Talion Edwards

Talion Edwards is an Associate Technical Fellow in 3D  Imaging and Reverse Engineering and the principle  investigator for Boeing Research and Technology Reverse  Engineering Development task. His primary responsibility is  to guide the strategy of the Boeing Non Line of Sight  Reverse Engineering technology.  Talion also serves as  Co-Chairman of the Boeing Enterprise 3D Imaging Community  of Practice.

Talion received a BSME from the University of Missouri  Rolla in 1997 and earned a MSME from Washington University in 1999 through the Boeing Learning Together program. Talion joined Boeing in 1997 as a mechanisms designer and  has worked on virtual reality training and 3D visualization  environments.   For the last 8 years Talion has been  working in BR&T to develop tools and processes related to  Reverse Engineering and he holds multiple US patents  related to reverse engineering .

Talion coordinates a yearly workshop for the Boeing 3D  Imaging Community of Practice in conjunction with the  Coordinate Measurement Systems Conference (CMSC).  He  currently serves as Past Chairman of the executive  committee of CMSC and is helping to lead an effort to  establish a central certification for industrial  metrologists.  Talion previously served as vice-chairman of  the advisory board for the Society of Manufacturing (SME)  Engineers 3D Data Capture/Reverse Engineering Technical  Group and has participated on the SME 3D SCANNING  conference advisory team and the associated Reverse  Engineering workshop.

Talion is a resident of Foristell, MO with his wife Carolyn  and three daughters.  In his spare time, Talion enjoys  riding motorcycles, scuba diving, and competing in triatholons.