Mark Anderson
AirData
Mr. Anderson is the Founder,
President, and CTO of AirDat, where he has invested
the past six years developing ice detection and TAMDAR sensor technology. Mark is a physicist, with extensive
experience in new product development and management. Over the years Mr. Anderson has founded
several successful new technology companies, including Anderson Scientific, a
major satellite TV manufacturing company, and Phase Technologies, a power
conversion and conditioning company.
Mark holds six technology patents, including three patents related to
aircraft ice detection and atmospheric sampling. Mark is also a private pilot, and taught
university physics for seven years.
Debi Bacon
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
Ms. Bacon currently facilitates
the Aviation Weather Technology Transfer (AWTT) process in the Policy and
Standards Office, Operations Planning, Air Traffic Organization. AWTT was created to move aviation weather
products through the research and development path to operational use by users
such as air traffic controllers, pilots, dispatchers and meteorologists. Ms. Bacon has previously worked as an air
traffic control specialist in FAA (flight service and terminal) and the U.S.
Army (terminal).
Ms. Bacon has a Bachelor’s degree
in Business Administration from University
of Maryland and a Master’s in
Public Affairs from Parkville College,
Parkville, MO.
Randy Baker
UPS Airlines
Grew up in Lawrence,
Kansas where the weather bug bit him at an
early age. Graduated from Kansas University
with a B.S. in meteorology with honors in 1985. Worked for a private
weather company in Kansas City
until 1986, and then taught Meteorology courses for pilots at TWA Airlines
1986-1990. In 1990 he went to work for UPS Airlines and taught meteorology
courses thru 1994. He also made operational weather forecasts during each
December peak season from 1990-1993, and then in 1994 was asked to help start
up the UPS Meteorology Department.
In 1994 he initiated the first
high-rate Ascent and Descent automated reports from commercial aircraft, which
now operate on over 100 757 and 767 UPS aircraft, plus on several other
airlines around the world. He is now working on the implementation of the Water
Vapor Sensor 2 System on 30 UPS aircraft. Randy was a member of the Air
Transport Association Meteorology Committee 1988-2003, and served as National
Weather Association Councilor 1999-2000. He is still involved with the MDCRS
Committee and the National Weather Association Aviation Committee
Lisa Bee
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
Lisa Bee, Director of the
Operations Planning National Airspace System Weather Office, for the Federal
Aviation Administration's Air Traffic Organization, and Deputy Lead for the
JPDO Weather IPT, is responsible for ensuring that the ATO's
weather strategies, align with the FAA Flight Plan, the ATO Business Plan, and
the Next Generation Air Transportation System Plan, and for integrating weather
strategies and activities within the ATO, and across all FAA lines of
business.
Bee joined the FAA in 1986,
beginning her career as an air traffic control specialist at Denver Air Route
Traffic Control Center, where she also served as a traffic management
coordinator. In 1992, she moved to Washington,
DC, and led a team in developing air
traffic procedures for NAS modernization programs. She later served as a program manager with
the Office of Independent Operational Test and Evaluation (IOT&E), where
she managed IOT&E programs for NAS modernization efforts such as Oceanic
Data Link, the Capstone program and the Operational and Supportability
Implementation System.
Most recently, Bee served as the
Special Assistant for Technical Operations to the Associate Administrator for
Air Traffic Services.
Ms. Bee hold's a bachelor's of
science degree in technology and management from the University
of Maryland.
Kevin Browne
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
Mr. Browne joined the Federal
Aviation Administration (FAA) in June of 1975 in Massena,
New York (NY) Flight Service Station
(FSS). He has attended and successfully
completed both the FSS and Terminal Initial Qualification Courses at the FAA
Academy in Oklahoma
City, Oklahoma. In addition to Massena FSS he has worked in
three FSSs and three Automated FSSs
as well as an air traffic control tower. During this 19 year period he
performed the duties of a specialist, air traffic controller, first and second
line supervisor and facility manager.
Mr. Browne was selected for a FAA Headquarters assignment and worked as
a staff specialist in FSS Procedures for two years and FSS Operations for a
several months. The last eight years
have been spent with the Weather Organization in its various organizational
entities.
