ATA promotes Moran and Bayer to new leadership roles

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  • By Raquel March
  • AEDC/PA
With the departure of ATA's Test Assets and Support Department (AM) Director Bart Jones, two management professionals will take on new leadership roles at AEDC.

Lynn Moran, an aerospace engineer and the previous deputy director for AM, will assume the position of director on Feb. 3. Lynn has worked at AEDC for 34 years and served as the AM deputy director for the previous four years. Prior to this assignment she held numerous positions including investments coordinator for the plant operations, propulsion area systems engineer, operations engineer and project manager. Lynn is a Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professional and has served as president of the Middle Tennessee Chapter of the Society of Maintenance and Reliability Professionals for the last four years.

Debbie Bayer, who has an extensive background in business and computer software, will assume the AM deputy director position. Bayer has 35 years of experience in information technology in the government and private sector, with almost 30 years at AEDC. She has supported development of traditional business applications, networks, desktop computing and communications services as well as data acquisition, plant controls and high performance computing applications required for the AEDC test mission. In the last few years, Bayer served as chairperson for the ATA Asset Owners Council, as well as acting as the ATA project executive on Investment Projects with large Information Technology components. She is a Certified Project Management Professional and Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professional and she has a Configuration Management II certification.

Jones accepted a position with the ATA contractor lead company Jacobs Technology as general manager for their Manufacturing Support and Facility Operations Contract at Michoud, La. He worked at AEDC for a collective 18 years in the military and with the contractor.