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Lisa Stabler is Assistant Vice President for Quality and Reliability Engineering at Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway. The Quality and Reliability Engineering organization mission is to use the basic quality principles of planning, control and improvement to eliminate any issues associated with rolling stock. The Quality and Reliability Engineering organization includes Mechanical Safety, Mechanical Freight Car Design, Reliability Engineering using condition based maintenance strategies, Process Audit, Six Sigma Problem Solving and Track Measurement.

Ms. Stabler graduated from the University of Dayton with a Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering and from Wright State University with a Master’s Degree in Mathematics. She came to Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway in 1999. Prior to joining Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway, Ms. Stabler also had over 20 years of experience in the automotive industry, working for General Motors and Delphi in the areas of Product Engineering, Quality Assurance and Strategic Planning.

Ms. Stabler is the Chairman of the Advanced Technology Safety Initiative Task Force Working Committee. The mission of the Advanced Technology Safety Initiative is reliably detect equipment that exhibits high levels of stress, to proactively predict equipment that will place high stress on the track in the future and to develop efficient methods to proactively maintain the fleet.

She is an ASQ Certified Quality Engineer, Reliability Engineer, Quality Manager and Six Sigma Black Belt.

Don Lauro is Director of Advanced Engineering for CSX Transportation and current chair of the Equipment Health Management System TAG, a member of the ATSI-Core Working Committee and the Wheel Defect Prevention Research Consortium. He has over 32 years of railroading experience with CSX and its predecessors within Transportation Operations at the CSX Network Operations Center, Communications and Signals, Engineering and Mechanical. He is a cross-functional leader focusing on technology based enterprise wide business solutions.

Roy B. Wiley has over 20 years of experience in complex systems analysis and design, system and network management, design and development.

Mr. Wiley joined the Transportation Technology Center in 2000 where he assumed direction of systems development projects, including the InteRRIS^® data warehouse development. The system, known as IRRIS then, was in a prototype stage. It currently loads, analyzes and delivers event notifications covering 112 wayside detectors worldwide. This amounts to over 75,000 trains, 6,000,000 rail vehicles and over 400,000,000 records per month. Event notices and data are delivered to over 160 customers daily.

Mr. Wiley is highly experienced in operations research; operations planning, engineering economics, risk and sensitivity analysis); transportation systems analysis; software and database systems analysis, design and development; project management and geographic information systems (GIS).

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