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CHICAGO, Jan. 6, 2010 – Boeing [NYSE: BA] has announced that several
new senior-level engineering leadership positions have been
established to help drive engineering excellence and ensure program
success across the company.
"Boeing's reputation for engineering excellence is built on an array
of outstanding products designed and developed under the guidance of
strong engineering leaders," said John Tracy, Boeing chief technology
officer and senior vice president of Engineering, Operations &
Technology (EO&T). "Our new senior engineering leaders will help
ensure that engineering excellence continues to be driven through all
our products and services to satisfy our customers and grow our
company."
Appointed as vice presidents of Engineering, the new engineering
leaders are all recognized authorities in technical fields critical to
aerospace development (see below). They will work closely with program
managers and chief engineers to help ensure the technical integrity of
their products by providing technical guidance in their various areas
of expertise. This guidance will be provided in a number of ways,
including direct and active involvement in key system requirements and
criteria definition, critical design and production readiness reviews,
technical risk assessments and issues resolution, and any other
important engineering challenges that may arise.
In addition to reporting to Tracy, the new engineering vice presidents
will also report to either the Boeing Commercial Airplanes vice
president of Engineering or the Boeing Integrated Defense Systems vice
president of Engineering and Mission Assurance, who also co-lead the
Enterprise Engineering function within EO&T under Tracy.
"By having these vice presidents report to the engineering leaders of
the business units and to me, we can assure that they are focused on
the most critical engineering issues of the company," Tracy said.
The newly appointed leaders and their technical areas of responsibility are:
Boeing Commercial Airplanes
Mike Delaney -- Airplane Performance & Product Architecture. Delaney
was vice president, chief project engineer for the 787 program.
Keith Leverkuhn -- Propulsion Systems. Leverkuhn was vice
present/general manager of Propulsion Systems for Boeing Commercial
Airplanes.
Jim Ogonowski -- Airplane Structures. Ogonowski was director, chief
structures engineer for the 787 program.
Mike Sinnett -- Airplane Systems. Sinnett was vice president, systems
chief engineer for the 787 program.
As part of their new assignments, Delaney, Ogonowski and Sinnett will
continue to focus on the 787 program, which is currently the most
important engineering challenge for Boeing Commercial Airplanes.
Integrated Defense Systems
Bill Carrier -- Structures. Carrier was previously director of
mechanical/structural engineering.
Laurette Lahey -- Flight & Controls. Lahey was previously director of
flight engineering.
Jack Murphy -- System-of-Systems / Systems Engineering. In addition,
Murphy will continue to serve as vice president of mission assurance.
Darrell Uchima -- Mission Systems Payloads & Sensors. Uchima was
director of the satellite development center for Boeing Space and
Intelligence Systems.
James Farricker – Networks & Communications. Farricker is a senior
technical fellow and was most recently chief engineer of Boeing's
Enterprise Network Organization in EO&T.
Revitalizing the role of senior engineering leaders represents another
in a series of strategic steps Boeing has been taking over the past
several years to strengthen its drive for functional and program
excellence. As part of this drive Boeing formed in 2006 an integrated
Enterprise Engineering function chartered to identify best processes,
systems, tools and training, and deploy them as standards across
Boeing.
Led by Tracy in conjunction with the Commercial Airplanes vice
president of Engineering and the Integrated Defense Systems vice
president of Engineering and Mission Assurance, the Enterprise
Engineering function has made significant progress toward improving
the efficiency and effectiveness of engineering support across Boeing
programs. By being able to share more processes, systems and data,
Boeing engineers in the different business units are now able to work
more effectively together on joint programs – such as the P-8A and 767
International Tanker programs – which leverage Boeing's unique ability
to combine its commercial and defense capabilities.
Just as important, Boeing engineers can now cross business unit lines
to support any Boeing program. For example, more than 1,000 Integrated
Defense Systems' engineers have helped support Commercial Airplanes'
787 and 777 programs over the past two years, while Commercial
Airplanes' engineers have helped Integrated Defense Systems resolve
technical and flight test issues on the 767 International Tanker
program.
Now, by focusing the technical expertise of proven engineering leaders
on the top engineering challenges of the company, Boeing is
strengthening its ability to ensure that engineering quality,
effectiveness and efficiency are being driven into the design,
development and production of all the company's products and services,
Tracy said.
