Christopher Mifflin Email & Phone Number

Northridge, California

Melbourne, Florida Area

• Design Lead for large complex composite structure; skin panels, in flight operable doors, and OML access covers. Responsible for development of over 130 components and complex bonded skin assemblies.
• Lead 15 engineers in the development of challenging composite structure.
• Scheduled engineering development and tasked individual engineers to perform design and analysis; track engineering development progress
• Provided engineering direction and worked challenging structural problems; high Kt issues with challenging OML cutout radii requirements
• Presented to Project Management, Chief Engineer, Customer (for PDR)
• Developed several iterations of NXOpen routine to place fasteners from points and OML surface. Authored other NXOpen routines to accelerate design process.

San Diego, CA

• Design of primary composite structural components (ProE Creo)
• Manage man-loading and airframe component Release Schedule
• Interface with other departments to develop vehicle structure (Fuel Systems,Mechanical Systems, Structural Analysis Group, etc.)
• Incorporated and released red line changes to aircraft components
• Led tiger team to work with Metrology to determine best practice for inspecting first articles and tooling

Greater San Diego Area

• Conceptual and detail design of 100+ A320neo nacelle components and assemblies (3 variants). Composite and Metallic parts intermixed and corresponding assemblies.
• Vendor interface for definition and release of models
• Part weight optimization, FT&A definition
• Kinematic analysis of moving and deflecting structural components and assemblies
• Conceptual Design of complex mechanical assemblyo Design included 6 assemblies and 60+ composite and metallic detail partso Design actuated passively to allow structure to clear interfacing structure and to compensate.
• Designed and released major metallic fittings on unrelated assemblyo Interfaced with customer to define design requirementso Complex 5 axis machining’s

Greater San Diego Area

• Engineering support for aerospace design and hand structural analysis
• Design work on Air Force SBIR for low cost UAS
• Complete design and analysis of composite V-tail and fuselage integration including internal structural components
• Design and analysis of a composite fixed landing gear including back-up structure
• Primary author of flight test plan including over 20 test missions and primary author of the flight test plan document for said tactical UAS
• Design of 30+ compression molds for customer in around 90 hours and 2 weeks (if competitor had continued to have been used, would have cost customer over $200,000 and 6+ weeks)

Greater San Diego Area

• Detail Design of A350 nacelle components
• Composite and metallic design in high temperature areas
• CATIA FT&A modeling and GD&T creation
• CATIA VBA macro automation of repetitive tasks
• Supplier integration and SCD generation to produce custom rubber indicator flag for inhibitor pin
• SmarTeam ENOVIA VPM part management

Greater Philadelphia Area

• 747-8 and 787 structural design work on detail parts, assemblies, installation and coordination models (RLMs, ICMs, IRMs, and IARMs)
• CATIA VBA macro automation of repetitive procedureso Automated the measurement of 30+ features on 54 bathtub fittings. (12-16 man hours reduced to 10-15 minutes allowing for multiple re-do loops in accelerated.
• Created and overhauled various control models (RLMs) for detail parts and assembly models.
• 3D Functional Tolerancing and Annotation (FT&A) in CATIA V5 of 60+ component parts and inseparable assemblies.
• SmarTeam ENOVIA LCA and Team Center model creation, management, release

Palmdale, CA

• Preliminary design development of low observable composite and metallic parts on F-35 JSF.
• Secret Clearance obtained for work on low observable (LO) edges
• JSF carrier variant aileron and outboard leading edge flap from preliminary through detail design, designed various detail parts.
• Design of test edges to support verification and validation of radar cross section and RF performance of production edges, writing of Statements of Work for edges
• Primary designer of leading edge flap and wing fold seal of F-35 C (carrier variant); collaborated between multiple design groups in Texas, California, and Britain.