ASNT Fellow
Award
2009 Winner Marwan Basrawi has worked at Saudi Aramco since 1979, starting his career there as a project engineer, and also holding positions as engineer and engineering supervisor. He has been the division manager of Saudi Aramco since 1994. Basrawi has been a member of ASNT since 1998. He is currently the regional director of Region 19, which also includes the Egyptian Sphinx, Turk and United Arab Emirates Sections. He has served as the chair of the Saudi Arabian Section and a member of ASNT’s Board of Directors.
Basrawi received his BS in civil engineering at the University of Petroleum and Minerals in Saudi Arabia. He completed his master’s in engineering administration at George Washington University in Washington, DC.
2009 Winner Anthony J. Gatti, Sr. has been an employee of Kingsbury, Inc. in Philadelphia for the last 44 years, with the first 17 years spent as a machinist. After transferring to the quality control department, his interest in NDT began. Gatti received his initial certification in UT and UT welding from Magnaflux Quality Service, and later for MT and PT from the same organization. He currently holds certification in MT, PT, UT and VT, and oversees all NDT work at Kingsbury.
Gatti has been a member of ASNT since 1988, and has been an active member in the Philadelphia Section, holding the offices of membership chair (1994–97), secretary (1997–98), treasurer (1998–99), vice chair (1999–2000), chair (2000–02) and executive director (2002–present). He has also been active on the national level. He has been on the review board for The NDT Technician since 2002, a member of the Section Operations Council Student Interest Committee since 2008 and chair of the Section Management Division of the Section Operations Council since 2008.
2009 Winner Michael J. Ruddy has been employed as the quality/technical services manager at NOV Tuboscope in Houston since 1995. Before that he worked at Oilfield Materials Consultants, Baker Hughes Vetco Services, DJ Inspection Services and Patterson Inspection Services. Ruddy holds ACCP Professional Level III certification in MT, PT and UT, and ASNT NDT Level III certification in ET, MT, PT and UT. He is a lifetime member of ASNT and has been a member since 1983. Ruddy is currently a director at large on the Board of Directors, the chair of the SNT-TC-1A Review Committee and is a member of the Governance Committee, Standards Development Committee, Electromagnetics Committee, Magnetic Flux Leakage Committee, MT/PT Committee and SNT-TC-1A Interpretation Panel.
2009 Winner Israel Vásquez has been involved in quality systems and nondestructive testing since 1972, beginning as an NDT technician in the US Air Force and as a radiographer for Aerojet Solid Rocket Propulsion Company. He has also worked at Lockheed Missiles and Space Company and Magnetic Inspection Laboratory. Vásquez is an ASNT NDT Level III in MT, PT and RT. Presently, he is an independent quality systems/NDT consultant and is contracted by the Performance Review Institute to conduct training and Nadcap audits.
Vásquez has been a member of ASNT since 1981 and is also a member of the American Society of Quality Control and the American Society of Testing and Materials.
2009 Winner David J. Vigne is the vice president of National Inspection and Consultants in Fort Meyers, Florida, having started working at the company’s Pittsburgh location in 1977. He’s been a member of ASNT since 1977 and is the Certifiction Management Council’s IRRSP Division chair, as well as chair of the Basic Examination Committee. Vigne is a mentor for ASNT’s e-Mentoring Program, a member of both the SNT-TC-1A Review Committee and Awards Committee, and recently served on the Board of Directors. He holds ACCP Professional Level III and ASNT NDT Level III certification in MT, PT, RT, UT and VT.
Congratulations to Marwan Basrawi, Anthony J. Gatti, Sr., Michael J. Ruddy, Israel Matias Vásquez and David J. Vigne, winners of the 2009 ASNT Fellow Award.
Marwan Basrawi
Anthony J. Gatti, Sr.
Michael J. Ruddy
Israel Matias Vásquez
David J. Vigne
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