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California, Maryland, Us

- Led the Military Type Certification audit for the F-18 platforms, ensuring the program has the needed artifacts and process for continued airworthiness, Airworthiness Basis, Configuration Management, Logistics, Sustainment, and Safety Management.- Revamped the program’s airworthiness review and certification process to bring the fleet capability faster, implementing improvements based on root causes of issues causing delays.- Improved the program’s risk management program, made changes to the risk management plan, and then stood up the program infrastructure in the NAVAIR command risk management tool.

Lexington Park, Md, Us

- Developed Processes and Policy for transition of a project from concept to product development, including quality management system, system engineering technical review policies, change management, and standardization of work for consistent execution.- Created a configuration management plan and a quality management plan to ensure rigor was introduced to the build and change process.- Lead the requirements derivation from the customers performance requirements, aided the program manager on an IMS to detail out the design work to be accomplished, and generated the verification planning to validate the performance was ultimately designed into the system.

Patuxent River, Md, Us

- Led a team of four engineers and two military officers; directing the technical efforts supporting the Navy and Marine H-53E fleet consisting of almost 180 aircraft. Managed multi-functional engineering team to identify and facilitate resolutions to safety, obsolescence, and technical issues to ensure readiness and overall life cycle sustainment of the H-53E platform.- Served as the senior APMSE responsible for assigning/managing tasking to DAPMSE's and providing guidance to the engineering team on NAVAIR policies and procedures associated with major active programs to support the fleet. Led several system upgrades to address obsolescence and increased capabilities for missile warning systems, GPS, Engine Fire Suppression, Flight Controls, and cockpit displays by upgrading the following systems; APR39D(V)2, SMFCD, BFT, DIRCM ATW, AVP, and IFF.

Patuxent River, Md, Us

- Led a team of five engineers to lead competency Technical Area Experts and coordinate with program leadership to work through cross competency technical challenges and make decisions balancing the cost and schedule impacts of challenges across multiple domestic and foreign military sales (FMS) customers. This required collaboration across multiple Navy sites as well as working with other commands such as NAVSUP, DCMA, and DLA.- Directed the technical effort to support the H-60 Production line and in service support for air vehicle IPT. Technical escapes and issues including tail gearbox fastener over torqueing, main gear box design issues, tail rotor blade pitch horn bonding repairs, floor miss-drilled holes, main rotor blade bonding, and other escapes and issues required translating technical issues to leadership to recommend a risk based action after collaborating with experts from PAX, FST and the original equipment manufacturer. - Key technical integrator for multiple major ECPs, including gunner seat redesign joint program with PMA-202 and AIRWorks, scissor bearing redesign, corrosion prevention initiatives, and blade fold wire harness changes. This role included requirements development, design, analysis, test and evaluation, and fleet introduction. This demanded working across multiple technical competencies, logistics, and program support managers to ensure the least impact to fleet readiness.- Air vehicle technical lead supporting multiple technical ECPs and issues for FMS countries. Efforts to integrate additional seating into an old type model series for Spain, integrate transparencies in Australian aircraft, and work with the OEM to resolve issues with unique capability on antenna integration on Denmark production aircraft, all required leading the technical experts and working with the case managers to resolve the issues to the customer’s satisfaction.

Patuxent River, Md, Us

- Led the coordination effort and briefings of the Executive Production Readiness Review SETR event by coordinating with TAEs and pre-briefing competency leadership. These efforts resulted in a unanimous recommendation by the Technical Review Board members for the program to proceed forward and initiate system procurement.- Managed the effort to conduct the first electronic SETR event (Flight Readiness Review) for PMA-261 and was assigned as the AIR-4.1.1.3 representative to execute EDM 2 & 4 aircraft FRR briefings to the competency Technical Review Board Chair Members resulting in a successful review.- Led the level two integrated product team working group meeting and coordinated the weekly efforts across the IPTs including test, production, engines, air vehicle, avionics, and engineering to support communication and actions across the program for development, test, and initial low rate production.- Established a new process for managing the technical review of engineering changes on the flight test aircraft. This was important to establish a real time review and approval process to support technical data for flight clearances on the test aircraft. This was accomplished by collaborating with competency subject matter experts and their competency leadership on technical and process recommendations. I assessed these recommendations against airworthiness needs and its impact on the flight test program to set the change management process.

Patuxent River, Md, Us

- Coordinate a multi-discipline engineering team to collaborate to adjudicate technical challenges related to the mission systems suite in the CH-53K helicopter, including; cargo winch, external hooks, cargo floors, roller rails, cabin armor, mobile air restraint system, cabin seats, and crash worthy pilot seats- Balance technical requirements against the schedule of major milestones and test events while in a budget constrained environment- Manage a weekly meeting to discuss ongoing technical challenges with the integrated product team including setting the agenda and following up on actions- Lead writing and editing of air vehicle engineering requirements and statements of work for integrating the common defensive weapon system machine gun for the CH-53K- Conduct and support working groups and Technical Interchange Meetings- Support program management decision making using effective communication including supporting program reviews and giving presentations- Define and quantify technical program risks based on cost and schedule impacts to the program, including hazard risk assessment adjudication based on the frequency and severity of the hazard- Earned DAU Level III in Systems Engineering and Level I in Program Management

Patuxent River, Md, Us

- Traveled to manufacturing sites to conduct audits and first part verifications builds as well as reviewing manufacturing issues to supported acquisition of composite airframes- Synchronized lab efforts as a project lead, on projects in excess of $100K, by fabricating test matrices and manufactured composite parts for research on aircraft structural repairs by keeping my team committed to the schedule during the project- Participated in official training to develop technical, leadership, and communications skills- Briefed project presentations to my team and upper management- Mentored college summer students by teaching technical and professional information, accomplished by outlining a schedule for the student to execute a project effectively which culminated in briefing an Admiral with the student about aircraft structural repairs

La Plata, Md, Us

- Created curriculum for the first offerings of mathematics course for two year technical degree- Integrated real world examples into the classroom to engage students and increase quality of the coursework.

Wright-Patterson Afb, Oh, Us

- Participated in OOA research for use as repair for composite aircraft components- Performed fundamental research efforts related to NDI of tight radius composites- Learned new thermal modeling techniques for designing cure cycles using DSC data- Involved with additive manufacturing efforts through NAMII

Cary, Nc, Us

- Worked with engineers to troubleshoot manufacturing challenges- Contributed during prototype assembly for military vehicle suspension systems- Tested parts in a tensile mechanical test frame to ensure quality for customers- Transcribed a manufacturing instruction for a part transitioning from prototype to production

Middlefield, Ohio, Us

- Operated, maintained and calibrated a thermoplastic injection press- Wrote and performed my own polymer thermal degradation experiments- Worked in a tooling shop with equipment such as lathes, mills and oxygen acetylene torches

University Park, Pa, Us

- In a team, built a community by planning and executing social and educational programs- Translated on campus policy to residents so that they would understand the campus expectations

Certificate, Model Based Systems Engineering

Master'S Degree, Polymer And Composites Engineering

Bachelor'S Degree, Engineering Science And Mechanics