Michael Buhidar Email & Phone Number

Hagerstown, MD, US

United States

United States

United States

Corpus Christi, TX

• Recruited, developed, and led engineering teams providing engineering support to the Army’s Aviation and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Command.
• Led teams in developing and analyzing repairs for military helicopter airframe structures, hydraulic systems, electrical systems, and dynamic components.
• Managed an annual budget of over $4M, consistently meeting contract cost and performance objectives.
• Recognized with an Army Aviation Association of America Order of St. Michael Award signifying having contributed significantly to the promotion of Army Aviation while demonstrating the highest standards of professional.

Corpus Christi, TX

• Recruited, developed, and led a team engineers in providing engineering support to the Army’s Aviation and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Command.
• Led team in conducting analyses of Critical Safety aircraft components, including drive system, gas turbine engine, and hydraulic system items, to assess the suitability of maintenance procedures, processes.
• Managed cost and performance metrics and provided overall technical and supervisory leadership to the team.

Corpus Christi, TX

• Formed company to serve the custom apparel production markets. Services included digitizing, artwork production, and other technical aspects of apparel production.

Cary, NC

• Leadership of Product Development Engineering Services (1 year):
• Built and led team of product development engineers and industrial designers in executing outsourced engineering projects for Caterpillar, Inc. and other regional clients.
• Created and guided service offerings that included Mechanical Design, CAD Systems Implementation Consulting, Industrial Design, and Structural Analysis.Concept-to-Production Product Development (3 years):
• Built and led an engineering team to support the development of the Caterpillar skid-steer loader.
• Directly involved in technical specification development, supplier selection, concept layouts, detailed mechanical design, drawing production, and prototype/production build issue resolution.
• Provided technical guidance to engineering team in the design and development of the skid-steer loader lower power train including system sizing and mechanical design of all components including chains, sprockets.

West Palm Beach, FL

• Performed mechanical design and analysis of aircraft gas turbine components and systems including high-speed shafts, bearings, rotor disks, and gears.
• Skilled in a broad range of engineering disciplines including conceptual design, detailed design, structural analysis, bolted joint analysis, bearing design, field incident investigation, heat transfer analysis.
• Actively promoted the integration of leading-edge design and analysis tools such as Pro/Engineer and Pro/MECHANICA into the design system to improve design lead-time and quality metrics.