People Category: AIAA Aviation Forum 2019

Parker Vascik is a doctoral student in Aerospace Systems Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is advised by Dr. John Hansman and his research focuses on systems analysis of urban air mobility and unmanned aircraft networks.

Parker’s dissertation introduces an airspace assessment tool that supports context-dependent system design for these emerging aviation operators and informs feasible service scale. Parker’s research also investigates approaches to significantly increase the number of small aircraft or helicopter operations at commercial airports and investigates the development of small footprint, high throughput heliport infrastructure. His contributions to the research field include fifteen technical papers, over a dozen invited presentations, and support of the Uber white paper on urban air mobility. Parker previously worked with NASA’s Unmanned Aircraft System Traffic Management (UTM) program, Rolls-Royce North America, and consulted for a variety of startups, aviation firms, and state governments.

Parker received dual master’s degrees in Aerospace Engineering and Technology & Policy from MIT. He earned his aerospace engineering bachelor’s degree from Georgia Tech. Parker was awarded the 2018 Dr. Jing Yen Vertical Flight Foundation Award by the American Helicopter Society. He also received the 2018 Airport Cooperative Research Program graduate research award and the 2016 Brian Mar best student paper award from the International Council on Systems Engineering. Parker was the 2014 MIT Zakhartchenko Fellow, a NASA Aeronautics Scholar from 2012 to 2016, and a Stamps President’s Scholar at Georgia Tech.

Holly Rollins, a Principal Senior Director at Booz Allen Hamilton leading Booz Allen’s Aerospace Cyber business, has more than 26 years of professional experience in cyber, business case analysis, analysis of alternatives, capital planning, Exhibit 300s, risk assessment, information assurance, infrastructure financing investment strategies, and IT business strategy.  She holds a B.A. in Political Science and an M.B.A. in Finance, as well as Graduate Certificates in International Business and Innovation.

In her 25 years at Booz Allen, Holly has championed cyber business development and capability generation across the Aerospace business sector.  She co-authored NIST Special Publication 800-65 Integrating IT Security into Capital Planning and Investment Control.  She has engaged with the Community Philanthropy and Partnership, Workforce Leadership Council as an advisor, Professional Development Team advisor and Women’s Forum advisor. Holly was the 2016 Society of Women Engineers Prism award winner and is presently on the leadership advisory team of the Society of Women Engineers within the firm.

Holly lives in beautiful Monument, Colorado with her husband, and two children, Matthew 16 and Christy 14.

Alex Carrere is a configuration design engineer in the Boeing Research and Technology (BR&T) Multidisciplinary Design Analysis and Optimization (MDAO) group. He has seven years of experience developing, tailoring, and applying a wide variety of MDAO models to design advanced platforms across Boeing and academia. He is currently the technical lead for the Boeing’s Tactical-MDAO model as well as the integration and software principal for the Blended Wing Body and OPTIMUS program MDAO efforts.

Ashley Purkey received a bachelor’s degree in Aerospace Engineering from Wichita State University and a master’s degree in Aerospace Engineering from Washington University-St. Louis. After receiving her bachelor’s degree, Ashley was hired at The Boeing Company in St. Louis in March of 2009. She began working in the flight loads group and assisted on numerous wind tunnel tests and flight tests. In 2010, Ashley began working with the training systems group and helped develop training systems for the F-18. In 2011, Ashley began working in the flight test group as a flight test requirements and analysis engineer. In this role, she spent most of her time working in Patuxent River, Maryland where she was the lead Aerodynamics and Loads data focal for the P8-A. In 2012, Ashley began working on the UCLASS program as a Propulsion engineer where she was the lead on a ground engine test. In this role, she successfully led a large group from the pre-test meeting through the completion of the test. In 2014, Ashley moved to Boeing Research and Technology and took on a job as a Propulsion/ Aerodynamics Computational Fluid Dynamics engineer. In this role, Ashley works full time supporting proprietary programs where she is in charge of creating a full-scale database for a new conceptual aircraft. In 2018, Ashley accepted the role as the Aerodynamics Analysis and Testing manager for Boeing Research and Technology. In this role, she leads the CFD development and applications team in St. Louis, Missouri. In her spare time, Ashley loves to spend time with her husband Kevin and son Konnor. She is also a member of the Professional Women’s Bowling Association and spends her summers competing all around the United States on the Professional Women’s bowling tour.

BRIAN J. TERWILLIGER (Producer, Director) is a filmmaker whose unrelenting pursuit of excellence has taken him to all seven continents in search of compelling stories and stunning imagery. A licensed pilot captivated by flight since childhood, Terwilliger has produced, directed and secured the financing for three documentaries, each looking at aviation from a different perspective.

His first film, the 2005 feature One Six Right, focuses on the romance of flight as seen through a day in the life of the Van Nuys Airport, a local general-aviation airport in a Los Angeles suburb. As a result of making that film, Terwilliger was granted the rare opportunity to fly in an F-18 Hornet with the Blue Angels, the elite team of precision Navy jet pilots that first sparked Terwilliger’s interest in flying when he was a boy. He chronicled that experience in the 2008 short film Flying Full Circle.

Terwilliger spent the next several years making Living in the Age of Airplanes, which looks at the dramatic ways aviation has transformed the world. Narrated by Harrison Ford, with an original score by James Horner (Avatar, Titanic), the film uses spectacular images shot in 18 countries to illuminate how airplanes have empowered a century of global connectedness our ancestors never could have imagined. Following its 2015 premiere at the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum in Washington, D.C., the film has played on giant screen, digital, IMAX® and museum cinemas in 50 cities on three continents. It was released on DVD, Blu-ray and Digital HD in 2016 along with the original soundtrack.

After spending his early years in Connecticut, Terwilliger moved with his family to Southern California at age 16. He took his first solo flight at 19 and earned his private pilot license the following year. More recently, Terwilliger was honored to serve as emcee at the 46th Annual National Aviation Hall of Fame enshrinement ceremony, considered the “Academy Awards of Aviation.”

Terwilliger attended California State University, Northridge, where he created his own major in business and entertainment. After graduating in 1999, determined to learn every facet of the film industry, he began working in various capacities, from movie-theatre projectionist, to production manager and 1st assistant director on independent films, to visual effects coordinator on the features Big Fish and The Core.

Steven Udvar-Hazy is Senior Vice President, Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM) Relations and Market Development at Aviation Capital Group (ACG), one of the largest commercial aircraft leasing firms. In this capacity as a member of the ACG senior leadership team, he is responsible for the evaluation, selection and purchasing of modern jet aircraft for ACG’s growing portfolio. Mr. Udvar-Hazy also oversees ACG’s Engineering and New Aircraft Management departments in addition to leading the company’s market development initiatives.

Mr. Udvar-Hazy plays an active role with the major airframe and engine OEMs in new product design and development. He has served on numerous new product advisory boards and working groups focused on next generation aircraft and engines. In 2016, 2017 and 2018, Mr. Udvar-Hazy was recognized as one of the top 40 individuals under 40 years of age in the commercial aviation industry by Airline Economics, the only individual to be named to this list three times in a row.

Mr. Udvar-Hazy is a licensed pilot by the United States Federal Aviation Administration and is type-rated on the Boeing 737. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Stanford University and a Master of Business Administration degree from Stanford University Graduate School of Business.