Mr. Browne currently works in the
Air Traffic Organization, Operations Planning, NAS Weather Office, Weather
Policy, Planning and Requirements Group.
His principal duties include representative to various International
Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Regional Planning Groups and Working/Study
Groups dealing with automated observations and satellite communication of
weather required for international aviation. In addition, Mr. Browne has responsibilities
in needs and requirements development, development of a 30 hour Terminal
Forecast template to meet ICAO requirements and working with the Aviation
Weather Research Program on the provision of weather to the Traffic Flow
Management Organization. He also is
working on the use of probabilistic forecasts in aviation.
Larry Burch
NOAA’s National Weather Services
Larry Burch is the Deputy
Director of NOAA/NWS Aviation Weather Center (AWC) in Kansas
City, MO. He is
active general aviation pilot and flight instructor, holding an Airline
Transport Pilot (ATP) license as well as 3 flight instructor ratings. He
has 29 years of government weather service, 24 with the NWS and 5 years as a
weather officer in the USAF. He has served as an aviation meteorologist
at the Los Angeles (Palmdale)
Center Weather Service Unit (CWSU); Meteorologist In
Charge (MIC) of the NWS Office in Santa Maria, CA;
Western Region Headquarters’ Regional Aviation Meteorologist
(RAM); Western Region's Modernization Transition Manager; and Lead
Forecaster at the NWS Office in Salt Lake City,
UT. Before coming to the AWC he was
the MIC of the Salt Lake City CWSU. He helped begin the flight operations
program at Westminster College
(Utah) in 2000, and then served
as a part-time flight instructor and Assistant Chief Flight Instructor.
He’s an accomplished search and rescue pilot for USAF Auxiliary’s Civil
Air Patrol (CAP), CAP Instructor and Check Pilot, and former Director of Safety
for CAP’s Utah Wing and also Rocky Mountain
Region. He volunteers as an FAA Aviation Safety Counselor, and has given
over 100 aviation weather training seminars to pilot groups over the past 10
years, specializing in mountain weather. His greatest aviation forecasting
accomplishment was planning the flight route, and then forecasting the weather
for the Voyager World flight in 1986, as part of the Voyager Weather Team.
Airline
Dispatchers Federation
Mr. Caisse, a
Flight Superintendent at the Delta Air Lines' Operations Control Center
has just completed 27 years of service with the Atlanta, Georgia
based airline. At Delta, Caisse has served in a variety of technical, operations,
passenger service, marketing and management positions during his career.
Mr. Caisse has
been a member of the Airline Dispatchers Federation for 12 years. During that period, Caisse
served as ADF’s Director of Information Technologies,
Director of Safety, Executive Vice-President and ADF National President
1998-1999. He also created and
functioned as webmaster of the popular ADF Website at www.dispatcher.org.
Bruce
Carmichael
National Center
for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
Dr. Carmichael holds a M.S. from Northwestern
University in Applied Mathematics
and a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland
in Computer Science. He has 30 years of
experience spanning a number of activities including university teaching,
commercial research, government service, consulting, and academic research. His
past 18 years have been involved with the aviation industry in automation of
maintenance processes, air traffic control, and weather information. He has
been involved in system engineering of improved FAA systems to deliver weather
information to users. For the past seven years he has been at the National
Center for Atmospheric Research,
where he has acted as the Program Manager for FAA Programs. These programs are
working to improve weather information for pilots, dispatchers, and
controllers, particularly related to the hazards of thunderstorms, turbulence,
and icing. Dr. Carmichael is also an
active commercial instrument-rated pilot.
Nancy Lauck Claussen
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
Nancy Lauck Claussen is an Aviation Safety Inspector with the Air Transportation Division of the Federal Aviation Administration in Washington, DC. Her work consists primarily in the development of regulations, policy and guidance regarding air carrier operations. She was part of FAA’s government and industry partnership in the Commercial Aviation Safety Team (CAST), as well as the FAA Turbulence Working Group, which both contributed to the development of the advisory material in the FAA’s recently published Turbulence Advisory Circular, “Preventing Injuries Caused by Turbulence”.
