Greg Platz Email & Phone Number

Austin, Texas Area

- Senior engineer part of a multi-disciplinary team focused on Ceramic Matrix Composite (CMC) product development and improvement at the component (e.g. layup, autoclave, melt infiltration, machining, coating, and inspection) levels for commercial and military jet engine applications. - Chair producibility and industrialization reviews for LEAP, GE9x, and next generation jet engine architectures identifying key actions to minimize manufacturing risk.- Incorporate consistency, and establish best practices for new hardware drawings.- Established manufacturing readiness level road maps for next generation components.- Technical community team leader responsible for managing communication, website, continuing education seminars, and community leadership and growth.- Composite Design Board member.- Mentor providing technical leadership, challenges to their status quo, and providing opportunity for growth within the technical community.

Austin, Texas

- Lead design engineer located within composite manufacturing facility focusing on three (3) production and one (1) new product carbon fiber composite fan blade program to identify and lead design, manufacturing, customer, and cost improvements.- Interim sub-section manager over 9 remote composite Engineers In the Shop.- Improved manufacturing yield by utilizing digital manufacturing data to identify design and manufacturing changes.- Utilized FEA and CFD to provide critical design guidance in a major performance root cause analysis by quantifying performance characteristics.- Proactively identified and resolved hardware problems by facilitating daily cross functional meetings with key hardware stake holders.- Empowered the manufacturing and engineering staff with the creation and instruction of a Jet Engine and Fan Blade Design curriculum.

Cincinnati, Ohio

- Hardware design owner for the GEnx-1b and GEnx-2b carbon fiber fan blade with responsibilities of design, cost, delivery, and field performance.- Managed and authored FAA and EASA certification reports for the GEnx-1b PIP2 fan blade program requiring schedule ownership of hardware and engine testing, analysis, and report delivery.- Applied statistical tools to digital manufacturing data, and challenged design methodology to improve manufacturing yield and reduce hardware cost.

Cincinnati, Ohio

- Hardware design owner and design engineer for the GE90 Aluminum OGV’s, Titanium Pylons, non-metallic fairing and deflector panels, cowl support, firewall, and composite CF34-10 and CF6-80C/80E OGV with responsibilities of design, cost, delivery, and field performance.- Designed and implemented improved cowl support geometry reducing machine time achieving a piece part cost reduction.- Reduced shipment delinquency's by identifying and implementing design and inspection improvements affecting dimensional requirements, non-destructive inspection, and digital definition.- Supported the transition of 6 OGV products to a new manufacturing source requiring management of a multi-disciplinary team to meet production and FAA certification schedules.

Cincinnati, Ohio

- Design engineer supporting certification, cost, delivery, and field performance for the GE90, GEnx-1b, and GEnx-2b composite fan blades. - Hardware owner and design engineer for the CF34-10 and CF6-80C/E composite OGV's with responsibilities of design, cost, delivery, and field performance.- Provided test management, test and results documentation, technical reviews, and high speed videoanalysis to aid in the design and certification for the GEnx-2b fan blade.- Patent owner of flowpath component achieving increased engine efficiency and reducing part cost.