Donna Buckingham joined Mesa Airlines in November 1998 as the Year 2000 Program Manager. Prior to joining Mesa, Ms. Buckingham was a systems engineer for over 11 years at Ford Aerospace (currently Lockheed Martin Corporation) in Colorado Springs, Co. She then became a member of the start-up team at Western Pacific Airlines where she was Manager of Architecture & Standards in the Information Technologies Department.
Her most recent position prior to joining Mesa was with PROS Strategic Solutions in Houston, Texas where she held the position of Project Manager for Singapore Airlines. Ms. Buckingham attended Penn State University and earned her Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration/Information Systems from the University of Colorado.