Experience

Virgin Galactic

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

• Engineering Manager

  • Feb 2020 - Present

  Manage and Lead the Reliability & Maintainability engineers within the Systems Engineering department. Responsible for schedules, budgets, resources, processes, policies, tools, and technical aspects of the group. I also get to work with awesome people! Manage and Lead the Reliability & Maintainability engineers within the Systems Engineering department. Responsible for schedules, budgets, resources, processes, policies, tools, and technical aspects of the group. I also get to work with awesome people!



The Spaceship Company

• United States
• Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Principal Engineer - Product Assurance

  • Mar 2016 - Feb 2020

  Technical leader of Reliability, Maintainability, and Safey (RMS) for the company vehicles. Also serve as technical leader for engineering product definition in relation to configuration management and change control.Innovated a new CM system that applies to all company and department products that is based upon the common product definition. This inherent library science system will provide for extraordinary efficiencies within the company.Identify and manage risk to the company products. Recommend design changes to decrease or eliminate risks. Work with an agile team to innovate solutions.Design and integrate a company wide RAMS software tool for use in operations, engineering, product assurance, and ending with historical for trending. Show less

• Maintainability & Testability Engineer

  • Aug 2013 - Mar 2016

  Develop and engineer for some awesome air and space vehicles for space tourism and launch services. This function under the Reliability, Maintainability, and Safety organization. Responsible for maintainability and testability for Virgin Galactic space flight system vehicles including the Whiteknight 2 carrier aircraft and Spaceship 2 spacecraft. Major duties include analysis to determine optimum design for reliability and maintenance program activities to prevent failure. I also get to work with some amazing people! Show less



Boeing

• United States
• Aviation & Aerospace
• 700 & Above Employee

• Reliability & Maintainability Engineer

  • Jan 2004 - Aug 2013

  Reliability, Maintainability & System Health. Expert in failure analysis and management using Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM) and Maintenance Steering Group (MSG-3) analysis processes. These Reliability & Maintainability disciplines comprise complex equipment analysis including structures and systems in aerospace and other. The purpose of these processes is to analyze concepts and designs to determine if they meet the requirements and objectives and recommend changes if they do not. It is also to provide the end user with the instructions to maintain the inherent design for the life of the product with the greatest reliability, availability, safety, and cost. I worked projects to develop processes and build tools that will integrate all the related analysis disciplines for both pre and post production. Worked military and government aircraft including KC767, KC46, B52, VC25, E4B. Show less

• Maintenace Programs Engineer (MSG-3)

  • Sep 2000 - Jan 2004

  Perform MSG-3 analysis. Develop maintenance programs for all Boeing commercial aircraft including 777, 767, 757, 747, 737, and 737 models. Update existing programs and participate in industry steering committees with customers. Communicated with operators/airlines to resolve inquiries and problems.



Aviation Technical Services

• United States
• Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Mechanic, A&P

  • Aug 1998 - Sep 2000

  Structures, Avionics, Interiors Structures, Avionics, Interiors