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Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

Morrisville, North Carolina, United States

Morrisville, North Carolina

Cherry Point, NC

-Co-lead a team of ~8 journeymen structures engineers plus two liaison engineers-Design and analyze repairs to aircraft structures and lead engineers to do the same-Manage aircraft structural modification projects from requirements, through design, drawings, manufacturing, and installation, to maintenance manual updates

Grottaglie, Italy

-Technical liaison between several dozen engineers and logisticians comprising the AV-8 Fleet Support Team in Cherry Point, NC, to the Italian Navy AV-8B squadron in Grottaglie, Italy-Advocated for my customer regarding the maintenance, repair, and modification of their aircraft in all technical competencies and systems, ranging from airframes to avionics.

Cherry Point, NC

-Managed structural repair projects of seven accident-damaged aircraft, each of which returned to service-Lead three major structural modification projects from concept through initial installations-Mentored a steady rotation of new engineers on metal and composite repair design and analysis of one-off aircraft structure damage

Cherry Point, NC

-Exclusive on-site engineer in the industrial production environment of AV-8B Harrier major tear-down, repair, and modification-Substantiated aircraft structural repair designs and deviations from design conditions, applying finite element, fatigue, and hand-calculation analysis methods-Served as the first-response engineer for all troubleshooting.

-Supported operative AV-8B Harrier Marine Corps squadrons by performing failure investigations, troubleshooting installations, and designing and directing structural repairs to in-service aircraft-Supported manufacture of aircraft structural parts by designing repair parts, creating drawings, changing drawings, fixing tooling quality problems, approving.