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Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

- Led the architectural and system development of the new Compact Fly-by-Wire (CFBW) flight control system.- Assisted with multiple successful pursuits for the new CFBW flight control system, helping Honeywell win multiple new programs.- Supported multiple customers seeking to use our new CFBW architecture, helping customers develop aircraft level requirements. Led the development of Honeywell system requirements and design reviews for these new customers.- Coordinated the analysis and development of systems level requirements for the C919 aircraft across multiple engineering teams, acting as a central resource for a broad and diverse multi-national team of hardware, software, and systems engineers.- Led the system design reviews of the flight control system with the customer on the C919 program.- Led the development of the architectural requirements for the C919 flight control electronic system, ensuring the system would support customer safety requirements and the safety analysis required for certification per ARP4761.- Developed and provided training modules to multiple teams of engineers within Honeywell.- Worked with certification specialists, internal teams, and technical leaders to develop the processes, tools, and standards that will be used to support the development and certification of multiple Honeywell flight control programs.- Acted as a mentor to Honeywell engineers working on all Honeywell flight control programs, helping explain the complex aspects of Honeywell’s various flight control electronic systems.

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

- Coordinated the analysis and initial development of systems level requirements for the C919 aircraft.- Acted as a customer interface for complex issues encountered after the Boeing 787 entered into service.- Developed and provided training modules to multiple teams of engineers within Honeywell and in partner companies, including large engineering teams at a partner company in China and Honeywell engineers in the Czech Republic.- Worked with internal teams and technical leaders to develop the processes, tools, and standards that will be used to support the development and certification of the C919 program.- Acted as a mentor to Honeywell engineers working on the C919 and Boeing 787 flight control programs, helping explain the complex aspects of Honeywell’s flight control electronic system.

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

- Acted as the Gyro Focal on the Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) Systems team. Developed systems requirements for the next generation of MEMS gyro sensors and acted as the primary point of contact for all MEMS gyro issues.- Assisted with the development of a IMU SW in the loop simulation used for high fidelity guidance and navigation algorithm development.- Supported multiple design upgrades in a spiral development process to design the next generation of low cost and high performance MEMS IMUs.- Developed Matlab analysis tools to support IMU design, production, and qualification of new generations of the HG1930 IMU product line.

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

- Technical Lead for the Boeing 787 Primary Flight Control System, responsible for reviewing and delivering software load content that satisfies all customer requirements, assisting management with planning, working with the customer to resolve integration issues, and training and leading small teams of engineers.- Developed system level requirements and lead the implementation of multiple architecture and safety monitors included in the Honeywell PFCS on the Boeing 787.- Lead the development of the Actuator Control Electronics Monitor Test, which was the primary safety test for Honeywell hardware on the 787.- Maintenance Focal for the ARJ21 Fly-by-Wire System, with duties including leading a small international team, tracking software load development, providing status to management, and eliminating any roadblocks that were impeding progress.- Performed the primary analysis and development of the force-fight mitigation algorithm for all the primary flight control surfaces on the ARJ21 aircraft. Through this experience gained a good understanding of hydraulic actuator models and the closed loop control laws in the system.- Developed 3-point electronic rigging algorithms for all the primary flight control surfaces on the ARJ21 aircraft to aid the force fight mitigation effort. Integrated these algorithms on a hydraulic test bench with hardware-in-the-loop to prove the concept and performance of the design.- Co-authored the Matlab Stateflow Development Guidelines used for all initiated test software and requirement development on both the ARJ21 and Boeing 787 programs.

Champaign, Il, Us

- Outfitted air-conditioning test stand with a data acquisition and control system.- Assisted in development of ThermosysTM modeling software package for Matlab/Simulink.- Developed dynamic model-based fault detection and diagnosis tools for vapor compression systems and implemented advanced multiple-input multiple-output closed-loop control strategies on an experimental test stand.- Excellent technical writing and presentation skills gained from communicating research results to the academic and industrial communities at conferences including the American Control Conference, SAE World Congress, and International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition.

M.S., Mechanical Engineering

B.S., Mechanical Engineering