Prior to joining the FAA nine years ago, she worked in the aviation industry for sixteen years and also completed her Master’s Degree in Aeronautical Science.
Robert J. Conyers
General Aviation Services
Global Aerospace – North America
Mr. Conyers is a highly experienced aviator with over
6,400 total pilot hours. He holds an Airline Transport Pilot certificate as
well as Certified Flight Instructor and Instrument Instructor ratings. He is
currently Assistant Director, General Aviation Services, Global Aerospace - North
America, Short Hills, New
Jersey.
He is a graduate of the Aviation Safety Management course at the University
of Southern California and of the Accident Investigation and Human Factors in Aviation courses at Embry
Riddle Aeronautical
University.
After serving eight years as a Naval Aviator in
reconnaissance, training, and recruiting commands, Mr. Conyers swapped headsets
for that of an air traffic controller. He worked at New
York’s John
F. Kennedy Airport
for five years. Subsequently, his management skills were expertly applied
during six years as Operations Manager of one of the nation’s largest flight
training organizations.
At Global
Aerospace, Mr. Conyers travels extensively, performing detailed operations
surveys of insured organizations within the regional airline, airport, and
business aviation communities.
Additionally, he is an active member of two industry committees - NBAA’s Airspace and Air Traffic Committee (past Chairman)
and the FAA’s Air Traffic Procedures Advisory Committee (current Chairman).
Larry B. Cornman
National Center
for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
Larry Cornman
is a project scientist at the National
Center for Atmospheric Research.
His educational background includes undergraduate degrees in Mathematics and
Physics from the University of California
and a graduate degree in Physics from the University
of Colorado. He started working at NCAR in 1983 in support
of the FAA's Low Level Windshear Alert System
(LLWAS). From 1983 to 1990, Larry was
involved in the development of the Phase II and Phase III LLWAS algorithms and
the Terminal Doppler Weather Radar (TDWR) algorithms. In 1989, he developed the
TDWR/LLWAS Integration algorithms, for which he holds numerous U.S.
and International patents. Since 1990,
Larry's research focus has been on atmospheric turbulence. He has developed turbulence detection
algorithms for remote sensors including ground-based and airborne Doppler
radars, lidars and wind profilers, as well as
developing a methodology for making in situ measurements of turbulence from
commercial aircraft. He has twice been the recipient of an Aviation Week and
Space Technology magazine Laurel Award, a recipient of a NASA "Turning
Goals into Reality" award, and was named to the 2003 “Scientific American
50” list as Research Leader in Aerospace.
Rick Curtis
Southwest Airlines
Rick has been at Southwest
Airlines for eight years and works in the Flight Dispatch. He graduated with a B.S. in Meteorology from
Lyndon State College. He concentrates on
Dispatch technology initiatives, weather product development, managing weather
information, weather instruction, and weather strategic planning efforts at
Southwest Airlines. He earned is FAA
Dispatch License in 2001. Past
experience includes Account Management and Product Development at Sonalysts Inc. of Waterford,
CT, Director of Weather Services at Surface
Systems Inc. (SSI) of St. Louis, MO,
and various technical and marketing positions at WSI Corporation - now located
in Andover, MA. While at SSI, Rick led a team of meteorologists’
focused on forecasting efforts relating to airport operations and highway
maintenance activities. Rick is a member
of both the American Meteorological Society and the National Weather
Association.
Joan Devine
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
Ms. Devine is currently the ATO
liaison to the Joint Planning and Development Office (JPDO) Safety Integrated
Product Team. She leads the safety
culture improvement effort on the Safety management System team. The Safety IPT is one of eight IPTs working to develop the next generation air
transportation system to meet increased demand for capacity, while creating a
proactive approach to safety. She is
also a Program Manager in the ATO Safety Service, which is responsible for
implementing the FAA’s safety management system (SMS) for air traffic service,
as well as evaluating new FAA acquisitions.
