Our Experts
Avia Tech Online Academy
The practitioners behind our courses
Our courses are shaped by people who have done the work: practitioners who have held quality and safety posts in approved maintenance organisations, led audits and trained teams across the region. Meet the experts who contribute to the Avia Tech Online Academy.
Academy leadership
Ma. Consolacion (Marla) P. Martinez
CEO / Accountable Manager
The Online Academy is run by Avia Tech International Training Academy, Inc., a CAAP-approved training organisation (Licence #2018-02). Marla established Avia Tech in 2016 and leads it as CEO and Accountable Manager.
Founding contributor · Contributor since 2025
Kevin A. Rookes
Founder & Director, Hong Kong Safety & Risk Consulting Company Limited (HSRC)
Hong Kong SAR
Kevin is a safety, quality and risk specialist with more than 30 years in aviation. He has held quality and safety post-holder roles in approved maintenance organisations, guided repair stations through Part 145 approvals with the FAA, EASA and authorities across Asia, and has delivered more than 2,000 hours of regulatory and safety training worldwide. He has also served as an expert consultant to the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines, supporting inspector training and regulatory development.
His firm's original training programme for repair station management personnel is the foundation of our 14 CFR Part 145 Initial Training course.
Expertise
Part 145 repair stations
Safety management systems
Quality auditing
Human factors
Just Culture
Contributed to
Original training programme
14 CFR Part 145 Initial Training
Regulatory & Compliance · eight modules · about two and a half hours, self-paced
How we credit our experts
Credited course by course
Each profile names the courses an expert helped create and the part they played.
Approved by each expert
Every profile is approved by the person it describes before it is published.
Reviewed every year
We reconfirm each profile with its expert once a year to keep it current.
Contribute
Share what you know with the next generation of aviation professionals
If you are an aviation practitioner with a proven programme, a specialism or a topic the industry needs, we would like to hear from you. We work with practitioners on original programmes, subject-matter review and expert sessions, and we credit every contribution.