AAR Corp Parts Supply and Engineering Initiatives
Leadership bios
Jose Almeida
(President, Trax)
Andrew Schmidt
(SVP, Digital Services & Trax)
Founded Trax 1997, saw
need for a windows-based
MRO ERP system... Y2K
compliant and better
user interface
Rapidly grew Trax as
customer felt assured by
Y2K compliance and were
elated with non-green-
screen GUI
AAR | Trax
First fully cloud-based
MRO ERP, eMRO
Followed this with first full
suite of "paperless"
mobility apps, eMobility
(16 apps and growing)
Sold Trax to AAR and now
working on automating
MRO with Al
Began career as a
flight test engineer at
McDonnell Douglas
Partner at AT Kearney and
Oliver Wyman; Led
Aerospace Practice at
Oliver Wyman
Joined Macquarie Capital
to form Taurus Aerospace
Joined AAR in 2010;
started Digital Solutions
group in 2014
Co-led Seabury Capital's
Private Investment Group,
launched in 2018
Rejoined AAR this year
after supporting Trax
acquisition
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