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SEE RESUME BELOW THIS COVER LETTER.
Except in Dallas, TX area, Contract only. Will consider Direct in Dallas, TX area.
Where they don't know what snow is.
Prefer AZ to Atlantic Ocean and South of that line.Not in WA, OR, Midwest, Northeast.
I work on things made *IN* factories. Not construction, petroleum, power.
Not in places where they make a million pounds/gallons/feet/pieces of anything. Only complicated products,such as aircraft,trucks, missiles, electromechanical components, spacecraft, etc.
Materials & Processes Engineer
Aerospace/Defense Corrosion Engineer
Design Applications Metallurgical Engineer
Summary:
Metallic, nonmetallic, and electrical/electronic materials and processes.
Oriented toward: design, producibility, cost and weight avoidance/reduction,
manufacturing, quality, value, procurement, standard parts, corrosion control.
Veteran. U.S. Citizen. Extensive experience with Military, Federal, NASA, technical society, commercial specifications and standards.Metal finishing, including conversion coatings, anodizing, plating, painting, flame spray, etc. Some shot peening experience. Prior
Secret and SAR Clearance. [Note: I have worked on four (4) NASA programs and know the NASA Materials & Processes requirements.]
Contract Employment:
02/06-05/06, 07/06-12/06 Orbital Sciences Corp., Chandler, AZ
Parts, Materials & Processes Engineer. Verification of Orbital and
subcontractor compliance with contractual requirements.
04/04-09/04 Northrop Grumman Corp., Bethpage, NY.
Materials & Processes Engineer. Selection of materials. Weight savings.
Reporting of and substitutions for hazardous and polluting substances.
06/99-06/03 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Dallas, TX. Risk
Management Inspector. Advising the public on control of hazardous, toxic,
and flammable materials and inspection of facilities for compliance with
Federal Laws and Regulations.
10/94-04/95 Stewart and Stevenson Services, Inc., Sealy, TX. Materials &
Processes Engineer. Design support for a family of trucks, including
replacement of specification control drawings and foreign standards with
detail and assembly drawings and U.S. standard parts.
09/93-12/93 McDonnell Douglas Corp., Robbins Air Force Base, GA. Materials
& Processes Engineer. Polluting and hazardous materials and processes (M&P)
survey. Determination of intake and usage of such M&P in various programs,
shops and hangars. Breakdown of constituents by Materials and Safety Data
sheets and other sources. Estimation of amounts of M&P going into air,
water and waste containers. Recommendations of alternate M&P and
improvements in production efficiencies.
05/93-08/93 Chrysler Technologies Airborne Systems, Inc., Waco, TX.
Materials & Processes Engineer. Consultant to Design and Standards
engineering. Planned and implemented compliance with laws and contractual
requirements for ozone depleting substances and other hazardous and
polluting materials. Reviewed drawings and prepared process specifications.
09/91-05/93 Northrop Corp., Hawthorne, CA. Senior Materials & Processes
Engineer. Review, support and correction of designs, with emphasis on
corrosion. Travel to vendors and subcontractors. (Classified missile
program)
12/89-03/91 Chrysler Technologies Airborne Systems, Inc., Waco, TX.
Materials, Processes and Components engineer. Interiors and electronic
communications equipment for commercial and military aircraft. Selection of
materials. Specifications for special processes.
08/89-12/89 General Dynamics, Fort Worth Division, Fort Worth, TX.
Materials & Processes Engineer. High temperature composite materials R&D
for National Aerospace Plane (NASP).
03/89-07/89 E-Systems, ECI Division, St. Petersburg, FL. Manufacturing
Engineer. Method improvements for painting, plating, marking, conformal
coating, adhesive bonding, potting. Selection of manufacturing materials,
such as tapes, masking compounds, solvents, cleaners. Update and
clarification of drawings and process procedures.
12/87-12/88 Teledyne Brown Engineering, Huntsville, AL. Materials &
Processes Engineer. Audits of fastener manufacturers for traceability,
process and quality control and subcontractor heat treaters and testing
laboratories for NASA. Internal audits of production processes. Selection
of materials and processes in design. Production and quality problems.
07/86-09/87 Martin Marietta Aerospace, Orlando, FL. Materials & Processes
Engineer. Consultation to design, quality, manufacturing and purchasing
areas. Reviewed drawings. Preparation of specifications for electrical
cables, circuit board heat sinks, torquing of fasteners, etc. Large variety
of electrical/optical/mechanical/structural equipment.
01/86-07/86 General Electric Co., Aircraft Engine Group, Evendale. OH.
