Experience

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  System Safety Services

  • Canada
  • Airlines and Aviation
  • 1 - 100 Employee

  • CEO Retired

    • Jan 2020 - Present

  • CEO

    • Aug 1999 - Present

    Provide Human Factors training for maintenance, pilots and ground crew since 1993.Provide SMS training as well assistance in setting up a functioning SMS Provide Safety reviews Provide training videos and Dirty Dozen Safety posters for pilot, maintenance and ground crew training.

  • CEO

    • 1999 - Present

    Father of the "Dirty Dozen" Our mission is "To assist our clients in developing the best possible Safety system to meet their needs."

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  Transport Canada

  • Vancouver International airport

  • Safety officer - Industry Liason Coordinator

    • Mar 1993 - Aug 1999
    • Vancouver International airport

    Left the TSB in order to move from reactive Safety to Proactive. Responsible for the development of a Human Factors training program for maintenance as a result of a recommendation from the Moshansky reportDeveloped the Human Performance in Maintenance (HPIM) Part 1 workshop based on the "D...

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  Transportation Safety Board of Canada

  • Investigator

    • 1986 - 1993

    Great job playing Sherlock Holmes with a smoking hole in the ground.But after awhile you notice that all too often the smoking hole just had a different date, pilot name and aircraft registration from the last one.The job called for you to wait with your feet on the desk for someone to kill them ...

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  Crown Forest Industries

  • Richmond, BC

  • Director of Maintenance

    • 1984 - 1986
    • Richmond, BC

    Rebuilt a Grumman G-21 Goose to Pratt & Whitney PT6-28 engines for corporate use. Seating increased to 10 and gross weight increased to 12,500 lbs. from original 1944, 8,500 lbs.

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  Pacific Vocational Institute

  • Vancouver International Airport

  • Principal Sea Island Campus

    • Dec 1977 - Jul 1983
    • Vancouver International Airport

    Responsible for the administration of a Transport Canada accredited campus that trained students to become aircraft maintenance engineers, sheet metal workers and other aviation trades. While there, organized the first aircraft maintenance symposium to be held in Western Canada.Member of the Nat...

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  Canadian Pacific/CPAir Airline

  • Vancouver International Airport

  • Aircraft Maintenance Engineer

    • Jan 1974 - Dec 1977
    • Vancouver International Airport

    Maintained company aircraft on the ramp and overhauled same in the hangar.Endorsed for Boeing 727, 737, 747 as well as Douglas DC8.

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  West Coast Air

  • Vancouver International Airport

  • Aircraft Maintenance Engineer

    • Jul 1973 - Jan 1974
    • Vancouver International Airport

    Worked as an Aircraft Maintenance Engineer on mainly float aircraft DHC2 Beaver, Fairchild Husky, Grumman Goose and Mallard including turbine Mallards. Sadly left them for CPAir as my kids had crooked teeth and they didn't have a dental plan.

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  MacAir, Wesair, Aerial tours

  • Papua New Guinea

  • Licensed Airaraft Maintenance Engineer (Australia)

    • Feb 1969 - Jun 1973
    • Papua New Guinea

    Worked on and flew aircraft in Port Moresby and Lae for several companies Owned a Cessna 182 that I rebuilt and overhauled to fly for pleasure.Both children born here.I first came to New Guinea in 1961 to work in the missions. There you did everything including building an airstrip in the jungle...

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  Mission at Kiunga, Western district, New Guinea

  • Kiunga, Western District, New Guinea

  • Everything and anything

    • Jul 1961 - May 1963
    • Kiunga, Western District, New Guinea

    As a newly opened mission deep in the jungle of the Western district of New Guinea, one did everything from building to teaching to basic medical to help build an airstrip to flying.