{"id":24200,"date":"2022-12-05T14:54:33","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T14:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saj.pachecostudios.com?p=24200"},"modified":"2022-12-05T14:54:34","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T14:54:34","slug":"thomas-reese-joins-unmanned-safety-institute-as-head-of-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/unmanned-systems\/thomas-reese-joins-unmanned-safety-institute-as-head-of-operations\/%20","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Reese Joins Unmanned Safety Institute as Head of Operations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Unmanned Safety Institute (USI) announced last week that\nthey have hired Thomas Reese as their new vice president of operations. In this\nrole, Reese will oversee the company\u2019s continued growth in both its academic\nand commercial markets. Reese brings his education in aeronautical science\nalong with significant operational experience in both crewed and remotely\npiloted aviation to USI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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USI President and CEO Josh Olds commented, \u201cThomas brings\nvery unique qualifications to USI, continuing our commitment to integrate\naviation safety practices into emerging technology utilization. Not only does\nhe possess pilot qualifications and experience from both crewed and remotely\npiloted operations, but he is also a certificated A&P mechanic and brings\nrecent four years of large-scale commercial UAS operations experience with a\nFortune 500 company that was committed to a best-in-class type of\nprogram.\u201d  Olds added, \u201cThomas\u2019 focus\nwill be on managing USI\u2019s operational growth as we scale past 500 academic\ninstitutions leveraging USI\u2019s workforce development programs. He will also be\nsupporting a rapidly growing number of commercial operations that are scaling\nto hundreds of aircraft and pilots over large geographic regions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reese first started his relationship with USI as a customer.\n\u201cI was able to experience the USI commitment to excellence in UAS operations\nfirsthand,\u201d said Reese. \u201cI was extremely impressed with how USI focused on\nhelping us as their customer achieve the ROI that is expected of commercial\ndrone programs. Seeing how USI leads the UAS industry in standardized workforce\ndevelopment through their commercial, high school, and collegiate programs,\nadded to my excitement about my new role.\u201d Reese continued, \u201cThe industry will\nneed hundreds of thousands of well-trained workers over the next decade, and\nI\u2019m proud to join USI in leading the development of the workforce, establishing\nand implementing safety standards and best practices, to provide a\nhighly-sought-after talent pipeline.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reese is replacing industry pioneer and long-time USI Vice\nPresident Don Shinnamon. Shinnamon will continue his work at USI as director of\naudit programs shaping the growing safety programs, gap audit, and best\npractices product line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Unmanned Safety Institute (USI) announced last week that they have hired Thomas Reese as their new vice president of operations. In this role, Reese will oversee the company\u2019s continued growth in both its academic and commercial markets. Reese brings his education in aeronautical science along with significant operational experience in both crewed and remotely piloted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-unmanned-systems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24202,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24200\/revisions\/24202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}