Prior to the creation of the ATO, Ms. Devine led teams of controllers
and maintainers to evaluate the Weather and Radar Processing (WARP) and
Controller Pilot Data Link Communications (CPDLC) systems. She is currently leading the independent team
evaluating the Advanced Technologies and Oceanic Procedures (ATOP) System. Ms. Devine has a Masters degree in
Mathematics from Villanova University.
Thomas H. Fahey, III
Northwest Airlines, Inc.
Tom Fahey holds an MS degree in
Meteorology from the University of Wisconsin.
Tom is currently employed as
Manager Meteorology at Northwest Airlines (NWA) and also contracts
independently as a meteorology consultant.
Fahey Meteorological Consulting
• Development and Presentation of
Aviation Meteorology Training Modules
• Forensic Meteorology
NWA
• Forecaster: Producing weather
products (1977-1990)
• Product Development: Developing
forecast procedures (1988-1990)
• Union President: Negotiating
& representing the Meteorology Union (1982-1988)
• Management: Directing the
weather offices (1990-Current)
NWA has a long tradition of over
35 years providing forecasts of turbulence and wind shear using the copyrighted
Turbulence Plot (TP) System. Tom has both conducted and supervised projects
that resulted in new and/or improved methods for producing and distributing
both turbulence and wind shear information. Tom also initiated and
oversaw development of a 2nd set of products focused on operations at NWA’s hub airports. Most recently Tom has expanded
NWA weather services via contracts with other airlines and is now covering a
large amount of the department’s annual expenses with revenue.
Recent aviation industry
recognition and activities include:
• Feb 2000, Recipient of Air
Transport World’s Technology Management Award
• Feb 2001, Recipient of Aviation
Week & Space Technology’s Aviation Laurels Award for his role in the
development of the Collaborative Convective Forecast Product (CCFP).
• Author of a number of
articles in professional journals
Effective Nov 2005 Tom was
appointed the Industry Chair of the Weather Work Group, a joint Government,
Industry & Research community effort to address primarily Air Traffic
Management weather related issues as
well as other weather issues of concern to Air Transportation Association (ATA)
member airlines . Tom is also currently serving as an Operational Forecasting
representative for the Editorial Board of the American Meteorological Society.
Paul C. Fiduccia
Small Aircraft Manufacturers Association (SAMA)
Paul Fiduccia
is President of the Small Aircraft Manufacturers Association (SAMA), the
national trade association representing the leading producers of experimental,
kit-built aircraft and new-design certified small aircraft. SAMA also represents manufacturers of
engines, propellers, avionics, and other components and services for small
aircraft that are flown for personal and business use. SAMA’s
goal is to “expand the market for small aircraft” by supporting efforts to make
their operation safer, more reliable, easier to operate, and more affordable.
Mr. Fiduccia
holds various leadership positions in FAA, NASA and industry programs that
support SAMA’s goal, including the FAA Safer Skies
Initiative General Aviation Weather teams, and various FAA and NASA research advisory
and review committees. He is currently the Chair of the Weather Products Change
Work Group and the Aviation Digital Data Service Steering Committee.
He holds a Mechanical Engineering
degree from Purdue University
and worked as an R&D engineer. He
also has a law degree from Georgetown
University, and before founding
SAMA in 1990, he was a partner in a national law firm where he specialized in
federal relations. Mr. Fiduccia is an airplane owner and an active pilot for more
than 35 years, with commercial, instrument, multi-engine, and sea plane
ratings.
Dave Fleming
United Airlines
Bob Gillen
ENSCO, Inc.
Mr. Gillen has over 17 years of
experience in aviation weather. He was the Chief Software Engineer for the FAA
WARP program which provides real-time weather radar mosaics to the en-route air
traffic controllers. He is also responsible for managing several Research and
Development projects to improve weather forecasting tools interfacing with
national labs and universities.
