Jay Patel is a Technical Fellow and structural repair expert at Boeing. He has over 24 years of experience in supporting customer’s complex metal and composite structure repair needs. Jay has travelled to over 30 countries to provide on-site technical support for complex AOG (Aircraft on Ground) repairs and modification programs to our airline customers. He has been called upon as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in nine NTSB/FAA incident/accident investigations. Jay participates in several industry committees and research consortiums such as the Commercial Aircraft Composite Repair Committee (SAE AMS CACRC), Aviation Services Research Centre (ASRC – Hong Kong), and Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR – Singapore). He is the chair of the Product Support Engineering Support and Sustaining (ES&S) Technical Board and the Customer Support Airframe Technical Council.