Tom Pfitzer
Founder/Chairman of the Board
George Gafka
Chief Executive Officer
Meredith Hardwick
Executive VP, Chief Operations Officer (COO),
Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
Saralyn Dwyer
Executive VP, Chief of Staff (COS)
Jamie McLean
VP, Director of Aerospace S&MA Division
Melissa Emery
VP, Director of Safety Engineering
& Analysis Center (SEAC)
Clark Kilgore
VP, Director of System Safety & Test Division
Mike Wesoloski
Software Division Manager
Bob Baker
VP, Chief Analyst
John Hall
Chief of Certifications & Standards
Carolyn King
Human Resources Director
Melissa Emery
- Director of SEAC
- 25+ years of system safety experience
- Extensive experience with US Army & NASA
- Previous leadership positions in the International System Safety Society
- Former President of System Safety Society Tennessee Valley Chapter
Tom Pfitzer
- Chair IAASS Launch Safety Committee, 2008-2017
- Fellow ISSS, 2010-present
- ISSS Lifetime Achievement Award, 2017
- Founder A-P-T Research, Inc., & SEAC
- System Safety Training Instructor
Saralyn Dwyer
- Extensive experience with US Army and MDA development programs
- 25+ years of experience
- BS Electrical Engineering; specialized safety training in explosive materials safety, hazard recognition, evaluation and control
Bob Baker
Tim Middendorf
- Subject Matter Expert in control room and flight operations
- 30+ years experience in safety engineering and analyses
- Experience includes range flight safety, spacecraft engineering/operations, and spacecraft launch operations
- MS Astronautical Engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology; BS in Aerospace Engineering
John Frost
- Former Chief Safety for AMCOM
- Member NASA Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (2006-2018)
- Expert Witness testimony including Congress and Litigations
- BS Electrical Eng; ME Industrial Eng (Safety Option)
- 44 years System Safety experience
Barry Hendrix
- Principal Engineer for Software System Safety
- Former Lockheed Martin Technical Fellow for System Safety (member of G-48)
- 45+ years integrated weapon systems, 35 years in System Safety.
- Software System Safety Training Instructor
Faysaal Safie, Phd
- Former NASA Reliability Engineering Technical Fellow
- 30+ years of NASA, industry, and university experience in Reliability and Maintainability
- BS Science; BS, MS, and PhD Industrial and Systems Engineering
- Reliability Engineering Training Instructor
Susan Cantrell
- System Safety Technical Lead for MDA
- 30+ years safety experience in space flight and missile defense
Pete Yutmeyer
- 35+ years of experience in explosives and range safety
- Army approval authority for explosive facility siting and Hazard Classification for 15 years
- Major contributor to the Risk-Based Explosives Safety Criteria Team
- ME Industrial Engineering; MS Aeronautical Engineering; BS Aeronautical Engineering
Eric Olson
- Former Deputy Chief of Weapons Safety, Air Force Safety Center
- Former Chairman, Risk-Based Explosives Safety Criteria Team
- Former Vice Chairman, Air Force Nonnuclear Munitions Safety Board
- Former Chairman, Air Force Insensitive Munitions Technical Working Group
- Former explosives hazard classification authority for US Army and US Air Force
- BS Mechanical Engineering, ME Industrial Engineering
Wayne Devoid
- 15+ years systems engineering, operations and analysis
- ME Aerospace Engineering; BS Physics & Mechanical Engineering
Keith Rose, CHP
- Certified Health Physicist
- 35 years experience as a Health Physicist
- BS major in Biology, minor in Chemistry
Dave West
- Certified Safety Professional (in System Safety), P.E., CHMM
- Chair of SAE G-48 System Safety Committee, 2010-2019
- Vice Chair of SAE Systems Management Council, 2017-2018
- Member NASA Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel
- Former member and Treasurer of BCSP Board of Directors
Clark Kilgore
- PM for MDA safety support
- 20 years as a Safety Engineer supporting Missile Defense Agency
- Previously audited numerous major MDA suppliers’ program
Paul LaHoud
- USACE Huntsville Center, Chief, Civil-Structures Division
- 31+ years experience in Conventional and Nuclear Weapons Effects, Protective Construction
- BS and MS Engineering
George Gafka
- Executive Vice President of Safety and Mission Assurance
- 30-year career at NASA
- Former NASA Chief Engineer, Chief Safety Officer, and S&MA Director
- ME of Space Systems, MS in Mechanical Engineering, BS in Aerospace Engineering
Rhonda Barnes
- 25+ years of diverse experience in the software engineering and simulation industries with emphasis on software system safety and management
- Leader in development of software safety policy used by DoD
John Hall
- APT Technical Director
- Member of the Gov’t team which validates assembly and testing procedures for the interceptor missile
- Supported the NMD Production Directorate in development of a system-level transition to production plan
- PhD Industrial Engineering; MS Industrial Engineering; BS from US Military Academy, concentration Aerospace Engineering