Press Release

Esterline AVISTA Team Adds Nine New Project Management Professionals

PLATTEVILLE, Wis. – July 31, 2008 – Esterline AVISTA, the U.S. leader in critical systems software engineering services, announces that nine additional staff members have achieved Project Management Professional (PMP®) certification from the Project Management Institute. PMI’s PMP credential mandates experience, education and professional knowledge in project management and leadership. As the leader in outsourced software development services for complex, certified systems, Esterline AVISTA is focused on continual improvement of its people and processes. This latest round of PMP certifications adds to the company's growing numbers of PMP professionals and project management experts.

The latest PMPs at Esterline AVISTA include:

  • Aimee Bauer - Senior Software Engineer
  • Scott Derby – Programs Manager
  • Ryan Feldmann - Senior Software Engineer
  • Kevin Gallagher - Senior Software Engineer
  • Craig Hale - Senior Software Engineer
  • Mark Kelley - Staff Engineer
  • Tri Li - Senior Software Engineer
  • Brian Whisenant - Senior Software Engineer
  • Linda Winger – Programs Manager

"Our clients’ software and systems must be developed for optimal performance, and our teams drive the business practices to continually provide superior quality," notes Tim Budden, president of Esterline AVISTA. "Esterline AVISTA is one of only a few companies in the United States to have earned both a Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Capability Maturity Model® Integration (CMMI) Level 5 rating and ISO 9001:2000 certification. We are also pleased to offer one of the industry's most experienced and stable full-time software development and systems engineering teams, with a growing number of certified Project Management Professionals."

About Esterline AVISTA
Esterline AVISTA (AVISTA Incorporated®), a subsidiary of Esterline Technologies Corporation, is a full-lifecycle software engineering services company specializing in critical systems software development projects for commercial and military avionics, medical device and government/military applications. Esterline AVISTA fields the strongest, most stable, and most capable DO-178B software development team in the industry. The company has completed more than 950 client projects over the last 20 years in systems design, requirements capture and analysis, software design and implementation, and software verification and validation. Esterline AVISTA, headquartered in Platteville, Wisconsin, is a SEI CMMI Maturity Level 5 rated company and an ISO 9001:2000 certified company. www.avistainc.com.

 
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