Candidate Worksheet

Candidate Name:Michael H. (Mike) McKelvey

Candidate Qualifications:

Mike is known both within the ISSS Virtual Chapter (VC) and the Society as a communicator. He helped initiate conversation on suggestions to improve VC monthly meetings, with the VC ultimately deciding to use the JoinMe application as a low-cost, comprehensive, web-based collaboration tool. EC liked the JoinMe application so much that it was purchased for general use by all ISSS members/chapters.

As an Associate Technical Fellow at The Boeing Company, Mike is expected to communicate complex issues in a simple and clear way, partially to simplify problem solving efforts and partly to maximize knowledge transfer to early and mid-career engineers. He has been so effective that Leadership is tasking him with preparing for advancement within Boeing’s Technical Fellowship to become a Technical Fellow (the mid-grade level within the Fellowship).

Mike routinely confers, discusses, integrates and implements written and verbal communications tosenior leadership in Boeing and externally to senior leadership in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and other regulatory entities. This level of communication is indirectly shown in theMembership Application when accumulating experience to transition from Member to Senior Member; Mike was conferred as an ISSS Senior Member in 2016.

Candidate Goals for Office

Mike has a few goals for this office, in addition to continuing the work admirably conducted by outgoing Director Saralyn Dwyer. They are:

  1. Improve inter- and intra-chapter communication by assisting each chapter to implement the use of JoinMe so that any Society member can decide to attend any chapter’s monthly meeting, based on contentpresented or topics discussed.
  2. Introduce, disseminate and train the EC and each chapter in the use of select social media forums (i.e. – Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram) and organize how information contained in these forums can be used to attract college-age adults to the system safety profession.
  3. Improve dissemination of topics at the annual conference by leveraging [by then] established social media forums (see above) into a more integrated ISSC smartphone application; this will be accomplished with full input and concurrence with the Director of Conferences.
  4. Work with the Director of Education and Professional Development to effectively “reach out” to other associated societies (i.e. – SAE, ASSE, RAMS, INCOSE, etc.) through the use of social media tools, to improve ISSS presence in these societies.

Mike’s desire is to significantly improve ISSS communications for the betterment of its members, viaexisting forums and cutting edge social media tools that are attractive to early career engineers and college students.