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Hartford, Ct, Us

Arlington, Va, Us

As the Principal Technical Fellow for Technology Strategy, coordinate and lead cross-company technology strategy efforts to further technology innovation, drive efficiency in technology strategy development process, and continuously strengthen the impact of the outcomes in ensuring sustained and future differentiation for RTX.

Arlington, Va, Us

Coordinated and led company-wide technology strategy initiatives, including the development of company-wide technology roadmaps for key technology areas that are critical to the company's future, through working closely with the company's technology and engineering leadership team, strategy organizations, sustainability organizations, Technical Fellows and experts at Collins Aerospace, Pratt & Whitney, Raytheon, and RTX Corporate Research and Development teams including RTRC, BBN, and Process and Capability Centers (PCCs). Served as the primary technical expert in the RTX Technology and Global Engineering organization in driving sustainable technology and innovation. Also managed a portfolio of independent research and development (IRAD) programs that aimed to identify the most promising technical paths in emerging technology areas.

Warrendale, Pa, Us

Warrendale, Pa, Us

Led the Science-Based Targeting (SBT) study. Delivered a high-quality IAEG whitepaper on SBT summarizing best practice from the experience of global aerospace and defense companies. Made major contributions to the IAEG Guidance for Calculating Civil Aviation Scope 3 Emissions for Category 11 – Use of Sold Products, including a methodology for incorporating growing Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) usage over the product lifetime.

Farmington, Ct, Us

Worked closely with the company's engineering leadership team, Technical Fellows, and United Technologies Research Center (UTRC) and corporate Center of Expertise (COE) programs, coordinates and leads the development of organization-wide roadmaps for key technology areas that are critical to the company's future.

Niskayuna, New York, Us

Successfully developed and executed internal/external research programs as the principal investigator and technical lead. Won trust from government, airlines, and internal customers through deep understanding of customer technical/business needs and issues, and delivery of solid outcomes. Drove disruptive technology in aviation systems, resulting in major initiatives across GE. For example:– Served as the technical lead for a multidisciplinary, multiorganizational team across three GE organizations, along with the MIT Lincoln Lab, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab and Northeast UAS Airspace Integration Research (NUAIR), to integrate the Airborne Collision Avoidance System X logic for sUAS (ACAS sXu), airborne sensors, ground surveillance uplink, and alert/advisory downlink on a system on a module (SOM) avionics platform. Incorporated Edge computing, communications and robotics technology into the system architecture. Led the team to overcome multiple technical and non-technical challenges and achieved a successful flight demonstration in October 2018. Selected as one of the flagship achievements at GE Global Research in that year.– Identified the trend and organized the first GE wide small Unmanned Aircraft System (sUAS) roadmap workshop. Won a NASA sUAS program. Served as the technical lead for disruptor analysis in this space. These early activities led to GE’s entry into, and research and business development in the sUAS and autonomy space. Served as the technical lead for runtime safety assurance research and engaged in crewed-uncrewed teaming and advanced air mobility (AAM) pursuits.– Invented an aircraft Digital-Twin technology that combines aerodynamics, engine performance, trajectory modeling, and data analytics to achieve tail-specific in-flight performance optimization beyond what a conventional Flight Management System (FMS) performance optimization can offer.

Niskayuna, New York, Us

Joined GE Global Research to develop avionics/air traffic management (ATM) technologies to support business initiatives related to Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen). Served as a thought leader in this space, mentored junior engineers, and brought the team from a group of aspiring researchers to a world class team generating technical solutions, creating IP and publication portfolios. For example:– Won the first of its kind NASA Air Traffic Management (ATM) Cloud Computing program against strong national competitors in ATM and Cloud computing domains. Led the team and delivered high quality results including system architecture, safety, performance, and cost/benefits analysis for Cloud deployment of large complex air traffic cyber-physical systems.– Served as the GE Global Research Technical Lead of the multiorganizational Brazil Flight Efficiency Research initiative. Utilizing domain expertise and technical insights, played an instrumental role in winning the trust from DECEA (Department of Airspace Control, Brazilian Air Force), GOL Airlines (Brazil) for an open collaboration that ultimately led to business win.- Made key technical contributions to the GE-Lockheed Martin (now Leidos Intelligence) aircraft/air ATM trajectory synchronization research.

Atlanta, Georgia , Us

Key research associate in the Air Transportation Laboratory, School of Aerospace Engineering. Developed winning proposals, led multiorganizational project teams conducting FAA and NASA sponsored Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) research programs. Mentored and supervised a team of graduate research assistants participating in those programs. For example:– Served as the project manager for a large-scale flight demonstration at Atlanta International Airport (ATL) in partner with Delta Air Lines, FAA Atlanta Air Route Traffic Control Center (ZTL), FAA Atlanta Large Terminal Radar Approach Control Facility (TRACON, A80), and other research teams.– Developed an innovative stochastic convective weather model based on multiple sources of data to improve prediction accuracy and determine probabilistic airspace capacity for air traffic flow management applications.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Used airline safety management system (SMS) data, weather data, and human factors data to identify, predict, and recommend actions to mitigate a wide range of aviation safety risks.

Cambridge, Ma, Us

Recognizing a major transition in the world’s ATM system was forthcoming, decided to return to school to pursue a doctoral degree to refresh knowledge, sharpen skills for a new technology focused career.Developed a probabilistic methodology and the associated tool as the core capability to enable a continuous descent approach (CDA)/optimized profile descent (OPD) flight trial involving UPS revenue flights to demonstrate aircraft noise reductions and fuel savings. Utilizing the methodology, worked with UPS flight operations control, FAA en route and terminal air traffic controllers, Boeing engineers, and NASA researchers to develop traffic flow management approaches for UPS’ midnight arrival push. The methodology and the tool later became a foundational capability for CDA/OPD demonstration and implementation at many major airports in the U.S. as well as airports in Europe. Doctoral thesis documenting this capability and the UPS flight trail won a first-place thesis competition award.Also studied market and infrastructure implications of future air cargo in China. Co-authored a paper from the study that drew broad attention from media, worldwide industry and government agencies.

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

Returned to Honeywell to serve as the Marketing Manager responsible for airline customers in mainland China. Won contracts on TCAS/Mode S transponder, Multi-Function Control And Display Unit (MCDU) retrofit, and GPS.

Meudon, Île-De-France, Fr

Briefly left Honeywell to serve as a Technical Manager for Airsys ATM (a Thomson-CSF/Siemens joint venture, now part of Thales) to support ATM system pursuits in China.

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

Served as Software Engineer, System Engineer and later Task Leader with successively increased engineering responsibilities. Led planning/budgeting, implementation, and software and hardware-in-the-loop validation of Honeywell’s first version of Automatic Dependent Surveillance – Broadcast (ADS-B) capability in its Mode S transponder, 20 years before the ultimate FAA ADS-B Mandate in 2020. Completed engineering projects for product lines including Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System (TCAS) II Change 7 and Honeywell Airbus 310 Flight Management System (FMS) and Airbus 340 FMS.

Sc.D., Aerospace Systems

Certificate Of Management Excellence

Master Of Science (Ms), Aerospace Engineering

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Aerospace Engineering