• Lead Survivability Engineering team of 14 engineers providing guidance, mentorship and empowerment to effectively support the increasing demands of a production line.• Support proposal work, independent technical reviews, program standup and audits, and special assignments.• Responsible for managing Budgets, Schedules, Risk and Opportunities• Collaborate with various organizations to include senior leadership/customers to ensure mission success.• Provide adequate staffing in areas of liaison, testing, analysis and integration.• Ensure execution of project statement of work and baselines in support of a production line.• Coordinate and execute RCS testing of LO systems and components.

• Provide engineering for advanced design and special projects programs in areas of survivability.• Frequently collaborate with various organizations to include senior leadership to ensure mission success.• Determine RCS, IR, Visual and Acoustic reduction materials, methodologies and fabrication techniques.• Assist with managing budget and schedules in support of day to day manufacturing operations.• Provide guidance and assistance to manufacturing in areas of interpreting survivability design and production specifications.• Determine and perform survivability material suitability tests.• Determine repair dispositions for non-conforming survivability systems.

• Determined repair dispositions for nonconforming parts, assemblies, and installations.• Performed root cause analysis and provide technical guidance on complex program issues.• Investigated reports of defective, damaged, or malfunctioning parts, assemblies, equipment, or systems to determine nature and scope of problem.• Interpreted engineering drawings and facilitate correction of errors on drawings and documents identified during manufacturing processes.• Maintained the strict confidentiality of sensitive information.• Maintained current knowledge of manufacturing methods, procedures plus activities in assigned area.

• Led Manufacturing Engineering team of 6 M.E.s in support of manufacturing operations.• Responsible for direct floor support of F-35 production operations supporting aircraft fuselage section through the production/composite assembly line operations. • Provided investigative rationale to new engineering packages to increase the efficiency and repeatability of structure component installations.• Provided guidance regarding part producibility and requirements to best utilize equipment and manufacturing techniques in an assembly environment.• Provided guidance to engineering regarding design concepts and specification requirements to best utilize equipment and manufacturing techniques.• Responsible for Root Cause Corrective Action on defects and the implementation of cost effective, repeatable process improvements that ensure product quality.• Ensured technical support is provided to the manufacturing shop floor consisting of major composite assembly tooling, planning, and visual aid definition within both a liaison, and product definition environment.

• Developed, monitored and refined the preventive/predictive maintenance process in pursuit of optimization.• Developed engineering solutions to repetitive failures and other maintenance problems.• Applied value analysis to repair/replace, repair/redesign, and make/buy decisions.• Conducted root cause analysis in order perform the proper corrective actions for undesired events.• Reduced and improved maintenance work wherever feasible.

• 3 Combat deployments to Iraq.• Advanced Urban Combat high shooter award.• Marksmanship Instructors Course.