TURNER ENGINEERING - Key Persons

Andy Pattantyus

Job Titles:
  • Director of Transportation Systems Assurance
Mr. Pattantyus leads reliability, availability, maintainability, and safety (RAMS) assurance and electromagnetic interference (EMI) compliance tasks for major transportation projects across the US. He leads RAM design, analysis, and verification project tasks; recruits, trains, and leads RAMS engineers and analysts; assures compliance with industry specifications and regulations; and establishes and manages system assurance, RAM, system safety, and EMC programs.

David Turner - CTO, President

Job Titles:
  • President
  • Technical Director
Mr. Turner manages development, integration, and certification of advanced safety-critical train control, energy, propulsion, communication, and information systems for high-tech rail transportation applications. He is expert in high-tech and safety-critical software development and hardware structured design practices; transportation reliability, availability, maintainability, and safety (RAMS) programs and techniques; and electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) methods and programs. Mr. Turner has deep, broad knowledge of rail transit system design, development, integration, construction, installation, test, and certification technologies, methods and systems.

Eli Fernald

Job Titles:
  • Rail Systems Engineering Director
Mr. Fernald has extensive experience in rail transit equipment and system engineering, analysis, and with electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) for signals, trains, and communications at NYCT, Boston MBTA, LA Metro, Chicago Metra, and others; per Euronorm and US transit industry standards. He has performed safety assessment for rail transit signal systems and railcars, and rail transit energy improvement projects. Mr. Fernald is adept at high-performance electronic integrated circuit design, embedded and web software development, instrumentation hardware and software, design and integration of communications circuits and equipment.

Todd Welty

Job Titles:
  • Director of Business Development
Mr. Welty directs business development at Turner Engineering, applying his rail transit industry sales, marketing, business development, proposal, and project management expertise to offer Tenco services to existing and new prospective customers. He broadens Tenco's sales and marketing reach by opening new channels and bringing systemization to the company's business development efforts.