VFA Engineering Group

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VFA Engineering Group was founded in 2000 in Nashville, Tennessee. We do all your failure analysis work ourselves, and nothing will be outsourced to a third party without your knowledge. We also don't show you the backgrounds of a few senior people and then give the work to someone with far less experience. The people shown here will be the ones working on your project. In addition to our main office in Nashville, where most of our engineers are located, we also have a lab in Terre Haute, Indiana. Here are the VFA Engineering personnel who will work on your project.

Engineers
Photo Coming Soon	Rich Holmes Rich Holmes spent 28 years at the Pratt & Whitney division of United Technologies. He was manager of the Fatigue & Fracture Mechanics Group when he left in 2004 to join VFA Engineering Group. Rich holds a degree in mechanical engineering from Rose-Hulman.
Photo Coming Soon	Ed Pope Ed Pope spent 30 years at Rolls-Royce before joining us in 2006. There he performed stress, heat transfer, fatigue & fracture analysis. Ed holds a doctorate in aerospace engineering from Purdue University. He is located in Indianapolis, Indiana.
	Bob Tryon Bob Tryon co-founded VFA Engineering in 2000 & currently serves as its Chief Technical Officer. His prior experience includes stints with Ford Aerospace & General Motors. There he performed stress, heat transfer, fatigue & fracture analysis. Bob holds a doctorate in civil engineering from Vanderbilt University.
Photo Coming Soon	Vladimir Ogarevic Vladimir worked for nCode before joining VFA Engineering Group in 2005. He is our most talented finite element analysis engineer, with experience in ANSYS, ABAQUS, NASTRAN & several pre-processing packages. Vladimir holds a doctorate in mechanical engineering from the University of Iowa.
Technicians
	Jim Tryon Jim joined VFA Engineering Group in 2007. He does much of our microstructure specimen preparation, polishing & etching work. He also does SEM (Scanning Electron Microscope) work on microstructure & fracture specimens.
	Matt Finney Matt performs many of the same tasks as Jim. He came to us in 2008 after working for Terre Haute International Airport. He is a licensed pilot with a bachelor's degree in aviation flight technology from Indiana State University. He's also a licensed mechanic with an airframe & power plant certificate from Vincennes University.