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Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

Arlington, Va, Us

Arlington, Va, Us

Arlington, Va, Us

• Developed Program plans, schedules, budgets and integrated master schedules in accordance with industry standards and contract requirements• Ensured cost, schedule and technical performance requirement objectives were achieved• Identified risks, issues and opportunities, assess impacts and develop mitigation and/or recovery plans • Track and report program financial and schedule status, monitor resource requirements and utilization • Support proposal preparation, Basis of Estimates (BOE), statements of work reviews, and cost/schedule estimation to support Estimate at Complete (EAC) analysis• Devised a Channelizer production recovery plan optimizing resource loading and task sequencing to maximize batch processing. Plan mitigated $750000 hours of technical issue impact and expedited unit deliveries by more than two months and returned $150,000 of budget to program• Managed Linearized Microwave Power Amplifier (LMPA/HPA) product team through subcontract hardware deliveries, assembly, integration and test of 3 flights of hardware. Continuous improvement to execution strategy resulted in over $2 million dollars of budget returned to program.• Planned critical program milestones, led rapid issue resolution and negotiation with suppliers, system engineering, quality to achieve early delivery of HPA hardware months ahead of schedule and over $300,000 budget returned to program.• Managed Digital Transponder product team through flight assembly, integration, test, and delivery of 10 units meeting all customer schedule needs and program billing and revenue milestones

Arlington, Va, Us

• Mechanical Product Design lead for space qualified RF and digital electronics• Provided engineering leadership for parts, materials and processes management, design feasibility, Design For Manufacturing And Test (DFMAT), packaging, radiation, reliability, mechanical failure analysis, obsolescence, drawings and fabrication creation (using GD&T and ASME Y14.5 drafting standards), system interface definition, product and process screening and qualification. • Served as subcontract technical lead and Material Review Board (MRB) Authority for phased array electronics procurement • Led anomaly investigation and implement corrective actions employing RCCA, Lean and six sigma principles• Lead Process qualification and production implementation of laser weld cover attach for electronic assemblies. Eliminating of high cost of prior attach method resulted in approximately $4 million in savings over single program delivery lifecycle.• Reduced Transponder manufacturing, test and integration cycle times by approximately 200%. Team was acknowledged as Satellite Development Center team of the Month for “first pass success”.

Troy, Mi, Us

• Constructed finite element models (FEM) to verify product performance against requirement in a variety of applications, at various phases in the product life cycles and across industries such as manufacturing, automotive and aerospace.• Performed static, non-linear, dynamic, modal, vibration, topology optimization, size optimization analysis• Authored technical reports and briefs to communicate results and recommended design improvements to customer• Constructed FEM with Hypermesh and LS-Dyna to iteratively design an automotive front end energy absorber to comply with pedestrian-vehicle front-end collision safety requirements• Conducted Topology Optimization Analysis using Hypermesh and Optistruct, for a turbo actuator housing under combined load cases, to identify solutions within the design space to maximize stiffness and minimize mass.• Created Stamping and Hydroforming simulations using Hypermesh and LS-Dyna, to perform a sensitivity study pertaining to tool & die metal forming process attributes such as bead location, thinning, and wrinkling• Performed non-linear static endurance analysis on the elevator actuator for the Boeing 787 using Hypermesh and Optistruct.

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

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