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Houston, Texas, United States

Houston, Texas, United States

Houston, Texas Area

- Manage all engineering tasks for mud motor sustaining, quality, reliability, and new product development.- Lead test strategy for new motor component designs.- Conduct root cause analysis on motor failures and implement design and/or process improvements to improve mean time between failures.- Establish failure tracking process to identify and resolve.

Rosharon, TX

- Led team of engineers, designers, and shop technicians in all packer experimental and validation testing for new product designs. - Forecasted and managed project budget including personnel, test equipment, and testing costs.- Planned and coordinated risk-based testing strategy to integrate all customer product requirements.- Oversaw sub-system and full.

- Led effort to plan testing profile for packer completions tools.- Reviewed test procedures to ensure quality, preventing test failures and delays.- Participated in test fixture assembly activities, identifying areas of improvement in the packer assembly.- Led root-cause-analyses for test failures.- Oversaw component, sub-assembly, and assembly-level.

Rosharon, TX

• Designed and tested oil swellable packers to meet customer pressure and temperature requirements for field applications.
• Utilized Pro Engineer / Creo 2 to make modifications to test fixture equipment, packer design, and various packer elements
• Analyzed test data in order to make recommendations for packer performance improvement
• Designed test fixture tubular equipment to meet pressure and loading specifications as part of swell packer testing portfolio
• Established new compound testing agenda based on rubber swell ratio, eliminating the need for unnecessary testing.
• Collaborated with third party vendors concerning manufacturing methods for packers and test fixture equipment

Houston, Texas Area

- Initiate root cause analysis for ISS static and dynamic equipment, resulting in successful recovery with quick turnaround. - Respond to simulated ISS emergency scenarios, implementing hardware failure recovery in a high-pressure environment. - Write preventive and corrective procedures for failure workarounds and hardware maintenance activities. - Work.

Houston, Texas, United States

- Designed the shuttle trajectory and performed quality assurance using a 6-DOF simulation system, resulting in the successful landings of 5 shuttle missions. - Planned and coordinated probabilistic risk assessments pertaining to the structural integrity of the shuttle. - Conducted root cause analysis regarding the variations of each shuttle’s flight.

• The Hydraulics Group in the Boeing Commercial Airplane division is responsible for the hydraulics system pertaining to landing gear.
• Supported design of hydraulic systems on development of 747-8 commercial aircraft
• Worked on production support and investigations of 700 Series airplane landing gear
• Assisted in performing analysis and testing of hydraulic components for commercial aircraft