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Patuxent River, Maryland, Us

F/A-18 A-D Hornet; F/A-18 E/F Super Hornet; E/A-18G Growler• Landing Gear Hydraulics Team Lead for all F/A-18 landing gear hydraulics components and system level integration. • First engineer chosen by leadership for off-site troubleshooting, and failure investigations pertaining to landing gear hydraulics; Performed troubleshooting/investigations at NAS Fallon, NAS Lemoore, NAS Jacksonville, MCAS Miramar, and Anderson AFB Guam.• Basic Design Engineer Approval Authority for item criticality determination, repair procedures, and stress analysis calculations.• Authored technical engineering instructions for the repairing, troubleshooting, and overhauling of flight controls, landing gear, and hydraulic components to be performed by fleet maintainers on aircraft and artisans at overhaul repair facilities.• Investigated failed landing gear and flight controls components to determine the root cause of the failure, as well as, provided corrective and mitigating actions to the fleet. • Troubleshot landing gear rigging and hydraulic issues on aircraft and provided component level troubleshooting for the overhaul and testing of landing gear hydraulic components. • Communicated engineering recommendations to the Navy Program office through decision briefs that outlined risk, repair, and/or mitigating strategies. • Analyzed and reviewed the stress analysis margin of safeties and fatigue life damage ratios for landing gear structural component repair requests and for the F/A-18 Service Life Extension Program.• Approved/disapproved vendors to manufacture landing gear components by reviewing the manufacturing capabilities, procedures, and certifications of Navy vendors.• Collaborated effectively with engineers, vendors, fleet maintainers, artisans, squadron maintenance officers, and program managers to achieve program objectives.

Falls Church, Va, Us

Structural Design Liaison Engineer E-2D Advanced Hawkeye; F-5 Tiger • Provided engineering support for troubleshooting and resolving design and production issues. • Effected engineering changes and re-designs to primary and secondary structures, hydraulic and electrical lines, and installation hardware. • Supported systems integration team in prototype avionics upgrade. • Utilized 3-D CAD programs to evaluate/accomplish design layouts.Material Review Board EngineerF-5 Tiger; EA-6B Prowler• Provided structural and mechanical engineering support for modification and overhaul programs.• Performed static analysis and design layouts as required to substantiate repair dispositions.• Obtained signature authority for repair dispositions.• Coordinated and troubleshot repair dispositions with Manufacturing, Procurement, Tooling, and Quality departments; as well as with external customers.• Prioritized tasks to meet cost and schedule in a high pressure and time sensitive environment.Manufacturing Tool Design Liaison EngineerE-2D Advanced Hawkeye; E-2C Hawkeye• Designed new tooling packages for first article production.• Re-designed and optimized existing tooling for current manufacturing. • Supervised machining and fabrication of tooling templates, fixtures, and jigs.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba)

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Mechanical Engineering