Chief Engineer, Phantom Works

Mark Burgess is the chief engineer of Phantom Works. Mark is responsible for ensuring technical and engineering excellence for the Phantom Works organization – providing functional oversight for all Phantom Works engineers. He ensures that Phantom Works, as the advanced research and development arm of The Boeing Company, has the right people, processes, and resources in place to enable successful results and transfer of technology throughout the Boeing enterprise.
Mark also is responsible for the Advanced Lean Enterprise organization, which has enterprise-wide responsibility for the development of common engineering tools that enable breakthrough levels of improvement in cost, cycle time, and quality. Other elements of the ALE organization include Enterprise Labs & Test Technologies – responsible for developing and delivering improved test tools and methods to reduce test cycle time, cost, and risk – and Design and Collaboration Technologies.

Mark reports to the president of Phantom Works and is a member of the Boeing Enterprise Engineering Team.
Prior to this assignment, Mark supported the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program. His previous positions on the JSF program include St. Louis site director and X-32 Air Vehicle Analysis and Integration team leader.

Mark joined Boeing in 1979 in Wichita, Kan. Since then, he has worked on numerous programs, including B-52 and KC-135 upgrades, Transatmospheric Vehicle, National Aero-Space Plane, U.S. Navy A/FX, and the DARPA Advanced Short Takeoff and Vertical Landing (ASTOVL) program. He has also worked in aerodynamics technology leading several research and design tool development projects.

Mark holds bachelor’s and master’s of science degrees in Aeronautical Engineering and a master’s of science degree in Industrial Administration, all from Purdue University.

Mark and his wife Laurie live in Seattle with their two daughters. Mark enjoys skiing, sailing, golf, and hiking.