Experience

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  Karr Consulting

  • Woodstock, MD 21163

  • Reliability, Safety and Maintainability Engineering Consultant

    • 1957 - Present
    • Woodstock, MD 21163

    Electronic Circuit Designer, Reliability, Safety, Maintainability and Testability Engineer. Quality Supervisor, Program Manager and Analyst in many Dept. of Defense and Commercial Programs. Retired from Westinghouse Electric Corp. as Fellow Engineer. Consultant and Contract Engineer for past 20 years on major (current) military and commercial programs:* Managed major R&M and risk management programs. Interacted and negotiated with customers, subcontractors and vendors; supervised supporting personnel. * Set contractual requirements and audited subcontracted R&M tasks. * Personally performed R&M tasks: Assisted in safety, maintainability, BIT and testability analyses.* Prepared technical and cost proposals, program plans, strategic plans and numerous data item submittals.* Managed major problem visibility and corrective action teams; resolved assigned division and corporate “top reliability problems”.* Performed R&D in R&M concepts, “futures” studies.* Prepared, reviewed and edited division, corporate and national level Reliability, Maintainability and Safety policy, procedures, guides and directives.* Served on DoD related think tank and on NASA’s Risk Management audit team. * Audited R&M and Risk Management related Quality and Engineering activities at division and corporate level. Prepared audit procedures and requirements. * Supervised line organization staff. Delegated to and oversaw work of ad hoc groups of assisting project engineers. * Performed circuit design and circuit analysis; led design projects.* Assisted Quality, Manufacturing, Test, Logistics, Components, Procurement, Safety and Maintainability Organizations.* Published papers and articles.* Instructed/trained personnel in division and corporate workshops, Taught in adjunct faculty college classes and at industrial sites..* Conformed to MIL and Commercial Standards.