• Lead and manage the home room responsibilities of 12+ engineers of various skill levels and disciplines• Complete employee performance feedback and reviews• Foster team engagement, mentorship, career discussions, and coaching• Manage training opportunities and budget allocations, as well as participation in tool, process, and metric initiatives

• Lead Designer of Equipment Subsystems responsible with using NX/ Teamcenter for the design and release of more than 500 detail parts, assemblies, and installations for aircraft secondary structures and mission equipment installations by working through conceptual design layouts, 3D MBD creation, GD&T tolerance analysis, system integration, fabrication process identification, and synthesis of system-level requirements to component level requirements through coordination across multiple IPT’s• Tier 1 focal for supplier subsystems integration; including: interface coordination via ICM’s, managing engineering impacts to supplier schedules, and coordination of design optimizations to reduce cost/span• Prepare statements of work, estimate scope and impacts, capture funding sources, balance team workload according to manpower and skillset, and track/ manage projects to completion• Developed methods to identify and manage hundreds of engineering changes and impacts across all subsystems teams to align priorities and ensure engineering release dates were met• Selected to lead a team of 9 design, stress and manufacturing engineers responsible for the rapid development and release of Flight Test equipment installations to support critical program milestones• Support and lead investigation and resolution of manufacturing or engineering related questions/ RCI’s• Mentor to junior-level engineers and focal for NX modeling & Teamcenter CPLM questions

- Responsible with the coordination of subsystem design changes with our Tier 1 suppliers. - Ensuring subsystem engineering updates are coordinated amongst design teams and then develop a strategy for implementation with the Tier 1 suppliers. - Managing the engineering subsystem releases and execution that impact Tier 1 manufacturing need dates. - Overseeing and validating ICM’s (Interface Control Models) that impact the handoff of interface definition between subsystem and primary structures

- CAM for a Subsystems Design IPT responsible for managing over $5M of labor budget and maintaining projections for budgeted / anticipated work using EVMS methods- Maintaining QBD’s (Quantifiable Backup Data) on discrete accounts for the support of EV metrics

• Design & Sustainment Engineering on a program’s transition from development into production• Lead and supported the development and execution of engineering change packages, trade studies, and weight reduction efforts while representing the company as the prime technical contact to customers and/or government regulatory agencies• Equipment manager for the platform's Liquid Cooling Systems (LCS), rack Air Handling Unit (AHU) and electric actuator systems – approved supplier RCPs, technical specs, drawing changes – scheduled, tracked and managed hardware deliveries/ integration efforts • Directed and presented RCCA studies on the LCS to develop resolution engineering change packages• Reduced program costs and time by developing and streamlining the engineering change processes

• Design Lead over Equipment Subsystems installations for innovative equipment rack-mount solutions and airframe modifications for LRU installations, VHF, UHF and K-band antennas on transport/ cargo aircraft, Boeing 757-200, and Hawker Beechcraft King Air 350 platforms• Worked through program lifecycles with BOE development, design layouts in NX, engineering design release of 2-D drawings in Teamcenter, and shop/ aircraft liaison during fabrication and modification• Developed and presented detailed design layouts which integrated inputs from systems architecture, stress analysis, manufacturing, cost/schedule planners, and customer feedback• Designed ground support equipment (GSE) for hardware storage and shipping which also served as the unique installation solution of an EO/IR sensor onto the deployable mechanism structure• Ensured consistent communication between Design Engineering, Stress Analysts, Electrical Design, Systems Engineers, and the FAA’s DERs throughout design and implementation of airframe modifications• Guaranteed installation of new rack and antenna designs by validating and verifying with rapid protypes, 3D aircraft scans, 1-to-1 scale mockups, and sheet metal prototypes• Reverse-engineered aircraft configurations and structure to allow for the design and integration of new aircraft modifications

• Developed a strong understanding of manufacturing operations, tools and processes• Implemented Lean and Six Sigma principles on production flow, fabrication time, waste and total cost• Performed Quality Assurance by inspecting parts against their drawings and documentation

• Sustainment Engineer on the Scan Eagle UAV tasked with the development, prototyping and implementation of fielded improvements utilizing SolidWorks for 2-D drawing releases• Developed processes and performed tests to determine the mass moment of inertia for the Scan Eagle UAV which yielded test results within 0.1% of simulated calculations• Designed and manufactured the shock and vibration test jig for a new PMU (propulsion module unit)