Mark Gschwind Email & Phone Number

United States

• F135 EEP Operability Lead - July 2022 - Ongoing
• Coordinated a team of operability subject matter experts and component team members to develop complex system trades used to make critical engine design decisions, ensuring a successful preliminary design phase and a.
• Directed development, evaluation, and maintenance of transient engine simulation, operability audits, and analysis tools through concept initialization and concept optimization program phases, providing current status.
• Assured compliance to requirements and highlighted risks to hardware ability through the application of engine models and data analysis. Coordinated results with various engineering and hardware teams to ensure product.
• Developed a process using python to integrate software tools from across the Pratt & Whitney engineering disciplines necessary for creating critical design datapacks, reduced handoffs by 70% and reduced turn time from.
• Piloted modernization studies to analyze F135 system growth options, optimized performance and life impacts, and reported results to executive staff and external commercial and government customers.

East Hartford, Connecticut, United States

• F135 Data Analytics and Field Support Engineer: May 2020 – August 2021
• Developed field support trending algorithm to ingest, clean, and report full flight data daily to ensure timely and accurate data for external customer reports, internal studies, and component improvement programs.
• Led collaborative bi-weekly review of flight trending performance with partner companies to assess aircraft capability, ensure performance while deployed, and to recommend maintenance where needed for fleet of 100+.
• Maintained scope, schedule, and budget for 20+ accounts totaling $10.8M as a Control Account Manager ensuring earned value reporting compliance with government standards while identifying business risks and.
• Performance Lead for the PW1200G engine responsible for coordinating a team of 3 to conduct analysis on hardware and software change requests, requirements updates, and reporting of proposed system and aircraft changes.
• Coordinated with internal and external teams to develop and implement engine testing processes and test cell measurement correlations for the Mitsubishi testing facility supporting shipment of MHI Aero's first.

East Hartford, Connecticut

• F119/F135 Operability Engineer
• Developed initial data capture schemes to filter F135 field data for specific maneuvers and automated trending packages for fielded aircraft, to close fault tree items, ensure mission capability, and guarantee pilot.
• Filtered and reduced transient engine test and rig data to determine aero-operability limits, surge margins, and starting margin assessments to evaluate risks and benefits of the F135 Fuel Burn Reduction improvement.
• Streamlined software functional test process and review generation to reduce turn time and improve suite of unit tests required to sign off on engine software updates.

Remote

• Developed an executable allowing for quicker, more accurate cost and material estimates for complex roofing contracts, while highlighting safety requirements.
• Coordinated with engineering and business team to scheduling release dates, live testing sessions, and expansion of features.

Syracuse, New York, United States

• Facilitated classes of students to promote cooperation, and reinforce material learned during lectures.
• Conduct Office Hours to provide extra assistance to students seeking extra help.
• Topics include: Calculus I, Calculus II, Calculus III, Vector Dynamic

Manchester, Connecticut

• Collaborated with various departments to reduce the number of out of flow parts by logging pre-existing defects and damage to assist in the drafting of concessions.
• Designed fixtures used to mount Dot Peen Marking devices used in turbofan blade marking process.
• Wrote Excel, Word, and Powerpoint macros using Visual Basic to assist the Quality and Engineering departments with data analysis, data conversion, drafting of concessions, and shipping tasks.
• Designed and constructed turbine blade racks using Creform material to improve both the aesthetics and efficiency of the shop floor.
• Performed a Gage Reliability and Repeatability study to determine both the accuracy and correlation between the CMM and a physical gage.
• Analyzed out of tolerance CMM data to determine trends in defects caused by machining.

Syracuse, New York Area

• Facilitated classes of students to promote cooperation, and reinforce material learned during lectures.
• Conduct Office Hours to provide extra assistance to students seeking extra help.
• Topics include: Calculus I, Calculus II, Calculus III, Vector Dynamics

Syracuse, New York Area

• Learned how to navigate and run programs on a Linux System
• Utilized the Syracuse University HTCondor cluster to analyze datasets of numerically simulated Turbulent Channel CFD data.
• Searched for Hairpin Vortices using the FieldView software.