Ashley Tuck is an MBA qualified aerospace engineer with a wealth of experience in the defence and aerospace sectors.  Ashley is a strong business leader having held a number of senior project and engineering management roles. Ashley has a demonstrated track record of successful delivery of a portfolio of complex safety-critical engineering projects. 

With expertise and experience in stress, fatigue and damage tolerance analysis, he has held engineering authority in a Part 21J accredited engineering organization.  Ashley has implemented aircraft structural integrity management programmes to assure the long-term airworthiness of a number of RAAF aircraft fleets.  Ashley represented the Defence Aviation Safety Authority to certify that the KC-30A aircraft complied with structural airworthiness requirements and was safe to operate.

Ashley has recent experience establishing a new defence consultancy business in the Middle East delivering a wide range of capability development, systems integration, organisational transformation and specialist training projects to deliver operational advantages to the user. 

Ashley’s core skills include: Complex Project & Programme Management, Engineering Management Aerospace Engineering, Aircraft Structural Analysis, Airworthiness & Certification, Fatigue & Damage Tolerance, Defence Acquisition, Systems Engineering, Requirements & Specification Development, Contracting and Technical Assurance.