As President, Mr. Miller is responsible for overall strategy and general management of FRA. He has over thirty years experience in the aviation industry. He has been an air traffic controller in the United States Marine Corps, the Federal Aviation Administration, and the Hong Kong Civil Aviation Department. He has held supervisory and management positions in the FAA and as a contractor with Northrop Grumman at NASA Ames Research Center. He has lived and worked in the USA, China, Hong Kong, and Japan.
Ms. Krikorian co-founded FRA in 2005 with the vision of developing an aviation services company that had strong core values and could provide NASA and private industry with exceptional customer service without the high overhead costs of big business. She has over 18 years of experience working in the areas of human resources, business administration, and business management and recruiting. Formerly, she worked for 6 years as the Recruitment Manager for the Human Factors division at the NASA Ames Research Center. Now as Vice President, her responsibilities focus on all administration and business functions as well as managing our recruitment efforts for pilots and research projects.
Mr. Gregory began his aviation career in 2001 where he learned to fly in Citabrias. In 2006 he graduated from San Jose State with a Business Administration degree focused in Marketing. As an experienced pilot he most recently flew for Colgan Air, a regional carrier based in Memphis, Tennessee. He works for FRA as our Marketing Manager assisting with the recruitment of pilots and controllers for SimLab projects as well as aviation related positions worldwide. He is also responsible for the FRA database maintenance and business marketing efforts.
Mr. Ross is responsible for all projects involving Air Traffic Control and Aviation English consulting and training. He has over thirty years experience in the aviation industry. His air traffic control experience in the Federal Aviation Administration includes controller and supervisory positions in the en route oceanic and radar environments. He was the previous ATC Lab Manager at NASAs Crew-Vehicle Systems Research Facility. Mr. Ross has served for many years as an ATC instructor in both the USA and China.
Mr. Canfield serves as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in Terminal Air Traffic Control, with specific expertise in Northern and Southern California TRACON airspace and procedures. He has participated in several research projects for Los Angeles, Dallas Fort Worth, Louisville, and San Francisco airport tower and approach controls.He is also part of our Aviation English team and proficient in the Aviation English for Controllers Course. He has more than 30 years of Terminal Air Traffic Control experience. These experiences in the Federal Aviation Administration include controller and supervisory duties in several major metropolitan tower and radar approach control facilities. Other employment responsibilities have included contract ATC instructor for the FAA and a security consultant and instructor for Homeland Security Corporation for the U. S. Transportation Security Administration. His background contains several airspace and aviation consulting assignments and certification by the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) from the University of Oklahoma.
Wayne W. Bridges is an Air Traffic Control Associate providing expertise in Air Traffic operations to various research activities at NASA Ames Research Center. He is recently retired from a 33 year career spanning 5 years in the U.S. Navy as a controller at sea and ashore and 28 years with the FAA as an enroute controller, traffic management specialist, and frontline manager. Mr. Bridges has provided resource management for FAA projects spanning from training course development, management development, equipment implementation, military operations, and airspace and procedure development. He developed the Sierra North and Sierra South Severe Weather Avoidance plan tracks now in use for adverse Sierra Nevada weather. He collaborated in the development and publication the Dynamic Aircraft Reroute Program, which was a prototype of the oceanic fuel reroutes in use today. Wayne has received numerous awards for service excellence including contributions to the training program at Oakland Air Route Traffic Control Center, the Voyager Aircraft project, and the Fear of Flying program.
Mr. Gonter joined the USAF and became an Air Traffic Controller in 1979, stationed at Mountain Home AFB, Idaho. On August 4, 1981, he replaced striking PATCO controllers at the Los Angeles Approach Control and began working for the FAA in 1983. He was a Traffic Management Specialist from 1986 to 1989 and LAX Tower Supervisor from 1989 to 1993 until he moved to San Diego and worked as a controller at the Southern California TRACON (SCT) facility. In 1998, he became a supervisor in the Los Angeles Area and a Supervisor Traffic Management Coordinator in 1999. He also worked as Traffic Management Officer and Operations Manager for SCT from 2005 - 2007. Kari retired from the FAA November 30, 2008 and is currently with FRA as a SME on the Los Angeles/Southern California ATC system and Traffic Management project.
