Michael Boyd Email & Phone Number

Hawthorne, Ca, Us

Hawthorne, California, Us

- Owns the build process for integrating structures, propulsion, and avionics components for the Falcon 9 First Stage vehicles (Single Stick, Side Boosters, Center Core)- Acts as Vehicle Controller to perform fully integrated testing and checkouts on the First Stage and Merlin Engines (electrical, pneumatic, and hydraulic systems)- Develops, qualifies, and refines manufacturing processes. Resolves non-conformances and implements root cause corrective actions- Works with other engineers, subject matter experts, and technicians to evaluate designs for manufacturability and test requirements- Ideates and implements tooling and test solutions- Worked with the Dragon team on the Polaris Dawn crew capsule build. Built vehicles for NASA crew, private crew, and historic missions like PSYCHE, DART, Hera, Europa Clipper. Supported Second Stage and Merlin teams during needed engineering support and travelled for work to Vandenberg Airforce Base and Cape Canaveral to support launches

Hawthorne, California, Us

Hawthorne, California, Us

• Designed fixtures/tooling in NX to decrease lead time for proprietary fastener tech:- Simplified laser etching & quality inspection process, time savings of 78% & 92%- Designed common storage units across all operations, saving hours of processing• Successfully lead efforts to solve high-priority issue with aggressive 4-day deadline:- Designed hardware, coordinated multiple teams, and performed material testing• Saved 2hr/Stage 2 assembly with 3D printed tool design and equation simplification

Davidson, North Carolina, Us

• Tested and troubleshot electrical, mechanical, and hydraulic aerospace systems• Conducted/analyzed thermal & vibration tests for helicopter probes and winches

San Francisco, California, Us

• Designed, built, programmed, and tested an automatic, modular leak test machine:- Created mechanical, electrical, & pneumatic drawings with SolidWorks & AutoCAD- Used JMP to conduct GR&R and Capability Analysis tests - 99.82% confidence rate• Designed a semi-automated bike repair line and compact bike storage solutions:- Upper management assessed project to save over $200 million per year

Austin, Texas, Us

• Automated a pneumatic pallet cleaning station with SolidWorks and Studio 5000• Converted two existing manual stations into one automated station:- Decreased cycle time by 20 seconds per Model 3 drive unit• Designed a safety enclosure with auto-shutoff around a 15-ton hydraulic puller

Austin, Texas, Us

• Controls lead for $1M assembly line installation (electrical drawings, AOI review)• Refurbished Fanuc robot electrical panel and programmed for automatic control• Published a new Add-On Instruction (AOI) for Allen-Bradley PLCs in Studio 5000:-Saves 3 seconds per Model 3 drive unit at each of the 20+ locations

Lisle, Il, Us

• Wired, soldered, and assembled relay PCBs and microcomputer test rigs• Developed a network card-testing software module in C# and Arduino• Completed a firmware project with a Renesas Microcomputer and Tera Term