SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
Senior level electronics engineering professional with 30 years expertise in hardware, software and systems engineering development and test of products for the high reliability aerospace and industrial controls segments. Strengths include a detail oriented, common sense approach to providing solutions that meet or exceed customer requirements and expectations while meeting cost and schedule objectives.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
TECTURA CORPORATION / BOEING, Bellevue, WA --- 2005 to PRESENT
SENIOR SYSTEMS ENGINEERING CONSULTANT TO BOEING AIRPLANE HEALTH MANAGEMENT (2009-PRESENT)
Responsible for design, development and verification of Airplane Health Management product requirements for the 737NG airplane family; enabling the digital airplane. Roles include Systems Engineering and Customer Product Support to major airlines such as American, Qantas and Air China.
* Provided for algorithm and requirements development supporting real time on event fault detection and reporting, as well as maintenance data reporting, in support of predictive trend failure analysis alerting and airplane performance monitoring.
SENIOR SYSTEMS ENGINEERING CONSULTANT TO BOEING 787 AIRPLANE DEVELOPMENT (2005-2009)
Responsible for development, integration, allocation and management of 787 Airplane Product requirements and verification for the top level Airplane and next level Major System/Design Team requirements in the areas of Flight Controls, Flight Deck, Avionics, Stability & Control and Aero-Performance. Roles include Systems Engineering Focal support to Design Teams, DOORS database administration, Technical Performance Measures administration and tools/metrics support.
* Provided DOORS based support to the development, allocation and management of top level Airplane and next level Major System/Design Team requirements and verification for Flight Controls, Flight Deck, Avionics, Stability & Control and Aero-Performance teams on the 787 baseline and derivative airplanes including change control, deviation and first flight assessment processes.
* Supported Technical Performance Measurement (TPM) process, tools and metrics providing program level visibility to status of critical program requirements, characteristics and customer commitments.
* Produced DOORS based requirements/verification quality and stability analysis reports supporting management review of program developmental maturity and risks.
HONEYWELL, Redmond, WA --- 2003 through 2005
SENIOR ENGINEER, SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT
Responsible for Next Generation Weather Radar product family requirements development and management including authoring process development, compilation of customer and industry standard requirements, and system verification & validation. Roles include technical focal for assigned system functions, change control board member and DOORS database administration.
* Developed operational state definitions, state transition logic and alert management requirements for the Next Generation Radar System supporting multiple modes of operation including Standby, Test, Automatic Weather Volumetric Buffer modes and Predictive Windshear with state interleaving.
* Compiled worst case super set of environmental condition requirements for the multiple LRUs of the Next Generation Weather Radar System from anticipated Federated system customer requirements given by Boeing GTR, Airbus ABD0100 and DO-160, as well as, specific military and commercial customer requirements from Boeing C-17 and Airbus A380.
* Supported production of sub-contract vendor specifications for Next Generation Weather Radar System LRUs and SRUs including linearly polarized, slotted waveguide Flat Plate Antenna, flight deck crew Control Panels and Dual System RF Switch.
CRANE AEROSPACE / ELDEC CORPORATION, Lynnwood, WA --- 1985 through 2003
SENIOR ENGINEER, SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT (2001-2003)
Responsible for all phases of Proximity Sensing Systems development from initial technical proposals to final system verification and certification. Roles included primary customer technical focal, project team technical focal and program manager.
* On-site Systems Engineer to the Joint Development Phase of architecture, interfacing and requirements definition on the Embraer 170 Aircraft program resulting in multimillion-dollar program award.
* Acted as initial Program Manager for the Embraer 170 Aircraft project and provided non-recurring engineering cost estimates justifying the business case through use of maximum hardware and software re-use.
* Successfully managed all phases of customer requirements definition and flowdown, including identifying out of scope changes and negotiating non-recurring cost impact reimbursements.
* Managed and completed on-site integration of Embraer 170 Aircraft Proximity Sensing Systems within both the Systems Integration Lab and the aircraft's Iron Bird Hydraulic Test Rig, meeting program schedule.
* Developed product qualification test procedure to DO-160 environmental conditions requirements for Embraer 170 Aircraft program, including ASCB data monitoring software. Successfully completed system and test equipment integration on-site for aircraft level lightning and HIRF certification tests.
ENGINEER, SYSTEMS AND TEST DEVELOPMENT (1997-2001)
Responsibilities included all phases of test equipment development to support product qualification tests to DO-160 environmental conditions requirements and production tests for environmental stress screening and final acceptance.
* Created manual and automatic acceptance test procedures for MD-95 and MD-10 aircraft programs, including test equipment and software, supporting delivery schedule for initial pre-production engineering units and reduced production acceptance test cycle time.
* Automated environmental stress screening test procedures for MD-95 and MD-10 aircraft programs, including test equipment and software, reducing in-service infant mortality failures and production test cycle times.
* Successfully completed all phases of product qualification to DO-160 environmental conditions requirements for MD-95 and MD-10 aircraft programs, including test procedure, equipment and software development, execution of tests and test reports, allowing for aircraft / equipment certification.
* Completed ahead of schedule and under budget, all systems and test engineering phases of software enhancement evaluation build units for Bell-Boeing V22 Osprey Blade Fold Control System exceeding customer expectations.
* Developed software for end item logic simulation and test case verification on MD-95, MD-10, Canadair CRJ-700 and Northrop Grumman B2 Stealth Bomber aircraft prog...
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