CEO of Afuzion Inc, a safety-critical consultancy providing advanced consulting services in software and systems development including Training, Mentoring, and Outsourcing. Primary focus is safety-critical aviation and automotive (DO-178C, ISO 26262, DO-254, DO-278A, DO-200B, DO-330, DO-331, DO-332, DO-297, and ARP4754A and ARP4761A) software and hardware development & certification. UAV and TSO C199 experience. Managed sales teams with $20M sales annually. Ample experience as expert witness for aviation, including avionics expert witness, automotive software expert witness, software design and software code expert witness, and aviation valuation expert witness.
Co-Founder (and CEO from inception through successful sale ten years later) in 1990 of TekSci, which became the world's largest safety-critical consultancy with over 140 full-time engineers; sold to Enea in 2000 for 8 figures. Founder in 2005 of HighRely Inc, with continued specialization in safety-critical aviation, transportation, and strategic software & hardware consulting. I initated the sale of HighRely to Atego in 2011. Controlled 51% of HighRely's voting stock from my inception through successful sale for 7 figures.
Since 1995, author of many software/hardware articles published worldwide. Principal author of the world's best-selling book on avionics development titled "Avionics Certification - A Complete Guide to DO-178 & DO-254" (all royalties go to charity). Developed DO-178B and DO-254 training starting in 1993 which I personally provided to over 10,000 persons from 500+ companies throughout the world between 1995 and 2016. Lecturer/teacher also in ISO 26262, DO-178C, DO-278A, DO-200A, ARP-4761 and ARP-4754A.
Note: attendees to this May 5, 2020 DO-178C webinar should be somewhat familiar with DO-178C, at a minimum reading the content of the corresponding whitepaper in advance - read here:
https://afuzion.com/do-178-introduction/