Howard Zion, Director of Technical Operations 

 

Howard Zion is the Director of Technical Operations for Transcat, Inc. He holds a B.S. in Engineering Technology and a M.S. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Central Florida. Howard has collected a wealth of knowledge in many disciplines during the span of 23 years in Metrology, and has been employed with: The United States Air Force - Martin Marietta (now Lockheed Martin) - The Standards and Calibration Laboratories at the Kennedy Space Center - Philips Electronics - and currently, Transcat, Inc. Mr. Zion performs additional duties in the Metrology community, serving in the following roles: - NCSLI Working Group on the Electronic Format of Instrument Specifications - NCSLI Working Group on Standardization of Position Descriptions in Metrology - Advisory board at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNCC) - Sponsor for Engineering Capstone projects at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) - One of four Principal Investigators for a National Science Foundation grant through Sinclair Community College in Dayton, OH. (Titled: "Measurement and Calibration Onsite - Inline Project") Howard has been happily married for 19 years. He and his family have lived in upstate New York for the past 7 years and in Orlando, FL for 12 years prior.