Di Reimold was named FAA’s Deputy Assistant Administrator for International Aviation, effective December 24, 2006. She became Acting Assistant Administrator of that office on May 9, 2008.
Reporting directly to FAA Administrator, Reimold heads an office responsible for coordinating all of FAA’s international activities and advancing U.S. leadership in aviation around the world, with a particular focus on standardization of safety regulation and certification.
She brings to this position a strong technical and leadership background in both the private and public sector. She started her career in 1980 at Honeywell, Inc., and then moved on to Martin-Marietta as a project manager in the Air Traffic Control Division before joining FAA in 1990 as a Technical Communications Management Specialist. Over the next decade, she moved into increasingly responsible leadership positions in major technical programs. These included Deputy of FAA’s Integrated Product Team for Aircraft, Avionics, and Navigation and then as Deputy of FAA’s Communications IPT. She also served as acting head of the IPT Communications for six months.
She left FAA in 2000 for the private sector. She served first as a senior manager at MCI WorldCom and then moved to the MITRE Civil Advanced Aviation System Development organization as a senior manager for both Air Traffic Management (ATM) Infrastructure and International ATM Systems Engineering. She returned to FAA in 2003 as a Special Assistant to the Assistant Administrator for International Aviation before the position of Deputy Assistant Administrator was established.
Reimold has an undergraduate degree (B.S.) in Business Management, and a Masters (M.S.) in Management and Leadership Sciences, both from National-Louis University. She is fluent in German.