A little bit about the presenters at the 2005 National Software and Complex Electronic Hardware Standardization Conference:
John Angermayer
John Angermayer presently works for Mitre CAASD. At Mitre he is involved in Data Link, Capstone, GPS III, and Military Avionics and Data Base Approvals for CNSATM (GATM). He currently is active as a consultant Designated Engineering Representative of the FAA. He has held his designation since 1988. His work includes software approvals for the first commercially available TCAS II system, a Predictive Windshear system, a series of communication radios and Mode S transponders. He was an active member of RTCA SC-167 as co-chair of Working Group 4, RTCA SC-190 in the CNS/ATM (ground) sub-group, and RTCA SC-201. He is currently an active member of RTCA SC-205.
Gregg Bartley
Gregg is from the FAA Transport Standards Airplane and Flight Crew Interface Branch in Seattle. He has been with the FAA for five years. Prior to that, he was with industry for nineteen years. He specializes in autopilot systems, fly-by-wire flight controls, airborne software, complex electronic hardware, and other avionics systems. Gregg has a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Mississippi State University and a Master’s degree in Applied Physics from the University of Washington.
Jorge Castillo
Jorge Castillo has been working in the Rotorcraft Directorate Standards Staff & Regulations Office (ASW-111) as a Systems & Software Engineer since 1997. He was previously in the Rotorcraft Certification Office (ASW-170) for 4 years. He came to the FAA from the Department of Defense where he worked for 7 years as a Systems & Software engineer on many advanced military weapon systems programs such as the F-16, F-111 & F-22 fighter jets, Apache helicopters, and missile systems.
Jorge's academic background includes:
Bachelors of Science degree, Texas A& I University, Electrical Engineering
Masters of Science degree, Southern Methodist University (SMU), Electrical Engineering with a major in Digital & Microcomputer Systems
John Chilenski
John Joseph Chilenski is an Associate Technical Fellow within Boeing Commercial Airplanes specializing in embedded software technology, especially the verification of safety-rated airborne software. He is currently the project manager for the Software Verification research project for The Boeing Company's research and development organization: Phantom Works.
Darren Cofer
Dr. Darren Cofer is a Staff Scientist at Honeywell Laboratories in Minneapolis. He received his Ph.D. from The University of Texas at Austin. His areas of expertise are the design and analysis of safety-critical control systems and the use of formal methods for verification of correct system behavior. He has served as principal investigator on several NASA and DARPA-funded programs.
Lloyd Condra
Lloyd Condra is a Technical Fellow with Boeing Phantom Works, Seattle, WA. He is assigned to identify and address global electronics industry issues that impact the ability of the aerospace industry to design, produce, and support new and existing products. He has almost forty years’ experience in electronics system design, manufacturing, and research in the communications, medical electronics, computer, and aerospace industries.
Mr. Condra is the author of approximately sixty technical papers, and three technical reference books. He is the chairman of International Electrotechnical Commission Technical Committee 107, Process Management for Avionics, and of the Government Engineering and Information Technology Association Avionics Process Management Committee. Currently, he is leading the Lead-free Electronics in Aerospace Project Working Group, sponsored jointly by AIA, AMC, and GEIA. He has a B.S. from Iowa State, and an M.S. from Lehigh, both in materials engineering.
Mike DeWalt
Mike DeWalt is Chief Scientist, Aviation Systems, for Certification Services, Inc. (CSI), a Seattle-area aviation consulting firm. Mike is an FAA Designated Engineering Representative (DER), authorized to approve software for any aircraft function and at all software levels. In addition, he helps clients develop acceptable software approval techniques. Prior to his position with CSI, Mike was the FAA's National Resource Specialist (NRS) for aircraft software for 11 years. For more than 26 years, he has worked with commercial and military software and avionics and in civil certification, for both airframers and avionics suppliers. In addition to his DER certificate, Mike has a BSEE, a Masters in Software Engineering, and a commercial pilot’s license.
Jason Dickstein
Mr. Dickstein is a Washington DC attorney who represents aviation companies in FAA enforcement actions, transactional negotiations and contract development, and civil and criminal litigation. He also provides regulatory training on aviation and hazmat regulations, and he consults on regulatory compliance and intellectual property issues. He represents several aviation trade associations and in that context he has been active in assisting the FAA in rulemaking projects and in the development of FAA policy documents. He is currently the Chair of the FAA-Industry SUPs Committee.
