AAR
Michael Wiley has been named the new General Manager of the AAR Mechanical Inspection Department. He will succeed Stephen Berkshire who retired in 2023.
Wiley is a professional railroader with more than 28 years of extensive leadership experience directing all facets of mechanical processes, rules compliance, efficiency and reliability regarding freight car inspection and repair. He served on several industry committees over the years, including the Railroad Safety Advisory Committee (RSAC), ARB (Arbitration & Rules) and CRB (Car Repair Building). Some of Wiley’s long-term responsibilities included development of reliability strategies and efficiencies via data collection and analytics, as well as collaborating with technology department for system applications development and implementation.
He is a Certified Instructor with Instructional Design Certification from University of North Florida. Wiley also has more than 10 years of experience developing training and instructing mechanical forces in rules safety, departmental policies, regulatory standards, and industry rules.
He is an avid outdoorsman with interests that include fishing, hunting and shooting, and his number one activity outside of work and the rail industry is to be a doting grandfather to his 15 grandchildren.
RSI
RSI President Patty Long recently announced that Jeffrey Ostrander has joined the association to help manage RSI’s Quality Assurance, Equipment Leasing and ARCI Committees.
“We are very lucky that Jeffrey was wrapping up work for another Smithbucklin client and was eager and willing to jump into this,” wrote Long is the association’s monthly newsletter.
Ostrander brings strong operations and project management skills to this role, having worked at several other Smithbucklin associations. Prior to that, he worked for seven years with the American Institute of Architects.
“Some of you have already met Jeffrey as he has begun attending some of the working group calls. He will be reaching out to other committee heads over the next few weeks. As you might imagine, Sheena left very thorough records (meeting minutes, budgets, committee recommendations, etc.) and Jeffrey is in the process of downloading and digesting a lot of that,” concluded Long.