Manufacturing/Value Engineer. Solving materials and processes problems of
vendors to assure timely receipt of parts. Finding and surveying of new
vendors to alleviate parts shortages. Redesign of engine components for
producibility and cost and weight reduction.
08/83-11/85 General Dynamics Land System Division, Warren, MI. Senior
Materials & Processes Engineer, Military Tanks and Vehicles. Review/upgrade
production drawings, producibility, standardization, specifications, value
engineering, proposals, design consultant.
10/82-08/83 United Space Boosters, Inc., Huntsville, Al. Senior Materials
Engineer. Procedures and inspection criteria for refurbishment and
corrosion control of Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Boosters (SRB). Wrote SRB
corrosion control plan and specification for NASA.
Sundstrand Corp., Rockford, IL. Senior Materials & Processes Engineer.
Full materials and processes engineering responsibility for several product
lines, including electrical/electronic.
Spar Aerospace Products, LTD., Toronto, Canada. Senior Materials &
Processes Engineer. All phases of M&P engineering for Space Shuttle Remote
Manipulator, mass transit propulsion systems, satellites.
Martin Marietta Corp., New Orleans, LA. Senior Materials & Processes
Engineer. Non-metallic materials including coatings, electrical and thermal
insulation, lubricants, sealants, surface treatments, adhesives, tapes used
on the Space Shuttle External tank. Corrosion studies and preservation.
Bell Aerospace Company, New Orleans, LA. Senior Materials & Processes
Engineer. All phases of M&P engineering for hovercraft and surface effect
ships.
Direct Employment:
Stencel Aero Engineering Corp., Asheville, NC. Materials Group Engineer.
Responsible for materials and processes, standards, value and producibility
engineering. Support provided to all areas including design, purchasing,
quality, vendors and subcontractors. Corrosion studies and preservation.
Lockheed-Georgia Company, Marietta, GA. Senior Materials & Processes
Engineer. Primary duties included lubrication and lubricants, finishing of
metals and non-metals including plating anodizing, cleaning and corrosion
prevention. Evaluation and selection of materials included close contact
with vendors, origination of laboratory test programs and the writing of
materials and processes specifications. Reviewed Manufacturing Process
Standards. Interpreted government specifications and acted as general
consultant to Manufacturing, Purchasing, Liaison Engineering, and Quality
Engineering for troubleshooting and interpretation of requirements and to
the various projects for design and modification. Other areas of
responsibility included post flight cleaning, corrosion removal, temporary
protective coatings, contamination control, paint removal, material review
action, protection of parts in process, temporary protective coatings,
preservation, polishes and waxes, solvents and storage and preservation of
aircraft and engines. Maintained sections of the Engineering Purchasing
Specifications Manual (Lockheed approved materials and sources). Special
cost reduction assignments. Program Manager of USAF R&D contract.
U.S Army Aeronautical Depot Maintenance Center (Now: CCAD), Corpus Christi,
TX. GS-0806 (Certified GS-13) Materials Engineer, Service Engineering
Division (Federal Civil Service). Furnished the necessary engineering
services for optimum use and application of materials and processes in the
overhaul and repair of and fabrication of parts for helicopters and engines.
Position required comprehensive knowledge of materials and processes and
the ability to translate requirements in terms of properties and uses into
behavior in service. Planned and developed local process specifications for
a variety of materials and processes including painting, welding, cleaning,
brazing, heat treatment, bonding, painting, metal spray, preservation and
nondestructive testing procedures. Performed or supervised special
investigations of aeronautical materials and equipment. Corrosion control
and preservation studies were conducted and methods were developed. Acted
as consultant to Purchasing Department and Receiving-Inspection regarding
availability and quality of materials. In conjunction with delivering
production liaison engineering assistance and advice to Maintenance Center's
shops and subcontractors, determined material substitutions and when
original material unknown, selected materials for the local fabrication of
aircraft parts. Wrote or amplified Technical Orders (TO's), Manuals (TM's)
and Bulletins (TB's) as required to overhaul aircraft and engines.
Education:
The University of Texas, Austin, TX.
B.A. Chemistry
Safety & Health in the Chemical Processing Industries
(Process Safety Management) OSHA
(1 week)
Risk Management Program
(4 days)
Basic Compliance Inspector Course
(1 week)
Incident Database Training
(2 days)
Hazardous Materials Response Operations (HAZWOPER)
(1 week)
US Army Center
Ultrasonic Cleaning
(1 week)
Redstone Arsenal, Alabama
Corrosion Control Course
(1 week)
U.S. Army Chemical Corps
Chemical Staff Specialist Course
(8 weeks)
Methods of Instruction
(2 days)
U.S. Army Logistics Management School
Specification Management Course
(3 weeks)
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