Taylor Thoman Email & Phone Number

United States

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Building the safety case for providing data and flight services to integrate Advanced Aerial Mobility aircraft into the National Airspace System

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

The Sikorsky Boeing Defiant X team is developing a new coaxial rotor helicopter in competition for the Future Long Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) United States Army contract

Greater Philadelphia Area

• Analyzed airframe, electrical, and mechanical components by developing system safety risk assessments (SSRA), failure analysis reports, and engineering change proposal system safety reports to evaluate the current component risk level and propose a risk-reduction solution, ensuring the safety of the H-47 platform in-service and during the design life cycle • Performed analysis of failed parts/components by using mathematical and statistical modeling to quantify failure risks in differentiated risk matrices outlining severities and probabilities for H-47: Singapore, India, UK, RNLAF, BLKII, and Canada • Concatenated functional hazard assessments (FHA) and assessed component and system risk to develop a hazard tracking system for the MH-139 Program to deliver to Leonardo Helicopters for their retrofit work on the aircraft• Applied technical engine risk updates to the safety assessment report and FHA further used in the GE-38 Engine Update analysis• Collaborated on root cause and corrective action (RCCA) investigations, reliability engineering, engineering design changes, production, design development, verification and validation, flight test engineering, and in-service support engineering to provide a unified system safety perspective used across the H-47 platform

Greater Philadelphia Area

• Updated the joint System Safety and Flight Controls hazard requirements Access database to create a new user-friendly interface and improved efficiency of searches by developing new VBA and SQL macro code within the tables, forms, and reports inside the database, reducing the search time of safety impacted Flight Controls design implementations by 50%• Developed SSRAs, notice of escapements, non-conformance reports, and failure mode, effect, and cause analyses to provide technical safety analyses available for referential use by V-22 integrated product teams• Authored and co-authored SSRAs including subsystem background, hazard definition, quantified risks, and mitigation options; presented Flight Control Computer SSRA findings at the System Safety Working Group (SSWG) at the Naval Air Station Patuxent River and documented safety impacts at the SSWG at the Marine Corp Air Station (MCAS) Cherry Point• Served as co-facilitator of Tooling and Quality RCCA; summed Earned Value MGMT hours; attended Flight Controls Critical Design Reviews; co-piloted two V-22 flights during software testing inside the SIM cockpit to experience V-22 flight ops

Greater Philadelphia Area

• Wrote queries and ran code in VBA and SQL to automate the time of retrieval and analysis of sales information by 60%• Initiated cross-functional collaboration on projects outside of scope including sales and vendor operations, quality, and development to expand the role responsibilities with the available time from automating the existing sales ops reports• Audited and completed end user testing on vendor provided hardware technology to ensure positive customer experience with tablet interface; increased proficiency with Android tablet operating systems and setting capabilities• Created and analyzed sales compensation and technology advanced pivot table reports for efficiency-based initiatives

Greater Philadelphia Area

• Explained the basis and facilitated the understanding of complex mathematical and coding principles of calculus and MATLAB computation classes

Greater Philadelphia Area

• Coordinated and planned all fundraising events for the Business and Engineering Learning Community• Communicated with advisors and other university staff to promote community activities

Master Of Philosophy - Mphil, Ethics Of Ai, Data, Algorithms

Private Pilot Ground School - Fixed Wing

Master Of Science - Ms, Business Analytics

Activities and Societies: Class Representative

Certificate, Architecture And Systems Engineering, Professional Certificate

Training, System Safety Engineering

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Business & Engineering, Electrical And Computer Engineering, Minors: Opm And Creative Writing, Magna Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Pennoni Honors College, Undergraduate Teaching Assistant for the LeBow College of Business, Business.

Creative Writing

Creative Writing Workshop: Irish Literature and Fiction Studied the works of James Joyce, Elizabeth Bowen, Samuel Beckett, and Seamus Deane