About Jon C. Schneider

BSAE 1987, UMR
MBA 1993, St Louis University
MS Manufacturing 2000, Washington University

Jon Schneider leads an enterprise-wide team responsible for the technical and professional development of over 150,000 enterprise employees and suppliers of the Boeing Company.  His team supports the development of engineers and other technical employees on programs such as the new 787 Dreamliner commercial airplane and the P-8A Poseidon anti-submarine warfare system.  In his previous position, Schneider was Deputy Program Manager and Chief Engineer for the HyFly Advanced Technology Demonstration program.  He led a Boeing and supplier team in the development of supersonic combustion ramjet powered flight test vehicles to demonstrate Mach 6, 400 mile range missile capabilities.  Prior to this Schneider was Program Manager for assault breaching systems using air-launched, Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) systems and guided dispensers to clear the surf and beach zones of mines and obstacles prior to amphibious assaults.

Schneider also served for three years as the Product Team Leader for JDAM GPS-aided guided weapons.  In that capacity, he led an integrated team through the transition-to-production and sustaining production of JDAM weapons.   After joining McDonnell Douglas in 1987 as an engineer for Propulsion technologies, Schneider went on to lead Systems, Aeromechanics and Warhead Engineering efforts in support of numerous advanced weapons development programs.