QUENTIN S. TAYLOR

Mr. Taylor’s Electrical Engineering and Aviation career began even before his graduation from Howard University’s School of Engineering and Architecture. The Civil Aeronautics Administration employed him during the summer of 1958 as an Engineer Intern. After part-time employment during the autumn of 1958 and upon graduation from Howard University in early 1959, Quentin Taylor assumed a full-time position as a Journeyman Electrical Engineer with the Bureau of Facilities of the new Federal Aeronautics Administration. His duties included furnishing the Nation’s Air Traffic Control Facilities with a broad array of communications systems.

Quentin S. Taylor would later in his distinguished career succeed to the position of Deputy Administrator of the entirety of the Federal Aviation Administration. Mr. Taylor would be appointed to the position by President Jimmy Carter and confirmed by the United States Senate.

In 1962, Quentin Taylor was one of only 20 technical and operations type persons selected from 40,000 FAA employees to be further educated and trained as potential senior level managers and administrators. He was imminently successful in his completion of the “Administrator’s Administrative Management Development Program.” As a success byproduct, Mr. Taylor received a Master’s Degree in Political Science from Syracuse University. His Master’s Thesis is entitled “Organizational Performance Analysis.”

This curiosity and discourse led to Mr. Taylor’s 1963 employment in FAA’s “Office of Appraisal.” This Office was established by the then FAA Administrator, Najeeb Halaby and performed much in the same way as the federal government’s Offices of the Inspector General do today. He served there, helping to bring to the FAA higher levels of efficiency and program management integrity for a period of two years, growing enormously in terms of large and complex organization management.

During the socially turbulent times of the late 1960s FAA’s Administrator, Jack Schaffer, and the U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary, John Volpe, called upon Quentin Taylor to establish and manage the FAA’s first Office of Civil Rights. This office was charged with bringing improved levels of fairness to FAA’s employment practices and its procurement practices consistent with rapidly developing laws, executive orders and regulations addressing the nation’s need for constructive social and economic change.  One needs only to compare the social and business fabric of the FAA in 1969 to the FAA in 2006 to witness the exponential growth in social and business inclusiveness and fairness prompted by Mr. Taylor’s creation of FAA’s Office of Civil Rights.

Late in 1971, Quentin Taylor succeeded U.S. Air Force Brigadier General William Comstock as Deputy Regional Director of the FAA’s Alaska Region. For a four-year period Mr. Taylor served as second in command of all FAA operational and regulatory civil aviation activity in the State of Alaska. He handily managed over 1, 400 highly skilled operational, technical, administrative and professional personnel that were engaged in air traffic control services; airways surveillance, communications and navigation system services; flight standards services; aviation medicine services; logistical services; airport development services; administrative-management services; and legal services. Additionally, he served as a principal FAA executive liaison person to the State of Alaska, Alaskan local governments, Alaskan DOD contingents and all manner of aviation user groups. Mr. Taylor, wanting very much to behave like a real Alaskan, earned his private pilot’s license in Alaska.

Quentin Taylor’s aviation management, operational and technical performance in Alaska caused the FAA Washington Headquarters hierarchy to name him as the Regional Director of the FAA’s New England Region in 1975. The New England Region was responsible for all FAA operations and regulatory matters in the States of Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island. He managed over 1,900 highly skilled operational, technical, administrative and professional specialist personnel that were engaged in air traffic control services; airways surveillance, communications and navigation system services; flight standards services; aviation medicine services; logistical services; airport development services; administrative-management services; and legal services. As Logan International Airport was the largest and busiest airport in the New England Region, Mr. Taylor found himself quickly engaged in the environmental complexities of airport generated noise. He became expert in the calculus of combining social variables, aviation technology variables, airport operations variables, economic variables and political variables so as to arrive at practical aviation noise management solutions. “Logan” as well as its neighbors survived that turbulent era, as did Quentin Taylor. In 1977, President Jimmy Carter nominated Quentin Taylor to become the Deputy Administrator of the entirety of the Federal Aviation Administration.

On Monday, September 25th, 1978 San Diego was the scene of the worst air disaster, to that date, in the United States. A mid-air collision between a Cessna 172 and a Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA) Boeing 727 caused both planes to crash into the neighborhood below. A total of 144 lives were lost including 7 people on the ground as well as the two people in the Cessna light aircraft. Subsequent to the tragedy, Quentin Taylor provided expert witness testimony before the National Transportation Safety Board addressing such issues as FAA Airspace Management and Air Traffic Control Operational Practices.

On  May 25, 1979, American Airlines, Inc., Flight 191, a McDonnell-Douglas DC-10-10 aircraft, crashed into an open field just short of a trailer park about 4,600 feet northwest of the departure end of runway 32R at Chicago-O'Hare International Airport, Illinois.

Flight 191 crashed into the open field and the wreckage scattered into an adjacent trailer park. The aircraft was destroyed in the crash and subsequent fire. Two hundred and seventy-one persons on board Flight 191 were killed; two persons on the ground were killed, and two others were injured. An old aircraft hangar, several automobiles, and a mobile home were destroyed.

