David Hannwacker Email & Phone Number

Merritt Island, FL, US

Melbourne, Florida, United States

Currently a Senior Manager within Corporate Supply Chain responsible for promoting the use of should-cost analysis for procurement to deliver bottom-line cost-out savings.- Corporate Supply-chain leader of a matrixed-organization responsible for driving increased adoption and use of should-cost across a 50k-employee company- Train supply-chain.

Various US Locations

Senior member and Operations Leader for business product cost-out team, responsible leading and supporting cost-out efforts with engineering, supply chain, and product management.- Product Cost Engineer: Support internal customer’s in achieving product cost targets: create current cost and cost-entitlement Bill of Materials, identify and prioritize.

Various US Locations

As a member of a small external team, I quantified today’s Additive Manufacturing (3D printing) process capabilities for metallic aircraft engine components to better inform design engineers on manufacturing limitations. I completed this initiative through:- Collaborating with Additive Manufacturing Supply Chain to lay-out the landscape of component types.

Various US Locations

As a senior member of small consulting team leading turn-around time reduction across three high-mix, high-volume aircraft engine component repair and overhaul facilities, I successfully reinvigorated and implemented lean and continuous improvement concepts by:- Tailoring traditional lean concepts to highly-variable value streams, by use of analyses like.

Global (USA, France, UK, Mexico, India, And Germany)

The VCPLab (Variable Cost Productivity) was a collaboration between GE’s Global Research Center and Aviation Engineering to improve product margins across all six GE businesses. As a senior member of the VCPLab, I successfully contributed to this goal and changed the company culture around product cost by:- Leading and supporting product cost-reduction for.

Greater Boston Area

ITEP was a demonstrator turboshaft engine design, built, and tested to support a bid to re-engine several current and new US Army helicopters. The success of ITEP led to GE being awarded the production contract for the T901 engine. In addition to combustion team leader, I owned and was responsible the mechanical design, manufacturing, program schedule, and.

Greater Boston Area

FATE is a demonstrator turboshaft engine, designed, built, and tested to prove state-of-the-art architecture, improved performance, and reduced cost. A key technology was the all-CMC (ceramic-matrix composite) combustion system, a first for GE. In addition to combustion team leader, I owned and was responsible the mechanical design, manufacturing, program.

Boston, MA

T408 is a productionized next generation turboshaft engine for the CH-53K heavy lift helicopter, used by the US Marines. I owned and was responsible the combustion system. This included a mechanical design that met all requirements, a manufacturable-design for high producibility, and support of initial production for customer delivery within 3 years. I.