Tom & Uma Ferrell
Tom and Uma Ferrell are co-founders of Ferrell and Associates Consulting, Inc. a certification and software safety consultancy serving the safety and mission-critical software industry. Ferrell and Associates Consulting (aka FAA Consulting) specializes in training, certification project support, and related research projects.
Tom has held senior technical positions at Science Application International Corporation (SAIC), Iridium LLC, and the Boeing Commercial Airplane Group. Tom served as a company DER for Boeing for seven years and currently holds a consulting DER appointment for systems and equipment (part 23 and part 25 aircraft). Tom holds a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Northern Illinois University, a Master’s degree in Information Technology Management at Rensselaer PolyTechnic Institute, and is pursuing a Master’s program in History at George Mason University. When not thinking about certification issues, Tom likes to pursue his hobbies of woodworking, reading, and eating Uma’s cooking (see below).
Uma has held senior technical positions at Reliable Software Technologies (RST), MITRE, General Sciences Corporation (GSC), and Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC). Uma holds a consulting DER appointment for systems and equipment (part 23 and part 25 aircraft). Uma holds a master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University. She also holds a Master’s degree in Solid-State Physics and Bachelor’s degrees in Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics from Bangalore University in India. When not busy with certification issues, Uma likes to pursue her hobbies of gardening, reading, and cooking.
Ken Filippelli
Ken Filippelli is from the Delegation and Airworthiness Programs Branch in Oklahoma City. He is an Aerospace Engineer and the DER Recurrent Seminar Program Manager. Ken’s Boeing Company experience in aircraft modification and software design for the B-1B Strategic Bomber led him to the FAA in 1998, where he has worked on software, continued airworthiness, and delegation programs. He holds a Commercial Pilot certificate, and instrument and instructor ratings for single and multi-engine airplanes.
Ken has helped organized the FAA National Software Conference each year since 1999 and is responsible for publishing and updating the Aircraft Certification Software Page.
Marty Gasiorowski
Marty Gasiorowski is Senior Technical Manager of Product Assurance and Certification for Honeywell Aerospace Electronic Systems. He is an FAA Systems, Software and Safety Analysis DER, and was a member of the committees that generated DO-178B and ARP-4754. For the last several years, he has been heavily involved in the certification of an IMA system on several aircraft.
William Greenwell
William Greenwell is a PhD candidate at the University of Virginia. His research concerns software safety assurance and forensic analysis of software failure.
R. Wayne Haug
Wayne Haug is a Sr. Product Integrity Engineer in the Program Certification Support group of the Avionics Certification department at Rockwell Collins, Inc. Mr. Haug has worked in hardware design and development for 16 years. He has worked in both military and commercial environments, including Collins Government Global Positioning System (GPS), and Display Systems for fixed wing and rotary wing aircraft. He has worked certification efforts as a Technical Director for Boeing, Cessna, Bombardier, and Sikorsky aircraft displays in the Rockwell Collins Display Center of Excellence for the past 6 years.
Mr. Haug has a BSEE from Purdue University and an ME in Systems Engineering from Iowa State University.
Kelly Hayhurst
Kelly Hayhurst is a senior research scientist at NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. She holds a B.A. in mathematics from Virginia Tech and a M.A. in mathematics and operations research from the College of William and Mary. Since 1988, she has worked closely with the FAA on research projects involving verification and certification issues for aviation software. Ms. Hayhurst’s research interests include software safety, certification, and reliability.
Ruth Hirt
Ruth Hirt currently works at the FAA Military Certification Office as an Aerospace Engineer and Program Manager. Prior to serving in the Military Certification Office, she was an Engineer with the Wichita ACO Systems and Equipment Branch. She has a Master’s Degree in Computer Science from Wichita State University, and has experience working in the computer and aviation industry before joining the FAA.
Michael Holloway
Michael Holloway is a Senior Research Engineer at the NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. He is currently enjoying a two-year research sabbatical as one of NASA Langley's Floyd Thompson Fellows, but sadly, his Fellowship ends in October 2005. His primary professional research interest is accident and incident investigation and reporting for software intensive systems. His primary real interests include theology, education, constitutional law, U.S. history, baseball, and volleyball.
Gary Horan
Gary Horan is currently a member of the Engine and Propeller Directorate Standards Staff. He came to the FAA in 1999 and is the Directorate’s Controls Specialist with responsibility for 33.28. Prior to the FAA, Mr. Horan had 31 years of experience at Pratt & Whitney, where he specialized in the design and development, procurement, installation, certification, and product support of electronic engine control systems and other engine accessories.
