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L-3, Coleman Aerospace, Orlando FLDec 1992 to Sept 2014Over 20 years of successful management and leadership of highly complex design, development, integration, qualification and demonstration of aerospace components, subsystems and flight vehicles:• Recruited, trained and mentored engineering staff to accomplish challenging program goals in support of customer’s mission.• Organized Engineering Department to achieve a high level of efficiency in task executions.• Provided oversight of Enterprise Command Media generation to ensure high level of discipline and rigor of all processes and procedures • Established and lead review boards for change management, material discrepancies and failure investigations.Vice President Engineering,Oct 2004 to Sept 2014• Organized, motivated and managed the 75+ engineers to ensure all programs requirements are achieved. • Ensured that the engineering functional disciplines achieved a coordinated system design that met all of the requirements set forth in our contracts. • Identified potential opportunities to increase business base and support the business development activity during proposals with realistic competitive engineering labor estimates for the execution of new programs.

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• Lead the development, integration and successful demonstration flight of the LRALT vehicle. • Monitored the technical performance of the LRALT team which was judged to be excellent in the review period and resulted in final award fee of 99.7 percent. • Facilitated the investigation and pursuit of the root cause of each issue that arose during the preparations and the implementation of corrective measures to ensure a successful demonstration flight.

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• Recruited, organized, motivated and managed the assignments for 30 plus Analyst, Design Engineers, Draftsmen and Technicians to achieve program execution needs. • Ensured that the mechanical engineers’ designs, analysis and test efforts were compliant with quality standards necessary to meet all program requirements including the technical performance, schedule and cost. • Reviewed and approved all of the department work products to confirm the proper rigor and attention to detail would result in successful hardware performance.

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• Oversaw, planned and managed the mechanical design teams’ daily efforts. • Guided the design process from concept generation to released engineering drawing to ensure the hardware satisfied the defined requirements and program schedules. • Maintained continuous communication of all department activities, accomplishments and challenges to staff and management. • Lead numerous IPTs to develop new vehicle configurations and subsystems and components.

Mechanical Design LeadApril 1985 to December 1992• Developed unique designs for improved aerodynamic performance on cannon launched projectiles including deployable wings systems. • Led the mechanical design tasks on a wide variety of projects. • Responsible for entire design cycle including concept generation, trade studies, solid modeling, detail design and documentation and supervising fabrication and assembly, integration and functional testing. Projects included missile transporter armor design with mechanism for rapid deployment. Multiple sub munitions designs to defeat specific threat targets. • Reviewed and managed disposition of hardware defects due to manufacturing errors and field failures.

Mechanical Design EngineerAugust 1983 to April 1985• Created mechanical design on a wide variety of projects. • Responsible for entire design cycle including concept generation, trade studies, solid modeling, detail design and documentation and supervising fabrication and assembly, integration and functional testing. Projects included development of passenger shoulder belt

Master Of Science (M.S.), Systems Management

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Mechanical Engineering