SKILLS SUMMARY:
Mechanical Engineer with over 20 years experience specializing in mechanical, electromechanical, robotic and EVA tool design. The experience I have is diverse, and covers personnel management, project management, manufacturing, quality and design engineering. As a qualified candidate, I bring to the table the ability to help keep any organization in a position of leadership, stable growth and solid profitability. You will find me to be a dedicated and determined team player who can motivate people to reach their highest potential.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
GENERAL ELECTRIC – OIL & GAS / HYDRIL Houston, TX Apr 2012 to Present
SENIOR STAFF ENGINEER / TECHNOLOGIST - STACKS & HYDRAULIC CONTROLS
* Manage and direct all Flow Orders from the point of initial Application Engineering RFQs through Sales Order and Product Engineering through Supply Chain completion and product delivery.
* Provide consultation and technical direction to the engineering community on projects with substantial business impact. Drive the design, development, and application of Sub-Sea BOP (blow out preventer) hydraulic control stacks and systems, pumping stations, and other related activities
* Mentor engineering staff to improve product performance, reduce product cost, maintain schedules, resolve problems and develop processes to shorten lead times
* Support customers, sales, quality, manufacturing, supply chain. field service and suppliers
* Ensure design compliance with regulatory authorities, relevant codes and contract
* Coordinate and supervise external engineering resource support divisions in Brazil and India.
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION (NASA) /
JOHNSON SPACE CENTER (JSC) Houston, TX Sep 2003 to Apr 2012
JACOBS TECHNOLOGY Houston, TX Jul 2008 to Apr 2012
CHIEF ENGINEER OF DOCKING SYSTEMS / LEAD SYSTEMS ENGINEER
* Technical lead of the NASA Docking System project. An integral part of the leadership team responsible for the day-to-day technical management of the integrated team. Management of this technical team includes interaction with the Project Manager and the designated Team Leads.
* Assist the NASA Docking System project with the technical support in Systems, Design, Analysis, and Testing and interface with NASA/JSC technical personnel.
* Provide technical leadership, oversight and reviews for ESCG docking projects, ensuring excellence in design and analysis to meet the technical requirements, facilitate concurrent engineering and technical resolution to ensure schedule impacts are minimized
* Assist in the development of docking related flight and non-flight NASA-JSC projects.
* Work with Engineering Deputy Director and other chief engineers to implement contract vision
LOCKHEED MARTIN SPACE OPERATIONS Houston, TX Sep 2006 to Jul 2008
ORION CEV DOCKING MECHANISMS PROJECT MANAGER / CPE / MECHANICAL ENGINEER STAFF
* Mechanical design technical lead supporting all Orion CEV spacecraft docking mechanisms, and space control, ICDs, and system trade studies. Which includes researching, planning, designing and developing mechanical products and systems such as controls, mechanisms, engines, machines and mechanical, thermal hydraulic or heat transfer systems for production, transmission, measurement, and use of energy. It also includes application of research to the planning, design, development, and testing of mechanical and/or electromechanical systems, instruments, controls, engines, and/or machines.
* Certified Principal Engineer for all Lockheed Martin and NSAS-JSC developed docking and docking related hardware to be used on the Constellation Orion CEV, ISS and Constellation Altair Lunar Lander.
* Project Manager for the development of Lockheed Martin docking jettison and launch abort mechanisms to be used on the Constellation Orion CEV.
SPACEHAB, INC. Houston, TX Jan 2005 to Sep 2006
SENIOR SYSTEMS INTEGRATION ENGINEER
* Responsible for the development of module system level implementation plans, the development, maintenance and execution of the Engineering Transition Work Plan. Development of module system level work instructions, processes and procedures, databases and integration tools. Perform integration of module systems through interaction with all module functional organizations.
* Responsible for the coordination plan, organization, control, integration and authoring of final SPACEHAB Module payload allocations for Space Shuttle and International Space Station missions.
* Plan and formulate engineering programs; review product design for compliance with engineering principles, company standards, customer contract requirements, and related specifications.
* Responsible for requirements definition, design, development, and integration of spacecraft systems. Particular areas of interest include: human systems, payload accommodations, pre/post flight operations, and mission design.
LOCKHEED MARTIN SPACE OPERATIONS Houston, TX Sep 2003 to Jan 2005
STAFF PROJECT ENGINEER
* Responsible for the coordination plan, organization, control, integration and completion of engineering projects.
* Designed, developed, oversaw manufacture and tested a treadmill with a vibration isolation system (TVIS) used on International Space Station.
* Planned and formulated engineering programs; review product design for compliance with engineering principles, company standards, customer contract requirements, and related specifications.
* Coordinated technical developments, scheduling, and resolving engineering design and test problems.
TEXAS COMPOSITE, INC. Boerne, TX Jan 2002 to Sep 2003
ENGINEERING PROJECT MANAGER
* Responsible for the research, design, development, documentation and testing of new-engineered composite material products, for both commercial and government aerospace customers.
* Responsible for the design of products utilizing manufacturing process such as resin transfer molding (RTM), compression molding, resin film infusion (RFI) and hand lay-up.
* Responsible for the design of products using non-metallic materials such as carbon, kevlar, glass, quartz and epoxy, phenolic and bismaleimide (BMI) resins.
* Responsible for the development of companywide practices and procedures to support ISO 2000 certification and conformance to SAE AS9100 quality regulations.
PASS & SEYMOUR / legrand San Antonio, TX Sep 1995 to Jan 2002
PRODUCT ENGINEERING and MANUFACTURING DEPARMENT MANAGER
DOCUMENT CONTROL DEPARTMENT MANAGER
* Provided for the continuous quality improvement, manufacturability, and cost savings of all existing products, through the use of analytical tools such as FMEA, Kaizen and Kepner/Tregoe Problem Solving methods.
* Provided direction, leadership and technical mentoring across multiple disciplines of mechanical, electrical, and manufacturing engineers, as well as, technical writers and document control administrators.
* Provided technical and design support to Quality and Manufacturing departments for manufacturing and assembly issue resolution and to increase product quality, reli...
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