Steve Green
NASA Ames
Research Center
Steven Green manages NASA’s en
route ATM research. An instrument-rated pilot, he received a M.S. degree
(Aeronautics & Astronautics) from Stanford University, and joined NASA Ames
in 1985 to pursue ATM research. One of the four CTAS “founders,” he led the
development and field testing of the CTAS Descent Advisor and pioneered NASA’s
concepts for integrating FMS and ATM automation through data link. Mr. Green
co-chaired RTCA’s FMS-ATM-AOC Integration Work Group
and currently co-leads NASA’s Distributed Air-Ground Traffic Management (DAG)
effort. He currently leads three technical activities including the enhancement
of the CTAS Traffic Management Advisor for regional en route metering, the
development of “common” trajectory-prediction technologies for the FAA, and the
development of integrated weather/forecast and DST capabilities for TFM
operations.
Brian Haynes
United Airlines
Richard J. Heuwinkel
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
·
Pilot
·
16
years in FAA
·
10
years in NOAA
·
Present
Position: Manager, Aviation Weather Policy and Requirements Group,
Operations Planning Service Unit, FAA
·
Principle
Duties:
- Develop
FAA/Federal policies and strategic plans for NAS aviation weather services
- Assess/document
pilot, dispatcher, controller, and airport operator users’ needs for
aviation weather services.
- Establish
FAA requirements for aviation weather services provided by FAA and NWS.
- Manage the
joint FAA/NWS process for approving products for operational use.
- Represent U.S. aviation weather policies and
requirements to ICAO
- Provide
liaison between the Air Traffic Organization of FAA and external
stakeholders, especially NWS and industry
- Facilitate
integration of aviation weather strategic plans between FAA and the Joint
Planning and Development Office (JPDO) Weather Integrated Product Team (WxIPT).
Albert C. Homans
ARINC
EXPERIENCE
Mr. Homans manages various programs at ARINC
for the FAA, NASA, and airlines. He is
responsible for the operational and technical support to weather and
information systems programs and to data link services, including the
management of software development efforts, interface with internal
organizations and customers, business development efforts, and proposals.
Before joining ARINC, Mr. Homans
held positions in engineering and program management with major
corporations. He has managed hardware
and software design, development, fabrication and test of communications and
data handling systems, ground support equipment, and ground support software
for major NASA spacecraft. He managed
several programs for special aircraft communications systems for international
customers.
EDUCATION
MBA, Loyola College, Baltimore, MD
M.S., Electrical Engineering, Air Force
Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio
B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio
Certificate, Software
Engineering, George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
Graduate Study, Electronics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
Jim Jansen
Airline
Dispatcher Federation
Jim Jansen is a Flight Dispatcher
and Operations Coordinator in the Systems
Operations Center
at American Airlines, where he has worked for 38 years. In addition to his
dispatcher’s license, he holds a commercial pilot’s license with instrument and
multi-engine ratings, a ground instructor certificate, and has been an FAA
Designated Dispatch examiner for the past 14 years. He is currently the
Executive Vice President of the Airline Dispatcher Federation.
David L. Johnson
NOAA’s National Weather Service
David L. Johnson has served as
the Director of NOAA’s National Weather Service since
January 2004. He is responsible for the
day to day civilian weather operations of 122 local Weather Forecast Offices in
the United States,
Puerto Rico, and Guam. He also leads operations in 13 River
Forecast Centers,
8 National Environmental
Centers, and 21 Aviation Center
Weather Service Units.
Under General Johnson’s
leadership, NOAA’s National Weather Service provides
timely, accurate, and focused daily forecasts and event driven warnings to the
American media, emergency managers, fire land managers, commercial weather
partners, and the general public. Event
driven warnings are issued for weather and natural hazards such as hurricanes,
tornadoes, severe thunderstorms, flash floods, winter storms, extreme fire
weather conditions, and tsunamis. NOAA’s National Weather Service is also a leader in the
application of weather research to operational meteorology and hydrology in the
areas of radar, satellite, environmental modeling, and homeland security. The 4,600 people of NOAA’s
National Weather Service recently received a highly commendable score of “84”
from the general public in an American Customer Satisfaction Index survey
conducted by the University of Michigan.
