Bill Fleissner

Based in Omaha, Nebraska

Bill Fleissner is the Founder, President, and General Manager of Avionics Interface Technologies. Under his direction, AIT has developed a reputation for providing the highest technology and feature rich products with outstanding customer satisfaction, making AIT a leader in the avionics industry. Bill has designed and installed a wide variety of military test and simulation systems for the Department of Defense (DOD) and its contractors, including telemetry monitoring and launch control systems for the Tomahawk Cruise Missile Program; Atlas, Centaur, Titan, and Delta ELVs (Expendable Launch Vehicle - Rockets); the Consolidated Communications Facility at Johnson Space Center for the Shuttle and Space Station Freedom Programs; and many flight test applications for NASA and DOD programs, including missiles, rockets, military aircraft and satellite programs.

Bill holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electronics Engineering from the University of Nebraska, and has pursued subsequent post graduate studies at UCSD (Univ. of California at San Diego), UCLA, MIT, and Northwestern University’s J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management.

Ken Bisson

Based in East Hampstead, New Hampshire

Ken Bisson is co-founder of AIT and serves as our Executive Vice President of Sales. He has over 20 years experience in aerospace systems design and applications. Ken oversees AIT's international markets and works directly with international customers. He previously served as National Sales Manager for the Aerospace Division of SBS Technologies, Senior Application Engineer at AP Labs, and as principal engineer of Aerospace Systems at MIT Lincoln Laboratories.

Ken holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from the University of Massachusetts at Lowell.

Sales Area: international, outside North America

Tim Fleissner

Based in Omaha, Nebraska

Tim Fleissner has worked on several software applications for AIT, including our Flight Simulyzer 1553 GUI Analyzer software. He also provides direct customer support for our software applications. Before joining AIT, Tim worked with General Dynamics in Scottsdale, AZ.

Tim holds a degree in Electrical Engineering for the University of Nebraska - Lincoln. 

Sales Area: Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wisconsin

Tony Ricker

Based in Beavercreek, Ohio

Tony Ricker has worked for AIT since 1998. Tony was instrumental in the development of our fcXplorer Fibre Channel Simulyzer software and worked to transition our MIL-STD-1553 boards to our innovative FPGA-based hardware architecture. He has also worked directly with customers to integrate AIT hardware and software to their existing applications, as well as custom solutions. Tony has been the primary point of contact at AIT for several programs, including COLT, RTCASS and LMSTAR.

Tony holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Ohio State University. 

Sales Area: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee

Leonard Schuler

Based in Mesa, Arizona

Leonard "Lennie" Schuler has worked at AIT since 2001. Lennie is  responsible for technical sales in the western territory and is well versed with all AIT products and the MIL-STD-1553, ARINC 429, ARINC 664, Fibre Channel, MIL-STD-1760E, TTEthernet and TTP protocols. He has extensive experience working directly with customers to integrate AIT hardware and software into existing applications, as well as field upgrades and training. Lennie has been AIT's primary point of contact for several major programs, including B1B WISARD, B2B Upgrade, AMRAM, COSMOS and JSF.

Lennie holds an AAS in Electronic Technology from Albuquerque Technical in New Mexico.

Sales Area: Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Idaho, Louisiana, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming

Troy Troshynski

Based in Omaha, Nebraska

Troy Troshynski joined AIT in 2002. He has over eight years of experience working with high speed avionics and data communications protocols. Troy has worked developing MIL-STD-1553, ARINC 429 and ARINC 664 applications software. He has a wide background covering applications, device driver, and embedded real-time software development on a variety of operating systems.

Troy holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from Doane College in Crete, Nebraska, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. 

Nathan Warden

Based in Beavercreek, Ohio

Sales Area: Alaska, Connecticut, Delaware, Indiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, Washington DC, West Virginia and Canada