Eric Tarter is the Director of Systems Engineering at Astronics CSC. Eric has successfully led numerous ‎product development programs within the aerospace connectivity market including both cabin ‎networking and satellite connectivity systems. He has deep knowledge of the various aerospace ‎business segments as well as the core underlying technologies involved in LRU hardware designs. In ‎his 30+ years of experience, Eric has held positions of increasing responsibility in engineering and ‎product management roles working for companies such as AP Labs and Kontron. Eric holds a BS ‎mechanical Engineering from UC Davis, and an MBA from the University of Redlands. Eric holds two ‎patents around the deployment of portable IFE systems. ‎