Gary holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Northeastern University and an Executive Masters in Business Administration from Boston University. He is also a member of the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE).
Richard Katz
Richard Katz received his B.S. in two majors, Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, at the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1983. The following year he received an M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering, also from SUNY at Stony Brook, specializing in digital electronics and computer engineering.
Subsequently Rich joined NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 1984 performing digital design for the Galileo mission to Jupiter and served as lead design engineer for the Digital Units on Magellan, a synthetic aperture radar that orbited Venus.
Following a year in the commercial electronics sector, Rich returned to NASA in 1989, at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, continuing in the design, analysis, build, and test of spaceflight electronics for a variety of science missions, ranging from low Earth orbit spacecraft to Mercury to Mars to Saturn.
Currently Rich leads the NASA Office of Logic Design, a small NACA-like group of experienced electrical engineers specializing in digital systems for space flight and other high reliability applications, as well as technology development and evaluation. Work includes design, analysis, reviews, assembly, and test of spaceflight electronics. Additionally, Office of Logic Design activities includes failure analyses and mishap investigations, an on-going seminar/workshop series ranging from tutorials to state-of-the-art research topics, hosting the annual MAPLD International Conference, and authoring Design Guidelines and Criteria for Space Flight Digital Electronics along with related notes, papers, and reports. Rich and members of his Office provide consulting to various NASA Centers and Department of Defense missions.
Rich's current research interests include the design of high-reliability circuits, the use of programmable elements and devices in space-flight applications, and high-performance digital microelectronics.
Varun Khanna
Varun has been with the FAA for nine years, all of it at the Seattle ACO as the Software and Complex Hardware Device specialist. Prior to that he worked for the Boeing Company for about thirteen years, five of which were as a DER. Functional areas that Varun has worked are avionics, flight controls, radio navigation, fuel systems, cabin systems, and warning systems.
Interests include raising his son, flying (an Ercoupe), homebuilt airplanes, radio control electric airplanes, photography, golf, fishing and, as you can tell, good food.
Jeff Knickerbocker
Jeff Knickerbocker has over twenty-one years of aviation industry experience. He has worked on military aircraft/avionics development, including certification of military platforms. Jeff has also gained extensive experience in commercial aircraft/avionics development and certification, as well as ground-based landing systems development and certification. He is currently with Sunrise Certification & Consulting, Inc.
Jeff has been an FAA DER (company and consulting) since 1998. He is an Associate Fellow of the AIAA. He holds a BS in Physics/Computer Science, and an MS in Software Engineering.
John Knight
John Knight is a professor of computer science at the University of Virginia. He holds a B.Sc. (Hons) in Mathematics from the Imperial College of Science and Technology (London) and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. Prior to joining the University of Virginia in 1981, he was with NASA’s Langley Research Center.
Prof. Knight’s research interests are in software dependability. He is currently working on projects in requirements and specification, and the survivability of critical networked infrastructure applications. Specific research topics include the use of natural language in specification, tool support for comprehensive specification development and analysis, network architectures that facilitate survivability, the security of those architectures, and the modeling of very large networks.
Dr. Andrew Kornecki
Andrew J. Kornecki, Principal Investigator, holds a Ph.D. in Technical Science. He is a Professor in Department of Computer and Software Engineering at Embry Riddle Aeronautical University. His teaching and research includes simulation, safety critical systems design, and model-based development with automatic code generation. Dr. Kornecki prepared and delivered training on real-time and software safety for the aviation and medical industry. He served as a Visiting Scientist at the FAA Headquarters and contributed to RTCA/EUROCAE and IFAC technical committees.
Jim Krodel
Mr. Krodel has over 30 years of experience in the aerospace software domain. He has held several technical and managerial positions in software development of embedded systems including software for the full authority digital electronic engine control (FADEC) for the Pratt & Whitney PW4084 jet engine propulsion system on the Boeing 777 aircraft. Jim is a DER for software and also worked several years in the software quality assurance domain and is a certified Lead TickIT Auditor for ISO 9001. He more recently has conducted several studies relating to COTS software in the avionics domain and is currently assisting in the integration of several disciplines in engine control systems.
Jim was chair of RTCA’s special committee 190, which completed additional clarification guidance regarding ED-12B / DO-178B "Software Considerations in Airborne Systems and Equipment Certification". This committee work included harmonization of this document with EUROCAE Working Group 52.
