November 21, 2005 - Valador Welcomes Joe Fragola as New Vice President
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Valador Welcomes Joe Fragola
as New Vice President
Herndon, VA, November 21, 2005 -- Mr. Joe Fragola joins Valador, Inc. as Vice President, where he will manage special projects focusing on reliability and risk technology. Mr. Fragola has over 35 years of experience working in reliability and risk technology in both the aerospace and nuclear industries and for other industries in the US and throughout Europe. Mr. Fragola received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Physics from the Polytechnic Institute of New York. In the past he has worked for Grumman Aerospace Corporation, and IEEE at their Headquarters in New York. He was recently a Principal Scientist at SAIC and continues to be a visiting professor at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland. He has published almost 50 papers and two books, and was awarded the P.K. McElroy RAMS best paper award in 1993. He also was awarded the Alan Plait Award for the Best Tutorial in 2004, the IEEE Region I award, and has been named an IEEE Fellow for his contributions to the theory and practice of risk, safety, and reliability. He was awarded the 1995 SAIC Publication Prize in Engineering and Applied Mathematics.
Mr. Fragola has lectured widely throughout the US, South America and in Europe. He has also given workshops and lectures in Japan, Russia, and Israel. He is an internationally recognized expert in the fields of risk analysis, risk and reliability database development, and human reliability analysis. He has participated in several dozen risk assessments, and was the Principal Investigator of the landmark, NASA-sponsored, 1995 launch to landing risk assessment of the space shuttle, which still remains the only published work on the subject of integrated shuttle risk. Mr. Fragola was recently selected by the NASA Administrator to serve as one of the 15 core members of the NASA Exploration Architecture Study (ESAS) Team.
“We are very pleased to have someone of Joe’s stature joining our company,†says Mr. Kevin Mabie, Valador’s President and CEO. “Joe is an icon in this field, and his skills tie into many of Valador’s core focus areas in particular our modeling and simulation and management consulting practices.â€
