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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 recurring failure mode trends.Lead continuous improvement plans in motor manufacturing and assembly, presenting results to stakeholders. - Generate monthly reliability analysis to identify investigation and design priorities to reduce overall motor cost.- Collaborate with manufacturing team to reduce manufacturing costs and disposition non-conformances.

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 system testing and integration.- Planned test facility measurement equipment use and placement for real-time data capture.- Reviewed and approved engineer test plans and post-test reports.- Investigated and resolved test facility component real-time failures.- Conducted comprehensive root-cause-analyses for product test failures to ensure assembly, design, and performance issues are resolved prior to field deployment.- Collaborated with design engineering team to evaluate test results and plan design improvements.- Presented V&V test status and results to product stakeholders.

- 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 testing. - Made recommendations for the validation and verification test strategy.

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• Performed ANSYS Finite Element Analysis on anti-extrusion devices to contain swellable rubber, improving sealing capability.• Provided feedback and analysis for field personnel swell packer requests.• Responded to field production order manufacturing issues.

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 as part of a team to monitor thermal system pumps, cooling loops, and heat exchangers. - Utilize mechanical drawings and flow diagrams for thermal system troubleshooting and recovery. - Train and equip astronauts with the skills and knowledge to perform hardware maintenance and repairs. - Collaborate with engineers in Japan, Italy, and Germany to exchange information for procedure planning. - Develop employee training agenda and continuously make the scheduling process more efficient.

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 performance. Assessed and validated testing of shuttle aerodynamic hardware and software integration.- Trained astronauts on pilot performance, vehicle guidance, and trajectory design for shuttle landings.- Presented analysis results and drafted technical reports to customers and high-level NASA engineering panels.

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