Reliability / Maintainability Section Manager, Kaiser Electronics San Jose, CA
Was responsible for group of 20 Reliability / Maintainability / Safety / Integrated Logistics Engineers. Provided training and staffing for major defense programs. Established environment of empowerment and teamwork in order to provide 100% on time delivery of data and 100% acceptance of hardware. Provided training to engineers in SPC, TQM, Team membership, team leadership and training regarding design verification techniques. Provided real time design verification for reliability, maintainability, safety, and logistics during the product development phase. Used Ford Loral Design and Process FMEA procedures. As engineering's representative on the Production Process Improvement Council, one of six company business councils, was instrumental in implementing and promoting SPC within the factory. These activities included training production personnel in the use of SPC tools such as run charts, Pareto charts, root cause problem solving, Cp., and Cpk. Presented results to Production Council that consisted of all the manufacturing upper management. The Statistical Process Control techniques implemented helped company reach their goal of a 50 times reduction in Defects per Unit and 10 times reduction in cycle time. Helped company to obtain silver certification in SPC with major customer. Started procedure to combine design and process FMEAs with SPC to help identify significant processes for SPC data collection and for capability studies.
Contract Engineer, MCAIR (McDonnell Douglas Aircraft), Mesa, AZ
Was responsible for establishing Reliability Program Requirements per MIL-Std-785 for Superteam LHX Mission Equipment Package. Tasks included defining requirements for avionics subsystems, component derating criteria, Reliability Development Test, Environmental Stress Screening, Software Reliability, Warranties/guarantees, and other Reliability program requirements. Work with system engineers in establishing requirements and in performing design and concept FMEAs. Performed failure mode, effects and criticality analysis per MIL-STD-1629 in LSA format (1388), on all LHX Mission Equipment Package Equipment including flight controls, displays, fault monitoring equipment, target designating equipment, and fault tolerant mission computer equipment.
Contract Engineer, MCAIR, St. Louis, MO
Was responsible for Reliability program and requirements for F/A-18 avionics systems including Stores Management Set, Digital Map Set, Controls & Displays, Data recorder Set, Communication Set, and Flight Controls. Tasks included tracking Production Test Results, insuring failure analysis and corrective action. Directly involved in Reliability Development Testing including Procedures, tracking RDT results including failure analysis, and preparing RDT reports. Also responsible for evaluating reliability stress analysis & predictions, and verifying failure modes, effect analysis.
Senior Manager, Kaiser Electronics, San Jose, CA
Managed and supervised the activities of Senior and junior Reliability/Maintainability engineering personnel engaged in all aspects of R and M programs for F15, F18, and F18 Night Attack Head-Up displays, multi-function displays and signal processors. Technical responsibility included reliability stress analysis, reliability prediction (MIL-HDBK-217D), FMEA, Built in test analysis, testability analysis, reliability development tests, maintainability demonstrations, M predictions, and all production reliability tests. Administration responsibilities included department estimates to complete, proposal preparation and cost estimates, schedules and employee performance reviews. Was responsible for presentation of all Product Assurance requirements, status and activities to customers including Air Force, Navy and McDonnell Aircraft Co.
Senior Reliability Engineer, General Dynamics, Camden, AR
Was responsible for Reliability Activity Sparrow Missile Program. Reviewed and monitored component qualification tests.
Contract Engineer, MCAIR, St. Louis, MO
Was responsible for all reliability activities on the F/A-18 avionics systems including the Head-Up display, the multipurpose display indicators, the horizontal situation indicator, stores management set, Mission Computer, and Air Data Computer. Activities included FMEAs, MIL-HDBK-217 stress analysis and predictions, Reliability Development Test to the Test Analyze and fix criteria, and operation of a closed loop failure reporting system (FRACAS).
Manager, Product Assurance, Emerson Electric, St. Louis, MO
Was responsible for all Reliability and Maintainability, HFE and Safety requirements for the Improved TOW Vehicle (ITV) program.
Lead Engineer, Chrysler Defense (Gen. Dynamics Land Sys. Div.)
Was responsible for all reliability modeling and failure analysis/corrective actions on M60 tank series. Also responsible for the Reliability section of the winning M1 tank proposal effort. Activities included probabilistic and statistical mathematical models used to assess and predict system reliability growth.