Mr. Cornell is responsible for all projects involving air carrier flight operations. He is an aerospace engineer with over thirty years experience in the aviation industry. He is a retired captain with United Airlines. He has been a captain on numerous jet aircraft including the Boeing 747-400. His flight experience includes operations in North America, Asia, and Europe. Mr. Cornell was the previous Experiment Manager for the B747-400 and Advanced Concepts Flight Simulator at NASAs Crew-Vehicle Systems Research Facility.
Captain John Constans serves as a subject matter expert for projects involving air carrier flight operations. He is a graduate of Oregon State University. A retired captain with US Airways, he is rated on the B757-767, B727 and B737. Captain Constans has experience as a simulator instructor and check airman in the airline industry. He has extensive flight experience in North America, South America, Europe and the Pacific. Captain Constans has worked on numerous aviation projects conducted by the FAA and NASA researchers.
Nancy Haan is a former Senior Research Engineer in the Flight Deck Display Research Group at NASA Ames Research Center. Nancys area of expertise is in airside operations. Concepts vetted in her research include distributed air traffic management, merging and spacing while en-route, time-based traffic management, enhanced situation awareness and shared separation assurance. These concepts were laboratory and field tested with and without a 3D cockpit situation display (CSD). She was a member of the team that won the Collier Trophy for excellence in Aviation in 2007 for their ground-breaking work on Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B), an air-ground, ground-air, and air-air surveillance system. As a member of the NASA flight deck team, Nancy co-presented their CSD research to Congress in 2008. Nancy has collaborated on projects with industry, government and academia including United Parcel Service, FedEx, MITRE Corporation, the Federal Aviation Administration and Cal-State University, Long Beach.
Nancy has also worked as a part-time instructor for the College of Engineering at San Jose State University.
Pramod Gupta is an experienced member of the Flight Research Associates research team. He is currently serving on the Generic Airspace project at NASA Ames helping to further NextGens development. Pramod obtained his PhD from McMaster University in Canada.
Recently Pramod has worked on developing algorithms for combining airspace sectors to utilize resources efficiently. Before that he worked on the verification and validation of intelligent flight control systems. Pramod has several years of experience in industry and academics including experience in neural networks, controls, modeling and robotics. His research focuses on intelligent controls, signal processing, robotics and modeling and data mining. Pramod has publications on these subjects in various conferences and journals and has won several awards for his research and academic achievements. He is also a senior member of The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
Dr. Melissa Mallis is Chief Scientist for Operational and Fatigue Research at the Institutes for Behavior Resources (IBR). From 1999 to 2005, Dr. Mallis led the NASA Fatigue Countermeasures Group. She is internationally recognized for her contributions to the implementation and evaluation of scientifically valid fatigue-management approaches for managing sleep loss, extended duty periods and circadian disruption in aviation. Her work has been recognized through numerous awards including the Arnold D. Tuttle Award for "Original Research that has Made the Most Significant Contribution Toward the Solution of a Challenging Problem in Aerospace Medicine,"
William E. Collins Awards for "Outstanding Human Factors Publications of the Year," and NASA Awards for her work with the Mars Exploration Rover (MER) mission. She has collaborated with, and provided consultation and presentations to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Civil Aerospace Medical Institute (CAMI), Civil Aviation Safety Authority of Australia (CASA), International Air Transport Association (IATA), and US Department of Defense.
Mr. Mullins is part of our Aviation English team and his main area of expertise is the Aviation English for Pilots Course. Captain Errol Mullins has accumulated over 14,000 flight hours as a Commercial Pilot serving with Braniff, USAir, United Airlines, and Virgin America. He has served as Captain or First Officer on the B747-400, B767, B757, B727, A320, DC-10 and B737. Errol received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Sociology from San Francisco State University. Born in Nicaragua, Errol reads and writes Spanish fluently.
Kelly Crank is an associate in the field of aviation safety and security. He has accrued over 25 years research experience including transportation event analysis, causation and accident reconstruction. Technical contributions include conceptualization of the Airborne Interactive Response System (AIRS) entailing air crew authentication and monitoring, trajectory prediction, automated event-based alert transmission and correlated ground-based surveillance capabilities. He is a senior member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), International Air Transport Association (IATA) AV-SEC delegate, an affiliated corporate member of the Radio Technical Commission for Aeronautics (RTCA, Inc.), National Air Traffic Controllers Association, and Aircraft Builders Council. He currently holds three U.S. and two international aviation-related patents.
