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Mark Bean
Accepts Software Management Position at Ideal Aerosmith

March 25, 2009

Mark Bean, formerly with L-3 Communications Integration Systems (Greenville, TX), has recently joined Ideal Aerosmith, Inc. as Software Engineering Manager. Mark will office at Ideal’s facility located within the REAC 1 (Research Enterprise and Commercialization Park), Grand Forks, North Dakota. http://www.undrf.org/

Mark’s engineering experience was acquired during eleven years of developing airborne surveillance programs for both domestic and international customers. For the past two years, Mark served as an Engineering Product Manager where he coordinated development, software integration, and delivery tasks on a program for the British Ministry of Defense. Mark has also participated in process improvement initiatives with L-3 during the past several years on their road to an SEI CMMi assessment.

Jim Richtsmeier, Ideal’s Senior Vice President, Business Growth and Technology, stated, “Mark’s experience managing the entire software product lifecycle will be invaluable as Ideal continues on a path of rapid growth.”

Mark holds a Masters degree in Software Engineering from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX (2006), along with a Bachelors degree in Computer Science from South Dakota School of Mines & Technology in Rapid City, SD (1997)

Ideal Aerosmith, Inc. is the leading supplier of customer-driven test solutions. Ideal manufactures precision inertial guidance test systems, rotational rate tables and centrifuges, and high dynamic flight test tables. Our systems test inertial sensors and navigation and guidance systems, and provide dynamic motion simulation for missiles, aircraft, marine vehicles, launch vehicles, oil exploration systems, UAVs, and automobiles. In the aerospace industry, Ideal Aerosmith provides aerospace test engineering services, ATE system engineering, and quality contract manufacturing services. Ideal has provided cutting-edge testing solutions for more than 70 years.

The company is headquartered in East Grand Forks, MN and maintains offices in Grand Forks, ND; Menlo Park, CA; Phoenix, AZ; and Pittsburgh, PA.