Teresa Kerr Email & Phone Number

Sylmar, California

Responsible for the configuration of hundreds of fuel and pneumatic valves and actuators, guiding a staff of eight engineers when making significant and minor changes to normal and flight-critical aircraft parts. Detailed accomplishments were:- Navigated complex secure customer web sites designed to exchange proprietary and export-sensitive documentation, decreasing our submittal/approval cycle time by 50%.- Participated in scheduled and non-scheduled customer and government audits which sometimes required 40-year-old data, resulting in zero significant findings over six years.- Aided in the preparation of engineering studies, reports, and analysis, enabling the engineering staff to devote up to 50% more of their time to complex design issues.- Managed a nine-month project to change the company name on hundreds of documents with the aid of the engineering staff and two temporary employees, resulting in the project being completed one month ahead of schedule.

Responsible for all official compiling of software for preliminary and final releases, often accomplishing this task with customer and government quality assurance representatives present. Wrote and tested code for complex hydraulic testing based on customer’s flow charts and existing tests. Detailed accomplishments were:- Developed all user-interface screens for operating complex hydraulic test stands ensuring 100% consistency throughout system and reducing screen development time by 25%.- Maintained build scripts and documentation for release and for developer use, helping to define company standards and to increase the accuracy of builds. - Maintained a database to track internal and external changes to software, allowing appropriate scheduling of workloads and insuring that 100% of customer and internal problems were addressed in a timely manner.- Coordinated with technical publications department to create a context-sensitive help system, enabling the users to find the proper information in a quarter of the time, considerably improving the user’s effectiveness. - Wrote detailed installation instructions allowing military personnel to install software updates, reducing the need to travel by 50%.- Traveled to customer’s site to install and test software, developing a personal relationship with the users that helped gain insight into their future needs.

Responsible for the design and layout of printed wiring boards, as well as the preparation of schematic diagrams, assembly drawings, parts lists and fabrication drawings. Set up the company’s first computer aided design system and developed a complete library for all components used in military and commercial.