Vice President, Design & Engineering and IFP Strategy, Walt Disney Parks & Resorts

Dennis Lind is the vice president of Design & Engineering and Integrated Facility Planning (IFP) for Walt Disney Parks and Resorts. Based in Florida, Dennis leads the Design & Engineering and IFP teams worldwide in the sustainment of existing ride, show, and facility assets in Disney Theme Parks in Florida, California, Paris, and Hong Kong.

Lind joined the Walt Disney World Company in 1990 as a ride & show machine design engineer and worked on various design projects related to existing rides and attractions and served as the test engineer for the commissioning of the fleet of Mark VI Monorails currently in service at the Walt Disney World® Resort. As a member of the research and development team, he worked on applications of new technologies, including developing test equipment and methods to characterize dance floors used by Disney performers. He served as the chief dngineer for quality assurance for four years, directing a team of highly-qualified NDT certified inspectors in the theme parks and participating in the opening of several new attractions including “The Twilight Zone Tower of TerrorTM,” The ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter, the new Dumbo the Flying Elephant ride, Disney’s Blizzard Beach Water Park, and others. Lind joined the Walt Disney Parks and Resorts team as director of engineering for strategic asset management before taking on his current role.

Previously, Lind held engineering positions at Smith & Wesson Company, General Electric, United Technologies Automotive Group, GENRAD, and Mobil Chemical Company.