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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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