Frank Amodeo

About Frank Amodeo

Principal Engineer at the Center for Advanced Aviation System Development (CAASD) of the…

Experience

1. Principal Engineer

   MITRE

   May 1974 — Present

   1989 – Present: International airport, airspace, and noise analyses: Project leader for several large multidisciplinary projects related to airports/airspace- Barcelona International Airport – study of independent parallel approaches - Mexico City – noise analyses relating to a new airport to serve Mexico City - Milan Malpensa Airport – studies relating to a third runway - Madrid Barajas Airport – study of independent parallel approaches - Málaga Airport, Spain – study relating to new quasi-parallel runway - Natal, Brazil – new airport - Spain – analysis and redesign of en route and terminal airspace Performed or contributed to noise and/or airspace analyses- Barcelona International Airport – new parallel runway - Brussels National Airport – use of parallel runways - Buenos Aires, Argentina – both Ezeiza and Aeroparque airports - Cairo, Egypt – potential new airport - Guayaquil, Ecuador – both existing and potential new airport at Daular - Mexico City, Mexico – studies relating to potential new airport - Monterrey, Mexico – study of potential new runway - Munich, Germany – study of new third runway - Paris- Charles de Gaulle – studies of third and fourth runways - São Paolo, Brazil – terminal airspace - Singapore Changi – terminal airspace - Toluca, Mexico – study of potential new runway - Veracruz, Mexico - Zurich, Switzerland1995 – 2001: Aviation Weather; support to Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)WSR-88D (NEXRAD) Doppler Weather Radar. 19••••95: Support to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)Lead role in systems requirements, design review, and testing of WSR-88D (NEXRAD) radarTask leader supporting NOAA’s Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System (AWIPS) Acquisition Office. 19••••86: Aviation weather. 19••••80: Airport capacity and noise analysisDevelopment of methodology to estimate airport capacityAnalyses of airport capacity for many airportsVarious noise analyses

Education

• Polytechnic Institute of New York University

  BS, MS, Systems Engineering

  1969 — 1973

Skills

• Aircraft
• Engineering
• Aerospace
• Software Engineering
• Simulations
• Air Traffic Control
• Project Management
• Aviation
• Systems Engineering
• Avionics
• Noise Analysis
• Requirements Management
• System Design
• Music
• System Architecture
• Autocad
• Airports
• Bass Guitar
• Engineering Management
• Airport Development
• Analytics
• Human Factors
• Aeronautics
• Modeling and Simulation
• Double Bass
• Operations Research
• Airspace Design
• Analysis