The seminar series is open to all. Any interested in risk analysis, risk management, and the way decisions are made in the real-world are encouraged to attend.

All times listed are in Eastern Daylight Time (EDT).

Meeting ID:
915 4223 3753

Passcode:
309867

Title:
Managing Risk In the Real World: Perspectives From Aerospace

Abstract:
In the aerospace field identifying existing and potential hazards, risks, and their associated outcomes and proactively managing them is a critical and essential part of any program. The potential negative outcomes are often large and can be associated with loss of life as well as significant adverse financial and reputational impact. This seminar will illustrate, using real world examples, how and why proactively managing risk is critically important in achieving short and long term success.

Bios:
Joe Dyer is a consultant in the tech, aerospace and defense markets and the Chief Strategy Officer for the National Spectrum Consortium. He operates at the intersection of technology, finance, and risk. He chaired NASA’s Aerospace Safety and Advisory Panel for almost 13 years. He is often quoted in the WSJ, NYT, and AW&ST. He received the James H. Doolittle award in recognition of outstanding engineering achievement in aerospace.

He was Business Unit President, COO, and Chief Strategy Officer at iRobot Corp. He came to iRobot from a career in the U.S. Navy where his last assignment was as the three-star Commander of the Naval Air Systems Command. He was the Navy’s senior, uniformed acquisition/procurement official. His naval career also included positions as naval aviation’s chief engineer, Commander of the Naval Air Warfare Center, Aircraft Division, and F/A-18 program manager. Earlier in his career, he served as the Navy’s chief test pilot and as an operational naval aviator flying from the decks of aircraft carriers around the world.

Joe holds a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from North Carolina State University and a master’s degree in finance from the Naval PostGraduate School in Monterey, California. He is an elected fellow in the Society of Experimental Test
Pilots and the National Academy of Public Administration.


Mr. Frost has extensive experience in systems safety engineering in the aerospace field. The breadth of his experience spans several decades with the U.S. Army where he served in numerous positions including as the Chief of System Safety Engineering of the Army’s Electronics Command, Chief of the Army’s Missile Command’s Safety Office responsible for safety engineering support for Army missiles and Missile Command’s Operations, and he was the first Chief of the Safety Office for the Army Aviation and Missile Command and responsible for the safety of Army missiles and aircraft worldwide. In January of 2006, he was appointed to the NASA Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (ASAP) which is tasked with advising the NASA Administrator and Congress on the effectiveness of NASA safety programs. Mr. Frost is a Senior member of the International System Safety Society and a Professional Member of the American Society Of Safety Engineers and remains active in various System Safety organizations and initiatives. He earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering in 1972 from the University of Virginia where he was a DuPont Scholar. He then joined the Army’s Safety Engineering Intern Program through which he earned a Master of Science in Industrial Engineering from Texas A&M, specializing in Safety Engineering. He has previously been registered in Massachusetts as a Professional Engineer in the specialty of Safety Engineering and as a Certified Safety Professional.