Experience

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  Luminar Technologies

  • Motor Vehicle Manufacturing
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Supervisor, Environmental Test Laboratory

    • Nov 2020 - Present
    • Orlando, Florida, United States

    • Manage and lead multi-functional teams to complete development, validation, and verification testing of industry leading LiDar systems. • Lead teams to the successful completion of climatic and dynamic environmental testing, meeting internal and external customer requirements as well as compliance with industry standards. • Develop and refine procedures and processes on new technologies for Systems Integration and Test. • Develop processes and procedures to meet international and domestic standards and requirements. • Develop and create training documentation and provide training to co-workers. • Perform salary planning, performance reviews, management, and scheduling of direct report, hourly employees. • Develop test plans and profiles to meet customer and industry requirements and standards.

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  L3harris Technologies

  • United States
  • Defense and Space Manufacturing
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Engineering Specialist / Technician Lead

    • Jun 2003 - Nov 2020
    • Melbourne, Florida Area

    • Managed and led teams of 20+ individuals to complete precision operations of multi-million-dollar, space bound hardware. • Worked on spacecraft level vacuum testing and troubleshooting of on-orbit systems at customer sites. Was specifically requested by government customer given past working experience. • Led teams to the successful completion of climatic and dynamic environmental testing of government assets. • Develop and create training documentation and provide training to co-workers. • Became certified on more than 50 Climatic and Dynamic test systems and controllers. • Investigated, developed, and implemented policies that reduced waste and cut overall costs of laboratory procedures using Six Sigma practices. • Perform salary planning, performance reviews, management, and scheduling of 15+ hourly employees over 3 shifts.

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  Pratt & Whitney

  • United States
  • Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Lead Modal Analysis Vibration Technician

    • Jul 2000 - Jun 2003
    • Hartford, Connecticut, United States

    • Designed acoustic excitation arrays and grounding tooling for use with scanning laser vibrometer. • Designed, fabricated, and implemented a dynamics test system incorporating the above into a non-contact excitation and measurement process of true operating deflection shapes used in modal analysis. • Created and documented standard work procedures for training and international standards compliance. • Led teams to the completion of dynamic environmental testing of government assets.

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  Sikorsky

  • United States
  • Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Aircraft Instrumentation Technician

    • Aug 1997 - Jul 2000
    • West Palm Beach, Florida, United States

    • Was responsible for all instrumentation and telemetry systems on developmental aircraft. • Performed pre-flight safety checks and systems operation during flight tests on developmental aircraft. • Designed, fabricated, and installed all cabling and harnesses for connecting ACUs, RMUs, and telemetry to developmental aircraft systems and ground-based monitoring stations.

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  Marine Corps Recruiting

  • United States
  • Armed Forces
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Aviation Precision Measuring Equipment Calibration & Repair Technician

    • Aug 1993 - Aug 1997
    • Numerous Domestic and Foreign Locations

    • Ran a Type IV calibration laboratory including scheduling, calibration, component level troubleshooting & repair of complex electronic systems and physical/dimensional equipment. • Was consulted for military test standard revisions.