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Milwaukee, Wi, Us

Brookfield, Wi, Us

Plumbing and Electrical New Product Development focusing hydraulic crimpers and cutters.

Hawthorne, California, Us

The Dragon Flight Reliability team is a lean group of engineers responsible for ensure the Crew and Cargo Dragon vehicle mission success. We are a vehicle level systems team that provides technical guidance for risks, engineering change, mission operations, and non-conformance disposition.My personal goals for the role are to:- Focus on root cause analysis through inclusion of evidence for robust and thorough problem understanding. I will leverage my significant experience with component, subsystem, and vehicle level anomaly investigation and resolution to increase the reliability of the Dragon 2 vehicles.- Provide technical leadership and guidance of engineering teams without direct accountability by cultivating a trusting relationship and displaying technical competence.- Demonstrate appropriate risk based problem assessment based on knowns and unknowns against failure modes and probabilities and articulating these technical positions to customers and leadership.

Hawthorne, California, Us

Hawthorne, California, Us

Individual contributor and functional lead for a team of build reliability engineers skilled in improving production quality by navigating spacecraft design principles, driving non-conformance reduction, and robust problem solving and root cause analysis.

Hawthorne, California, Us

As a Build Reliability Engineer, ensured the reliability of flight components and assemblies for the Dragon and Dragon 2 Spacecraft. Evaluated product and process output data to drive improvements in manufacturing quality, and actively represent quality objectives in design and development teams. Roles and tasks include the disposition, containment, and corrective action for non-conforming product, assessment of build templates and engineering plans, inspection methodology and planning, root cause analysis, and manufacturing process improvement. Responsible for reliability and non-conformance management for work centers that build Composite Overwrapped Pressure Vessels (COPVs), Draco and SuperDraco thrusters, and capsule structural weldment.Developed a "Keep-Kill-Modify" process methodology to evaluate every step of the manufacturing process to remove maintain critical to quality steps, remove unnecessary activities, and optimize remaining operations. Implementation of this process reduced build costs from one flight set to another by over 30% in a 6 month period of time. Process is still active and being adopted by other work centers company wide.

London, England, Gb

This role primarily focuses on safety investigations and root cause investigations for field failures of helicopter engines. This includes collecting evidence to influence others while remaining an objective observer of the facts. Worked to inspire others by cultivating a culture of safety and quality in manufacturing and operation of products by providing the technical support necessary to properly maintain and operate gas turbine engines. Became a technical lead for the service engineering team and was responsible for agreement of root cause and closure strategy for roughly 20 safety investigations annually. Provided technical guidance for field failure investigations including possible testing, design changes, and technical publication (overhaul and service manuals) updates. Focused on empowering and enabling team members to be innovative and to remain curious to find new solutions which resulted in becoming a trusted and recognized leader.

London, England, Gb

Compressor Designer for Trent 1000 and Trent 700 Gas Turbine Engine. Integrating the airfoil design with structural components to meet live cycle requirements, fatigue margin, airfoil strength, and creep life for gas turbine engine missions. This included successful coordination with stress analyst, other technical leads, chief engineers, and manufacturing to release final component definition to the suppliers to meet milestones. The design process included several technical and program reviews and change management reviews to rationalize and defend design decisions. Additional responsibilities include annulus and pitching engineer for Trent 1000 high pressure compressor which assesses the system level tolerance stack-ups, worst case thermal movement, movement due to thermal growth, and axial surge events to prevent rotating and stationary clashing complex engine systems.

London, England, Gb

The Lead Application Engineer is a Development Program Engineer (DPE) at Rolls-Royce managing the technical customer relationship with Cessna Aircraft Company and the AE 3007C engine that powers the Citation X business jet. Owned the technical relationship between Rolls‐Royce and Cessna the existing AE 3007C Series fleet and development programs. Managed technical and schedule risks for the AE 3007C2 / Citation X+ development program. This role included unique challenges of integration and troubleshooting aircraft, avionics, and powerplant control systems designed 30 years apart. Gained experience with FAA and EASA regulations and certification requirements corporate aircraft and engines certified to Part 25 and Part 33.

London, England, Gb

Medium civilian gas turbine engine, AE3007, project support focusing on requirement management, risk management, and technical customer support for Cessna, Embraer, and Northrup Grumman.

London, England, Gb

First Session: Manufacturing for Transmission and StructuresSecond: Design for Fuel, Lube and Start group - Rolls-Royce EnergyThird: Experimental Test for AE3007Fourth: Service Engineering for Helicopters

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Mechanical Engineering

Master Of Engineering (Meng), Mechanical Engineering