Joe Wlad is the director of product marketing at LynuxWorks, responsible for guiding product direction. Mr. Wlad has more than 21 years of safety-critical systems design, development, test and evaluation experience at Intermetrics, Inc., McDonnell-Douglas Aircraft Company in the MD-11 Test and Certification organization, and United Airlines' B747 Fleet engineering and modification organization. Prior to joining LynuxWorks, he was a senior product and project manager at Wind River Systems, focusing on the aerospace market. Wlad is a FAA DER for Systems and Equipment and Software and has co-authored three patents on Global Positioning System integrity functions.