OBJECTIVE:
• Managerial or Technical Aerospace Mechanical Systems Engineering Position
QUALIFICATIONS:
• Comprehensive technical experience in Aerospace Mechanical Systems Engineering as an individual contributor and manager of technical personnel and projects.
• Project and functional manager with proven skills in planning, tracking, schedule / cost controls / reporting, and customer relations. Results-oriented manager who has consistently delivered each project assigned on-time and on-budget.
• Aerospace Mechanical Systems Engineer with a comprehensive technical background ranging from R & D prototype to low-to-medium production environments, new business proposal development, requirements derivation / allocation and verification planning, directing systems trade studies, performing structural / thermal design and analysis, and coordinating fabrication, assembly, integration, alignment, test, and launch support for conceptual-through-production mechanical hardware, tooling and ground support equipment.
EXPERIENCE:
WABTEC RAILWAY ELECTRONICS, INC.
• Senior Systems Safety Engineer
Train Management Computer Systems
• Cedar Rapids, IA 2014 to present
Performed systems safety engineering for the Federal Railroad Administration Rail Safety Improvement Act Positive Train Control automated collision and over-speed derailment avoidance, detection and prevention, interoperable communication-based real-time embedded control system development safety certification. Developed software quality assurance and system safety plans, assessments and analysis, hazard risk management, verification and validation plans.
ANDREWS SPACE, INC.
• Senior Systems Engineer [Contract]
Aerospace Engineering Consultants
• Seattle, WA 2011 to present
Andrews Space, Inc. @ ATK Inc.
• Promontory, UT 2008 to 2009
Andrews Space, Inc. @ ATK Inc.
• Magna, UT 2006 to 2007
Performed systems engineering for commercial and military manned and unmanned rated launch vehicles, solid and liquid propulsion, crew, cargo, payload, and ground infrastructure systems. Generated system mission, performance, loads and environments, and interface requirement specifications and flow down of requirements to subsystems and components. Led systems and configuration trade and development efforts, developed risk mitigation and test, inspection, and analysis verification plans to ensure compliance to requirements.
UNITED TECHNOLOGIES PRATT & WHITNEY
• Systems Safety Engineer [Contract]
Transport Aircraft Turbine Engines
• San Diego, CA 2010 to 2011
Performed systems safety engineering for turbine engine / auxiliary power unit systems for commercial and military, rotary and winged aircraft, domestic and foreign regulatory agency airworthiness certification. Generated System Safety Program (SSP), SSP Plan (SSPP), and System Safety Assessment (SSA) requirements and verification. Developed Functional Hazard Assessment (FHA) and Risk / Mitigation Assessment. Performed Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) and Failure Modes Effects Criticality Analysis (FMEA/FMECA).
JACOBS TECHNOLOGY @ NASA Johnson Space Center
• Technical Team Lead [Contract]
Aerospace Engineering Consultants
• Houston, TX 2007 to 2008
Technical management authority and deputy manager for NASA onsite contractor Jacobs Technology, for the Space Shuttle and International Space Station Intra-Vehicular Activity Section, responsible for hardware development and certification oversight and supervision of project managers and their reporting project engineers, generating and revising contractual documentation, monitoring cost and schedule accounts, and ensuring adherence to the NASA JSC and Jacobs Technology ESCG work instructions and policies.
LOCKHEED MARTIN COMPANY
• Program Management Subcontract Senior Manager [Contract]
Stirling Engine Power Convertors
• @ Infinia Corporation Kennewick, WA 2005 to 2006
Technical and contractual onsite oversight manager at subcontractor Infinia Corporation facility, for NASA and US Department of Energy program to develop deep space radioisotope powered generator, Stirling engine power convertors. Generated technical interface documents, monitored subcontractor deliverable drawings and specifications, manufacturing procedures, test plans, test reports. Chaired engineering change control and material review boards. Provided written technical reports, and made oral briefings to program management, NASA, DOE, and other customer groups.
MOOG, INC.
• Senior Project Engineer [Contract]
Aerospace Motion Control and Positioning Systems
• Chatsworth, CA 2004 to 2005
Technical project planning, design, analysis, development and testing of actuator component and motion control systems, focal point for customer communications, compliance to component and systems customer technical specifications, coordinating and monitoring tasks in adherence to the program management budgets and schedules.
ILC DOVER, INC.
• Senior Lead Design Engineer [Contract]
Space Inflatable Structures and Antennas
• Frederica, DE 2003 to 2004
Design, analysis, fabrication, assembly, requirements verification, test, and systems integration of space inflatable / rigidizable composite structures, deployment mechanism and space flight hardware, development of proposals and technical solutions to meet cost and schedule commitments.
SPACE SYSTEMS LORAL
[formerly: Ford Aerospace]
• Structure Subsystem Manager
Communication and Imaging Satellites
• Palo Alto, CA 2000 to 2002
Program and technical manager responsible for multiple satellite structure subsystems and structural components, through lifecycle development, technical overview, cost and schedule, directed an Integrated Product Team of fifty engineers and technicians, and managed the structure subsystems budgets. Developed and coordinated, with the department managers, the budget, schedule and manpower, and establi...
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