Brian Pettinato is Manager of Product Development at Elliott Group in Jeannette, Pennsylvania. He has been with Elliott Group since 1995. His primary area of expertise is machinery dynamics. Mr. Pettinato received his B.S. (1989) and M.S. (1992) Mechanical Engineering degrees from the University of Virginia. He has coauthored over twenty technical papers and holds three U.S. patents. Mr. Pettinato is a fellow member of ASME, a member of STLE, and a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Pennsylvania. He serves on the Turbomachinery Advisory Committee of Texas A&M and on the API 684 rotordynamics task force.