The National Transportation Safety Board determined that the probable cause of this accident was the asymmetrical stall and the ensuing roll of the aircraft because of the un-commanded retraction of the left wing outboard leading edge slats and the loss of stall warning and slat disagreement indication systems resulting from maintenance-induced damage leading to the separation of the No. 1 engine and pylon assembly at a critical point during takeoff. Quentin Taylor, along with other FAA Executives and Flight Standards experts provided expert witness testimony to the U.S. Congress as it presumed Congressional Oversight of the tragedy.

During the late 1970 s the Time-Referenced Scanning Beam Microwave Landing System (MLS) was adopted by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) as the standard precision approach system to replace the Instrument Landing System (ILS). MLS provides precision navigation guidance for alignment and descent of aircraft on approach to a landing by providing azimuth, elevation and distance. As a prelude to ICAO’s selection of MLS as its international standard precision landing guidance system, ICAO rigorously examined the best technology that the world had to offer. The United States offering stemmed from exemplary U.S and International research and development initiatives. Quentin Taylor, representing the United States, did, in 1978, tout before ICAO the merits of the U.S.-developed microwave landing system (MLS). In turn, the world body adopted MLS as the future international standard, with mandatory compliance by all nations by 1998.

In 1981 Quentin Taylor was retained by the incoming U.S. President Ronald Reagan as a career executive. It is normal that all but a token few of Presidential Appointees of the out-going President are kept-on by the in-coming President. That is particularly true when there is a change in political party as was the case in 1981. In 1981, Quentin S. Taylor was appointed as Director of FAA’s Office of International Aviation. This office was responsible for coordinating all of the FAA's international efforts and for advancing the nation's longstanding leadership on the international front. It engaged in dialogue with U.S. counterparts across the world and worked closely with the International Civil Aviation Organization in Montreal. The Office provided technical assistance and training, ensured that countries with airlines flying to the U.S. met international standards, and harmonized global aviation standards so that both domestic as well as international air passengers could benefit from a seamless air transportation network.

In 1983, FAA Administrator J. Lynn Helms appointed Quentin Taylor to the position of Deputy Associate Administrator for Airport Development. Mr. Taylor became FAA’s Career Senior Executive responsible for managing a $2 billion Grant-In-Aid Program and a National Federal Airport Engineering Organization. The Airports organization provided leadership in planning and developing a safe and efficient national airport system, taking into account economics, environmental compatibility, local proprietary rights, and safeguarding the public investment. With a national staff of subject matter experts located in each of the FAA’s Regions as well as FAA’s Headquarters, Mr. Taylor pursued FAA airport development performance excellence and proper stewardship of the public’s money in the following program areas for the next 16-years:

·                     Airport Improvement Program (AIP)

·                     Airport Obligations

·                     Airport Safety

·                     Airport Design

·                     Construction On or Near Airports

·                     Environmental Programs

·                     Passenger Facility Charges (PFC)

·                     Airport Planning & Capacity

Quentin S. Taylor retired from the Federal Aviation Administration on July 4, 1999 after a distinguished and often heralded 41 and one-half years of service. Shortly thereafter, Quentin Taylor established a small business entitled Aviation Systems Counselors where he provided airport related consultant services to the likes of Hogan & Hartson, L.L.P. Washington, D.C.; AAROTEC Infrastructure, Inc.  Fairfax, VA; Thacker Operating Company Atlanta, GA; The City of Irvine, CA; The City of Macon, GA; The Raytheon Systems Company; Integrated Defense Technologies; Sierra Research; and SPECTRUMASTRO, Gilbert, Arizona.

 August 3, 1999 Quentin was appointed to the position of Chief Operating Officer of Computer Intelligence², Inc. of Atlanta, Georgia and Washington, D.C. His appointment by CI² was caused by this firm’s interest in securing a sub-contract in FAA’s “Contract Tower Program.” CI² was successful in securing a sub-contract to Robinson Aviation for the operation and management of 14 Airport Traffic Control Towers in the southeastern part of the United States and the Caribbean. Coincidentally, he was instrumental in CI² capturing Federal, State and Local contracts in the fields of Information Technology and Telecommunications.

On January 1, 2001 Quentin Taylor was appointed to the position of Chief Executive Officer of the newly formed Computer Intelligence² Aviation, Inc. of Atlanta, Georgia and Washington, D.C. In this capacity, he continued his executive direction of CI²’s “Contract Tower Program” and directed contract capture and proposal development pursuant to FAA, DOT, DHS and U.S. Airports contracts. Among his successes was that of teaming with Northrop Grumman and leading this mega corporation to an FAA award of its $79 Million Invoice and Financial Management Services Contract. This very long term management support contract supports FAA’s Telecommunications Infrastructure (FTI). “FTI” is the primary means to acquire telecommunications services for the FAA through FY2017.

Quentin S. Taylor is a member of the following professional and honorary associations:

·                    Chairman of the Air Traffic Control Association during the years 1984-1986 and 1990-1992

·                    Honorary State Aviation Official, National Association of State Aviation Officials

LICENSES

Quentin S. Taylor is licensed by the Federal Communications Commission to operate an Amateur Radio Station at the “Extra” Class.

Quentin S. Taylor is licensed (but not current) by the Federal Aviation Administration as a Private Pilot of single engine, land aircraft.

EDUCATION

Howard University, Washington, D.C. Bachelor of Science Electrical Engineering, 1959

Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, Master of Arts Political Science, 1967

Federal Executive School, Charlottesville, Virginia, 1970

LANGUAGES

In addition to English, limited Spanish speaking and reading capabilities