ASAS Director and CEO
Capt. Dan Gellert,  ACE-Security

• Harvard Kennedy School of Government - Senior Executive Fellow [SEF] {2010]
• Harvard Graduate School of Business and Law School in Labor Management [TUP]
• Stanford Graduate School of Business in Transportation Management [TMP]
• University of Miami - BBA Aerospace Management 
• University of Miami Freight Forwarding Course  
• UCLA News Reporting Course

• FAA and airline flight and simulator Instructor

• USAF MAC flight crew during the Vietnam War

• Airline aceptance test pilot at Boeing and Douglas Aircraft

• Has accumulated over 30,000 flight hours

• Approved VIP [security] pilot- in-command

• Airport Rescue and Fire Fighter 

• AAAE Airport Wildlife Management Techniques Course 

•  FAA Air Traffic Controller Training and Experience:

• Certified FAA Air Traffic Controller, [ATCS] Center, Station
• Experience in Approach Control, FIR, AMIS, GCA/PAR, Oceanic
• Certified Weather Bureau Observer,

        6.  Additional FAA and FCC Licenses Held:   

• FAA Flight Instructor Aircraft, Single and Multi-Engine Instrument
• FAA Ground Instructor Advanced, Instrument
• FAA Mechanic Airframe & Powerplant/Engines
• FCC General Radio Certificate with Radar Endorsement 
• FAA Parachute Rigger, Back-Chest-Seat 
• FAA Aircraft Dispatcher
• FAA Flight Engineer Reciprocator, Turbojet ,Turbo-propeller ratings
• Navigational experience with INS, IRS, Omega, Loran, Celestial, GPS, Doppler
• Flew airliners with all three large engines manufactured by: RR, GE, PW     
  

        7.  Aerospace Safety Education and Training:   

• USAF Flying Safety Officers Course
• National Test Pilot School - Technical Pilot  [2008]
• US Army Crash Survival Investigator's Course
• Aerospace System Safety Engineering Course - USC
• MITRE Safety Management System [SMS] [2010]
• NTSB Aircraft Accident Investigator's Course [2008]
• NTSB Crash and Crime Scene Photography Course [2006] 
• Kansas University Basic Avionics Course [2010]
• Aeronautics University of Denver
• FSF Functional Test Flight  Conference [2011]
• USAF Test and Evaluation Conferences [2005/06/07/08/10]
• FAA International Aviation Safety Forum {2008/09]        

        8.   Law Enforcement, and Security 

• AAAE Airport Certified Employee in Security, [ACE]  [2011] 

• AAAE Airport Security Coordinator [ASC] [2011]

• TSA/DHS/AAAE Security Summitt [2010]

•  Senior Chemical Operator, U. S. Army Rocky Mountain Arsenal, experience with unstable and explosive compounds

• Criminal Investigator Course DPD Staff   

• AAAE Law Enforcement Officer [LEO] Course [2010]   

• Visited all the crime scenes in Mumbi/Bombay India, following the November 26, 2008 terorrist attacks, including the railroad station, the Taj Mahal  and Oberal Hotels, and studied the military type assult, entry and methodology..    

•  Global Airport Security Conference, Tel Aviv Israel, with day long security training at the Tel Aviv Ben-Gurion International Airport. [2011]

• 60 Hour Global Security Workshop in Israel, covering: Ashkelon Ruttenberg Power Station next to Gaza, Bank Hapoalim, Tel Aviv Train Station, Azriely Complex, Jarusalem University, Knesset - Israel Parliament, Jarusalem Police Station, VIP Security with Lecture and Scene of Rabin Assassination,  Lectures on YAMAM, Suicide Terro/VBIED, Terrorist Cop, self defense using Krav Maga,  visit the Golan Heights, Sea of Galilee and  Nazareth.  [2011]

        9.      Airport Operations

• AAAE Airport Execuritive Accreditation Certification Academy (2011) 
• AAAE [Advanced] Airport Safety Operations Specialist [ASOS] [2011]
• IASS International Snow Symposium [2011]
• USA/Canada Bird Strike Committee Conference [2010]
• CACI Aircraft Deicing Conference [2009]  
• AAAE Airport Planning Design & Construction Symposium [2011]   
• TSA AAAE Security Conference [2010]
• AAAE Airport Certified Employee - Security [ACE] [2011]
• AAAE Airport Security Coordinator [ASC] [2011] 
• Industrial First-Aid qualified [2010].
• Global Airport Security Conference, Tel Aviv Israel 2011 
• FAA/AAAE Basic Airport Safety Operations Specialist [ASOS] 2010

Besides aerospace safety Dan worked as a senior chemical operator at the U. S. Army Rocky Mountain Arsenal home of nerve gas, ammunition and worked in the production of unstable, gaseous and explosive materials.  Dan was an academic adjunct professor/instructor at Florida Institute of Technology in meteorology, air carrier operations management, engines and systems and other aviation and management related courses; has testified before Congress, NTSB, grand and trial juries, featured on national television such as the Today Show, and other local news programs and newspapers on aviation safety, crash and criminal investigations.