Doug Hedges Email & Phone Number

Fort Lauderdale, FL, US

Ft. Lauderdale, Florida

Deerfield Beach, Florida, United States

Deerfield Beach, Florida

Davie, Florida

• President and CTO, Sintavia LLC, Hollywood, Florida,
• Co-founder of vertically integrated AM manufacturing Aerospace and Defense manufacturing company. First employee.
• Implemented additive manufacturing, metallurgy, post processing and quality processes as related to critical manufacturing.
• Developed a large majority of customer base to include all prime aerospace companies within the Aerospace and Defense industries.
• Implemented and developed design services to support critical components within Aerospace and Defense industry.

Ft. Lauderdale, FL

• Senior Powerplant Engineer, CTS Engines, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida,
• GE CF6 turbofan family of engine maintenance and operations.
• Tooling design, manufacture, implementation and procurement.
• Repairs and alterations based around GE CF6 family of engines
• Implemented metrology and inspection solutions.
• Implemented CNC CBN grinding of airfoils and gas path assemblies.

Miami, Florida

• Lead Project Engineer, Heico Aerospace, Miami, Florida
• Established PMA facility with the Heico Repair Group within different ATA chapters as related to commercial aerospace.
• Responsible for the flight worthy design of engineering products.
• Coordinated program activities with FAA DER as required.
• Prepared documents and established communication for submittal to FAA-ACO office.
• Lead engineering, metrology and metallurgy to support substantiation packages.

Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area

• Senior PMA Design Engineer, ATS/Proponent, Miami, Florida
• Signatory responsibility for FAA Part Manufacture Approval (PMA) projects on various electrical and mechanical components used within the aerospace industry.
• Responsibility for all aspects of design for FAA submittal.
• Prepared documents and established communication for submittal to FAA-ACO office.
• Developed system to streamline and optimize PMA substantiation process.

Hollywood, Florida

• Project and Repair Engineer, Heico Aerospace, Hollywood, Florida
• Responsible for implementing Engine Manual and FAA DER jet engine component repairs.
• Responsible for FAA Part Manufacture Approval (PMA) projects on jet engine and airframe mechanical components.
• Developed robotic thermal spray processes and procedures based around various gas turbine combustion hardware.
• Coordinated FAA substaination processes within all metallurgy, metrology, engineering and quality departments for the PMA and repair

Indianapolis, Indiana Area

• Design Engineer, Rolls Royce Engines/Liberty Works, Indianapolis, Indiana
• Responsible for design, preliminary analysis and manufacture of advanced jet engines design phase.
• Utilized preliminary design tools to provide data to various departments within the engineering department.
• Sourced hardware and established dialog with advanced manufacturing.
• Actively communicated with customer preliminary design process and data.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Mechanical Engineer, Safran Aero Boosters, Minneapolis, Minnesota
• Design, analysis and manufacture of ground test aero equipment.
• Responsible for jet-engine thrust stand adapter design and implementation.
• Developed specific weld specifications based on AWS requirements.
• Project management with customer on all aspects of mechanical design.
• Coordinated within all groups of design, manufacturing and quality.

Middletown And East Hartford, CT

• A&P Mechanic, Pratt & Whitney, East Hartford, Connecticut
• Testing of turbine engines at both altitude and sea level.
• Assembled, dissembled, balanced and inspected production aircraft engines.
• Direct interface as test cell operator with engineering within test operations.
• Well versed in facility maintenance as related to test operations.
• Worked within assembly production and quality to implement scrap reduction. Assembled, dissembled, balanced and inspected production aircraft engines.