Owner, operator and chief flight instructor.Professional and personalized flight instruction.Classroom style, highly interactive ground school instruction.Presenter of highly acclaimed AOPA Rusty Pilot seminar.Active FAASTeam Safety Representative and presenter.

* Responsible for the formation, growth and sustaining of Flying Clubs throughout the USA.* Creation of resources to help pilots start clubs and succeed in operational excellence.* Create documentation to guide pilots through the stages of forming and operating a flying club.* Promote club activities and safety.* Presenter of You Can Fly topics via face-to face presentations, seminars and webinars.* Flight and ground instructor.* AOPA staff instructor and check pilot.

Overview:* Leader of complex, multi-disciplined and multi-functional technical teams.* Executive management and engineering leadership in high-technology product development.* Technology vision, strategy and implementation.* Product definition, planning, development and execution. * Aviation instructor, writer and presenter.Specialties: * Product and technology development.* Technical leadership in GNSS, communications, semiconductor, wireless, ASIC, mechatronics.* Establishing, nurturing and leading global engineering teams - USA, Canada, UK, India and Israel.* Aviation writer, presenter, business management and instructor.* Instrument rated commercial pilot, and certified flight and ground instructor.Previously:* VP Engineering: Technology and product development for large-scale agricultural water management operations. * VP of Engineering and Product Development at a GPS positioning company providing technology and sub-systems for many industries and customers through OEM relationships.* VP Engineering for a GPS positioning and machine control technology company serving the farming and mining industries. * VP Engineering and R&D for structured ASIC company.* VP Engineering at broadband wireless access company.* VP Engineering - FLASH-based FPGA products.* Professor of Information Technology and Electronic Communications Systems, UK University.