Prior to his service as the
Director of NOAA’s National Weather Service, General
Johnson served for 30 years as a United States Air Force officer. He commanded airdrop and air/land operations
in Bosnia-Herzegovina and was deputy commander of the Joint Task Force for
Operation Support Hope in Rwanda. He commanded the 43rd Airlift wing and Pope
AFB in North Carolina and served
his last operational assignment as the vice Commander of Air Force Special
Operations Command in Hurlburt,
Florida.
Because of his diverse operational credentials, General Johnson served
as the U.S. Air Force Director of Weather and retired from that position in
2004.
General Johnson is an honor
graduate of the University of Kansas
and earned his masters degree from Webster’s University. He and his wife Elizabeth live in Silver
Spring, Maryland.
Kevin Johnston
NOAA’s National Weather Service (NWS)
Kevin Johnston is the National
Weather Service (NWS) Aviation Services Branch Chief and the National
Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration Program Manager for Aviation
Weather as of November 2004. Kevin entered the NWS in 2001 after retiring
from the Air Force after 21 years of Service providing weather support to the
Air Force, Army, and Special Operations.
Ken Leonard
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
Mr. Leonard joined the
Communication, Navigation and Surveillance office in January 2001, and serves
as the Deputy Integrated Product Team Leader for Safe Flight 21 and Surface
Technology Assessment. He moved to CNS
from the Office of Systems Architecture and Investment Analysis, where he
managed investment analysis teams that interpreted agency requirements in order
to determine the optimal solutions for satisfying FAA mission needs.
From 1991 to 1999, Mr. Leonard
supported, and successfully led, the advanced weather programs, including the
Integrated Terminal Weather System and the Aviation Weather Research
Program. Before joining the FAA, Mr.
Leonard provided business and program management services to the Strategic
Defense Initiative Organization, the Naval Sea Systems Command, the United
States Synthetic Fuels Corporation, and various trade association clients.
Mr. Leonard has over twenty years
experience in industry and government, as a leader and contributor to a broad
range of interdisciplinary project teams providing systems analysis, research
and development, and solution integration for transportation, defense, energy,
and environment. Mr. Leonard received
his BA in International Affairs and has completed extensive graduate coursework
in business, economics, and finance.
Rich Mamrosh
NOAA’s National Weather Service
B.S. Meteorology 1987 University
of Oklahoma
Meteorologist Intern 1987-1991
NWS Burlington, Vermont
Journeyman Forecaster 1991-1994
NWS Buffalo, New York
Journeyman Forecaster 1994-1998
NWS Chicago, Illinois
Senior Forecaster 1998-present
NWS Green Bay, Wisconsin
Interest in aircraft weather data
began in late 1980s. Worked with FSL’s
Stan Benjamin and Bill Moninger in early 1990s to get
NWS Forecast Office access to automated aircraft data (ACARS). Received permission in mid 1990s to serve as test site for this new
data source.
Assisted with
formal assessment of ACARS data in the late 1990s. Compared
data from WVSS-I with NWS radiosondes in 2001.
Assisted in the design and organization of the TAMDAR Great
Lakes Fleet Experiment 2004-present.
Jack May
NOAA’s National Weather Service
Jack has served as Director of
the Aviation Weather
Center since 2001. He is a graduate of Parks College of
Aeronautical Technology of Saint Louis
University, holding Bachelor of Science Degree in Aeronautical
Meteorology. He earned a Masters Degree
in Public Administration from the University
of Kansas.
While in college as an
undergraduate, Jack worked part time at Weather Corporation of America,
a private weather forecasting firm in St. Louis.
Jack began his National Weather
Service career as an intern in 1974 at the Albany,
New York, forecast office. He continued his internship in 1976 in Raleigh,
North Carolina.
His first forecaster position was
attained in 1977 at Portland, Maine. The following year he was promoted to
forecaster in Cleveland, Ohio. At Cleveland,
Jack managed the marine service program where he worked closely with the Lake
Carriers Association, 9th Coast Guard District Headquarters, and yacht clubs
along the south shore of Lake
Erie. Jack
also was given the opportunity to be one of three National Weather Service
forecasters to support the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake
Place, New York.
