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Responsible for assisting in the Planning, Programing, Budgeting, and Execution (PPBE) Process for the ~$500M annual Science and Technology (S&T) budget for Aerospace Systems. Translates all financial and technical aspects of S&T efforts to senior leadership within the Headquarters Air Force, The Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), Air Force Research Laboratory, NASA, and the FAA. Builds relationships between senior leadership, the user community, and S&T at all levels. Works Science and Technology tasking to inform senior leadership of technical and policy implications for decision making. Member of the Rocket Propulsion 21, and VAATE/ATTAM/EOA Steering Committees, and the Fixed Wing Vehicles Executive Committee. Provide strategic guidance and headquarters perspective to these planning committees.

Responsible for assisting in the Planning, Programing, Budgeting, and Execution (PPBE) Process for the ~$500M annual Science and Technology (S&T) budget for Aerospace Systems. Translates all financial and technical aspects of S&T efforts to senior leadership within the Headquarters Air Force, The Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), Air Force Research Laboratory, NASA, and the FAA. Builds relationships between senior leadership, the user community, and S&T at all levels.Member of the Rocket Propulsion 21, And VAATE/ATTAM Steering Comitties, Joint Technology Office on Hypersonics, and the Fixed Wing Vehicles Executive Comittee. Provide strategic guidance and headquarters perspective to these planning committees.

Working in applied research and technology development of gas turbine engines. Manage all aspects of $56M programs developing and testing high performance small and expendable gas turbine engine systems. Manage design, manufacturing, assembly and testing activities. Manage program cost and schedule. Assess and reduce program risk through systems engineering risk reduction process. Conduct critical design reviews. Manage all aspects of test planning and test execution. Conduct Root Cause and Corrective Action (RCCA) of unanticipated problem areas. Integrate and transition novel small business technologies into demonstrator engine programs. Develop and transition novel turbine performance and manufacturing technology for risk and cost reduction. Mature lubricationless bearing mechanical system technology. Applied advanced controls instrumentation for improved engine scheduling and performance.Conduct strategic planning activities to enable the Versatile Affordable Advanced Turbine Engine (VAATE) Program. VAATE Capability Lead for the VAATE Air Platforms Community Of Interest (COI) Persistent Command and Control and Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance capability area. Product lead for the VAATE Efficient Medium Scale Propulsion (EMSP). Formulate strategic plans and builds roadmaps combining Army, Navy, and Air Force programs for approval by the VAATE Steering Committee. Conduct strategic planning and capability assessment and Operational Benefits Analsys (OBA) on revolutionary technologies for insertion into future VAATE demonstrator plans.Lead a 9 person applied research team studying jet noise for supersonic military engines. Work joint with the Office of Naval Research and the Naval Research Laboratory in the development and assessment of future nozzle configurations. Develop models for assessing the trade space between noise and performance for novel three stream exhaust systems architectures.

Lead engineer for the VAATE Augmentor Design System (ADS) Product. Plan and manage 4 Action Teams conducting basic and applied research for gas turbine engine augmentor research. Improve modeling, testing, and diagnostic instrumentation techniques as applied to combustion systems and augmentors. Worked technology development programs for improved performance of gas turbine engine augmentors. Led a 6 person in-house research team in conducting basic and applied research of thermoacoustics and bluff body stabilized flames. Conducted modeling and experimental testing of bluff body stabilized flames using high speed laser diagnostics to better understand flame stability. Secured funding for $1.5M first of it’s kind simultaneous 10 kHz Planer Laser Induced Fluorescence (PLIF) Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) laser system to assessing flame stability. Investigated the cause and effect relationship between chemistry, geometry, flame stability and acoustics on thermoacoustic coupling. Led a 22 member research team in the improvement of models for the prediction of chemical kinetics for JP-8, JET A and alternatively derived jet fuels. Improved model accuracy by a factor of 4. Found key underlying aspects of fuel properties and their effect on flame speed, ignition delay, breakup and atomization.

Project Engineer for the VAATE Augmetnor Design System (ADS) Product. Lead engineer of the ADS Combustion Modeling and Simulation Action Team. Developed a $22M technology roadmap to meet key technology challenges associated with combustion modeling and simulation. Focused programs in spray and atomization modeling as well as combustion kinetics. Lead a 6 person in-house program in augmentor development. Revamped the flow and fuel capability of an existing facility to 10 MW. Lead electrical, controls, and mechanical design and implementation of 2 test legs combustion basic and applied research. Increased rig and facility instrumentation 4 fold. Enable full scale assessment of realistic augmentor geometries at relevant conditions. Established an improved understanding of bluff body stabilized flames.Lead for combustor applied development projects for the Integrated High Performance Turbine Engine Technology (IHPTET) Program. Conducted project management of novel combustor concepts. Sheparded successful combustor development to applied technology demonstrators to meet the IHPTET III goal set. AFRL combustor technical team lead to support the F-22 and F-35 propulsion program offices. Combustor Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the Pratt and Whitney F119-PW-100 and General Electric/Liberty Works F136 engine development efforts. Provided key technical support and risk assessment/risk reduction to the F-22 and F-35 Program offices related to combustor design and testing issues.

I have taught graduate Fundamentals of Acosutics and undergraduate Dynamic Systems and Control. I also have supervised University of Dayton undergraduates and graduate students working at Air Force Research Laboratory on combustion research.

Lead research engineer in the Atmospheric Pressure Combustion Research Facility. Conducted experiential research on cutting edge Integrated Lightweight Combustor (ILC) and Trapped Vortex Combustors (TVC) concepts.

Program Manager for gas turbine engine combustion research. Project lead for applied development programs in advanced combustor concepts. Key force behind securing Strategic Environmental Research and Development (SERDP) funding to assess novel military combustors and for the reduction of NOx pollution. Lead researcher studying the dynamics of jet in cross flow as related to gas turbine mixing. Developed and in-house Unsteady RANS (URANS) code for modeling unsteady fluid dynamics. Conducted URANS and Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) assessment of jets in cross flow to improve the understanding of unsteady mixing of primary mixing jets in combustors.

Responsible for the training of over 100 Minuteman III and Peacekeeper Combat Crews. Lead 32 officers in the development of wing combat crew instruction and evaluation products annually. Certifies 72 wing instructors annually to provide weapon system, EWO and cryptographic codes training. Combat Crew Deputy and Commander 321St Missile Squadron; responsible for the operation and maintenance of 50 alert Minuteman iII Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBM). Provides Emergency War Order (EWO), cryptographic codes, and weapon system. Wing select Deputy Commander in the 1991 Olympic Arena Missile Combat Competition.