Speakers

Jorge Betancourt
General Engineer
OSD R-E Defense Standardization Program Office

Jorge Betancourt serves as an engineer for the OSD R-E Defense Standardization Program Office. He supports the Defense Standardization Program in the advancement of DoD joint and coalition interoperability, modernization, and sustainment goals. He champions the development and update of DoD-wide standardization efforts and ensures DoD implementations are aligned with OSD Systems Engineering policy & procedures, including digital engineering and critical and emerging technologies. He holds a B.S. Mechanical Engineering and M.S. Information Systems Management degrees and has 33 years of engineering experience at DOD leading, supervising and managing engineering sustainment and sustainment modernization projects in support of DOD Aviation systems.

Mr. Betancourt has led, supervised and managed sustainment engineering programs and projects in both Organic and domestic Industrial Base.

Jesse Boyer
Sr. Fellow – Additive Manufacturing
Pratt & Whitney (RTX)

Currently the Sr. Fellow – Additive Manufacturing at Pratt & Whitney (P&W), and previously the Fellow of Advanced Manufacturing Metrology. Jesse holds two BSE degrees from the University of Michigan in Aerospace Engineering and Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering. Jesse has worked a variety of engineering and management positions throughout his 30+ year career in automotive at General Motors and at P&W, including roles as a Process Engineer, Industrial Engineer, Methods Specialist and Technology Manager for Military Blades, Technology Manager of the Capital Equipment Procurement Group, and the Manager of the Advanced Manufacturing Metrology Group (including Computed Tomography, Process Modeling and Additive Manufacturing). Current work involves the understanding of key process variables to control additive manufacturing processes, in-process monitoring for production, and the use of the Digital Thread related to inspection and additive manufacturing.

Over the many years working in manufacturing, he has led numerous successful projects implementing advanced and traditional gaging, as well as, leading the manufacturing effort to bring metal additive parts into production at Pratt & Whitney.

Jesse has represented P&W on several committees and conferences including the AESQ Standard for MSA, recently the ASTM F42.01 Sub-Committee Chairman, and the role of Chair of the Executive Committee of America Makes. He has over 40 patents in the areas of manufacturing processes, contributor to many literature formats, and served as guest editor of a well-known manufacturing journal. He is an undergraduate instructor at the University of Connecticut for manufacturing and instrumental in the curriculum development at the University of Hartford to address the gap of manufacturing inspection capable engineers ready for the workforce in the New England Area.

Tyler LeBrun, PhD
Additive Manufacturing Lead
Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff
Sandia National Laboratories

Tyler LeBrun is a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories and serves as the lead for additive manufacturing qualification as part of the Laboratories’ Technical Expert Network. Dr. LeBrun currently manages a diverse portfolio of research and development projects in materials and processes surrounding additive manufacturing to support the Labs’ mission. His past professional and technical experience include broad support and implementation of additive manufacturing in aerospace and other emerging markets through roles at Blue Origin, Rocketdyne, and Uniformity Labs. His work in these various organizations spanned feedstock characterization, equipment and process development, and process/part qualification for critical, high-value systems. In addition to his role with SME as an AM Technical Advisor, he is the chairman of the AM standards committee with the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE), managing the three active sub-committees for Metals, Non-Metals, and Repair applications for the aerospace industry. Tyler received a BS in Mechanical Engineering from UC Berkeley, an MS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Southern California, and a Ph.D. in Materials Engineering from Osaka University. In his free time he is active in alpine, traditional, and sport rock climbing, serving as the Educational Co-Chair for the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of the American Alpine Club.

John Martin, M.S.
AM Research Director
America Makes, NCDMM

John is the Research Director for America Makes, where his role is to focus on supporting AM technology development and maturation.

Before joining America Makes in 2023, John spent nearly a decade as a professor of Mechanical Engineering Technology at Youngstown State University, where worked on several funded research projects involving AM. Prior to this, John worked in industry as a mechanical engineer focused on design of new manufacturing systems and/ or improvements to existing systems.

William Mohr, MS, PhD
Principal Engineer
EWI

William Mohr is a Principal Engineer in the Structural Integrity area. His areas of interest are fatigue and fracture of welded structures and the fitness-for service of additively manufactured metal. Dr. Mohr has three degrees in Materials Science and Engineering, an S. B. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an M. S. and Ph. D. from Stanford University. He is the current chair of the AWS D20 committee on Metal Additive Manufacturing.

Paul Witherell, PhD
Associate Program Manager
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Dr. Paul Witherell is the Associate Program Manager of the Measurement Science for Additive Manufacturing Program at NIST and leads the Advanced Informatics and Artificial Intelligence for Additive Manufacturing project within the program. His primary objectives at NIST are to develop and transfer knowledge to industry, including knowledge pertaining to information models and data science for additive manufacturing and system level analysis. His specific job focus is on identifying integration and technology issues that promote industry acceptance of information models, product representation standards, data science, and open architecture that will enable rapid design-to-product transformations. Paul is actively engaged in AM standards development, leading and contributing to efforts in ASTM, ASME, and ISO, among others. Paul is a Fellow of ASME.