Nicholas Suen, P.Eng. Email & Phone Number

Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada

• Utilized project management principles to successfully deliver on-contract engineering projects on teams of 3 to 10 engineers.
• Achieved 66% win rate coordinating diverse competitive bid teams of 5+ members.
• Engaged and managed stakeholders, communicating regularly with: - Members of the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF), - Prime contractor, subcontractors, and vendors, - Aircraft manufacturers, and - Internal company.
• Performed financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting to support both Program Manager’s and prime contractor’s financial performance reporting requirements.
• Utilized change management principles to track and analyze change requests, identifying scope creep and ensuring stakeholder agreement prior to incorporation.
• Generated 100% of invoices and supporting detailed data required by Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC) for the company’s key operational contract ($1M+ CAD revenue per month, >75% of company’s revenue).

Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada

• Engaged stakeholders on the technical content and status of tasks for the Aircraft Structural Integrity Program (ASIP) of the RCAF CC-130E and CC-130H Hercules fleet.
• Supported team management activities of the ASIP Supervising Engineer including: - Reviewing and approving timesheets, and - Assigning tasks
• Managed and coordinated priority tasks, engaging directly with the key customers.
• Conceived and led the development of contractor standard repair tasks, eliminating a source of redundant engineering work.
• Led and delivered non-standard repair courses to 50+ RCAF aircraft technicians over several years.
• Executed airworthiness risk management activities for an RCAF fleet, contributing to it becoming one of the regulator’s prime examples of a well risk managed fleet.

Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada

• Coordinated start-up activities of a team of 8 stakeholders for a maintenance program supporting the newly procured RCAF CC-130J Super Hercules fleet.
• Engaged a diverse set of stakeholders within the prime contractor and the aircraft manufacturer to ensure program readiness.
• Created and refined a Work Breakdown Structure for the program, enabling determination of team size by estimating hours required to start the program and the hours required to maintain the program at steady state.
• Created and refined Quality Processes and Procedures.

Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada

• Designed and analyzed repairs for RCAF CC-130E and CC-130H Hercules aircraft.
• Engaged stakeholders in the prime contractor's production staff to ensure design feasibility.
• Produced repair drawings using AutoCAD.
• Ensured airworthiness of repair designs by interpreting a wide variety of aircraft OEM and operator technical data, such as drawings and Interactive Electronic Technical Manuals (IETM).

Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada

• Analyzed maintenance and inspection data to ensure the continued structural integrity of RCAF CC-130E and CC-130H Hercules fleet.
• Engaged stakeholders in the RCAF to provide extensive support to the airworthiness risk management process.
• Participated in development of structural condition monitoring process for the fleet.
• Analyzed and evaluated structural integrity issues including widespread fatigue damage, aircraft inspection requirements and structural condition monitoring.
• Conducted gap analysis of updated OEM inspection requirements and existing inspection programs.
• Raised Engineering Change Requests (ECR).

• Designed valves and couplers for petroleum/dry bulk tankers, from conceptual design through to detailed design using SolidWorks.
• Engaged stakeholders in the foundry, machine shop, and Quality Assurance department while providing production engineering support.