Dan Javorsek is a Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Air Force with experience as a flight test squadron commander and experimental test pilot in several different supersonic fighter aircraft. Javorsek also has several advanced degrees in engineering including a doctorate in nuclear astrophysics from Purdue University and has actively performed research on a variety of engineering and scientific topics. His role at Boom is based on more recent work developing structured analytic techniques for the engineering judgment tradecraft at the heart of flight test safety modernization.