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Broomfield, CO, US

• Set priorities for program manufacturing engineers and technicians to properly complete builds while meeting schedule.
• Ran daily production meetings to prioritize tasks, resolve issues and maintain communication between manufacturing, design, test and quality groups.
• Presented manufacturing status to senior management during weekly program meetings.

Broomfield, CO, US

• Responsible for manufacturing, schedule, quality and resolving technical issues for the assembly and test of a military weather satellite.
• Responsible manufacturing engineer for the assembly, integration and testing of RF, structural and thermal satellite components.
• Worked in the clean room/shop with mechanical technicians to build up assemblies and ensure that design and manufacturing intent was being met.
• Relayed issues discovered in the shop to design and quality departments as required.
• Dispositioned nonconforming parts to resolve manufacturing and test issues.
• Created and modified shop order routing operations for manufacturing using Velocity and IFS.

Jupiter, FL, US

• Responsible for manufacturing, process development, schedule, quality and resolving technical issues for the repair of gas turbine blades.
• Lead engineer for the repair of 94 sets of parts (and counting) with a value of more than $5.3 million.
• Disposition of nonconforming parts to resolve manufacturing issues and drive process improvements.
• Created and modified work order routing operations for manufacturing and repair using SAP.
• Created technical work instructions, inspection criteria (visual, NDT, dimensions) and manufacturing/repair procedures for hardware.
• First point of contact to provide technical support to the production staff. Train/instruct production staff on the implementation of new tooling, work instructions and criteria.

Jupiter, FL, US

• Responsible for the repair procedures of gas turbine components (blades, vanes and shrouds).
• Prepared and presented presentations for technical reviews.
• Promoted to Senior Engineer.
• Developed & qualified repair processes for welding, brazing, machining, coating stripping and coating.
• Prepared cost and schedule estimates for development projects, qualification efforts and production jobs.
• Interpreted geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T) for application during manufacturing and repairs.

• Designed steam and gas turbine components. Worked with manufacturing, instrumentation & supply chain groups to ensure all requirements were met.
• Prepared presentations and technical papers for documentation of design decisions.

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• Redesigned gas turbine components to mitigate future failures. Contributed to root cause analysis, part design, stress analysis, installation procedure and product definition.

East Hartford, CT, US

• Designed a scaled test stand for the analysis of radar absorbing material.
• Performed analysis on engine seals to provide a comparison of the capabilities of different shaped seals.

East Hartford, CT, US

• Worked with senior engineers to calibrate airflow test rig used for the analysis of turbine blades.
• Designed 3D models using Unigraphics.

Bachelor Of Science, Mechanical Engineering

Associate