Dan Gladysz is the PLM Business Architect on Moog Inc.’s PLM journey. Daniel has over 28 years of experience in the aerospace engineering industry, working for Moog, and holds a degree in mechanical engineering from Rochester Institute of Technology. He started his career in product engineering on aircraft flight controls and has held various engineering management roles within the delivery, NPI, sustainment, operations, and customer-facing domains. Dan’s experience working with collaborative teams on both the authoring and consumer side of engineering data gives him a unique perspective on the day-to-day user challenges and limitations of disconnected data and the opportunities that well-structured PLM architecture can offer. Dan transitioned into PLM management in 2018 and is passionate about applying systems thinking to develop cutting-edge solutions for digital transformation.