Gary Northam has been a faculty teaching pilot training, aviation safety, and professional ethics for 26 years. He has experience at the community college level in addition to the university setting having served two major universities. Northam joined Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Prescott, AZ in 2005 and currently teaches graduate courses in the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Safety. Dr. Northam is also currently serving as President and CEO of the Aviation Accreditation Board International, an association that accredits collegiate aviation degree programs.

Education and Aviation Training

Ph.D. degree from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Adult and Continuing Education

Aviation Certifications

Commercial Pilot with Instrument and Multiengine ratings

Certified Flight Instructor and Instrument Airplane rating

Academic Positions Held

Dean of the College of Aviation since August 1, 2010

Professor and Department Chair of the Safety Science department July, 2005 to present

Collegiate Teaching Areas

Pilot Training and Flight Instruction

Aviation Safety

Aviation Human Factors

Professional and Safety Ethics

Research, writing, and presentations – areas of interest and experience

Pilot Education

Pilot Decision Making

Aviation Technology

Moral Development and Ethics

Aviation Human Factors and Ergonomics

Chief Lecturer for the Certified Flight Instructor FAA Refresher Clinics – St. Louis

Academic Accreditation – Aviation Accreditation Board, International

President and CEO, 2014 to Present

Victoria Boswell is a project manager with Automatic Data Processing, LLC (ADP). She manages a team of instructional developers who produce client and employee training curricula for one of ADP’s largest software products, ADP Workforce Now. Victoria has worked in project management since 2001 and is PMP certified.

While at Convergys Corporation, Victoria and her teams were honored with these awards:

• 2012 President’s Circle Award, Convergys Customer Management, in recognition of outstanding team achievements for the Dun & Bradstreet Implementation
• 2007 Brandon Hall Bronze - Best Blended Learning - CDW and Convergys Corporation - Wired Learning Program
• 2006 Management Plus Award, Convergys Learning Solutions, in recognition of innovative management practices
• 2005 Brandon Hall Silver - Custom Content, Special Strength: Simulation - Convergys Learning Solutions - Mazda Selling SkillsVicki

Victoria’s education includes a master’s degree from the University of Phoenix, San Diego campus in Organizational Management and a bachelor’s degree from California State University, Fullerton in business administration with a minor in cultural anthropology. Victoria is a member of the Project Management Institute (PMI) since 2005.

Victoria lives in Carlsbad, California and enjoys coastal living with her husband, Bruce.

Doug Harwood is a native to Prescott, Arizona, and a Granite Mountain Hotshot Alumni.

He was employed with the Prescott National Forest Service from 2000 to 2004 on Engines 30 and 31, and a Prescott Hotshot Crewmember.

When the City of Prescott created their own Hand Crew he was offered a Squad Boss position in the Wildland Division of the Prescott Fire Department. He was a Wildland Firefighter with the City of Prescott’s Granite Mountain Interagency Hotshot Crew from 2004 until he was offered a position on the city’s Structure Division in 2007.

During his time on the structure engines he was also able to fill positions with the Granite Mountain Hotshot Crew because of his knowledge, experience, and training as a Wildland Firefighter.

He currently serves the city of Prescott in the Prescott Fire Department as an Engineer, Technical Rescue Technician, and Paramedic.

William D. Waldock holds the rank of Professor of Safety Science at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s Prescott Campus. He is the creator of the aviation safety programs at Embry-Riddle and has spent the last 33 years developing and enhancing the academic safety endeavors here. He is a retired U.S.Coast Guard officer, a pilot, and has been investigating accidents for more than three decades, participating in more than 200 aircraft investigations and analyzing 500 more. He is President of the Arizona Chapter, International Society of Air Safety Investigators and has written numerous articles on aviation safety, aircraft accidents, aircraft fire investigation, and crash survivability.

He is a Fellow in the American College of Forensic Examiners and member of numerous other aviation and safety-related organizations. Prof. Waldock has appeared in numerous safety-themed video programs and has been an expert consultant to both the print and electronic media.

Holly Neill fought fire for the National Park Service, U.S. Forest Service and private contractors for twelve seasons, from 1995 to 2007. Her federal experience includes work on engine and helitack crews, Incident Command Post radio operator, and Fire Use Module member. Her contract experience includes safety liaison for a federally contracted timber faller organization and B certified contract faller.

Neill is a research specialist and consultant on the Yarnell Hill Fire and the tragic deaths of the 19 Granite Mountain Hotshots on June 30, 2013. She seeks answers to many questions left unanswered by the two official reports, by doing data research, conducting interviews, visiting the fire site and related places, and collaborating with Granite Mountain Hotshot family members and others involved in the fire. She believes that a more complete, accurate and lasting factual legacy can and will be left to the GMIHC and their families, one that can stand the test of time. Firefighter safety and lessons learned can only benefit by a full accounting of the decisions made on the fire and who made them, and most importantly an explanation of why they were made.

Neill also acts as a research partner for author John Maclean, who is working on a book about the Yarnell Hill Fire.

Neill is a founding member of Safety Matters: A Wildland Firefighter Forum for Change, a group of fire veterans advocating for wildland firefighter safety. The group, which calls attention to deficiencies in wildand firefighter safety in current wildland fire management systems, encourages firefighters, the public, and their representatives to support and demand changes in policy and practices so that wildland firefighter and public safety is truly the first priority in all fire management actions.