Currently, Jim chairs SC205, which is taking into consideration modifications to DO-178B.
He holds a Masters in Computer Science from the University of Connecticut and has been a research affiliate lecturer on systems and software development in aerospace systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.
Dr. Yann-Hang Lee
Yann-Hang Lee received his Ph.D. degree in Computer, Information, and Control Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, in 1984. From December 1984 to August 1988, he was a research staff member at the Architecture Analysis and Design Group, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, and, is currently a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Arizona State University.
Dr. Lee's research interests are in the areas of real-time systems, software engineering, communication networks, computer architecture, and performance evaluation. His current research projects are focused on various aspects of real-time systems and are funded by NASA, FAA, DARPA, and NSF. He also collaborates with Honeywell International, United Technology Research Center, and Motorola Labs, in many practical applications of real-time systems.
Terry Leier
Terrence L. (Terry) Leier is manger of Project Certification Support for the Avionics Certification Support department of Rockwell Collins, Inc. Mr. Leier has over twenty years of experience in reliability and safety fields related to corporate, regional, air transport and military products and installations. He is currently a company DER with delegations for safety and complex hardware, as well as an authorized representative (AR) for safety aspects for the Rockwell Collins Designated Alteration Station (DAS). He has also participated in several regulatory-industry consortiums. His management activities include involvement in advanced technology applications, product integrity support and accident investigation.
Mr. Leier holds a BS in mathematics and Natural Science from Mary College, a BSEE from UND, and a ME in Systems Engineering from Iowa State University. He is a retired Army officer.
John Lewis
John A. Lewis is a Computer Engineer for the FAA Aircraft Certification Service (AIR-120) in Washington, DC. He has previous experience in developing FAA Notices, Orders, Technical Standard Orders, and Advisory Circulars for Airborne Software, Integrated Modular Avionics (IMA), and Complex Electronic Hardware. Currently, he serves as the Secretary for RTCA Special Committee (SC-200) for IMA. John graduated from Virginia Tech with a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and from Florida Tech with Master’s degrees in Engineering Management and Business Administration.
Barbara Lingberg
Barbara Lingberg is a Software Program Manager in AIR-120 of the FAA’s Aircraft Certification Service. Among her responsibilities are program sponsor for FAA’s Software and Digital Systems Safety Program, chair of the Certification Authorities Software Team (CAST), and Federal Representative to RTCA/SC-205. Prior to work in aircraft certification, she was Software Lead for the FAA’s Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS). Ms. Lingberg holds a BS in Mathematics and an MS in Software Systems Engineering.
Jeff Maddalon
Jeffrey Maddalon is a research engineer at NASA's Langley Research Center where he has worked for 16 years. His primary research interests include the verification of aviation systems including fault-tolerant computer architectures and air traffic management algorithms. He received a bachelor's of science degree in computer engineering from Virginia Tech and a Master's of Science degree in computer science from the College of William and Mary.
Carol Martineau
Carol Martineau returned to the FAA in 1996 after leaving the agency in 1980 to work in the aerospace industry as a consultant and company DER. While in the private sector she was an active member of the Aerospace Industry Association (AIA) Propulsion Committee and head of Sundstrand Power Systems’ certification department.
Carol was the Aircraft Engineering Division focal point for designee/delegation activities until October 2001, when she was detailed to focus on security initiatives. In January 2003 she became the Assistant Manager of the Avionics Systems Branch (AIR-130). Carol has a Bachelor of Science in Systems Engineer.
Brad Miller
Brad Miller is an Aerospace Engineer with the Avionic Systems Branch (AIR-130). He is on the Navigation Team and has worked projects concerning Navigation Databases, RNP, Vertical Flight, DRVSM, Electronic Flight Bags, ISO-9000, and others. He has many years of experience in private industry working for General Electric, as well as in the military as a Navy Pilot. Brad is a graduate of Vanderbilt University and hails from Nashville, Tennessee.
Steve Miller
Steve Miller is a Senior Principal Engineer in the Advanced Technology Center of Rockwell Collins. He has almost 30 years of experience in software development. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Iowa in 1991 and a B.A. in physics and mathematics from the University of Iowa.
Steve’s current research interests include model-based development, formal methods, and software testing. He is principle investigator on a project sponsored by NASA Langley and Collins to investigate advanced methods and tools for the development flight critical systems. Prior to this, he has lead several research efforts at Collins, including a collaborative effort with SRI International and NASA Langley to formally verify the microcode in the AAMP5 and AAMP-FV microprocessors using the PVS verification system.
