Cairo Speakers - International Civil Aviation Organization



Introduction to Performance Based Navigation Seminar

Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 23 to 26 June 2008

SPEAKER INFORMATION

|[pic] |David VanNess is a Airline Transport Pilot with over 7000 hours. He is a certified|

| |flight inspector and procedure designer. He was manager and Chief Pilot of the FAA |

| |International Flight Inspection Office for six years. His last job with the FAA |

| |was as Manager of the Eastern Flight Inspection Service Area in the FAA Air Traffic|

| |Organization. He has an MBA from the University of Texas at Dallas. Dave first |

| |came to ICAO for a year, in 2004-2005, as part of the first group of FAA/ICAO |

| |Fellows. His present job in ICAO is Implementation and Resource Development |

| |Coordinator for Performance Based Navigation, in the Air Navigation Bureau. |

|[pic] |Jeffrey T. Williams is the Acting Director, Airspace and Aeronautical Information |

| |Division of the Air Traffic Organization of the Federal Aviation Administration. |

| |Prior to assuming his present position, he served for six years as Manager of the |

| |Area Navigation (RNAV) and Required Navigation Performance (RNP) Group, 3 years as |

| |co-chair for the Communications/ Surveillance Operational Implementation Team and 2|

| |years as the Air Traffic GPS Integrated Product Team Lead. Mr. Williams served 6 |

| |years as the US Member to the ICAO Global Navigation Satellite System Panel, and is|

| |the U.S. Member to the ICAO RNP and Special Operational Requirements Study Group. |

| |He has over 25 years service with the FAA, including 10 years air traffic control |

| |experience at Boston Tower and Boston Terminal Radar Approach Control, where he was|

| |a supervisor. Mr. Williams also holds Commercial, Instrument, and Multi-engine |

| |ratings and is a Certified Flight Instructor. He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree|

| |from Daniel Webster College. |

|[pic] |Alex Hendriks has worked for Eurocontrol since 1991, where between 1993 and July |

| |2006 he was the Head of Airspace / Flow Management & Navigation. In July 2006 he |

| |was appointed as Deputy Director ATM Strategies, with specific responsibilities for|

| |setting the airspace and navigation strategies. At the same time, he was also |

| |appointed as Acting Director and Programme Manager for the Central European CEATS |

| |project. |

| |Since 2002 he is also Director of the U.S. Air Traffic Control Association (ATCA), |

| |responsible for the Europe, Middle East & Africa Area. |

| | |

| |Lex is an active airline pilot and currently flies Boeing B737-700/800 aircraft. He|

| |has a radar-controller’s license and from 1981 until 1986 he was elected for three |

| |terms of office as Executive Vice President Technical of the International |

| |Federation of Air Traffic Controllers Associations (IFATCA). In that capacity he |

| |participated in many global and regional ICAO meetings, the most important of which|

| |was ICAO’s FANS Committee |

|[pic] |Roland Rawlings is Navigation Manager working within the Airspace, Network Planning|

| |and Navigation Division of EUROCONTROL. An avionics engineer by background he has |

| |worked at EUROCONTROL since 1985 initially in the Research and Development area. He|

| |has headed the Navigation activities in EUROCONTROL since 1996 and therefore |

| |responsible for the navigation elements of a number of developments in ECAC |

| |including B-RNAV (RNAV 5) and P-RNAV (RNAV-1). As the Eurocontrol member to ICAO’s |

| |Instrument Flight Procedures Panel and a Eurocontrol representative to ICAO’s RNP |

| |Special Operational Requirements Study Group (RNPSORSG), he has been involved in |

| |the development of the Performance Based Navigation concept. |

|Picture not available |Barbara Cassidy is an air traffic implementation specialist for the Area Navigation|

| |(RNAV) and Required Navigation Performance (RNP) Division in the Air Traffic |

| |Organization of the Federal Aviation Administration. Before assuming her present |

| |duties, she worked in the FAA’s Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) and Next |

| |Generation Air/Ground Communications (NEXCOM) Program Offices. Prior to joining |

| |the FAA in 1999, Ms. Cassidy spent 21 years in the United States Air Force. Her |

| |tours of duty included Chief of Air Traffic Operations in a terminal radar and |

| |control tower facility, Chief of the U.S. Air Force’s European Instrument |

| |Procedures (TERPS) Office, and a variety of aircraft control-related assignments. |

|[pic] |Bruno Rabiller works as the CNS/ATM coordinator for the French DGAC National |

| |Supervisory Authority. He has worked as an avionics specialist for aircraft |

| |certification program for several years. He was advisor to the DGAC member of the |

| |ICAO RNP Special Operational Requirements Study Group (RNPSORSG). |

| | |

| |He is an Electronic engineer with a degree from the French ENAC (Ecole Nationale de|

| |l’Aviation Civile) located in Toulouse |

|[pic] |Vincent Chirasello is an Aviation Safety Inspector for Air Carrier Operations with |

