17th International System Safety Conference August 16-21, 1999 Orlando, Florida System Safety at the Dawn of a New Millennium www.system-safety.org

  Distinguished Speakers

• Keynote – Nancy Leveson
• International Luncheon – Olga Stanislavovna Vorontsova
• Wednesday Lunch – Chuck Dorney & Richard Beard
• Thursday Lunch - Adrian Laffitte
• Awards Banquet – Felix Redmill
• Friday Lunch – Dev Raheja

For exact times as to when you can catch these speakers, refer to the Schedule page.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Nancy Leveson

Nancy Leveson is Professor of Aerospace Information Systems in the Aero-nautics and Astronautics Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Previously she was Boeing Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. She has served as Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering and on the Board of Directors of the International Council on Systems Engineering. Dr. Leveson is a Fellow of the ACM and is currently an elected member of the Board of Directors of the Computing Research Association, as well as a member of the ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy, the NASA subcommit-tee on Airframe Systems Research and the U.S. National Research Council Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems. She also serves as Liaison to the NRC Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board. She received the 1995 AIAA Information Systems Award for "developing the field of software safety and for promoting responsible software and system engineering practices where life and property are at stake." Dr. Leveson received her degrees in math, management and computer science from UCLA (Ph.D. 1980), and spent her formative years as a professor of computer science at the University of California, Irvine. Moving to Seattle in 1993 in search of rain, she served as Boeing Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. She is currently at MIT in what she describes as her continual search for worse weather and new fields to conquer.

Dr. Leveson is the author of a book, Safeware: System Safety and Computers, published by Addison-Wesley.

INTERNATIONAL LUNCHEON SPEAKER

Olga Stanislavovna Vorontsova, Ph.D

Ms. Vorontsova is Head of international Scientific Technical Department , Ph. D., Russia, Nizhni Novgorod region, Sarov, Mira Prospect 37.

WEDNESDAY LUNCHEON SPEAKERS

Chuck Dorney and Dick Beard

Chuck Dorney was born an Air Force brat in Olney, Illinois, on June 13, 1944. He attended grade school in many locations and graduated from high school from the International School of Brussels, Belgium. He has a BS in Aerospace Engineering and an MBA. He has been in system safety for over 31 years and is currently the Chief of System Safety for the USAF Materiel Command. He is also responsible for developing and publishing MIL-STD-882. Chuck is a Registered Professional Engineer (Ohio) and a Certified Safety Professional (CSP) in System Safety. He is a Senior member of the Society and has served as an Associate Director for Government and Inter-Society Affairs and as President of the Ohio Chapter.

Dick Beard was born and grew up in Louisville, Kentucky where he attended the  University of Louisville and graduated with a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering. Over the years, he has also obtained two Master of Science degrees in System Management.

On the January 1st, 1972, Dick entered active duty in the United States Air Force at Selma, Alabama. Never staying in one place or one job too long, his career including tours as a communication and radar maintenance officer, ground electronics and EW test engineer, chief of range operations and maintenance at major test range, a navigator, electronic warfare office, acquisition manager, HQ staff officer, development research flight test engineer and electronic warfare office, flight test wing Chief Engineer and Director for Flight Test Engineering, a system safety engineer and lots of training. He retired in 1993 while assigned as the Acting Deputy System Program Director for LANTIRN at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio. Throughout his aviation career, he completed over 2000 flight hours and obtained a private pilot and a Master Navigator rating.

Dick came to work for ARINC in 1994 where he has provided management, engineering, flight test, and safety expertise to the LANTIRN, the F-16, and the Non Developmental Airlift Aircraft programs. He has also provided acquisition expertise to HQ AFMC, the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition Office, and OSD.

For last three years, Dick has been providing military specifications and standards reform expertise to the HQ AFMC Director of Engineering. One of his responsibilities has included being the secretariat for the joint government and industry integrated process team revising MIL-STD-882. He was selected for this task due to extensive experience with commercial and military standardization and previous experience revising MIL-STD-882 and other joint safety policy while on active duty at the Air Force Safety Center.

THURSDAY LUNCHEON SPEAKER

Adrian Laffitte

Adrian Laffitte is the Director of the Atlas Programs. He is responsible for the processing and launching of the Atlas II, III vehicles at Cape Canaveral Air Station (CCAS) and the Atlas V for CCAS and Vanderberg Airforce Base (VAFB) in California. He is also responsible for the activation of launch complex 41 (LC-41) at CCAS and Space Launch Complex 3 west (SLC-3W) at VAFB that will accommodate the new EELV/Atlas V family of vehicles.

Adrian has worked for Lockheed Martin for 18 years. He started his career at VAFB, working on the Space Shuttle Program. In 1986 he transferred to Denver where he worked on the Titan IV program. In 1994, he transferred to Florida as part of the new Launch Operations organization.
 

AWARDS BANQUET SPEAKER 

Felix Redmill

Felix Redmill consults and provides training in project management and in the management of risk, quality, and safety. Having obtained degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computation at the Universities of London and Manchester respectively, he spent over 20 years in industry, as engineer and manager, before setting up his consulting business in 1991. He has played a role in European standardization since 1983, coordinated the U.K.’s Safety-critical Systems Club since its inauguration in 1991, and lectured at a number of universities in the U.K. and continental Europe.

He has provided consulting and training to large and small companies in both the public and the private sectors, and has written and edited a number of books on technical subjects, the most recent being on hazard and operability studies (HAZOP). He is based in London, U.K.

FRIDAY LUNCHEON SPEAKER

Dev Raheja

Dev Raheja, president of Design for Competitiveness,Inc., is an international consultant in system safety and reliability. He is author of the book "Product Assurance Technologies: Principles and Practices" and has taught system safety courses at University of Maryland for its Phd program in Reliability Engineering. A Fellow of System Safety Soceity, He is a recepient of the Scientfic Achievement award and the Educator of the Year Award. His clients include U.S. Navy, Army,aerospace companies, and many international corporations including GM, Ford, Siemens, Intel, and Harley-Davidson.
 

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