Brenda Ocker
Brenda is the Software Technical Specialist for the Chicago Aircraft Certification Office. She has been with the FAA since 1995 and has been in her current position since 2000. She has a Bachelors of Science degree from the University of Illinois in Aeronautical Engineering.
Norm Ovens
Norm currently supports the development and certification of commercial avionics systems at Rockwell Collins Commercial Systems. Norm's 25-year career in the aerospace industry started at the age of 16 as an apprentice for British Aerospace. Since that time he has gathered experience in Avionics system design, flight control development, certification and flight-test of avionics systems. Projects have ranged from large military airplanes through a range business and regional aircraft projects. Norm has recently represented Rockwell Collins through the RTCA SC-200 committee and has worked toward regulatory harmonization for automated flight control FAR/ JAR 25.1329 AC/ACJ 25.1329 through the FGSHWG.
Thomas Phan
Thomas Phan has been with the FAA for 13 years as an Aviation Safety Engineer in the Systems & Equipment Branch of the Los Angeles Aircraft Certification Office. Tom serves as project manager for many "new and novel" certification projects. He is currently a focal for SW and CEH at the LAACO.
Gerry Pilj
Gerald Pilj earned Bachelors and Masters degrees in Physics while writing code to put himself through college. He has also published research in the human factors aspects of software applications. Before joining aviation, he spent time in the fields of construction, medicine, banking, teaching, and the ministry. His aviation background ranges from running aviation calibration labs while a Gunnery Sergeant in the Marine Corps to managing the certification aspects of software for part 25 aircraft. Prior to joining the FAA as an Aviation Safety Engineer, he worked for Bombardier Aerospace approving software as an FAA DER and Transport Canada DAD. His most recent triumph is in successfully increasing the population of Kansas.
Eric Retko
Eric Retko is a Sr. Staff Engineer at Smiths Aerospace in Grand Rapids Michigan, and is a Company and Consultant Systems DER. He is responsible for Certification of the Smiths IMA Common Core System (CCS) on the new Boeing 787 program. His focus over the past 20 years has been with Aircraft Systems Design, Certification, Safety, and Flight Test, including IMA, Digital Avionics, Electrical Power Generation/ Distribution, FADECs, and Gas Turbine Engine design with Williams International, Hamilton Sundstrand, Lockheed California, and Seneca Aeronautical Services.
Mr. Retko is also an active Airline Transport rated pilot, mechanic (A&P/IA), and aircraft owner.
Michael Richard
Michael Richard has been an Aerospace Engineer in the Controls and Dynamics Branch at NASA Dryden Flight Research Center for nearly eight years. He is currently the Chief Engineer for the SMART-T (Strategic Methodologies for Autonomous and Robust Technology Testing) project, leading the development of tools and guidelines for the verification and validation of adaptive control systems. He is also supporting the Intelligent Flight Control Systems (IFCS) test flights.
George Romanski
Mr. Romanski has specialized in the production of software development environments for the past 35 years. His work has focused on compilers, cross compilers, run-time systems, and tools for embedded real-time applications. Mr. Romanski was Vice President of Technology at EDS/Scicon, Vice President of Engineering at Alsys, and Director of Safety Critical Software at Aonix. Since 1992, he has concentrated on software for safety critical applications. In 1999, he co-founded Verocel, Inc., a company that specializes in safety critical software certification.
Tom Roth
Tom Roth worked for 12 years in the process control computer field, applying computers to the making of cement, the dispatch of electrical power, the control of electrical substations and water treatment in municipal plants and the printing of mail sack labels for the post office.
He has worked for the past 25 years on software in embedded microprocessor applications in various industries including: Electric utility load control and meter reading, Terrain Following radar for military aircraft, and General Aviation avionics. Tom was the first Software DER authorized by the Wichita ACO in 1991. He currently acts as a Software DER with Level A approval authority.
Tom is currently employed by Honeywell International. He has a BSEE from Christian Brothers University in Memphis, TN and has 3 grandchildren.
Viswa Santhanam
Viswa (Vdot) Santhanam is a Boeing Technical Fellow with a long history of involvement in FAA certification projects dating back to the Boeing 777. He is the architect of several Boeing-proprietary tools, both verification tools and development tools that have enabled cost-effective development and testing of certification-bound software. Vdot was the Principal Investigator of a NASA/FAA-sponsored study of Qualification Criteria for Software Verification Tools that concluded in 2004.
