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West Palm Beach, Fl, Us

Bethesda, Md, Us

Bethesda, Md, Us

• Responsible for all aspects of real-time and post flight processing of aircraft data, including telemetry room, onboard processing computer, cockpit display, and data servers.• Lead design, development, test, and implementation of new process improvements and software implementation as a liaison to the software group.• Ensure execution of the processing plan on a flight by flight basis and delivery of processing results in a timely fashion to each discipline.• Coordination of post flight processing revisions across various disciplines to ensure the optimum processing flow to minimize data turnaround times and eliminate rework.• Follow up with customers, assess problems that inhibit test execution, and develop and recommend solutions to those problems. • Identify gaps between customer requirements and existing capabilities and recommend methodologies for addressing shortfalls.

Bethesda, Md, Us

• Research, design, and develop solutions for real-time monitoring, data processing, and organizational frameworks.• Scrum master for agile team in development of ServiceNow application.• Perform system administration of Windows, CentOS and HPC systems.• Support test flight activities, operating telemetry room’s IADS console, cameras, and antennas. Support flight-line troubleshooting of instrumentation systems, aircraft network, real-time processing, and real-time monitoring.• Write, maintain, and collaborate on processes/procedures documentation for internal team training and quality assurance as well as a collaborative effort with other departments.

Bethesda, Md, Us

• Support CH53K Integrated Test Team with data - processing, playback, monitoring,storage, logistics, troubleshooting, and accountability.• Run, write, maintain, and debug scripts/programs used for data processing and analysis.• Support instrumentation department, leveraging my experience to increase productivityand quality.• Support flight operations providing flight line support and troubleshooting ofinstrumentation systems, networking, real-time processing, and real-time monitoringsystems.• Support flight test engineering departments with data analysis, ensuring access toservers, programs, and data remains unfettered. Resolve issues with networking, grouppolicy restrictions, program and script bugs and errors, data integrity, and serverhardware.• Collaborate with engineering teams to increase efficiency and reduce turn around timefor data products, allowing for earlier data analysis.• Collaborate with test directors, aircraft managers, flight test engineering departments,and instrumentation departments to conduct successful onsite and offsite testing.• Write, maintain, and collaborate on processes/procedures documentation for internalteam training and quality assurance as well as a collaborative effort with otherdepartments.

San Jose, California, Us

• Instrumentation Lab lead for CH53K Integrated Test Team.• Lead instrumentation teams in the design and build up of test aircraft instrumentation systems.• Plan and execute test platform instrumentation modifications.• Identify and specify requirements for specific test instrumentation modifications.• Create test instrumentation wiring diagrams and Bill of Materials for consumable products and testing hardware.• Typical tests systems include: Single Active/Calibrated strain gauge bridges, Thermocouples, Accelerometers, ARINC and 1553 bus data.• Support Flight Test Operations.• Troubleshoot instrumentation data recording and processing issues, analog parameter issues, ARINC and 1553 data bus recording issues.

Hyderabad, Ts, In

●Aircraft lead instrumentation technician for CH53K Flight Test Program.●Organize and delegate work to a team, updating project schedules, maintaining inventory, progress tracking and data management.●Design, plan, and install modifications to existing instrumentation packages, providing project management with flight schedule impacts.●Maintain instrumentation system of over 1000 parameters consisting of strain gauges, accelerometers, pressure transducers, pressure static/totals, cameras, and lasers, as well as all supporting hardware and systems.●Create and update wiring schematics. ●Support flight test crew, pre-flighting, launching, and recovering flight aircraft.●Team lead on large projects, spanning multiple months, adding hundreds of measurements, ensuring we meet project timelines.

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

●Install, inspect, and troubleshoot services and signal cables using digital service activation meter, multimeter, coaxial toner, buried cable locator, foreign voltage detector, hand tools and power tools.●Detect and repair signal leakage, shorts, loops, and breaks ensuring signal path meets specification and tolerances to comply with FCC regulations.

Richfield, Minnesota, Us

●Install and troubleshoot mobile electronic components according to MECP guidelines using multimeters, oscilloscopes, polarity testers, OBD2 scanners, soldering equipment.●Read and interpret wiring schematics, wire routing and assembled custom wire harnesses for installation of analog and digital electronic components.

Arlington, Virginia, Us

●Record maintenance and faults using computer logbooks and paper forms and records.●Perform scheduled and unscheduled maintenance on airframe, gearboxes, rotor blades, flight controls, landing gear, engines and hydraulics.●Perform preventive maintenance and inspections on airframe, gearboxes, rotor blades, flight controls, landing gear, engines and hydraulics.●Assisted with over 2,100 flight hours and over 60 assigned missions in support of Operation New Dawn.

● Perform updates and decommissioning of full motion flight simulators.● Assemble and fabricate projector housings and mylar mirrors for visual systems