Volume 75 | Thursday, July 27, 2023

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An Introduction to the Technical Center of Excellence

Welcome back to Jump Seat. Today we want to reintroduce you to three very important teams in ARINCDirect: ARINCDirect Tech Support, Field Service Engineering, and the OEM/MRO Team. Collectively, we call them our Technical Center of Excellence. Please keep reading to find out why.   

ARINCDirect Technical Support 

 

The ARINCDirect Technical Support team, also known as ADTech, comprises avionics technicians varying in backgrounds from military to commercial to business aviation, with experience in both fixed- and rotary-wing aircraft. We also have networking experts who have shifted their expertise from ground networking to SATCOM. Our purpose is to successfully provide you with 24x7x365 remote support for cockpit and cabin services, including VHF/SAT Datalink, LuxStream, Inmarsat JX, Swift Broadband (SBB), Viasat Ku/Ka, and Iridium. Our staff is strategically located in multiple locations around the world, which allows us to sustain a follow-the-sun model to support our international customer base. 

  

ADTech serves as your initial contact to the TCoE and we are your direct escalation point for service issues. We work in tandem with our FSE and OEM colleagues to provide industry-leading remote troubleshooting and support. You can contact us directly by email at [email protected] or by phone at +1 410-266-2266 (Option 5). 

 

Field Service Engineering 

 

With location assignments across the Americas, EMEA and Asia, our Field Service Engineers (FSEs) act as your global ambassadors. When an issue cannot be addressed remotely by the ADTech team, it gets escalated to an FSE who will conduct an onsite visit. To provide the highest level of urgent customer support, FSEs often travel on short notice and over great distances to ensure a fast resolution. Troubleshooting efforts, which can range from five minutes to several hours, typically necessitate working alongside other hardware manufacturers to identify issues. It’s important to note that these local visits are part of your subscription, and you therefore incur no additional cost when they are needed. 

 

While providing onsite support, FSEs often advise and educate customers on new services or future upgrades that are available. We are hardware-agnostic, with primary expertise on hardware (from all OEMs) that supports all the cockpit and cabin services that ADTech supports. Further, FSEs work closely with OEMs and MROs on troubleshooting configurations, and they actively participate in retrofits and entry-into-service activities.



Meet John Wood, a Senior Field Service Engineer based in Maryland 


John first joined ARINC 27 years ago, starting with Globalink Technical Support, then transitioning into Network Engineering where he supported the design of Skylink (you may know this as Gulfstream BBM, a partnership of ARINC, Viasat, and Gulfstream). John also worked on ARINCDirect’s Accelerated Swift64 solution. 

 

He continued to gain valuable experience as a Network Systems Engineer before returning to the technical support side of the business - this time on the ADTech team. After 8 years there, he decided to “hit the road” and transitioned into Field Service Engineering – a move he has never looked back on. He has been supporting our Business Jet customers, onsite in the East Coast region (from Maine to Florida) ever since. During his downtime, when he’s not busy traveling the length of the country, John enjoys hunting and camping. He’s even been known to answer his phone (with a whisper) from his hunting hideout! 


The OEM/MRO Team 

 

Our OEM and MRO Account Management team supports customers at over a hundred Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) and Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul (MRO) locations worldwide. OEM Account Managers provide support for new and used aircraft deliveries and any applicable ARINCDirect hardware or service upgrades. They are also on hand at the OEM or MRO to coordinate testing of new services, assist with troubleshooting, support test flights, and provide training to you and to technicians at the facility.  

 

It is our mission to ensure a stress-free delivery and service implementation experience. As a result, the team follows these projects from the initial phases to the final delivery and entry into service. The OEM/MRO Team can be reached by email at [email protected]

Image 1: The ARINCDirect OEM/MRO Team, pictured May 2023

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