In 1980 while the National
Weather Service was transitioning to the Automation of Field Operations and
Services (AFOS), Jack was placed in charge of the AFOS program in Ohio. In 1982 he moved to Eastern Region
Headquarters on Long Island to become the Regional AFOS
System Manager.
Jack’s first supervisory position
was that of Deputy Meteorologist in Charge at Cleveland
in 1983. In 1987 Jack became Manager for
the state of Kansas while
stationed at Topeka. Jack was
selected as Deputy Director of the NWS Central Region in 1991. During that time was a leader in the
transition to the modernized NWS in the Central Region.
Jack is a native or Rome,
New York. Although he considers Rome
his hometown, while growing up he also lived in Park
Forest, Illinois; Westport,
Connecticut; and the western suburbs of Cleveland.
Jack and his wife Christine have
been married for 32 years. They have two daughters Rebekah
(27) and Elizabeth (21). Their son David
(30) is an active duty Captain in United States Air Force KC-135
commander.
Jim Menard
WSI Corporation
Jim Menard is
Vice President of Meteorology at WSI. In this role Jim is
responsible for WSI's forecasting and operation centers in
both its United States and United Kingdom facilities. Most recently Jim
played a lead role in the implementation of the operational
forecasting service for American Airlines. Jim is actively involved in
many of WSI's business development and R&D
efforts for both the aviation and energy market segments. Jim has been
with WSI since 1987 in various senior management roles. Prior to
joining WSI, Jim was television meteorologist in the Tampa Bay Area and taught
a number of college course on meteorology at both the University of South Florida and University of Tampa. Jim holds both a Bachelors and
Masters degree in physical geography and meteorology.
David Metzbower
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
Mr. Metzbower
is a native of Baltimore, Maryland,
and obtained both his B.S. Business Management and Juris
Doctor (Law) degrees from the University
of Baltimore. He serves as an
Aviation Safety Inspector (ASI) in the Flight Operations Branch of the FAA's
Flight Technologies and Procedures Division (AFS-410), Flight Standards
Service. Coming from a private law practice, Mr. Metzbower
joined FAA HQ in 1987 as a Staff Attorney in the Operations Law Branch (Air
Carrier) in the Office of the Chief Counsel. With an extensive aviation
background, he joined the Flight Standards Service in 1992 as an ASI in the Air
Transportation Division (AFS-200). He was selected to join the Flight
Technologies and Procedures Division in 1998.
Mr. Metzbower's
aviation background includes both civilian and military. He holds an Air
Transport Pilot (ATP) Certificate for fixed-wing multi-engine and rotary-wing
(helicopter) aircraft, several type ratings, and a flight instructor
certificate including instrument and multi-engine land aircraft. Mr. Metzbower has logged over 5500 total hours in numerous
aircraft and helicopters in civilian, charter, and military operations. He
recently retired as a U.S. Army pilot and safety officer after flying Hueys, OH6, C12, and C26 aircraft with over 37 years of
service. Currently, he flies turboprops and small jets for a local charter
company on a part-time basis (with FAA permission).
Mr. Metzbower
lives with his wife of 38 years, Sharon,
in Bel Air, Maryland.
Their son, Craig, resides in Santa Barbara, CA.
Darin Meyer
MIT/Lincoln Labs
Darin Meyer works for Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln
Laboratory in the Weather Sensing Group.
The Weather Sensing Group’s goals are to improve the safety and
efficiency of the aviation system by providing operationally effective and fully
automated weather systems to help the full spectrum of aviation users. Two examples of systems developed by MIT/LL
Weather Sensing are: the Integrated
Terminal Weather System (ITWS) and the Corridor Integrated Weather System
(CIWS). Darin has been actively involved
with training a wide-range of users from FAA specialists and managers, to
airline dispatchers and air traffic coordinators, to general and private
aviation community users. Darin is also
a member of both the Collaborative Decision Making (CDM) joint training
workgroup and the weather applications integration workgroup. Darin has 9 years of aviation experience and
holds both a Bachelors and Masters in Meteorology from The Florida State
University.
