RetiredBA/BY
Easy to look him up, quoting from the accident report (my bold):
The captain, age 57, was hired by Pacific Southwest Airlines on February 25, 1980. Before this, he flew McDonnell Douglas F-4 airplanes for the U.S. Air Force. At the time of the accident, he held a single- and multi-engine airline transport pilot (ATP) certificate, issued August 7, 2002, with type ratings in A320, Boeing 737, McDonnell Douglas DC-9, Learjet, and British Aerospace AVR-146 airplanes.
Might also want to look up the rest of his career too, including the military record, accident-investigator bits, safety consultant and ALPA positions, too damn long to cut and paste into a post, wikipedia has a lot on him.
He is, (or was in 2009) in short exactly the kind of pilot I'd want at the pointy end when the excrement (or at least that end of the bird) hits the fan - a hands-on pilot vastly experienced across a wide range of aircraft and a bona fide aviation accident and safety expert as well.