Aerospace Engineer with 25+ years of experience in various areas of aerospace development. Most of my experience has been in developing new general aviation aircraft. I have worked on four new aircraft designs from the conceptual stage through first flight and into various stages of FAA certification.Detailed tasks I have performed include aircraft sizing, configuration, and conceptual design, structural layout and analysis (metal and composite), 3D lofting, loads calculation, flutter analysis, flight test engineering, performance estimation, mechanical system design, and development team management. I was an FAA Loads DER for several years.I have designed and built many aircraft components, test fixtures, and test equipment including machining, welding, and composites fabrication.Specialties: Structural Design and Analysis, Finite Element Analysis, Lofting, Aircraft Loads, Flutter Analysis, Mechanical System Design, Testing, Configuration Design and Sizing, Project Management, Team Building.