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RESUME - Updated 5/7/2000

OBJECTIVE

Mechanical Engineering position requiring experience in engineering and/or management of thermal and fluid systems, from requirements definition and conceptual designs to hardware certification.

CAREER SUMMARY

Twelve (12) years experience in thermal and fluid systems including:

	System requirements definition and validation.
	Design and analysis.
	Hardware procurement.
	Hardware development, qualification, acceptance testing.
	Participation in high level technical meetings and design reviews.

Over two (2) years experience in Engineering Management including:

	Manage technical work, Plans, Budgets, Schedules, Personnel work allocation.
	Monitor task progress and task funding.
	Develop task orders.
	Prepare and submit monthly reports.
	Conduct supervised personnel annual performance reviews.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1989 to Present, ANALEX CORPORATION, Cleveland, Ohio

Management, Lead Project Engineer. (2000 to Present.)

Lead Project Engineer for the International Space Station (ISS) Fluids & Combustion Facility (FCF) Environmental Control System (ECS).

Responsible for the overall design, development, procurement, qualification, and acceptance testing of the following ECS subsystems:

	Water Thermal Control Subsystem (WTCS)
	Air Thermal Control Subsystem (ATCS)
	Gas Interface Subsystem (GIS)
	Fire Detection and Suppression Subsystem (FDSS)

Manage overall technical work; develop work plans, schedules, and cost estimates; allocate project work to personnel; procure hardware valued at approximately $10.0 million; support development, qualification, and acceptance testing.

Technical, Lead Project Engineer. (1994 to Present.)

Lead Project Engineer for the International Space Station (ISS) Fluids & Combustion Facility (FCF) Water Thermal Control Subsystem.

Manage technical work; develop work plans, schedules, and cost estimates; design and analyze thermal and fluid systems (TSS, SINDA/FLUINT); perform trade studies; develop hardware and subsystem requirements; generate requirement documents, test plans and test procedures; establish contacts with vendors, discuss hardware requirements and performance; procure hardware valued at approximately $4.0 million; support development, qualification, and acceptance testing; travel to contractor and vendor sites to support technical meetings and resolve outstanding issues and interface requirements; support design reviews.

	Successfuly initiated and completed a joint procurement between two NASA centers, which resulted in $750K in cost savings.
	Successfully challenged and changed Space Station requirements and allocations, which resulted in significant savings in weight, and approximately $3 million in cost savings.
	Member of a three-engineer team that developed a thermal control system for air cooling of hardware which replaced the existing design and saved the project approximately $1 million.
	Principal negotiator of interface requirements with the International Space Station, successfully negotiated important requirements and resource allocations for the project.
	Initiated effort and suggested to Space Station a plan of action to generate a Common Hardware List for all Space Station Payload Developers to save time and money during procurement.

Technical, Lead Engineer. (1998 - 1999)

Lead Engineer for the Space Station Attitude Control and Energy Space Experiment (ACESE).

Develop work plans, and schedules; design and analyze thermal systems (TSS, SINDA/FLUINT, TRASYS); perform trade studies; develop hardware requirements; generate requirement documents, test plans and test procedures. Travel to contractor offices to participate in technical meetings, and in hardware design and requirements reviews.

Manager, Thermal & Fluid Systems Branch. (1993 - 1995)

Managed all technical work within the Branch (15 tasks and 10 employees); discussed and developed task orders, task progress, and task funding; participated in high level technical meetings and design reviews; prepared and submitted monthly reports for Branch; conducted supervised personnel annual performance assessments.

Thermal/Fluids Systems Design & Analysis Engineer. (1993)

Surface Tension Driven Convection Experiment II (STDCE II) Space Experiment flown aboard the 2nd United States Microgravity Laboratory (USML-2). Performed design and thermal analysis of flight hardware using TRASYS and SINDA computer codes. Supported project technical meetings and design reviews. Generated thermal requirements verification reports.

	Discovered flaw in electronics board thermal design, recommended changes and unique design solutions which resulted in successful flight of the project.
	Wrote and published nine reports.

Thermal/Fluid Systems Analysis Engineer. (1990 - 1993)

Space Station Power Management and Distribution System. The project involved the review of the prime contractors overall design for active and passive cooling, evaluation of the thermal requirements, analysis support, and development, qualification, and acceptance test support. Performed thermal analyses of contractor designs and their internal electronic components using computer codes such as TRASYS to enable calculation of space environmental heating, and SINDA to enable calculation of hardware thermal behavior. Created PATRAN models to enable presentation and evaluation of SINDA model generated results. Traveled to contractor offices to participate in technical meetings, and in hardware design and requirements reviews.

	Discovered several design flaws and errors in contractor designs and analyses of electronic components, and successfully suggested different design solutions.
	Recommended changes in plans and procedures of contractors verification testing of hardware which resulted in significant cost savings for the Space Station Program.
	Successfully negotiated and resolved outstanding issues and interface requirements between contractors of Space Station Program.
	Wrote and published twenty-one reports.

Thermal Analysis Engineer. (1989)

Surface Tension Driven Convection Experiment (STDCE) Space Experiment flown aboard the 1st United States Microgravity Laboratory (USML-1). Performed thermal analysis of flight hardware using TRASYS and SINDA computer codes to verify feasibility of designs. Supported meetings and design reviews.

	Successfully predicted power requirements and power settings for experiment operation by Crew.
	Wrote and published five reports.

1987 to 1989, CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY, Cleveland, Ohio

Lab / Research Assistant, Thermal Systems and Wind Tunnel Lab.

Designed, constructed and performed thermal analysis and evaluations of several projects, including Solar Collectors, Heat Pumps, Solar Simulators, Photovoltaic Cells. Developed and utilized computer codes to assist in research projects. Supervised 15-20 students with their projects.

PROFESSIONAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS

	1999 - NASA LeRC - Letter of Appreciation for overall engineering and technical excellence in Environmental Control Subsystem efforts for the Space Station Fluids and Combustion Facility Project.
	1998 - NASA LeRC - Certificate of Appreciation for outstanding support for the Space Station Fluids and Combustion Facility Project.
	1997 - NASA LeRC - Letter of Appreciation for overall engineering and technical excellence in Environmental Control Subsystem efforts for the Space Station Fluids and Combustion Facility Project.
	1996 - NASA KSC Certificate in recognition of contribution to the successful flight of the 2nd United States Microgravity Laboratory (USML-2), flown aboard Columbia, STS-73.
	1995 - NASA LeRC Awareness Program Group Award for superior performance, outstanding work and significant contribution to a major NASA project (STDCE II).
	1995 - NASA LeRC - Certificate of Appreciation for outstanding support for the Space Station Fluids and Combustion Facility Project.
	1994 - ANALEX Certificate of Appreciation of outstanding performance and contribution.
	1993 - NASA LeRC Space Station Directorate Commendation Letter for appreciation of outstanding performance and support of the Space Station Freedom PMAD project.
	1993 - NASA Headquarters Commendation Letter for outstanding performance and significant cost savings for the Space Station Freedom Program.
	1992 - NASA LeRC Awareness Program Group Award for superior performance in the achievement of NASA goals and significant contribution to the STDCE project.
	1991 - NASA LeRC Awareness Program Group Award for outstanding work and significant contribution to a major NASA project (Space Station Freedom).

EDUCATION

Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio

MS, Mechanical Engineering, 1988 - BS, Mechanical Engineering, 1986

Additional courses, seminars and workshops related to technical disciplines (Thermal and Fluid Systems Design and Analysis), Systems Engineering, and Engineering Management.