SUMMARY
Engineering: Design of primary and secondary structural components and assemblies for aircraft fuselage and wings.
Tool Design: Design of Master Gages, Test Fixtures, Assembly / Sub-Assembly, Detail, Bond, N/C, Handling, Transportation, Mill / Drill Tooling, Injection Molds, R.T.M., Rapid Product Development-3D printing.
Tool Fabrication: Hands on tool fabrication, from machining of individual components to installation of tools on location – major to small assembly tools including machine tools.
Leadership: Strong people skills accompanied with a keen assessment of a customer’s needs, bringing a team to design, develop and deliver on time products to any customer.
Computer Experience: CATIA V4/V5/V6, CADAM, CADRA, NCAD/NCAL, SOLIDWORKS, Pro/E, AutoCAD, UNIX (including CATIA data transfer and minor administrative duties), LINUX, WINDOWS, MS OFFICE, PC build / repair / training, Networking, HTML.
Accomplishments: Eagle Scout
Education: Dallas Baptist College Dallas, TX – various classes
Mountain View College Dallas, TX-various classes
Six Sigma Green Belt Vought VOS
EMPLOYMENT
9/04 – PRESENT TRIUMPH AEROSTRUCTURES (VIPD) DALLAS, TX
Tool Engineer IV/ Quality Verification Engineer
Design / Check of major assembly, bond, machine, handling, drilling, and test equipment for various programs including 747, 767, 777, C130, C5, CH60, F22, F135, F35, G450, G550, Global Hawk and V22. Implemented various tooling process improvements including design of new BAMS spar bond tools for Dallas and Milledgeville, CATIA V5 release processes and folder structures. Design team lead for BAMS spar tools, Green Belt team lead. Wrote various standards for tool design and tool fab. Involved with design concepts for proposal work, downselcting tool fab vendors and troubleshooting various vendor issues.
5/02 – 9/04 BELL HELICOPTER-TEXTRON FORT WORTH, TX
Tool Design Engineer III/Airframe Group Lead
Design / Lead of major assembly tooling for composite wing structures, nacelle components from machine fixtures to major assembly fixtures. Resolving all design and fabrication issues from machining of components to assembly of tool with close tolerance equipment. Involved with Six Sigma Events. Kaizen Projects and Lean Improvements for various programs.
2/01 – 11/01 THE AVIANT GROUP BELLEVUE, WA
Senior Tool Designer (on contract with Boeing Commercial Aircraft Auburn, WA)
Responsible for designs of mechanical handling equipment and standard tooling for various commercial programs.
2/00 – 2/01 PACIFICA ENGINEERING INC. MUKILTEO, WA
Senior Tool Designer
Designed and developed different types of tools required for the production of various aircraft components and assemblies including checking of drawings to latest standards and GDAT (ANSI / ASME Y14.5). Provided fit, form and function check on tool designs. Assisted with technical expertise for RFQ’s, also on-site assignment with client providing technical assistance.
8/99 – 1/00 ADDECO-TAD TECHNICAL RENTON, WA
Mechanical / Structural Designer (on contract with Boeing Commercial Aircraft Everett, WA)
Responsible for design of aircraft structural components and assemblies. Assigned to various multi-disciplined teams to find solutions and develop new processes relating to assembly and production of aircraft components.
9/98 – 7/99 PACIFICA ENGINEERING INC. MUKILTEO, WA
Senior Lead Tool Designer
Lead of tooling projects from concept to delivery. Responsible for all aspects of various projects, reporting to Manager of Tool Engineering, coordination with customer / fabrication shop, concept and design tooling, train fellow employees, develop new processes, assist systems administrator, send-receive-transform and encrypt CATIA datasets
7/97 – 9/98 BUTLER SERVICE GROUP REDMOND, WA
Senior Tool Designer (on contract with Boeing Commercial Aircraft Everett, WA)
Responsible for designing tooling used for the assembly of 747 wing structure components, PC focal, offload focal, engine strut focal, 767-400 assembly tooling. Involved in Lean Manufacturing Events, I.P.T.’s and process improvement projects.
1/97 – 7/97 NORTHROP-GRUMMAN-COMMERCIAL DALLAS, TX
Senior Design Engineer
Involved in the design as built effort on 747 AFA program (board to CATIA), coordinating with Manufacturing Engineering and various other departments.
5/96 – 1/97 POLLAK-SKAN ARLINGTON, TX
Design Engineer Specialist (on contract with Northrop-Grumman-Comm. Dallas, TX)
Design of aircraft structural components and assemblies. Coordinated with downstream teams, supported manufacturing. Assisted 747 AFA structural assembly design as build program.
12/95 – 5/96 LOCKHEED / MARTIN GRAND PRAIRIE, TX
Senior Tool Processor
Process and plan tool components / assemblies through all stages of manufacturing and fabrication– scheduling, planning and troubleshooting including all documentation and results
6/95 – 11/95 NISSI INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGIES FORT WORTH, TX
Senior Tool Designer
Design tooling, N/C program and solid modeling of complex shapes for machining purposes.
3/95 – 5/95 RESOURCE MANAGEMENT INTERNATIONAL ARLINGTON, TX
Tool Engineer (on contract with Bell Helicopter-Textron. Fort Worth, TX)
Design of various tooling and componen...
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