John
H. R. Nazareth*
John
is an international expert in the use of aircraft commercial reliability and
maintenance data to generate appropriate metrics to drive the maximization of
aircraft utilization.
His
early work resulted in the creation of reliability reports with tables of
statistics in a matrix form that allowed Bombardier’s customers to use these
reports to improve their performance. These reports in their structure and
statistics made Bombardier a leader in this field in the industry.
This
is a field in which John did pioneering work and has developed many metrics
which have now become industry standards. He is the Chair of the Metrics
Sub-team of the Air Transport Association of America (ATA) Reliability Interest
Group.
He
also developed databases and wrote most of the software on which Bombardier’s
reliability systems were built.
His
work in this field has given him a keen insight into the nature of data that
describe breadth of events that characterize the aircraft reliability and
maintenance sample space. As a consequence he has developed ground-breaking
work in using reliability-centred maintenance methods to calculate optimized
maintenance task interval time selection for aircraft maintenance.
John
did his B.Sc in Mathematics (including mathematics of engineering) at Makerere
University in Uganda, a Post-Grad Diploma in Statistics (including demography)
at the London School of Economics, an M.Sc in Mathematical Statistics at the
University of Toronto, and an MBA at the Schulich School of Business, York
University.
In
his professional life, he has worked in the field of reliability engineering
for over 30 years. He retired in 2015.
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Among
his managerial positions he was
Head of External Trade Section in
the Ministry of Finance & Planning with the Uganda Government, Manager of
Reliability Engineering & Environmental Qualification - Litton Systems Canada,
and Chief of Maintenance Data Analysis, Bombardier
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Accomplishments
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Instrumental
in creating the most extensive aircraft reliability database in the industry
including software analysis tools
o
Created
a reliability report that is a standard in the industry
o
Instrumental
in pioneering use of reliability-centred maintenance (RCM) methods to define optimized
aircraft maintenance task times.
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Accomplished
in Environmental Qualification, and Environmental Stress Screening
o
Part
of core team that created Chapter 11 of SPEC2000 – a standard that defines
critical technical data that should be collected to facilitate reliability and
maintainability analysis.
Industry
Associations
·
Founding
member of the Reliability Working Group (RWG) of Air Transport Association
(ATA) of America (1997-2015)
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Team
Leader, Metrics Sub-team RWG, ATA (2011-2015)
Volunteer
Organizations
Games
Union Executive, Makerere University (1969/70)
Sports
Secretary, Entebbe Institute (1971/72)
General
Secretary, Entebbe Institute (1973)
President,
Goan Overseas Association, Toronto
(And
numerous other positions with the GOA between 1975 and 2014)
De-facto
historian – Ontario Goan Community
Bible
Study Facilitator – St Patrick’ Church, Mississauga
Others
Field
Hockey Captain - Makerere
University
Field
Hockey Captain – Entebbe Institute (1971/72)
Leader
of “Swinging Teens” Rock Band (1966/69)
Writings Published:
The
Rise of the Ontario Goans – Goa Today (Magazine) Oct 1986
Goan
Tiatr in Ontario – Goa
Today
The
History of the GOA, Toronto – GOA 25th Anniversary Book 1995
The
Structure of the GOA - GOA 25th Anniversary Book
Goans
in the Mainstream – Expanding on the Indian presence in Canada - GOA 25th
Anniversary Book
Remembering
the Uganda Expulsion of Asians - Uganda Asians: Then and Now, Here and There
(forthcoming book – 2019)
Memoirs
of A Return to Uganda in 1993 - Uganda Asians
The
Origin of the Gomesi/Busuuti – New Vision newspaper (2010)
What
[John] Kennedy Meant to Africa – Letter, Newsweek (1973)
Blazing
New Paths in America - Goa Aparanta (Co-authored with Professor Peter Nazareth)
Editor/
Publisher: Villagers of Moira 25th Anniversary book (1996)
Editor/Publisher:
Kampala Goan Institute 100th Anniversary book (2010)
Editor/
Publisher: Uganda 50 Years of Independence Celebration in Toronto book (2012)
Personal Study
Christian
Theology, Bible Study and Church history for 35 years.
Goan
History/Anthrology for 30 years
Part
of a team that is mapping the genealogy of the whole village of Moira in Goa
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John
Nazareth is one of several people around the world helping me bring together
the stories of Eastern African Goans in the diaspora under the working title of
The Vanishing Goan Tribe== Cyprian Fernandes
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