Experience

Senior Principal Engineer, Flight Operations Engineering- Boeing Commercial Airplane Company                                                                         June 1959- Sep 2001

Provided flight operations technical support to Boeing airplane customers worldwide;
Developed and presented airplane performance training;
Wrote the textbook "Jet Transport Performance Methods" now used at Boeing;
Designated as an Associate Technical Fellow in Flight Operations Engineering.

 

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, XVI Aeronautical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS)                                                                                                                   1954-1959

Croton-Harmon High School                                                                         1950-1954

Experience

Air Traffic Control- Federal Aviation Administration                       July 71- Dec 2005

During his FAA career he held positions starting as an air traffic control specialist at the New York Common IFR Room, which provided air traffic control service to three major airports and 30+ small airports in the busiest, most complex airspace in the National Airspace System. He was certified in both tower and radar approach control. Other FAA positions include Team Supervisor, Area Manager, Support Manager, Assistant Facility Manager, Facility Manager, Regional Staff Specialist, Special Project Manager and Regional Branch Manager. He was the FAA’s Air Traffic Special Project Manager for the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics and the primary Northwest Region FAA specialist involving complex airspace issues and special events, including airshows, rockets, laser operations and approvals for civil and military unmanned aircraft operations in the Western United States.

Air Traffic Control Consultant                                                          Jan 2006-July 2012

Following his career with the FAA he worked for several companies (Lockheed Martin, NAVERIS Inc. and General Electric Aviation) as a subject matter expert, primarily involving operations in the National Airspace System, providing expert knowledge of the FAA organization, policies, procedures and regulations for the operation and development of space based arrival and departure procedures utilizing Required Navigation Performance (RNP) and advanced flight management systems available in modern aircraft.

 

Education

Manhattan College High School, Riverdale NY, HS Diploma                                1964

Air Traffic Control School, Keesler AFB, Biloxi, Mississippi                                    1966

Air Traffic Control School, FAA Academy, Oklahoma City, Ok                              1971

Dowling College, Oakdale, NY, BS Liberal and Professional Studies                     1975

University of Washington, School of Business Administration, Management Development Program                                                                                          1992

 

Personal History

Military service USMC, 1966-70. Married 46 years, two children and six grand children. Hobbies include boating, golf, hiking, travel and skiing.

 

Studied navigation in Air Force Navigation College in 1959, assigned to Civil Aviation after graduation; he used to be navigator working in flight group in Chengdu Administration Bureau and Beijing Administration Bureau of Civil Aviation. With 40 years of flight and more than 12,000 hours in the air, he was cited flight safety first-class prize and titled as first-class navigator. In the year of 1975, he was deployed to CAAC, worked in Navigation Office of Flight Operations Department and then Flight Operations Management Office of Flight Standard Department; went to learn remodel flight, flight procedure design and flight performance engineering in Russia, German, USA and Holland etc.. He participated in the national en-route planning; organized navigation rules making; assist Jin Huanzhang to compile Aerodrome operation standards and Enforcement Provision; check the instrument approach procedure of national civil airports; participated in the designing work of flight procedure of airports whose terrain is complicated and clearance is bad, and perfectly finished the task of flight procedure reformation. After the retirement, he is invited by China International Engineering Consulting Corporation, Civil Airport Engineering Consulting Corporation, Air Traffic Management Bureau and Center of Aviation Safety Technology CAAC as their consultant and flight professor.

Graduated from Flight Navigation Department of the First Aeronautical School of the Air Force in Dec. 1951; used to be navigator of transport airplanes and conductor of instruction flights; he was responsible for the tasks of special planes both at home and abroad for parties and nation leaders, also the foreign leaders and friends. In the year of 1954, he performed the task of special plane to Geneva for Premier Zhou Enlai, and in the same year escorted the India Kashimir Princess for Premier Zhou. He was one of the crew in Chairman Mao Zedong’s first military airplane. Also, in the year of 1963, he took the task of Chairman Liu Shaoqi’s special plane. During his time in army, he was cited group third-class prize for two times, several times named the first, the second technical expert, advanced worker; deployed to CAAC in 1979, rewarded excellent party member in organization; in 1986, rewarded national civil aviation excellent party member; in 1991, awarded by Department of Aeronautical and Astronautics, CAAC as advanced individual of “safe flight double 150 thousand”, meantime received by party and nation leaders; he used to be granted technological achievement prize of reasonable advises and technical improvement of Civil Aviation. After his retirement in 1992, he was invited as consultant by Engineering Consulting Corporation of CAAC, member of Professor Committee of Civil Aviation Aerodromes Construction Corporation, as well as consultant of China International Consulting Corporation and member of Professor Committee. During his ten-year retirement life, he participated in dozens of the assessment work of civil, military-civil airports construction program, the designing of airports construction, dedicating his remaining energy for civil aviation construction work.

Graduated from Chengdu telecommunication engineering college, majored in radar navigation. After graduation, he worked at communication and navigation department of CAAC, handled the import of ATC Radar System and ATC center installations; compiled the technical requirement of national ATC facilities, and technical scheme of Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou ATC center as well as Civil Aviation Bureau ATC construction scheme of “ninth five-year plan” and “tenth five-year plan”; used to be the chief of radar navigation department of CAAC, vice director of radio management commitment, director of communication and navigation, supervision system construction department of ATMB. Invited by China International Engineering Consulting Corporation as its professor in 1999; senior engineer invited by CACC in 2000; professor of engineering quality in civil aviation.

Professorate senior engineer; graduated from Beijing Jiaotong University in 1983 majoring in radio communication, dedicated to the engineering design, research and consultation work of electromagnetic compatibility between electrified railway and other systems; once responsible for the engineering design work between national key projects and the electromagnetic compatibility of other systems, and won the national awards. She has been hired as a member of "National EMC Standardization Technical Committee" by the State Bureau of Technical Supervision, and was in charge of prescribing standards for domestic electromagnetic compatibility and inspecting, Since 2000.