Chris Raper Email & Phone Number

Indianapolis, In, Us

Indianapolis, In, Us

Mclean, Va, Us

Engineer responsible for developing AI solutions for clients in the Development of Defense.

London, England, Gb

Job Overview:• Mechanical design of safety critical discs, shafts and bolted joints in civil and military jet engines. • Regularly presented design changes at gated reviews to chiefs of design• Integrated knowledge of all subject matter experts for the considered component, writing technical reports, defining component on drawings, using Teamcenter and NX CAD solid modeling.• Experience gained from supporting legacy engines (AE, T56, 501k) and from new product design for large civil engines (Trent 1000 & XWB).Accomplishments:Rolls-Royce Process Excellence Leadership Academy Project (2019)• Led the team’s exploratory data analysis (EDA) providing: quantile statistics, histograms, interactive plots and process flow maps, outputting results to R Markdown html reports. • EDA completed with R using these libraries: BuPAR, Ggplot, Plotly, et al.• Began automating the process of importing CMM inspection data into Web App using Excel VBA, which was expected to save the company.Purdue Data Analytics Capstone Project (2018)• Advanced statistical analysis using R & MATLAB gave high confidence in new rotor balance concept.• R analysis completed in script files using these libraries: Bootstrap, Fitdistrplus, Ggplot, VGAM, et al.Rolls-Royce Global Opportunity for hybrid Aerospace Technology (2017) • To create a Bayesian belief network, an economics model was ported from Excel VBA to MATLAB and vectorized, reducing time to sample the model space from 2 days to 30 minutes.Rolls-Royce Part Number Application Search Tool (2016)• Automated the task of determining which engine variants used a part number with Excel VBA, saving hundreds of hours of engineering effort and improving the rating quality.Rolls-Royce Part Family Search (2010)• Created an Excel VBA plugin which mined text in an engine parts list spreadsheet, yielding a family tree graphic of all part relatives. This tool has helped many engineers to quickly obtain part design history.

Graduate Certificate, Data Analytics

Bachelor'S Degree, Aerospace, Aeronautical And Astronautical Engineering