Dan White Email & Phone Number

Poway, Ca, Us

Coordinate team of four-six engineers to lead development of cross-functional software tools and process for department of 100+ engineers, supporting analysis types including aerodynamics, aircraft performance, and flight controls.Plan software-development lifecycles, facilitate focus groups to develop requirements, and create roadmaps for internally developed tools advancing analysis & modeling capabilities. Write and build consensus on process guidance, specifications, theory manuals, and flow charts to steer ongoing R&D investment and improve robustness for user productivity.Develop staff skills and outreach to provide effective service to users.

Poway, Ca, Us

Coordinate and lead development of cross-functional software tools and process and efficiency improvements.Own software-development lifecycle plans, focus-group requirements, and create roadmaps for internally developed tools advancing analysis & modeling capabilities for the department of 80-120 engineers. Write and workshop process guidance, specifications, theory manuals, and flow charts to steer ongoing R&D investment and improve robustness for user productivity.Collaborate to integrate and unify diffuse codes, programming approaches and languages from Excel to MATLAB/Simulink, and document, demonstrate, and customize products for end-users.

Poway, Ca, Us

Coordinate, propose, and supervise payload-integration CFD analyses toward clearing over 60 payloads/loadouts for testing and deployment on MQ-1*, MQ-9*, MQ-20*, and other fielded aircraft, responsible for program budgets totaling over $4 million. Author and define work scope for over 100 CFD bids, totaling over $10 million in value, responsible for estimate, proposal, and execution phases.Manage a diverse team of several engineers with collaborative organization, planning, and scheduling to meet deadlines consistently. Serve as prime CFD technical contact to communicate results and operational impacts to DoD program offices and contractors including Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, and Sierra Nevada Corporation.Innovate and train processes standardizing templates for project postmortems and published reports, and assuring quality of team’s publications. Improve group workflow by compiling standard practices, unifying code-development framework and reference documentation on Confluence/JIRA, and administering and organizing Subversion (SVN) code repository.Coordinated talent acquisition: interviewed, hired, supervised, and mentored several junior engineers interns.Recognized with numerous awards, including Organizational Excellence 2021, on-the-spot awards, and four awards for outstanding individual contribution to the team.

Poway, Ca, Us

Conceive, write, and validate suite of versatile MATLAB software tools adopted by twenty engineers to streamline data analysis and procedural efficiency. Example capabilities developed:-- wrap simulation analysis for several CFD solver options, handle file transfer to supercomputing clusters for simulation execution, store metadata and analytics.-- parse text transcripts for errors; evaluate data-reduction criteria, process MATLAB and/or Excel metadata records.-- generate plots, maps, tables, and PDFs summarizing varying simulation/series outputs.interface MATLAB front-end with Python back-end to transfer simulation data and associated metadata to an indexed data-lake archive filesystem with multiple quality checks throughout.-- visualize comparisons to data set of prior work, run regression of payload data to improve quality of new analyses and predict possible efficiency gains.-- perform time-series analysis of test and simulation trajectory data to meet safety-of-flight requirements.Plan, configure, and execute simulations of aerospace systems using ANSYS Fluent or CREATE™-AV Kestrel for design and sensitivity evaluation, often comparing to corresponding wind-tunnel and flight-test data. Analyses for production and proposed Predator-series aircraft include impacts on aircraft performance and stability, aerodynamic loads, aero-optical distortion, and dynamic store separation.

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

(during schoolyear)1. graded course work and projects2. conducted substitute lectures3. crafted homework and exam problems for Introduction to Flight (MEAM 245 in 2008 and 2009) and Aerodynamics (MEAM 435/545 in 2009)

Warminster, Pa, Us

(during summers)1. developed and documented MATLAB and VBA scripts to batch data analysis of existing sensor-array simulations, thereby enabling graphical visualization of FORTRAN output code, resulting in simpler deployment, and eliminating several days’ learning curve for senior engineers to run further simulations2. designed and integrated sonobuoy hydrodynamic decelerators with a team of three senior engineers3. executed scaling and feasibility trade studies for proposed unmanned aircraft and hovercraft4. researched and iteratively designed LED housing and pneumatic sonobuoy launcher leading to prototype5. earned Team Performance Award for installation of electrical and CAT-5E wiring, servers, routers, and computers in new office building

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

(during school terms)Senior Information Technology Advisor (August 2007 – present)1. solved clients’ computer questions and problems2. performed emergency troubleshooting visits3. advised and supervised junior ITAs4. provided computer security tune-ups5. maintained college-house help desk and computer lab

1. wrote and edited online help guide for federal grant management software2. synchronized format and syntax of program help and end user manuals for fiscal management software3. examined software interface and source code for errors

Mse, Mechanical Engineering And Applied Mechanics

German Proficiency Certificate, Level B2, German

Bse, Mechanical Engineering And Applied Mechanics

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