Leadership
Carl Trustee
Carl leads Global Alliance Technologies with more than 30 years of experience in the aerospace industry. Most recently Carl was Vice President & General Manager of the Crane Aerospace Landing and Cabin Systems businesses supporting all primary aircraft OEMs, including Boeing, Airbus, Embraer, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman. Prior to his time at Crane, he was Vice President of Engineering and Program Management at Eaton Aerospace, and Vice President of Engineering at Dunlop Aerospace (Meggitt).
Beginning his career at McDonnell Douglas, Carl worked his way through multiple engineering roles starting with aircraft landing systems which progressed into many other aircraft subsystems including brake control, primary and secondary flight controls, primary hydraulics, main engine and airframe fuel as well as aircraft interiors related seat actuation.
With a strong background in analytical sciences, flight test, and safety critical systems development as well as applicable certification standards and guidelines, Carl takes a hands-on approach to product development and problem solving. He has been a primary driver of technology initiatives that are certifiable to airworthiness regulatory requirements, targeting industry shifts toward electrification, internet of things (IOT), urban mobility and on-aircraft fuel cell systems.
Carl is a private pilot, the author of nine patents, and is a licensed professional engineer in California and a PMI certified project management professional. With undergraduate and graduate studies in Engineering at California State University Long Beach and University of Southern California, Carl also attended London Business School and holds an executive MBA in general management and business finance.
Luiz Andrade
With over 30 years working in the Aerospace industry, Luiz brings a wealth of international experience as well as an extensive and detailed background in aircraft systems and component design, analysis and test to Global Alliance Technologies. During his career, Luiz has held positions such as Vice President of Engineering at Thales Aerospace, Director of Engineering at Parker Aerospace, Director of Engineering at Eaton Aerospace, and Chief Engineer at United Technologies Aircraft Systems/Hamilton Sundstrand.
At Parker Aerospace, Luiz was responsible for the development of safety critical Level A flight control systems, overseeing the development of fly-by-wire control systems for aerospace commercial programs as well as hydraulic and electromechanical control systems for military and commercial aerospace programs including Bombardier Global 7000/8000, Gulfstream G650, Embaer Legacy and Comac C919. As Director of Engineering of the Eaton Aerospace Power & Motion Control Division, Luiz was responsible for the development of hydraulic power generation, distribution and actuation systems including electronic controls.
Luiz led the United Technologies Aircraft Systems (UTAS) US and European research and development of electrical power generation, starting systems, emergency power generation, electrical power distribution and monitoring of aircraft electrical systems for aircraft such as the Boeing 787, as well as for other commercial and military aircraft OEMs. He also led Systems Engineering and in particular, the development of electric systems for the Boeing 747 and 777 aircraft as well as the joint Italian/Brazilian AMX Military Jet at Alenia.
Luiz began his career in Brazil, where he was Engineering Supervisor for Embraer S.A. after serving as Adjunct Professor in electrical engineering at FESJ (College of Engineering) – Sao Jose dos Campos – Brazil. He also worked aircraft certification at ANAC (Agencia Nacional de Aviação Civil) as well as the French aircraft certification authorities where he performed aircraft inspections, analyzed aircraft subsystem performance, test documentation and flight test results.
Mark Jenkinson
With an extensive background in safety critical systems including ARINC 653 compliant IMA-based platforms, as well as federated LRU based systems, Mark brings expertise in the development and certification of complex safety critical systems and software including regulatory applicable standards and guidelines (DO-178, DO-254, ARP 4754, and ARP 4761) to Global Alliance Technologies.
Mark was the founder and Director of the Eaton Aerospace Software Center of Excellence. There he worked on providing full life-cycle support for Aerospace DO-178 programs spanning all Eaton Aerospace businesses and major aerospace airframers. His team also developed reusable software and standardized software development processes resulting in major time/cost savings associated with certification reviews and approvals as well as major efficiency gains in software development supporting all Eaton Aerospace sites.
Mark was also a central figure in the development of DO-178 – Level A software at Hamilton Sundstrand in Rockford, Il. There he supported software development associated with multiple major programs including the 787 Remote Power Distribution System and the Embraer 170 Secondary Power Distribution Assembly (SPDA) which included a real-time multitasking operating systems capable of partitioning.
Mark is a graduate of Purdue University with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (BSEE).