Engineering Manager for All Platform Systems (Electrical/Propulsion, Mechanical, Structural, Signatures & Naval Architecture) on the Collins Class Sustainment Program.

In addition to being the Deputy Senior Design Engineer (DSDE) for the Classic Hornet, I was also responsible for the Technical, schedule and financial management of F/A-18A/B Classic Hornet Deeper Maintenance (DM) and Operational Maintenance (OM) engineering activities.

Technical Oversight of the installation of an advanced Counter Measure Dispensing System (CMDS) onto the Blackhawk S-70A-9 and Chinook CH-47 Aircraft Management of CMDS Structures IPT (up to 8 Stress Analysts & Designers including graduate engineers and contract personnel).Acted as a Design Engineer signatory for Structural design and airworthiness documentation (Drawings, Stress Reports, Fatigue Analysis) as required.

2003 - 2005Strength Engineer/MRB Engineer, F/A-18 E/F Forward Fuselage, Boeing St Louis (Boeing Australia Exchange Position as part of the F/A-18 Hornet Upgrade Project (HUG))Conducted Static & Fatigue Strength analysis on Primary, Secondary and Tertiary F/A-18E/F and EA-18G Forward Fuselage parts and assemblies. 2000 - 2002Block C3A, Integration of the Elta EL/L-8222 Electronic Counter Measures Pod to the F-111C Aircraft Prototype Component Structural Design, Analysis and Manufacture using 3D Solid Modeling (Solidworks) and 2D CAD (AutoCad).Stress Analysis of tertiary and secondary structure using Classical Hand Analysis and FEA (ANSYS).