● 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.

● 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.● Reviewed design drawings and test procedures for manufacturing approval.● Interpreted geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T) for application during manufacturing.

● 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. ● Successfully trained other engineers to manage hardware through production and oversaw their work to keep development efforts on track.

● 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. ● Successfully developed and completed repairs on a set of parts in 44 calendar days to meet delivery schedule.

● 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.

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

● 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.

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