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As a member of the Canadian Armed Forces from 1978 to 1998, he was employed as an aircraft mechanic and flight engineer. Experience was acquired on helicopter models B205, S61, B412, aircraft CT114, and Lockheed P3C Orion. For a period of six years as a flight engineer on helicopters, he was assigned to different Search and Rescue units throughout Canada.
In 1998 he started his commercial career and joined Air Transat as a flight engineer/mechanic on the Lockheed L1011 and completed the AME  Aircraft Mechanic license). From October 2001 to June 2002, he worked as a helicopter mechanic with Canadian Helicopters and in October 2002, accepted the position of production manager/lead mechanic with Helicopter Transport Services (Canada Inc.). In 2005, he was appointed as the  Director of Maintenance and during that time, implemented a Maintenance Policy Manual, a Maintenance Control Manual, and a Quality Assurance Policy. Also, during that period, he participated in the implementation of the Safety Management System for the organization all the while pursuing his A&P mechanic certification. In October 2012, he joined as a member of SGS Aviation Compliance as an Aviation Advisor performing aviation safety assessments and audits. Since then, he completed the ISO9001:2008 lead auditor qualification and BARS Audit lead/auditor provided by Flight Safety Foundation holding Operations / Maintenance qualifications as well as an IS-BAO Auditor accreditation with Operations / Maintenance for Fixed / Rotary wing qualifications.

In his career, he gained extensive experience with helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft. He currently holds a Canadian AME M2 license, a flight engineer license, and an American A&P license. And has gained experience and understanding of aviation operations in the commercial helicopter and business aviation environment as part of the management team.  Since working as an Advisor he has conducted more than 350 assessments/audits/inspections in charter, business and commercial aviation.

Ron Campbell started his aviation maintenance training as an Avionics Engineering Technologist, he spent over a decade working as an avionics tech, apprentice AME and avionics manager on a wide variety of aircraft and helicopters. He then completed additional training and obtained Transport Canada Aircraft Maintenance Engineer License M1 & M2 and spent another decade working for airlines on Boeing and Airbus in both a mechanical and avionics capacity. Following this spent some time as a Quality Assurance Manager for a cargo airline before returning to college to obtain a certificate in Insurance and Risk Management. After a period of time as an Aviation Account Executive for a major Insurance Broker, he returned to quality and safety role with the SGS Aviation Compliance team as an Aviation Safety Advisor for a diverse client base completing safety audits on manned and unmanned aircraft service providers.

His technical background includes Boeing 737, 757 and 767, and Airbus 320 & 330 series aircraft. He is also an experienced training having developed and/or instructed aircraft technical courses, SMS, Human Factors, and regulatory compliance courses; and presented
at various trade conferences on developing RPAS (Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems) Operations, Manuals, and Implementing RPAS operations into commercial environments.
He completed training as AS9100 and IS-BAO Lead auditor and is a current Lead Auditor for the Flight Safety Foundation BARS program.  He is also a certified RPAS Operator holding Unmanned Operator certificates from both Canada and the USA.