Director and President
Ryan L. Gellert
Education:
- BBA Finance - University of North Carolina
- MBA and Contract Acqusition - Florida Institute of Technology
- JD - University of Utah
Experience:
World-wide experience in business as Maging Director of manufacturing and sales operations.
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Director and General Counsel
Virginia Shogren
Education:
- BA Biological Sciences and English - [with distinction] Stanford University
- JD - University of Washington - while in law school served as an extern for the United States District Court.
Experience:
Virginia as General Counsel has a broad background in corporate, litigation, and intellectual property matters, and is a registered Patent Attorney before the United States Patent & Trademark Office.
Virginia has been principal of her law firm in the Washington State, and associate attorney in litigation departments of numerous law firms, including Vantage Law Group and Seltzer Caplan McMahon & Vitek in San Diego, California.
Her intelectual property experience includes preparing and prosecuting provisional, utility, design and PCT patent applications in a variety of arts, including digital wireless telecomunications, magnetic disk storage, explosive bonding, emergency response, axial field energy, missile transport, micro-heat pilpes, medical monitoring, modular displays, metal composites, and aerospace safety. She also has experience in the trademark field having prepared and prosecuted over 60 federal trademark applications.
For the first 10 years of her career, Virginia handled all phases of over 200 litigatio matters at the state or federal levels, including trademark and patent infringement, employment litigation, trade-secret, non-compete, unfair business practices, partnership disputes, class actions, pre-judgment remedies and appeals, jury and bench trials, arbitrations and mediations.
Virginia is a member of the Washington State Bar, California State Bar, the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, and the United States District Courts for Western District of Washington and the Southern, Central and Northern Districts of California. .
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Director - Communication
James M. Roberts
Education:
- BA in Economics
- MA in Administration
Experience::
Over 40 years of experience in aviation as a pilot, manager and lobbyist.
Experienced Advocate: As the manager in Washington, D. C. for Lockheed commercial and international programs for a decade. Jim persistently advocated a wide variety of Lockheed products and programs in the Congress, Defense Department, with foreign governments, airlines, FAA and industry associated.
Export Promotion: While serving in the Department of Commerce as deputy assistant secretary for aerospace, a political appointment, Jim tirelessly promoted US aviation products abroad, a task that required managing US Pavillions at airshows, notably the Farmborough and the Paris and Singapore Air Shows.
Diplomat: As a US Foreign Service Officer in the Office of Aviation, Jim routinely resolved operational aviation problems encountered by US registered airplanes operating abroad by working closely with the FAA and the applicable foreign aviation regulatory authority.
Operational Aviation: A highly decorated U. S. Air Force transport pilot and C-141 instructor pilot, Jim also piloted C-130, C-7, C-123 and the B-707 (as one of Henry Kissinger's pilots). In addition, while a USAF officer, he served as an airport manager and White House social aide.
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Director - Air Traffic Services
Daniel E. Austin
Experience:
- Chief Denver ARTCC,
- Deputy Chief and Acting Chief Seattle ARTCC
- FAA Washington Headquarters - Operations Committee for Moderniziation of Air Traffic SystemAirspace & Procedures
- Section Chief Northwest Mountain Region - participated in development of the new Denver DIA Airport Runways, Taxiways and Airspace layoutsOperations
- Section Chief for FSS/ARTCC, Northwest Mountain Region
- Automation Branch Chief, Northwest Mountain Region
- Assistant Chief, Training Officer and Data Systems Officer, Seattle ARTC
- Coordinator/Crew Cief, Anchorage ARTCC & Denver ARTCC
- Journeyman ARTCC Controller, Seattle ARTCC & Anchorage ARTCC
- USAF Terminal Air Traffic Controller, Senior Rating-Tower Controller Edwards AFB, CA.
- Division Chairman for the Denver Metropolitan Area Combined Federal Campaing
- FAA Nomination for Puget Sound Federal Employee of the Year
Completed FAA Executive School, Phases I, II,
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Director of Navigational Services
Larry W. Speelman
- Education: Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineer, [BSEE]
- Master of Business Administration [MBA]
Experience:
Larry has more than 40 years of extensive experience in aviation electronics related engineering, development and deployment.
United Parcel Service - 12 years UPS Air Hub air traffic improvement, deployment representative during the first
FAA ADS-B system deployment in Alaska, while also esteblishing the first ADS-B instrument approaches.
Larry's experience, from engineer to director, began with eight years in the U. S. Air Force and
continuing later with major electronic companies such as Litton, Teledyne, Kaiser, ROLM, IBM, Loral and UPS.
Projects involved classified groups, prime contractors, in the development of inertial LORAN, GPS Joint Stars and
surveillance systems, heads-up and head down cocpit display, air traffic control ADS-B, data link, terrain maping
and flight following systems.
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