Courses Taught
TJ Candy
Biography
Anthony (TJ) Candy is a retired Product Safety Principle Engineer having worked primarily in the aerospace/defense gas turbine industry since 1981. Mr. Candy joined Bendix (now Honeywell) South Bend, IN after obtaining his BSME from Michigan State. From there, he went to Textron (now Woodward FST) in Walled Lake, MI before joining GE Aerospace in Cincinnati, OH in 1990. Mr. Candy retired from GE in 2024 and founded DevSafe Consulting, LLC to provide system safety consulting services to industry.
TJ currently provides instruction as a part of the USC System Safety Course (SSC) since 2021.
During his professional career, Mr. Candy primarily supported military gas turbine engine design and development programs as a design engineer with sustained roles in fuel control component design, combustor design (including a fuel nozzle patent). He has held positions in systems engineering and IT before joining the Flight Safety office in 2004.
Mr. Candy initially supported operational/sustainment flight safety for the GE F101/F110/F118 engine product lines (F16, B1, B2, C5, U2 and more) supporting field investigations and conducting safety risk assessments. In 2005, he was assigned to the F136 Safety team developing a new engine for the F-35 and began developing both a new development safety process and software tool based on MIL-STD-882. This software tool as well as the safety process itself was developed and refined until his retirement and has been used on multiple advanced military safety programs (including XA100, T901 among others) and remains in use after his retirement.
Prior to retirement, Mr. Candy authored the military system safety standard practice document for new product development, mentored a number of new system safety employees, as well as provided system safety consultation for a number of advanced development programs.
He received an Engineering Excellence Award from GE Aerospace in 2023 for his contributions to the military safety process.
TJ's past-times includes travel (cruises) with his loving wife Judy, golf, running and the occasional frosty beverage.