Summary
Andrew Onken is a senior technical fellow with nine years in his current title and more than three decades of experience designing and managing aeronautical communications and air traffic systems. He has deep expertise in VDL, ACARS, ATN protocols and ATC automation, including radar fusion and display systems, and has driven technical strategy for Collins Aerospace communications services. His career at ARINC and Collins spans hands-on systems engineering, software architecture, and program management for AOC and ATS data communications. Comfortable with formal processes, he applies RUP-informed architecture and engineering practices to complex, safety-critical systems. Based in Annapolis, he blends avionics domain mastery with practical project leadership, often navigating the intersection of legacy systems and modern networked communications. A longtime engineer who started in naval aviation programs, he brings rare cross-domain perspective from government programs to commercial aerospace productization.
9 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute