John Quintanilla

John Quintanilla, AvFinity’s Director of Engineering, brings more than 20 years of engineering, aviation communications and software development experience in the aerospace and aviation industries. Previous positions include Supervisor of Application Development at Universal Weather where he managed a team of six developers and was responsible for support of web applications and communication applications. During his 13 years at Universal, he also served as a Senior Software Developer focusing on ACARS aircraft communications, web development, communications application, C++ weather applications and WebSphere MQ application development. John also worked for UNISYS Space Systems for seven years as Software Engineer where he supported NASA’s training division and was a developer on a flight planning system for mission operations.

John started his career as a Computer Scientist for Standard Oil’s exploration division and as a Computer Programmer for Lockheed, responsible for launch vehicle database applications.

John holds a BA in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin.