Glide Aerospace is an independent consulting firm that provides focused expertise and services to Aerospace and Defense companies. We work with industry clients of all sizes to help increase their strategic agility and operating performance.
Jason Scarsbrook is the principal consultant and founder of Glide Aerospace, a management consulting and services firm specializing in the Aerospace and Defense industry.
Aerospace and Defense companies turn to Glide Aerospace
when:
- They are dedicated to being best in class, committed to continuous improvement and are proactive about ensuring that their performance advantage will be maintained throughout the long term.
- They are frustrated by not being able to consistently achieve their strategic objectives and are losing competitiveness
- They are experiencing frequent pains with their delivery performance and quality, and are under significant pressure from customers to eliminate these problems
- They are having difficulty developing and launching new products (NPI), whether through overspending or having final products which do not perform to required specification
- They are tired of poor performance from a key supplier putting their credibility and future business in jeopardy. They are ready for immediate action to increase the reliability of this supplier
Glide Aerospace provides our Aerospace and Defense partners
with advanced expertise in strategic planning and execution, benefits
realization management (BRM), enterprise project and program management (EPM), new
product introduction (NPI), product qualification, process management, IT software solutions ,
supply chain and supplier performance management. Using our unique, powerful frameworks
developed from years of industry experience, Glide Aerospace drives performance
improvement by better connecting strategy and execution throughout 360 degrees
of an organization.
Glide Aerospace provides enhanced value to our market compared
with other available alternatives:
- We are a small, agile consulting firm, with the ability to perform quick and focused engagements with our clients that larger consulting firms cannot match
- We have years of experience working in Aerospace and Defense, and fully understand the challenges unique to our industry. We utilize senior level expertise on all of our client engagements.
- We are focused Aerospace and Defense industry specialists with a passion for the industry; we are not a generalist firm with generalist approaches
Glide Aerospace is based in Toronto, Canada and supports client projects around the world.
ABOUT JASON SCARSBROOK
Jason’s in depth industry knowledge is backed by over 15 years experience working in program management, project engineering, systems engineering, design and manufacturing. He has successfully managed multi-million dollar project portfolios and handled over 50 New Product Introduction (NPI) projects on such major commercial and military aircraft programs as Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II, RQ-4A Global Hawk, Airbus A350-1000, A380, A220, Bombardier Q400, CL350 Challenger, Global 7000, Dassault Falcon 8X and Gulfstream G500. Jason also has maritime defense systems experience working on programs for the Astute class submarine and the Zumwalt class destroyer.
He has a Bachelors degree in Aerospace Engineering from Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada and is both a licensed professional engineer (P.Eng.) and certified PMI project management professional (PMP). He is a member of Professional Engineers of Ontario (PEO).
Jason has had a lifelong passion for aerospace and defense technology, and is a licensed Private Pilot in Canada. He enjoys helping organizations of all sizes achieve their performance goals and increase their market competitiveness.
Contact Jason today via email or connect with him on Linkedin.