Boeing names new engineering leaders

Published 2:10 pm Wednesday, January 6, 2010

The Boeing Co. has named several leaders of its Engineering, Technology &Operations division.

Boeing has reorganized its engineers in an effort to make key engineers available as needed not only to its commercial airplanes division but also to its defense division.

“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, in a statement. “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.”

The new vice presidents include:

From 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.

From 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.

This reorganization of engineers shows up as a huge shift in workforce, as noted in today’s Herald story.

Boeing notes that its engineers have been crossing division lines on several projects over the past few years. More than 1,000 Integrated Defense Systems’ engineers have helped support commercial airplanes’ 787 and 777 programs over the past two years, while BCA’ engineers have helped Integrated Defense Systems resolve technical and flight test issues on the 767 International Tanker program