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About the Author
- Tom Sylvester is a graduate of the
United States Air Force Academy, with a BS from the Department of
Astronautics and Computer Science.
- ...was a "rocket scientist" and
R&D officer for the United States' Ballistic Missile Office.
- ...consulted with a Washington DC
engineering firm, designing airports worldwide.
- ...is an inventor and owner of two
patents, one the result of his work as a visiting corporate advisor to the
bioengineering department at NC State University.
- ...is an airline pilot with over
15,000 hours of flying in his log book. He holds type ratings in the
Bae3201, EMB-120, A319/A320 Airbus, and the A330 Airbus. He has flown many
other aircraft, including corporate jets, executive charters, organ
transplant "life" flights, commuter/regional turboprop aircraft and the
Douglas DC-9 and Boeing 757. He is currently flying worldwide in the
half-million pound Airbus A330 wide-body airliner.
- ...was a member of the Pilot
Merger Committee for the largest airline merger in history.
- ...holds over a dozen software
copyrights ranging from satellite tracking to music production to aviation
management, one being the most popular software of its kind in the country.
- ...is a managing partner with
Cerventis, LLC, and head of the design team of the MusicJam mixer for the
iPod.
- ...is the co-owner of Cerventis
Records, representing a Nashville recording artist.
- ...is an avid but wholly
untalented guitar player, playing in various unknown bands such as
Sarah's Uncles, Maroon78, and Stimulus.
- ...is married with one daughter,
who recently graduated from Harvard.

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