CEO & Founder
Base: St. Albert, Alberta
Training/Education:
JetPro Experience: Ed founded JetPro in 1996 while doing consulting work with Canadian Airlines on integrating satellite based flight managment systems (FMS) onboard their Boeing 737-200 aircraft. He expanded JetPro into instrument procedure design which has been the focus since. Ed no longer designs, but keeps a keen eye on changes to criteria and advances in the procedure design world in addition to running JetPro from the business administration side. It is rumoured that he will resume flight checking duties in the near future as well!
Aviation Career:
Ed is now retired from Air Canada, he still flies - mainly to go explore the places he flew to as a pilot. Nowadays he spends his time cycling the bike trails in the Edmonton area in addition to flying a Nanchang (CJ6A) Warbird.
ed.mcdonald@jetpro.ca
Chief Instrument Flight Procedure Designer & Quality Manager
Base: Comox, British Columbia
Training/Education:
JetPro Experience: Dave joined JetPro in 2006 while still serving in the Canadian Armed Forces while based in Cold Lake. His knowledge and software skills were immediately put to good use developing and refining JetPro's design tool. While Dave did plenty of designs, he is now focused on design tool improvements and updates keeping up with the ever changing design criteria in addition to managing the Quality Assurance (QA) process at JetPro.
Aviation Career:
Dave is now retired from the DND and enjoys the outdoors life out in Comox, BC. He currently owns and flys a beautiful IFR capable Ryan Navion he keeps out on the coast.
dave.miller@jetpro.ca
Procedure Designer
Base: Comox, British Columbia
Training/Education:
JetPro Experience: Henry joined JetPro as a designer in 2013 after completing his initial design training course ran by the FAA. Previously he had assisted with flight checks and surveying while completing flying training and studying at Royal Military College (RMC) with Canadian Armed Forces. He has worked for JetPro during his career in the forces which took him from Comox, Trenton, and even as far as Kuwait on deployment. He currently resides in Comox working as a Reservist Pilot and Operations Officer in addition to being a qualified A330 First Officer with Air Canada.
Aviation Career:
Henry lives just outside Comox with his young family while working for the Canadian Armed Forces. He enjoys mountain biking, enjoying the west coast lifestyle, and flying whenever he gets the chance.
henry.graham@jetpro.ca
Procedure Designer
Base: Comox, British Columbia
Training/Education:
JetPro Experience: Jeremy joined JetPro in 2019 after completing his initial design training at the US FAA facility in Oklahoma City. Jeremy and Henry were classmates at RMC and Jeremy showed a keen interest in instrument procedure design during his time as a Training Captain in the Canadian Armed Forces.
Aviation Career:
Jeremy actually lives down the street from Henry outside of Comox. He also enjoys the BC outdoors by mountain biking and doing some drone photography. He also secretly enjoys his secret library of almost 1000 sci-fi books!
jeremy.bouchard@jetpro.ca
Procedure Designer & GIS Specialist
Base: St. Albert, Alberta
Training/Education:
JetPro Experience: Dave joined JetPro as a designer in 2008 while he was serving in the Canadian Armed Forces as a Flight Commander based in Edmonton flying the Bell CH-146 Griffon. Dave currently balances working as a rotary wing MedEvac pilot for Shock Trauma Air Rescue Service (STARS) in addition to JetPro. Dave has been our defacto GIS expert for years assisting with runway surveys, digital map generating, and now he runs our procedure maintenance software system.
Aviation Career:
Dave currently lives in St. Albert when not on rotating deployment with STARS to places like Grand Prarie, Saskatoon, Regina, Winnipeg. During his downtime he enjoys working on his drone, motorcycle, and playing around with new GIS solutions.
dave.scott@jetpro.ca
Procedure Designer & Software Designer
Base: Greenwood, Nova Scotia
Training/Education:
JetPro Experience: Mike joined JetPro in 2019 after we heard of his skills and experience within the Canadian Armed Forces as the Commander the Instrument Check Pilot (ICP) School with the Canadian Armed Forces - teaching the fundamentals of instrument design for military check pilots. Although new to JetPro, Mike was at the ICP School for 4 years instructing. His experience has also helped us make some software improvements to our design tool which has helped increase our efficiency and productivity of design. Currently he does design work and some software development.
Aviation Career:
Mike and his young family recently moved to Greenwood, Nova Scotia where they have settled on a large piece of land where his wife can enjoy her hobby of “collecting” horses. Mike has enjoyed flying ever since he got his gliding license in 1998 when he was a teenager. His daughters claims he has the best "dad jokes" and when they'ved had enough of them he also enjoys wordworking in his home workshop in his spare time.
Mike.Girard@jetpro.ca
(Future) Procedure Designer & Flight Validation Pilot
Base: Vancouver, British Columbia
Training/Education:
JetPro Experience: Ben is the newest member of the JetPro team - he and Austen are classmates and coworkers at Jazz Aviation LP and now Air Canada. Ben is undertaking procedure design courses and qualifications in the near future, but in the meantime has filled in with assisting Austen with Flight Validation and runway survey jobs across Canada.
Aviation Career:
Ben is a Toronto transplant that currently lives in the Vancouver, so naturally he spends most of his time exploring the wonders of Western Canada from a C172 when he is not flying for Air Canada or working for JetPro.
ben.rotem@jetpro.ca
Procedure Designer, Flight Validation Pilot & GIS Specialist
Base: Edmonton, Alberta
Training/Education:
JetPro Experience: Austen has been working in some form or another for JetPro since he was too young to walk. Early work was in the form of letter opening and office mess making as a toddler to eventually assisting with runway surveys and flight validations. Austen got his design qualifications back in 2013 from the US FAA - at the time being the youngest person to have completed and been qualified in procedure design globally at the age of 17. Since then, he runs the flight validation department, runway survey department, and the digital map and charting systems at JetPro.
Aviation Career:
Austen lives in Edmonton and a stones throw away from the JetPro "HQ". He enjoys spending time around the hangar working on and flying the CJ6A Nanachang with Ed in addition to losing about 6 golf balls every week golfing!
austen.mcdonald@jetpro.ca