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Newark, De, Us

Lead a multi-discipline engineering, product support and finance team to perform trade studies and develop cost reduction strategies for conceptual rotorcraft designs.Develop analysis products for competitive source selection.Mentor mid-career employees.

Developed integrated project plans, estimates and schedules for engineering, production and support changes to production and fielded aircraft.Developed integrated proposals for domestic and international customer requested changes to production and fielded aircraft.Created and led ad-hoc multi-disciplined teams to develop and commit the integrated plans and proposals.

Led the execution of reliability, maintainability and testability analysis products required for international aircraft military certification. Developed FMECA and FRACAS processes for international aircraft programs.Performed Earned Value Management activities.Mentored early career employees.

Performed Brigade level resupply analyses to decompose self sustainment capabilities to actionable manned, unmanned platform hardware and software requirements.Served as requirements verification lead for sustainment requirements.Built an integrated proposal and schedule detailing modeling and simulation, requirements analysis and test activities.Earned Value Managment Cost Account manager for $70M in prime and supplier cost accounts.Conducted successful audits and interviews with Defense Contracts Management Agency and the OSD Earned Value Management Center.Collaborated with USG customer to perform program management and oversight activities.Developed spares analysis to support company level force on force experiment with manned, unmanned and C4ISR systems.Served as a member of the Customer, Prime, Supplier Failure Review Board. The board assessed failure analysis depth and recommend root cause analysis. Results were mapped into the OSD MS C entrance criteria.

Managed a team consisting of Reliability, Maintainability, Testability, Safety and Affordability engineers on a rotorcraft development program.Conducted root cause failure analysis and preventative actions on 700+ flight test failures.Performed Reliability Growth Modeling.Taught and coached team in the performance of failure analysis activities.Captured 100% failure analysis award fee.Collaborated with USG customer and joint venture partner to restructure and execute Demonstration/Validation and Engineering and Manufacturing Development Programs.Performed product assurance supplier management tasks with thirteen prime avionics suppliers. Performed site level Malcom Baldridge Self Assessment.Developed program management best practice module for site wide leadership development course.

Performed reliability predictions, failure modes effects and criticality analyses, thermal margin analyses, environmental stress screening, reliability enhancement testing, avionics reliability design criteria, failure analysis process development, failure analysis database requirements development, supplier management, supplier SOW and requirements development, targeting laser and self protection equipment source selection.

Greater St. Louis Area

Targeting FLIR, Navigation FLIR, Stores Management Supplier Reliability, Environmental Stress Screening.

Greater St. Louis Area

Developed reliability and maintainability inputs for NAVAIR Analysis of Alternatives for a proposed surveillance aircraft.Performed equipment installation trade studies for mission variants.Worked USAF Avionics Integrity Program topics - equipment criticality, installed environment quantification, materials characterization.

Greater St. Louis Area

Job Rotation ProgramInvestigated reliability best design practices for avionics.Contributed to successful Rome Air Development Center Proposal - Computer Aided Assessment of Avionics Reliability with Finite Element Modeling.

Greater St. Louis Area

Job Rotation ProgramSystem safety analysis of a guided missile system.Circuit analysis assessment of tin whisker growth in warhead interface unit.Fault tree analysis of booster recognition logic. Presented at Navy Weapon Systems Safety and Explosives Review Board.

Greater St. Louis Area

Performed Root Cause Failure Analysis and Corrective action on Qualification and Acceptance test failures.Presented results for approval to USAF and Aerospace Corp. review board.Performed destructive physical analysis for component lot qualification.Investigated root causes of lot qualification failures.Components included solid state lasers, modulators, diode pumps, optical detectors, solid state optics, electronic components.

Conducted laboratory forensic failure analysis on electrical, electronic, microcircuit, hybrid, opto-electronic components.Methods included chemical analysis, X-ray, electron microscope, energy dispersive ex-ray spectrum analysis, curve tracer, micro-probe.

Rock Island, Il

Developed spares analyses for automatic test equipment.Developed calibration requirements for general purpose test equipment.Evaluated change proposals.

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