Fred W. has extensive experience in aviation and project management, currently serving as a Captain at Southwest Airlines since July 2017. Fred has also held the position of Project Manager at Los Alamos Technical Associates since January 2011 and was the Pilot and Director of Safety at AirCARE1 International from December 2015 to July 2017. A former Officer in the United States Marine Corps from February 1991 to March 2011, Fred specialized as an F/A-18 Hornet Pilot and East Asia Foreign Area Officer. Academically, Fred earned a Master of Arts in National Security Affairs from the Naval Postgraduate School and a Master of Computer Science from Texas A&M University, complemented by a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Baylor University.