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Darrin Kopala spent 20 years at MPC Products Corporation in Skokie, IL as Vice President, Linear Actuation Systems. Darrin had profit and loss responsibility for a $31 million actuation product area consisting of approximately 56 direct employees and more than 135 unique actuation systems. During his tenure, Darrin had complete responsibility which spanned product conception through production, including the aftermarket support organization for his product area. Under Darrin’s leadership, this organization received numerous awards including: Presidents award-McDonnell Douglas, Excellent Supplier Award-Korean Aerospace and the Pride Award-Boeing.

Duane Grimm worked at Hamilton Sundstrand for over 30 years with increasing technical responsibilities. His final position was Chief Engineer for 7 business units and held technical responsibility for 500+ engineers. His other titles include: Advisory Engineer, Engineering Manager, Master-Design Engineer, Senior Design Engineer and Design Engineer. Duane has significant design hardware experience with actuation systems, gearboxes, and power systems.

Dick Walsh spent over 30 years at Hamilton Sundstrand, finishing his career as Chief Engineer of Mechanical Systems. He worked as a Design Engineer at Pratt and Whitney Aircraft for 4 years. His career has focused on using analytical skills to solve engineering problems: elastic/plastic beam column analysis, ball screw analysis, critical speed of shafts, and stress/failure/vibration analyses. Dick co-founded Ingenium Technologies in 2000. He provides oversight and direction to the analytical engineers at Ingenium. Dick holds seven patents applicable to aircraft power transmission and actuation systems.

Duane Wingate spent 17 years of increasingly responsible technical positions at Hamilton Sundstrand. When Duane left Hamilton Sundstrand, he had achieved the position of Operations Engineering Manager. His previous titles included Engineering Services Manager (directed a 250 person team), Manager of Air Turbine Engineering, Engineering Manager and Design Engineer. Duane Co-founded Ingenium Technologies in February of 2000. Duane is active in growing the business by introducing new services and forming partnerships.

John Kolosieke spent over 20 years at MPC Products Corporation, where he held the position of Business and Operations Manager of the Linear Actuator Division. While at MPC, John held total operational, strategic steering, P&L and business development responsibilities for all business operations within his business unit., His expertise lies in key account management, staff management, inventory management, material management, strategic budget allocation, planning and production control, regulatory compliance, financial analysis and reorganizing procedures to increase productivity and reduce costs. John was instrumental in increasing after-market sales by 84% in less than three years by implementing highly successful business development initiatives and lean processes in the repair organization.

Barry Beaman worked for Woodward Governor Company in Process Quality Assurance supporting Mechanical Manufacturing. He also provided Software QA Support as needed. Also while at Woodward Governor Company, Barry worked as Software Quality Assurance (SQA) / Systems Engineer responsible for assuring the quality and safety of airborne software and supporting test equipment software. He helped write the Woodward Software Engineering Manual and wrote numerous procedures and work instructions, all compliant with RTCA DO-178B. He participated in the preparation of four successful FAA software certification submissions. Barry served for three years on RTCA Special Committee SC-167 that developed the RTCA DO-178B standard.

Lori Lay spent 4 years working as the Technical Data Specialist in the Environmental Testing Group at MPC Products Corporation in Skokie, IL. She also worked for navAero, Inc., the leading manufacturer of Electronic Flight Bags for general and commercial aviation. As the Technical Data/FAA Certification Specialist for navAero, she designed and executed a full Qualification Test Program (environmental and EMC testing) for a Diagnostic Storage Unit designed for the Eclipse Aviation Corporation 500 VLJ. She worked closely with the FAA to achieve certification for navAero’s products. She writes qualification/safety of flight test plans, procedures and reports, as well as proposals for Ingenium Aerospace.