{"id":59202,"date":"2020-08-15T01:45:36","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T17:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/ex-airbus-oneweb-jim-mcclelland-joins-maxar-as-vp-of-mission-architecture\/"},"modified":"2020-08-15T01:45:36","modified_gmt":"2020-08-14T17:45:36","slug":"ex-airbus-oneweb-jim-mcclelland-joins-maxar-as-vp-of-mission-architecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/ex-airbus-oneweb-jim-mcclelland-joins-maxar-as-vp-of-mission-architecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Airbus, OneWeb Jim McClelland Joins Maxar as VP of Mission Architecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_317206\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-317206\" style=\"width: 227px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-317206\" src=\"https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/a0If300000N8ftQEAR-jim-mcclelland.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"227\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/a0If300000N8ftQEAR-jim-mcclelland.jpeg 227w, https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/a0If300000N8ftQEAR-jim-mcclelland-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/a0If300000N8ftQEAR-jim-mcclelland-200x200.jpeg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 227px) 100vw, 227px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-317206\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jim McClelland. Photo: ExecutiveBiz<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Maxar Technologies<\/strong> hired Jim McClelland as vice president of it its newly established Mission Architecture function. McClelland most recently served as chief technology innovation officer at <strong>Airbus U.S., Space and Defense<\/strong>. He has also held positions as CTO of <strong>OneWeb Satellites;<\/strong> vice president of mission engineering and operations for <strong>Millennium Space Systems<\/strong>; and vice president of Mission Assurance for <strong>Skybox Imaging<\/strong>. From 1996 to 2011, McClelland was a key contributor to <strong>DigitalGlobe<\/strong> \u2014 now part of Maxar \u2014 where he served in numerous technical and management roles.<\/p>\n<p>In this new leadership position, McClelland will play a role in the company\u2019s strategic initiative to diversify the Space Infrastructure business and further penetrate U.S. civil and national security markets. He will be reporting to Maxar CTO Walter Scott.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJim brings a wealth of experience in the technical and business aspects of Earth observation and communications systems,\u201d said Scott. \u201cFrom his role in leading enterprise-wide systems engineering efforts for our WorldView satellites to his recent work with the OneWeb spacecraft, he has effectively applied \u2018new space\u2019 thinking and breakthrough ideas grounded in sound engineering and an intimate understanding of customers\u2019 missions.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim McClelland. Photo: ExecutiveBiz Maxar Technologies hired Jim McClelland as vice president of it its newly established Mission Architecture function. McClelland most recently served as chief technology innovation officer at Airbus U.S., Space and Defense. He has also held positions as CTO of OneWeb Satellites; vice president of mission engineering and operations for Millennium Space [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59202"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}