Providing engineering leadership to a team of 14 individuals (including 2 Technical Fellows and 5 Boeing Designated Experts), representing multiple engineering disciplines, to develop and execute project and process plans, implementing policies and procedures and set operational goals. Acquiring resources, providing technical management of suppliers and leading process improvements. Developing and maintaining relationships and partnerships with customers, stakeholders, peers, partners and direct reports.- Leading research and development of advanced automated production/assembly systems and processes to improve safety, quality, performance and/or reduce cost.- Providing oversight and approval of products (software and hardware) and processes' technical approach for predictive assembly technologies, scanning systems, data acquisition, etc.- Providing oversight on leveraging large scale data integration software technology to innovate, develop, test and integrate into production manufacturing and automation systems in support of customers' needs enterprise wide.-Team successfully delivered on time results for multiple projects with cumulative budgets totaling well over $3.5M annually.

Provided engineering leadership to a team representing multiple skill areas, including internal and external resources and customers, for the development and execution of project and team plans. Developed statement of work to vertically integrate sub-component parts to support our fleet which includes managing deliverables, resources, costs and schedules. - Served as technical project manager for 11 sub-components projects ranging from project selection, path finding, design initiation, certification, production and production support.- Integrated other project managers with the correct design authorities to ensure ease of design certification process by continued communication throughout project proceedings.- Coordinated with suppliers, designers, procurement agents, supply chain, program management and other interested parties to ensure on time, on schedule project execution.

Led collaborative approaches to plan, develop, design and verify life-cycle balanced systems which satisfy customer and operational needs from a project and product management perspective. Progressed product strategies for future airplane programs, including developing advanced materials and fabrication methods.- Harmonized, analyzed and evaluated technology readiness of novel applications for specialized fastening hardware. Progressed projects through a gated process which could minimize or eliminate confined space labor in production builds.- Determined path forward for technological investments, allocated budget, scheduled work, and integrated perspectives of all interested parties including design, stress, structures, configuration, manufacturing, supply chain, finance, suppliers and others.- Headed investigation of novel material for application to alleviate customer pain point which could result in $10M+ annual savings from customer perspective.

Influenced manufacturing technology integration for systems hardware. Determining appropriate material and process selection for design and fabrication of avionics, hydraulics, transmissions, actuators and other flight control mechanisms. Performing RCCA, supplier production qualification support, requirement definition, specification revisions and support of entire engineering life-cycle.- Attained product definition data signature authority for design review, ensuring FAA compliance for components on all commercial and commercial derivative defense aircrafts, including processing 300+ change packages from conception to implementation.- Orchestrated a technical team of 10 engineers to perform root-cause corrective action investigation at supplier after notification of significant production escapement, thus avoiding recall of 100+ affected end item parts saving upwards of $200K.- Resolved production manufacturing challenges and improvements for both specification controlled and build to print parts, handling communications involving parts with strict export control licenses, and fielding communications with 40+ global suppliers.

Fostered new product affordability efforts at an airplane integration level. Executed as product owner for material trade study agile team. Oversaw a group of multifunctional engineers, supplier management, and finance individuals though iterative project management.- Coordinated trade studies which led to a significant decrease of standard part utilization in design practices, reducing projected program cost by $300K per ship set.- Collaborated with supply chain and design subject matter experts to embed cost identification methodology in standard design practices, ultimately leading to 60% increase in visibility of cost factors for design engineers.- Created innovative strategy to attack cost weight optimization in design and baselined 200+ instances of thermoplastic PEEK and PEKK based composite parts and additively manufactured parts across the entire aircraft.

Transformed materials and manufacturing technology development for composite fabrication of primary structures including fuselage and propulsion components for commercial and defense applications. Headed complex projects and research teams as primary investigator.2016-2018:- Executed 5 sub-scale projects which supported full-scale next generation fuselage manufacturing systems demonstrator to validate lower-cost production methodologies, projected to save 20+ hours off the critical path per ship set in future production.- United a team to complete investigation which lead to a projected savings of $200K+ over the remaining life of the 787 program. Work resulted in a nomination for “Engineering Team of the Year,” internally.- Managed a development project which resulted in a fully patented process for co-curing complex structural composite features with a $100K budget.-Utilized robotics for automated fiber placement, ultrasonic knife cutting, and pick-and-place developments2015-2016:Integrated new research and development facility by launching equipment installations and standardizing lab processes. Also innovated as primary investigator to highly funded complex projects.- Investigated for composite cure tool cleaning improvements, and base lined of invar laser ablation on 777X and implementation of semi-permanent release agent which projected to save company $1M+ over remaining life of 787.- Headed a research project resulting in developing a fully patented process for creating ultra-sonic inspection standards for non-destructive inspection of composite defects with a $50K budget.- Coordinated installation, operated, programmed, maintained and trained others on capital equipment worth an excess of $3M including a water jet machine, 4 Kuka robots and 2 autoclaves.-Helped develop resin infusion processes

Synchronized 787 aft body fabrication processes and facilitated site wide composite repairs of defects from fabrication to the flight line. Communicated frequently with senior leadership regarding production schedule impacts.- Oversaw composite repair improvement workshop, which resulted in the implementation of design changes that reduced wrinkle repairs by 70%.- Aided in coordinating and facilitating major composite repairs throughout the facility to keep production and delivery on schedule.- Updated, analyzed and reported metrics to the rest of the facility, performed time studies to pin point improvement areas and provided head counts for required statement of work

Revitalized manufacturing process definition and daily production of avionic components for commercial and defense applications. Chartered processes for circuit board fabrication, soldering, injection molding, screen printing, assembly and testing.-Received a letter of recommendation from a Senior Manufacturing Engineer I worked closely with after time with company-Utilized and became very familiar with the company’s product lifecycle management system-Preformed several time studies to determine bottle neck areas in manufacturing processes, and created value stream maps for several manufacturing processes

Developed manufacturing process improvements with a lean focus of reducing waste throughout entire production facility. Assembled, packaged and shipped all 100+ products within the company and implemented significant improvements for over half of those processes.-Learned many of the key principles of lean manufacturing and made daily “2 second” lean improvements to existing manufacturing processes.-Improved the design and manufacturing of existing products and aided in development cycle.-Operated CNC machines, injection molding machines, band saws, table saws, miter saws, power drills, drill presses, abrasive wheels, industrial sanders, propane torches, heat guns, compressed air guns, die cutters, industrial adhesives, etc.