Vance Hilderman

Vance Hilderman serves as the CEO of AFuzion Inc since January 2014, leading a global engineering team specializing in safety-critical services and compliance with various industry standards such as DO-178C and ISO 26262. Hilderman's extensive experience spans roles including Advisory Board Member at PureTech Systems, Manager of Global Services at Vector Software, and Manager at HighRely, which Vance founded in 2005. Notably, Hilderman has authored the world's only published book on DO-178B and DO-254, with all royalties donated to charity. Earlier career highlights include managing a significant project for Motorola's Iridium satellite communication system while at TekSci. Hilderman holds multiple engineering degrees, including a BSEE and MSEE from Gonzaga University and the University of Southern California, respectively.

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AFuzion Inc

AFuzion: When Safety Is Critical (TM) AFuzion provides safety-critical services and products including, engineering augmentation, training, gap analysis, mentoring, auditing, certification, software outsourcing, and certification primarily in Aviation. AFuzion has trained more persons in DO-178C, DO-254, and ARP4754A than all other companies in the world, COMBINED: 25,000 aviation engineers from 90% of the world’s top 300 aviation companies. AFuzion has also performed over 170 Gap Analysis including comparisons (“gaps”) of DO-178C, DO-254, DO-278A, DO-200B, ARP4754A, to other standards such as CMMI, AFuzion's engineers have worked with 400+ of the world's most important safety-critical manufacturers in over thirty countries worldwide. AFuzion's engineers have provided more safety-critical training and workshops than the next four competitors, combined. AFuzion's safety-critical process frameworks, templates, and checklists are used by 9,000 engineers worldwide. AFuzion's experts focus on DO-178C, ISO 26262, DO-254, ARP-4754A, ARP4761, DO-278A, and DO-200A, CMMI and AGILE. AFuzion' has offices and partners in Spain, Portugal, England, Italy, Turkey, Israel, Korea, and China. Practice Areas Include: Aviation & Avionics including DO-178C, DO-254, DO-200B, DO-278A, DO-297, DO-330, DO-331, DO-332, ARP4754A, ARP4761A, AS9115A Automotive/Transportation including ISO 26262 CMMI and AGILE Safety critical audits Gap Analysis Quality Assurance Cyber-Security DO-326A Systems Engineer Software Engineer Hardware Engineering Project Management Safety- Critical & Aviation Software Expert Witness Proposal Optimization: Preparing a technical safety-critical product proposal which you really want to win? AFuzion will scrub and improve your ISO 26262, DO-178C, ED-12C, FAA, EASA, FDA, DO-254, ED-80, ARP-4754A, ARP-4761A, DO-297, and AS9115A content. AFuzion's seven DER's will help you certify per FAA. Safety-Critical Software Audits: DO-178C, DO-254, ARP4754A etc.