| |the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration’s Flight Standards Service, Flight |

| |Technologies and Procedures Division, Flight Operations Branch. His primary area of|

| |expertise is the development of policies and procedures for Area Navigation (RNAV) |

| |and Required Navigation Performance (RNP) operations in the terminal, en route, and|

| |approach environments. His efforts in this area have included work on |

| |pilot-controller phraseology, aeronautical charting standards, Aeronautical |

| |Information Manual/Aeronautical Information Publication documentation, and FAA |

| |Advisory Circular material. Mr. Chirasello is also involved with the operational |

| |review of other all-weather procedures such as Category II and III ILS and special |

| |instrument approaches. During his twenty one years of pilot experience, Inspector |

| |Chirasello has flown a number of piston, turboprop, and turbojet aircraft |

| |(including the Boeing 737-200/300/400, British Aerospace 3200/4100, and DeHavilland|

| |DHC-8 100/300) for US regional and major air carriers. He has a Bachelor of |

| |Science degree in Aviation Management and Flight Operations from Daniel Webster |

| |College. |

|Picture not available |Barry Miller is an aerospace engineer, technical pilot and navigation specialist |

| |for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Aircraft Certification Service, |

| |Avionics Systems Branch. He is the FAA’s Aircraft Certification lead for the |

| |implementation of Required Navigation Performance (RNP) approach operations. Mr. |

| |Miller has been an active participant in RTCA/SC-181, the ICAO Navigation Systems |

| |Panel and the ICAO Operations Panel. He has also been a pilot for nearly four |

| |decades, holds multiple type ratings and has diverse experience in a wide range of |

| |aerial vehicles, from balloons and gliders to multi-engine transport aircraft. He |

| |is a graduate of the United States Air Force Academy, earned an MBA from Golden |

| |Gate University, and joined the FAA following a distinguished career with the |

| |United States Air Force. |

| |Jeff Roberts is senior manager of Navigation Support Services for Boeing Commercial|

| |Aviation Services. He has responsibility for the definition and availability of |

| |products and services to help airlines and their employees understand and gain the |

| |maximum benefit from Performance Based Navigation capabilities of Boeing airplanes,|

| |such as Required Navigation Performance or RNP. Mr. Roberts has over 20 years of |

| |aviation experience at Boeing in various engineering and operations capacities, |

| |including Systems Engineering, Airplane Certification, Airplane Performance and |

| |Supply Chain Development. Mr. Roberts earned a Masters of Science in Engineering |

| |and Management from Stanford University and a Bachelors of Science in Aeronautical |

| |Engineering from Texas A&M University. |

|Picture not available |Júlio César de Souza Pereira is currently an Air Traffic Management Specialist, |

| |DECEA in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. |

| | |

| |His professional background includes, among others, the following: |

| |Air Traffic Controller in Campo Grande Aerodrome Control Tower, Approach Control |

| |Unit and Area Control Center – Campo Grande – Brazil |

| |Air Traffic Controller in Rio de Janeiro Approach Control Unit – Rio de Janeiro – |

| |Brazil |

| |Airspace Planner – Rio de Janeiro – Brazil |

| |Procedure Designer – Rio de Janeiro – Brazil |

|Picture not available |Eduardo Juranovich started his career in aviation maintenance services (FBO), |

| |followed by 3 years in aerospace manufacturing (Allied-Signal Aerospace) and 16 |

| |years in the airline industry (American Airlines). At AA he served as an |

| |Operations Performance Engineer and Manager - International Flight Operations, |

| |responsible for the technical support of AA’s international operations network. |

| |This included surveying more than 60 airports in the Latin America & Caribbean |

| |region, developing flight planning performance databases, designing special |

| |engine-out take-off procedures and implementing en-route engine-out and |

| |depressurization emergency escape procedures. In February 2006 he joined IATA as |

| |Assistant Director – Safety, Operations & Infrastructure for Latin America & |

| |Caribbean. His current projects include the implementation of RNAV/RNP/GNSS |

| |procedures. He holds a B.Sc. degree in Aerospace Engineering and is a licensed |

| |Private Pilot. He has recently completed a post-graduate course in GNSS (Stanford |

| |University). |

|[pic] |Johann Estrada worked as air traffic controller in aerodromes from 1991 to 1993, |

| |and as RADAR area and approach controller from 1993 to 2003. He was then in charge |

| |of air traffic services at Punta Cana International Airport from 2003 to the end of|

| |2004, and in charge of the air navigation department from 2004 to 2006. Mr. Estrada|

| |is currently the Dominican Republic National Coordinator of the ICAO Universal |

| |Safety Oversight Audit Programme, USOAP. Mr. Estrada is also TRAINAIR trainer, |

| |ICAO SMS trainer and ICAO universal safety oversight programme auditor. |

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