PROFILE: AEROSPACE ENGINEER
Determined, motivated, and focused engineering professional with progressive experience and a solid knowledge of product design, development, engineering, and test processes, enhancements, and analysis.
•Execute performance and configuration analysis to determine feasible solutions that meet product design objectives, customer specifications, and product quality standards.
•Ensure full product functionality by managing communications with vendors for software design and implementations and serving as an interface between subcontractors and vendors in the planning and execution of in-house and flight line testing.
•Leverage technical expertise and product knowledge to lead problem resolution processes and interface with product engineers, vendors, suppliers, and subcontractors.
•Maintain a solid knowledge of company products, customer requirements, and industry trends in researching, creating, and testing concepts and prototypes, and provide recommendations for modifications and changes.
•Coordinate with engineering teams and subcontractors in the development, monitoring, and implementation of product design and testing enhancements.
•Interface with engineers in the execution of roadmap actions and issue resolution to achieve program targets and develop and implement new methodologies and tools.
•Utilize experimental and analytical methods to develop and predict aerodynamic performance of vehicles from concept to production verification
•Build analytical models and perform analytical simulations to determine aerodynamic drag and lift performance of studio themes and develop recommendations for improvements.
•Current Secret Security Clearance
SKILLS & CAPABILITIES
•Action-oriented individual with demonstrated leadership qualities, strong teamwork skills, and the ability to excel in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities.
•Ability to quickly learn and master new technology and equally successful in both team and self-directed settings with the ability to manage challenges from multiple perspectives.
•Demonstrate significant ingenuity in problem solving, product testing, and analysis, and in developing new standards, testing strategy, and recommendations for improvements in existing design and development standards.
•Hands-on flight line testing experience with a strong understanding of vehicle aerodynamics and proficiency in the application of wind tunnel experimental techniques.
•Self-directed, confident and resilient with excellent personal communication and issue resolution skills.
•Technical proficiencies: Wind Tunnel, CATIA, AutoCAD, Pro/Engineer Wildfire, SolidWorks, LabVIEW, MATLAB, Maple, Abaqus, ANSYS, Maya, DOORS, JIRA, TeamTrack, WireShark, MS Office (Word, Excel, Project, PowerPoint), MS Visio, Linux, PowerShell, HTML, and C++.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Textron Systems Unmanned Systems Inc., Hunt Valley, MD August 2012 - Present
SYSTEMS ENGINEER II (Ground Control Technologies Division)
Hired as a Systems Engineer I and recently promoted to Systems Engineer II based on exceeding goals. Integration and test team subject matter expert for the Universal Ground Data Terminal (UGDT) and Airborne Data Terminals, providing technical expertise in the areas of data links, hardware requirements, networking interfaces, and radio frequency communications. Task lead for integration activities for hardware and software system releases, enhancements, and troubleshooting for the Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAV) and flight, ground, and SIL test support for the Shadow, Hunter, and Gray Eagle UAV systems.
•Delivered reliability gains and product enhancements through failure analysis, investigations, and testing corrective actions specified in engineering change proposals including:
o Increased UGDT mean time between failures by 56%.
o Increased mean time between system aborts by 87%, surpassing the government’s mandates for all programs
•Analyzed reported issues pertaining to Tactical Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (TUAV) engineering and ground/flight qualification test activities. Worked directly with subcontractor to resolve issues with a subcomponent; documented and presented findings and recommendations to the government for implementation approval.
•Earned the trust of a key subcontractor (L-3 Communications) and customers (U.S. Army, Northrop Grumman, General Atomics, and International) by demonstrating advanced product knowledge and a consistent track record of delivering products on time and within defined specifications.
•Leveraged operational knowledge of Shadow TUAV, Hunter UAV, and Gray Eagle UAS platforms and related hardware and software configurations to champion the documentation of new UGDT system software releases across all platforms.
•Assumed technical lead in the organization and development of an UGDT-spec...
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