Faces of Interface Featuring Dave Reardon
In today’s Faces of Interface series, we are talking to a member of our distinguished global sales network, Dave Reardon. Dave grew up around the force measurement industry and has made his way to representing Interface solutions through our distributor Gentek after a distinguished career in the aerospace industry.
Dave Reardon has known the world of strain gages since he was young. His father was a long-time strain gage expert in the aerospace industry, and Dave followed in his footsteps. He also took a liking to the industry at an early age, participating in CAD classes in high school followed by attending Cal State Long Beach to pursue an electrical engineering degree. He ended up finishing his bachelor’s degree, switching to information technologies at the University of Phoenix, followed by a master’s degree in business administration from Kaplan.
His first role came as an assistant engineer for aerospace industry giant McDonnell Douglas. His role involved the flight test engineering team as needed until they learned about his CAD skills, at which time they had him primarily doing strain gage drawings.
Over the next 18 years, Dave took his talents across various aerospace leaders, including Lockheed Martin, Gulfstream Aerospace, Bombardier, The Boeing Company, and more. His roles varied from instrumentation engineering in flight tests to test directing in avionics development labs and sales. On the sales side, he worked with systems akin to Interface’s portfolio, including data acquisition, telemetry products, and sensors. He even owned his rep firm, including a few sensor lines and other testing equipment.
Dave is well acquainted with Interface’s products. His responsibilities include representing Interface products, working with customers daily to find a solution for their specific needs, working with applications engineers and managing rep firms across a large territory. Dave works across all industries; however, with his background in aerospace and automotive, he certainly knows what fits best for those industries.
Dave has made an incredibly positive impact on our team at Interface. He loves collaborating with customers and seeing the incredible potential of the innovation landscape.
Dave usually travels when he is not solving customer challenges with force systems. He has visited 46 of the 50 states and multiple countries. He lives in Daytona Beach, Florida, but loves vacationing in other beach destinations. Italy is his favorite international getaway, having spent two weeks there in 2014. Dave also has five grown children and grandchildren.
