Fabrice Kunzi

Stand-up of product organization to support fielding of SkyGrid's products. Capture first customer, contract and dollar.

Successful turn-around and recapitalization of a Boeing Joint Venture. Complete corporate restructuring to support introduction of safety-of-life aerospace rigor and associated culture adjustments. Redefinition of Technology and Product Roadmap, stand-up of operations as well as a certification/assurance organizations, 100% company growth year after year, and tight integration with Boeing resources and strategic objectives.

Full-Time Secondment to SkyGrid Joint Venture.

Leading the transition of new products from prototype to market. Shape Corporate Strategy. Quantify market opportunity, customer requirements, identify target markets, define business model, market entry strategy, and pursue external investment • Entrepreneurial and rigorous approach to identify and launch strategically relevant businesses • Identify/distill market trends into strategic counsel, differentiators and competitive advantages • In-depth financial modeling, including cash flow and working capital analysis • Costing, value-based pricing, including total cost of ownership and competitive scenario analysis • Conduct Due Diligence on partners and investors, negotiate agreements • Cross-functional leadership for engineering and business development activities • Architect solutions to complex "system of systems" challenges while maintaining focus on market viability

Leading the transition of GA-ASI’s Detect and Avoid (DAA) System from research project to product. Detect and Avoid Systems are necessary for all remotely piloted aircraft to fly in airspace shared with piloted aircraft. • Create business case & plan and product roadmap to introduce DAA systems across GA-ASI aircraft • Product Management, including market analysis, value propositions and Go-To-Market strategy • Systems Engineering, including concept generation, requirements derivation, design, and V&V • Co-Chair of RTCA's SC-228 WG 1 for Detect and Avoid, key author for DO-365 (DAA Performance Std) • Organize and lead company-wide IPT for coordination across customer, P&Ls and functional groups • Supervise team of junior and senior engineers, develop individual growth and development plans

Lead engineering activities related to the development and fielding of prototype of Detect and Avoid Systems

Panoptes was a spin-off from Aurora Flight Sciences focused on accelerating the introduction of unmanned aircraft into the National Airspace System by enabling their collision-free operation in any application. • Formulate and execute Panoptes’ technological vision, business plan, business model and go-to-market • Run day-to-day operations including finances, legal, IT and human resources • Lead nimble team from customer requirements, through prototyping, manufacturing and product launch • Define requirements and architecture, translate to design, and analyze performance of prototype systems • Advise and report to Aurora senior management on recommended actions and future direction of Panoptes

Built new airspace integration division within Aurora to enable the civil operation, certification and integration of Aurora’s aircraft into civil airspace. The division was spun-off from Aurora into a subsidiary in late 2013. • Developed research portfolio around autonomy assisted flight operations, reduced-crew operations, sense and avoid, airworthiness requirements and Big Data analysis of surveillance data • Started effort to reframe Aurora’s culture from one of building “unmanned only” systems to designing systems that optimize the combination of “humans and autonomy” • Led capture and wrote proposal for DARPA’s Air-crew Labor In-cockpit Automation System (ALIAS), resulting in a $21M contract • Developed and introduced a common avionics architecture, resulting in a program to migrate Aurora avionics to a common backbone across aircraft

Led the engineering design and development of the next generation, ADS-B based collision alerting system beginning with the customer needs analysis through flight test, implementation, and international standardization. The multidisciplinary program team consisted of industry, academia and government representatives (FAA). Specific activities included: • Identified ADS-B enabled airborne collision alerting as a high safety-benefit application for general aviation through stakeholder and market analysis (Master’s Thesis) • Conducted an in-depth analysis of the current and future US surveillance infrastructure, including: radar and GPS measurement errors, altimetry errors and system limitations due to transmission latency and surveillance dropouts • Designed, programmed and optimized a new, ADS-B based aircraft conflict detection algorithm with performance four times better than that of the current industry standard • Supported human factors evaluations used to determine human-machine interface design • Collaborated with industry, European and American government agencies through RTCA to write international manufacturing standards guiding future implementations of ADS-B enabled traffic alerting systems

• Designed and built new system interfaces to allow payload operation without ISS rack • Verified revised designs against ISS engineering requirements • Authored test and crew procedures for final deployment to ISS and installation by astronaut crew

Dissertation: "Development of a High-Precision ADS-B Based Collision Alerting System for Operations in the Airport Environment"

Dissertation: “ADS-B Benefits to General Aviation and Operational Barriers to Implementation”

Minor in Professional Flight, Minor in Mathematics