis and management, mergers and acquisitions, business process improvement and consumer marketing. In addition, Mr. Rao consistently uses his strong communication skills in international and multicultural environments in such activities as creating, staffing and managing specialized departments and multidisciplinary project teams. Mr. Rao will assist with the Project's financial analysis and will recommend a financing strategy.
ICAO & IATA:
Mr. Robert Edwards - A total of thirty five years in the aviation industry, primarily in the maintenance and engineering arena, the last twenty years working for UK carriers based in the USA in senior management positions. In 2005 he launched his own aviation consulting company, Tech One, conducting technical, quality and safety related projects for direct clients and larger consulting companies.
In addition he conducts safety audits on behalf of IATA for a US based audit organization and on behalf of IBAC as an IS-BAO qualified auditor.
CAA Aircraft Maintenance Engineers license (UK)
FAA Airframe and Power Plant Certificate (US)
Consulting Experience
Conducting aircraft inspections, records audits and asset management programs on behalf of various financial institutions and leasing companies. Conducting airline safety assessments either directly for the airline or on behalf of interested financial investment corporations. Designing and presenting IOSA awareness training courses. Assisting companies with FAA and EASA 145 certification applications, including the composition and preparation of all required manuals and documentation. IATA Operational Safety Audit Experience (IOSA)
Conducting IATA Operational Safety Audits for many USA and international airlines worldwide for a US based accredited IATA Audit Organization.
IOSA Qualifications and Authorizations
- Maintenance and Engineering MNT
- Organization and Management ORG
- Cabin Operations CAB
- Cargo Operations CGO
- Ground Handling GRH
- Operational Security SEC
- IBAC – IS-BAO
Qualified IS-BAO Auditor to conduct safety audits for Part 135 operators
Meteorologist and Climatologist:
Dr. Branscome holds a Ph.D. in meteorology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a B.S. in Meteorology from Florida State University. He taught meteorology at the graduate level at the University of Miami for several years and has published many technical articles on weather and climate. These include Atmospheric Dynamics, Climate Process, Fog Formation Process, Aviation Meteorology, Windstorms, Forensic Meteorology and more.
Dr. Branscome has served on the National Research Council’s Climate Research Committee, as chairman of the Board of Certified Consulting Meteorologists of the American Meteorology Society and as president of the National Council of Industrial Meteorologist.
Dr. Branscome has testified in numerous court cases involving aviation, marine, tropical and severe weather. Examples include Korean Airlines crash in Guam, the U.S. Air Force crash in Croatia, the American Airlines accident in Columbia and the American Eagle accident near Roselawn, Indiana.
Dr. Branscome has provided climatological analysis for for airport de-icing facilities and worked for the U.S. Department of Transportation on issues related to climate change and transportation. He is frequently asked by U.S. federal agencies for advice on the management of weather and climate data and services and their impact on the private sector.
Among his awards are the NASA-ASEE Summer Faculty Fellowship, Carl Gustav Rossby Award for most outstanding Ph.D. thesis submitted to M.I.T. Department of Meteorology and more.
Electronics Engineer/Systems Performance Specialist:
Mr. Edward Mills a 25 year veteran of the FAA has excelled in multiple areas during his career;
- Radar Automation
- Airway Facilities LAX TRACON
- Radar Approach Control Facility, Edwards AFB
- Plans and Programs Branch – Safety and Emergency Preparedness
- Terminal Automation Division ARTS 11, ARTS11A, ARTS 111, and ASR
- Advanced Automation Division
- Tower Systems and interface issues associated with the Advanced Automation System
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