Walt Mitchell
Harris Corporation
Cindy Mueller
National Center
for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
Bill Phaneuf
ALPA Engineering and Air Safety Department
More than sixteen years with ALPA
dealing with Aviation Weather and All Weather Operations matters. Also responsible for Airport and Ground Environment issues. Prior to ALPA, served for three years as the Flight Safety Manager
for United Air Lines.
Retired USAF
Lt. Col. and Command Pilot. Commercial Pilot
Instrument, Single Engine, and Multi-engine ratings 8,700 plus hours flying
time.
Mark Phaneuf
AvMet Applications International
Mark Phaneuf is Vice President and Technical Lead at AvMet Applications International, a small firm with
expertise in aviation and aviation weather. AvMet
provides its customers with in-depth, practical, technical, and operational
expertise in a wide variety of areas including aviation, meteorology, weather
systems, systems engineering, modeling and simulation. Mark has led many projects in support of AvMet’s FAA customers in Weather Policy and Standards and
Traffic Flow Management Weather Programs as well as the Collaborative Decision
Making (CDM) group. He supports many ICAO working groups and RTCA working
groups. Mark has over 22 years of aviation experience and holds a Bachelors
degree in Aviation Management from The Ohio State University. He is a
commercially licensed and instrument rated pilot, and a retired military flight
crewmember with over 5000 hrs combined military and civilian time.
Marcia Politovich
National Center
for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
Project Scientist III and Deputy
Director for Science, Aviation Applications Program, Research Applications
Laboratory, National Center
for Atmospheric Research
As lead of RAL Aviation
Applications Program in-flight icing projects, Dr. Politovich coordinates
in-flight icing research efforts under the FAA-sponsored Aviation Weather
Research Program, NASA’s Advanced Satellite Aviation-weather Products program,
and NASA’s Icing Remote Sensor display development. In addition to coordinating these activities,
her contributions include analyses of weather conditions leading to icing,
development of a severity index, and the use of combined remote sensors to
diagnose icing conditions. She also
works with the Juneau Airport Wind System Program on development and evaluation
of the prototype turbulence warning system.
Dr. Politovich's
educational background is in the area of cloud physics. In summer 1976, she was
an observer onboard the University of
Washington's B-23 research aircraft
as part of the High Plains Experiment, and the data collected in seeded and
natural clouds formed the basis of her Master's thesis under the supervision of
Prof. Peter Hobbs. At the University
of Wyoming she worked as a Research
Associate and analyzed data sets from the Elk Mountain Observatory, both for
evaluation of water drop and ice crystal measuring instruments and for weather
studies. She was Co-PI (with Prof. Gabor Vali) of the Wyoming Queen Air studies of convective clouds
during CCOPE in 1981, and also worked on a project to characterize icing
environments at altitudes <10,000 ft. AGL.
In 1982 she returned to school to pursue the Ph.D. in Atmospheric
Science; her dissertation examined the effect of turbulence on the broadening
of droplet size distributions in cumuli.
Leo Prusak
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
Warren Qualley
Weather News America
Roy Robertson
Rockwell Collins
Debbie Roland
Association of Professional Flight Attendants (APFA)
SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS:
American Airlines
Flight Attendant 29 years
Association of
Professional Flight Attendants (APFA) 25
years
APFA National Safety
Committee 13 years
Accident
Investigation Team Member 9 years
EDUCATION: 1969 - 1973 Towson High School, Towson
MD
Towson State
University, Towson,
MD
Professional Experience
and Activities:
1976 - Present American Airlines Flight Attendant
2002 - Present President and Co-Founder of
Aviation Cabin Safety Specialists, Inc.
2004 Attended
and completed Spiritual Care on the Frontlines
1992 - 2002 APFA National Safety
Committee Member
1992 - 2002 Attended Cabin Safety
Workshops, FAA CAMI
CAST
Turbulence JSIT Member
NASA-sponsored
Cabin Secure Exercise Member
GAIN
Cabin Safety Compendium Member
1996 - 2002