John J. Tracy
Chief Technology Officer
The Boeing Company
Senior Vice President
Engineering, Operations & Technology
Dr. John J. Tracy is chief technology officer for The Boeing Company and senior vice president of Engineering, Operations & Technology, responsible for defining and implementing corporate strategies for attaining and maintaining technical and functional excellence across the enterprise. He reports to Boeing Chairman, President and CEO Jim McNerney.
In addition to serving on the company's Executive Council, he oversees the development and implementation of the enterprise technology investment strategy and provides strategic direction to several functions and business organizations comprising more than 100,000 Boeing employees. These include the Engineering, Operations, and Supplier Management functions, along with the Information Technology, Enterprise Technology Strategy, Boeing Research & Technology, Boeing Test & Evaluation, Intellectual Property Management, and Environment, Health and Safety organizations. He also sponsors Boeing's Development Process Excellence initiative and ensures the integration of all four Boeing initiatives.
Previously Tracy was vice president of Engineering & Mission Assurance for Boeing Integrated Defense Systems. Tracy had functional management responsibility for the IDS engineering processes, engineering tools, and the 32,000-person engineering team. Prior to this assignment, Tracy was vice president of Structural Technologies, Prototyping, and Quality for the Boeing Phantom Works advanced R&D unit, where he was responsible for advanced materials and processes, structural design and analysis, manufacturing technology, prototype development, and the Phantom Works Quality function.
Tracy has also served as the general manager of Engineering for Boeing Military Aircraft and Missiles in Southern California, the director of the Space and Communications Advanced Engineering organization, the director of Operations Management, and director of Structures Technology for Southern California Phantom Works. He joined McDonnell Douglas as a stress analyst in Huntington Beach in 1981, after serving five years as a high school science teacher in Los Angeles.
Tracy is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and the past chair of the ASME 6,000-member Aerospace Division. He is also a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and the Royal Aeronautical Society, and was named 2006 Hispanic Engineer of the Year by the Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Awards Corporation and one of the Most Important Hispanics in Technology in 2008 by Hispanic Engineer & Information Technology magazine.
He has served as an editorial board member for the AIAA Journal, the Journal of Thin-Walled Structures, and the Journal of Computer Modeling and Simulation in Engineering. He has authored 26 publications in the areas of composite structural mechanics, launch vehicle structures, smart structures, and aging aircraft.
Tracy received a PhD in Engineering in 1987 from the University of California at Irvine, and an MS and BS in Physics respectively from California State University-Los Angeles (1981) and California State University-Dominguez Hills (1976).
Tracy and his wife, Kathy, have two grown children, Scott and Wendy.
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