Pat Daily
Pat Daily is a polymath, serial entrepreneur, gamer, and the author of SPARK, a near future science fiction novel. Pat began his professional career as an engineer and Air Force test pilot. His background includes 12 years of active-duty service and 18 years as a reserve officer in the US Air Force where he flew as an operational pilot in F-4 and F-16 aircraft. He is a graduate of, and later instructed at the USAF Test Pilot School and has flown and evaluated over 60 types of aircraft and has instructed US and allied pilots in upset recovery techniques in a variety of aircraft and is a member of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots. Pat taught Aeronautical Engineering at the US Air Force Academy.
After leaving the military, Pat worked at NASA’s Johnson Space Center on both the
Space Shuttle and International Space Station programs before launching his first company. He has worked globally as a human performance and safety consultant for companies as small as single-aircraft owner-operators to Walmart, Mitsubishi, and the United States Marine Corps.
Pat was the Flight Test Safety Officer and later the Global Director of Safety for Mitsubishi Aircraft Corporation. While at Mitsubishi, Pat became a Certified Safety Professional. He was a founding partner of Convergent Performance and the Director of Honeywell’s Defense and Space Electronics Systems at Johnson Space Center where he managed Guidance, Navigation and Control Projects for the International Space Station and the Space Shuttle.
He is currently working on multiple hydrogen and electric-powered aircraft projects. When not writing or trying to bring new airplane designs to life, Pat can be found gaming. He is a fan of role-playing games – particularly open worlds with engaging storylines where actions have consequences. Pat and his wife live in Houston.
Social media links:
Website: https://thepatdaily.com
Blog: https://feraldaughters.wordpress.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/patdailyauthor
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/patdailypics/
Twitter: @patdailyauthor
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/21521042.Pat_Daily
Rich Farley
Rich Farley is a 27-year retired veteran of the United States Air Force and is currently a Human Performance Optimization and Safety Risk Management principal consultant for Boundary Layer, Inc.
Prior to his current position, Rich led Performance Optimization and Risk Management programs for an International Aircraft Design/Flight Test and Evaluation organization as well as serving as the senior Human Performance/Risk Management consultant for Arizona Public Service.
During his 27-year tenure in the USAF, Rich served as a helicopter Special Missions Aviator in USAF Combat Rescue and Special Operations. After finishing graduate school, Rich competed for and was selected as a Bio-Medical Science officer and served as an Aerospace and Operational Physiologist. He has deployed several times in direct support of combat operations spanning 4 continents.
He has extensive operational leadership experience in High Reliability/High Risk operations, Risk Management/analysis, Human and Organizational Performance optimization and Human Factors analysis. Rich served as an adjunct professor for Embry Riddle Aeronautical University for over 8 years and has taught at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Additionally, he has served as the Principle Human Factors consultant for multiple military and commercial Class-A Aviation and Occupational mishaps.
Rich holds an MS degree in Aviation Human Factors and a BS degree in Instructional Systems Design and Workforce Development. He has over 2300 flight hours in rotary wing (rescue/special operations) and fixed-wing aircraft. His deliberate development of people and organizations is known throughout the communities he has served. He is happily married, and he and his wife Malie live in Spokane Valley, Washington.
Amber Davis
Amber Davis is a Safety Management System (SMS) and Safety Risk Management consultant for Boundary Layer, Inc. She also currently serves as the SMS Manager at a Part 135 operation. There, her responsibility is to build an enterprise SMS.
If you asked Amber what she thought she would be doing ten years after her college graduation, there is no way she would have guessed that she would be enjoying a career in aviation safety. Right out of college, Amber found her first job at a controls engineering company that specialized in baggage handling systems. It was there that was introduced to aviation as a career and fell in love with the industry. She had always enjoyed traveling and being in airports but did not know you could make a job out of that world.
Fast forward to today, and Amber has extensive experience in several different sectors of aviation safety: airport operations, commercial ground operations, flight test, OEM, and business aviation. She earned her Master in Aeronautics with a specialization in Safety from Embry-Riddle at the Daytona Beach campus.
Outside of the 9-5, Amber is also engaged in other aviation safety projects. She is part of a team working to update guidance on OEM SMS implementation and serves as a content developer for Embry Riddle Worldwide. She may even have a book project in her future!
Amber has a thirst for knowledge and enjoys reading about how other industries practice risk management so that aviation can leverage those best practices. She also strives to make process work for the end user, not the end user work for the process.