Mr. Rendzio entered the US Army in 1972 retiring in 1993 having obtained over 5,000 hours in both rotary and fixed wing.  He is rated in various helicopters to include the AH-1, UH-1 and OH-58 series aircraft.  During his tenure with the service, he specialized in safety culminating his career at the prestigious US Army Safety Center.  In total, Mr. Rendzio had investigated over 120 major accidents of which the majority were rotary wing.  Mr. Rendzio distinguished himself as an expert in halogenated fire extinguishment technology and was considered an expert in wire strikes.  Mr. Rendzio has published in both areas.

 

After leaving the service, Mr. Rendzio provided aircraft accident reconstruction services to the various customers to include the Department of Justice.  In the conduct of his work, he has also developed educational programs to include the inventive development of a Crew Resource Management Program and programs related to decision-making.

 

Mr. Rendzio has conducted analysis of various systems to include wire detection systems, turbine engines, Hughes 269 tail boom failures.  UH-60 stabilator failure analysis, and King Air lightening strikes.  He has also provided, for the U.S. Army Safety Center, flight data recorder analysis for three key Black Hawk mishaps.

 

Mr. Rendzio had worked a manager in support of the US Army Aviation and Troop Command for safety related matters to include safety assessments of products and programs developed by one of the Program Managers’ Office.  He conducted assessments in diverse areas such as an assessment of the global positioning system (GPS) to include its impact upon the currently used avionics, a bottom to top review of an engine trend monitoring programs, and assessed the AH-64 fire detection system to ascertain high failure rates of its sensors.