Engineering and Manufacturing

• Provide on-site Procurement, Quality and Engineering Support • Provide Engineering program management, quality and procurement consulting services which include solving complex manufacturing. engineering and quality issues. • Travel the country / world mostly last minute at the request of OEM companies for site visits. • Provide in-depth status reports of programs, supplier capabilities and technical issues. • Report directly to Pratt and Whitney, UTC aerospace, Gulfstream and SpaceX. • Provide program support to suppliers on new and existing aerospace programs including the use of Six Sigma and lean tools.• Review and direct contract negotiations between suppliers and customers.• Provide multifaceted supplier assessments based on surveillance and auditing for risk reductions• Worked with suppliers on cost Reduction for key/critical programs• In many cases have been given the “Keys to the Shop” by suppliers and asked to help manage their shop to get past due and engineering issues resolved.

• Managed all aspects of a large aerospace manufacturing facility. • Managed all aspects of complex aerostructure engineering programs.• In-depth knowledge of AS9100, ISO9000 and ISO13485 systems and Implementation.• knowledge of all aspects of manufacturing, including 5-axis machining and the latest cutting tool technologies, use of robots in aerospace production, processing / NDT.• In-depth knowledge of military, commercial aerospace specifications, including fracture / flight critical components.• Performed MRB Liaison duties to resolve non-conformances and engineering issues.• Negotiated multi-year and multi-million dollar contracts with both customers and suppliers. • Identified, developed and contracted partnerships with manufacturing companies for overflow work • Managed production schedules, Programs • Managed financial budgets, Generated projections and capital equipment expenditures.

• Trained Astronauts / fighter pilots in a human centrifuge while working with the aerospace physiological group. • Integrated Product Team leader for V-22 Crash Worthy fuel cells and various flight critical components.• Interfaced closely with aircraft manufactures such as; Boeing, Bell, Northrop Grumman and McDonnell Douglas.• Managed and Designed Naval Aircraft Sub-systems• Development of aerospace fuel system components such as Pumps and flow control valves. • Modeled and simulated the entire V-22 fuel system using fluid flow software.• Performed Computational fluid dynamics and Finite Element Analysis on aircraft sub-systems• Published technical reports and aerospace specification.