Frank Bria, Director of Publications and Facilities, is celebrating his 40^th year with PIA. Mr. Bria originally came to PIA to work in the print shop where he helped crank out all of PIA’s manuals, workbooks, and paperwork. He took over the publications department in 1984 and has overseen this and daily maintenance around the Pittsburgh campus. Mr. Bria is active with this publication and has many of the photographs within these pages and is the creator/designer of the PIA catalog that is sent to our staff, alumni. and employers. Always an aviation lover, he holds his A&P with IA along with commercial, instrument rating, multi-engine rating, and seaplane pilot licenses and is a member of the Deer Lakes Pilots Club. He lives in Aspinwall with his wife and two cats.

Suzanne Markle, Director of Admissions, celebrates her 10^th employment anniversary with PIA.  She began her tenure with PIA as a member of the instructional staff in 1999, and since then has worked in a number of capacities throughout the organization, including program development and regulatory compliance.  She served as Director of Placement from 2005 until 2008, when she was appointed to her current role overseeing the Admissions department.  Mrs. Markle received her undergraduate degree in Secondary Education from California University of Pennsylvania, and her Master of Business Administration degree from Seton Hill University.  She currently resides in Belle Vernon, PA, with her husband, Dave and daughter, Sydney.

Peg Jackson has been at PIA for ten years working as the Office Manager and now Assistant to the President.  Some of her responsibilities include running board meetings, technical support, employee event and compliance reporting.  Mrs. Jackson also helped start and is chairperson of the PIA Golf Outing that raises funds for scholarships at the school.  The outing has taken place for nine years now and has raised over $30,000 for the scholarship fund. Before coming to PIA, Mrs. Jackson worked for an engineering firm for ten years.  She holds a degree in Accounting and is working towards her bachelor’s degree in Human Resource Management.

Dave Koehler, one of PIA’s electronics and instruments instructors, is known for the breadth and depth of his lessons. Few may know that Mr. Koehler, now celebrating his tenth year at PIA, climbed North America’s highest summit of Mt. McKinley in 1986. After a career that began with auto repair, he enrolled at PIA and graduated in 1992 with both an avionics and aviation maintenance degree. He worked up from a line mechanic to maintenance controller to Manager of Planning and Records, before joining the faculty at PIA. Mr. Koehler still enjoys working on cars and is President of the Washington County Model Aviation Association.

Randy Reynolds, the director of PIA’s Youngstown campus, celebrates his 10 year anniversary too. Mr. Reynolds, a Vietnam and Gulf War veteran, served in the US Air Force for 24 years, starting as a C-130 crew chief and DC-9 taxi instructor. For twelve of those years, he was stationed at Andrews Air Force Base as the crew chief of Air Force-2, the aircraft that transports the US Vice President. He oversaw the jet through the Ronald Reagan and George HW Bush terms. After retiring, he began his own security firm before joining the faculty at PIA. For the last three years, Mr. Reynolds has served as the first Campus Director at our Youngstown campus.

Sue Veverka has been a math and aviation history instructor at PIA for the last five years. Prior to this, she held teaching positions at Baldwin High School, Bethel Park High School, Robert Morris University, and the Community College of Allegheny County (CCAC). She has also worked as a cost accountant, an income tax preparer, and a free-lance accounting consultant.  Mrs. Veverka has a master's degree in Business Education and a bachelor's degree in Accounting from Robert Morris University.