Bell Flight designs, manufactures, and maintains military and civilian aircraft, notably helicopters. The H-1 program is one of the longest running military helicopter programs within Bell and is sold and supported both domestically and internationally.RESPONSIBILITIES / ACHIEVEMENTS:• Working as a Project Engineer / Product Owner in Bell’s H-1 Lead Technology Integrator Team (LTI) for two major projects: SWAP-T (Size, Weight, Power, and Thermal) and DI / Link-16 (Digital Interoperability) where I utilize Earned Value (EV) Management and Agile Methodologies to track and maintain project schedule and budget to build customer satisfaction and confidence in promoting future contracted efforts.• Leading cross-functional team tasked with performing engineering analysis on the impacts of integrating aircraft system upgrades or design improvements requested by our government customer (NAVAIR) and proposing innovative design solutions meeting customer requirements.• Developing, presenting, and delivering non-recurring engineering (NRE) contract proposals (Impact Statements) to the customer, resulting in NRE contracts for the Bell H-1 program.• Communicating and collaborating with my NAVAIR Technical Point of Contact (TPOC) to track project status, provide task cost estimates, and develop project scope and technical requirements to inform project Capability Statements.• Built relationships to foster better communication and collaboration between engineering teams and streamline the design process, including holding weekly cross-functional meetings early in the project lifecycle, which enabled my team to meet our customer’s tight timeline.• Led development of a successful contract proposal for a very high-priority project to Bell’s NAVAIR customer that was brought in over $1mil+ of funding for Bell’s H-1 program. Was awarded the Textron Tributes Honor Award for my leadership of this successful proposal.

Bell Flight designs, manufactures, and maintains military and civilian aircraft, notably helicopters. The H-1 program is one of the longest running military helicopter programs within Bell and is sold and supported both domestically and internationally.RESPONSIBILITIES / ACHIEVEMENTS:• Working as a Project Engineer / Product Owner in Bell’s H-1 Lead Technology Integrator Team (LTI) for two major projects: SWAP-T (Size, Weight, Power, and Thermal) and DI / Link-16 (Digital Interoperability) where I utilize Earned Value (EV) Management and Agile Methodologies to track and maintain project schedule and budget to build customer satisfaction and confidence in promoting future contracted efforts.• Leading cross-functional team tasked with performing engineering analysis on the impacts of integrating aircraft system upgrades or design improvements requested by our government customer (NAVAIR) and proposing innovative design solutions meeting customer requirements.• Developing, presenting, and delivering non-recurring engineering (NRE) contract proposals (Impact Statements) to the customer, resulting in NRE contracts for the Bell H-1 program.• Communicating and collaborating with my NAVAIR Technical Point of Contact (TPOC) to track project status, provide task cost estimates, and develop project scope and technical requirements to inform project Capability Statements.• Created LRU spreadsheet which exceeded customer expectations and is now used regularly by both the Bell and NAVAIR teams and has become a recurring deliverable to NAVAIR.• Built relationships to foster better communication and collaboration between engineering teams and streamline the design process, including holding weekly cross-functional meetings early in the project lifecycle, which enabled my team to meet our customer’s tight timeline.

Airframe Design Engineer at Bell Flight supporting the H-1 helicopter program.

Product Development Engineer and Technical Project Lead over a gas tank Kautex supplies to General Motors. This is the second rotation of my professional leadership development rotational program with Textron Inc.Job Responsibilities Include:- Primary liaison to GM for my gas tank program- Coordinating and implementing all engineering changes- Validation testing- Tracking and meeting program milestones- Coordinating with suppliers and customer- Coordinating cross-functionally with supply chain, sales, program management, manufacturing, and quality

Part of a professional leadership development rotational program with Textron Inc.

- Part of a team that is responsible for sustainment of all Cessna Part 25 Jets including the Cessna Citation X, XL/XLS/XLS+, Sovereign, and Latitude. This is the first rotation of my professional leadership development rotational program with Textron Inc.- Responsible for part and system design changes, approvals of supplier part and document changes, engineering compliance and certification, addressing production line issues, and time-sensitive customer service issues which required coordination with various engineering groups and UMs, engineering customer support, experimental testing, and the customer.- Gained experience in engineering design and sustainment, qualification testing, and certification of engineering changes in relation to FAA requirements.