Rock West Composites | The Rock West Team

 

Jim Gormican

CEO and President


Career Summary

25+ years of technical leadership and business management

Past 18 years in entrepreneurial endeavors related to composites technology

Key contributor to development of privately held aerospace composites company

12 Years, Director, VP Operations, President, CEO, and Chairman 
Sold company to ATK In 2003

  • President, ATK COI

  • Executive VP, ATK Composites 

  • VP Strategy, ATK Advanced Propulsion and Space Systems Group
  • VP Business Development & Strategy, ATK Mission Systems Group

  • VP & GM, ATK Mission Research and Technical Services

CEO Rock West Solutions: Aerospace and Defense technologies and related enterprises
 

 

 

Dave Erickson
V.P. / General Manager


Career Summary


  • 20 Years composites industry leadership
  • Program Management
  • Product design
  • Product development
  • Sales management
  • Commercial, industrial, defense, recreational markets

B.S. Materials Science & Engineering -- University of Utah

Business Development Manager -- Composite Solutions, LLC
Custom Product Manager -- MacLean Quality Composites
Manager, Sales Engineering -- Advanced Composites, Inc.

 

 

 

Jason Webb
Director of Product Engineering

Career Summary


  • Design & Structural analysis
  • Composite manufacturing
  • Product development 

University of Utah
Investigated non-traditional sandwich composite constituents for space applications (NASA)
Design-of-experiments
Prototyping and mechanical testing
Formal presentation of results

MacLean Quality Composites -- Composites Design Engineer
Reynolds Cycling – Composites Design Engineer 

 

 

Jim Bjarnson
Operations Manager

Career Summary


  • 25 Years Manufacturing experience
  • 12 Years Composites Industry Experience
  • Engineering Manager
  • Manufacturing Engineering Manager
  • Quality Manager
  • Product Development

Engineering Manager -- NAMMO Composite Solutions
Manufacturing Engineering Manager -- Reynolds Composites
Quality Manager -- MacLean Quality Composites
Engineering / Product Development -- Martin Door Manufacturing

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rylan Hayes

Career Summary

  • 7 years Customer Relations
  • Production Planning
  • Carbon Fiber Tubing Design and Development

University of Utah

Design Conceptualization, CAD Development, Manufacturing
Composites Theory, Project Management, Formal Presentations
Rapid Prototyping, Waterjet, CNC and Tradtitional Machining

Part Designer / Engineer – Microfab
Product Design – Black Box Safe