Philip Scandura
Philip A. Scandura, Jr. has over 20 years of experience defining and implementing real-time, embedded systems for use in safety-critical/mission-critical applications. Since joining Honeywell in 1984, he has designed avionics and health management systems for use in commercial passenger, regional, business and commuter aircraft, rotorcraft and spacecraft. Mr. Scandura is a Staff Engineer in Honeywell's Information and Decision Technology Center of Excellence. He also serves as an FAA Designated Engineering Representative (DER), specializing in the certification of aircraft systems and equipment. Mr. Scandura holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Missouri-Rolla and a MBA in Technical Management from the University of Phoenix.
Rohit P. Sheth
Rohit has a broad based background in systems and software engineering. He is an associate Technical Fellow at Boeing, and has been with Boeing for the past 15 years, where he has been supporting the Boeing/MD commercial and military aircraft software acquisition and certification in a lead role. He has certified all levels of avionics and aircraft software based systems including MD-11, MD-90, Boeing 717 and provided leadership on military projects (such as C-17-modernization and GATM, BC-17X, tanker and other programs). He is also a DAS AR for Boeing and a DER for the FAA.
Peter Skaves
Peter Skaves is currently assigned to the FAA Washington, Headquarters Avionics Branch in the role of Special Projects Team Lead. During his fourteen-year career with the FAA, Peter has had various assignments, including Supervisor responsibilities for the Seattle Aircraft Certification Office, Systems & Equipment Branch. Peter was also the avionics Project Engineer on various certification programs including the Boeing B777 and Airbus A380 airplane projects. Before joining the FAA, Peter was employed at the General Electric Company for over twelve years in the role of Senior Staff Engineer and Laboratory Manager. Fly-By-Wire flight control design activities included assignments on the Northrop B2 Stealth Bomber, McDonnell Douglas C-17 Cargo Airplane and Lockheed U2 Spy Plane. Peter has a BS degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts.
Cary Spitzer
Cary Spitzer is a native Virginian, educated at Virginia Tech and George Washington University. Following a thirty plus year career at NASA Langley, he is a consultant and author in avionics. He teaches a digital avionics systems course at UCLA, has written two books on avionics and edited a third one.
He is an IEEE Fellow and an AIAA Associate Fellow. He was the NASA manager and principal investigator of a NASA - Honeywell program that resulted in the first GPS-based automatic landing of a civil transport aircraft in November 1990. He was nominated for the 1991 Collier Trophy for this work.
Joan Stredler
After 30+ years as a software engineer, including 17 years in Boeing commercial and military divisions, Joan Stredler has semi-retired. She is currently supporting several companies as a consulting software DER. During her tenure at Boeing, she was the Software Certification lead for the BC-17x (the military C-17) for 8 years. She provided software acquisition management for a variety of systems for the military C-17 and 767 Tanker, including performing GAP analyses for the GATM project. She was a DER for the MD-90 SV, and Boeing 717.
Will Struck
Will Struck is currently with the FAA Transport Airplane Directorate Transport Standards Staff, Airplane and Flight Crew Interface Branch. He is responsible for standardization of ACO’s and harmonization with foreign certification authorities for part 25 aircraft programs, specializing in software and electronic hardware design assurance, and other issues, such as integration modular avionics systems and electronic flight bags. In addition to serving on several national and international teams, he is directly involved in assisting ACO’s with USA certification programs and DER seminars, and helping foreign authorities with validation programs and policy development.
Elisabeth Strunk
Elisabeth Strunk is a research scientist at the University of Virginia. Her interests include software configuration and verification.
Steve Ward
Stephen Ward is a Principle Engineer in the Program Certification Support group in the Avionics Certification Department at Rockwell Collins, Inc. Mr. Ward has worked in software development since 1970 for both military and commercial projects. He has been a company Software DER at Rockwell Collins since 1993. He has a BA in Physics and Master of Engineering in Systems Engineering from Iowa State University.
Peggy Wright
Peggy Wright is an Authorized Representative for Software on the Boeing DAS Staff in Wichita. She has been a Boeing software engineer for 17 years, and has been active in the certification area for six years. She is currently working on the F-15 IFCS project with Boeing Phantom Works and NASA, and on the Boeing 767 Italian Tanker program.
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