Thomas E.
Sr Design Engineer
Experience
Feb 2024 - Apr 2025
1 year 3 monthsGrand Prairie, United States
Sr Design Engineer
Consulting
- Worked as an independent consultant for various CAD projects.
Jun 2022 - Jan 2024
1 year 8 monthsCharleston, United States
Sr Design Engineer
Boeing Corp.
- Responsible for layouts of PSU (Passenger Service Unit) for various 787 aircraft configurations to support shop floor installation & manufacturing.
- Oversaw the development of relocation of Fasten seat belt sign in forward Galley and closet on ANA 787 aircraft.
May 2021 - May 2022
1 year 1 monthHurst, United States
Sr Design Eng.
Bell Helicopter
- Designed/updated engineering for Army modifications to UH-1 Helicopter.
Sep 2018 - Feb 2021
2 years 6 monthsFort Worth, United States
Sr Manufacturing Eng.
Lockheed Martin Co.
- Worked as a manufacturing engineer on the F-35 program as a lead on PPV (Product process verification).
- Oversaw work with the floor mechanics to reduce work hours and errors on operation cards (OP).
- Implemented work that led to thousands of man hours being saved over the course of many operation cards.
- Responsible for interfacing with quality engineers, mechanics, project leads and others.
- Involved changes to engineering design (CATIA/VAS/PDM systems) as well as manufacturing op cards (SFM/CAPPS systems).
Jul 2013 - May 2018
4 years 11 monthsArlington, United States
Sr Design Eng.
Triumph CO.
- Worked system design on the Embraer 190, 195 and 175 program.
- Implemented work that included layout, detail assy and detail design of fuel, firex, hydraulics, air management, water/wastewater and electrical systems.
- Responsible for work that includes center fuselage and aft fuselage work.
- Oversaw work that included Enovia data management package.
Nov 2012 - Jul 2013
9 monthsHurst, United States
Sr Design Eng.
Bell Helicopter
- Responsible for system design on the Bell 525 program.
- Implemented work that included hydraulic and fuel lines using CATIA V6 Systems Workbench.
- Designed work includes Enovia data management package.
Jun 2009 - Nov 2012
3 years 6 monthsFort Worth, United States
Sr Design Eng.
Lockheed Martin CO.
- Worked as FSE (Floor Support Engineer) for the F-35 final assembly production line.
- Re-engineered design changes, wrote problem reports, worked as a manufacturing engineer to aid the mechanic on various installations (electrical/mechanical).
- Acted as temporary supervisor on final assy jets and was responsible for 20+ people.
- Assigned work to mechanics, accursed drawings, adhered to schedule and budget, presented progress daily, signed off security logs on aircraft and FOD checks.
- Implemented corrective action work to find the root cause of repetitive issues in the form of QARs (Quality Assurance Reports).
Nov 2008 - May 2009
7 monthsGrand Prairie, United States
Sr Design Eng.
Vought Aircraft CO.
- Responsible for system design hydraulic routing and clamps on the Cessna Wing program.
- Worked on coordination with the prime contractor, Cessna.
Nov 2007 - Nov 2008
1 year 1 monthIrving, United States
Sr Design Eng.
Butler International INC.
- Acted as lead design engineer of the 767 winglet design incorporation for American Airlines/Boeing partnership.
- Worked wing rib design, stainless steel shear straps and wing fairing modifications.
- Provided support for the installation of the aircraft modification, revising drawings and real time changes between Irving, TX, Seattle, WA and Kansas City, MO.
Aug 2006 - Nov 2007
1 year 4 monthsFort Worth, United States
Sr Design Eng.
Lockheed Martin CO.
- Designed inner wing components on F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) navy version (CV).
- Worked on FADEC strap support design and center strap support interfacing with the arresting gear hook.
- Performed layout of drainage study in arresting gear bay.
- Incorporated engineering changes (AEAS, CRS and NFAS) using PDM parts utilization system; utilized CATIA V5.
Jun 2005 - Jul 2006
1 year 2 monthsGrand Prairie, United States
Sr Design Eng.
Vought Aircraft CO.
- Designed Gulfstream GIV wing components using CATIA.
- Incorporated GIV wing RTES (Requests To Engineering).
- Implemented GIV wing EOS (Engineering Orders).
Feb 2003 - May 2005
2 years 4 monthsWichita, United States
Sr Design Engineer
Boeing Corp.
- Designed laser plumbing provisions for the Airborne Laser Program (ABL).
- Performed sizing analysis and routing of critical lines.
- Redesigned cargo floors for 9G floor loading.
- Implemented design of new shear panels to replace existing truss supports; mop sills re-designed for new interfaces.
- Designed fittings for infrared pod interface with lower fuselage.
- Created skin cutout and doubler reinforcement.
Nov 2001 - Feb 2003
1 year 4 monthsFort Worth, United States
Sr Design Eng.
Lockheed Martin CO.
- Designed systems and structural components on F-16 UAE program.
- Worked CAD design on electronic, cooling and avionic systems as well as structural changes to covers and frames.
Nov 1991 - Nov 2001
10 years 1 monthWichita, United States
Design Engineer
Boeing Corp.
- Conceptualized, stress analysed and laid out cargo floor ball panel support structure of section 41 on the Boeing 777.
- Laid out and designed fan cowl structure for both Pratt & Whitney and General Electric engines.
- Redesigned hinge beam and latch beam for Pratt & Whitney engine.
- Utilized RSC6000 stress analysing machine as well as CATIA.
- Designed insulation blankets and titanium bulkhead for forward inlet Pratt & Whitney engine for 777, including sonic fatigue and high temperature considerations.
- Designed 767 special freighter cargo floor structure and payloads; re-designed 757 torque box and 737 extended range cargo floors.
- Performed sustaining work on Boeing 777 aircraft including liaison work.
- Implemented customer changes in Boeing modification group for 767 and 757 aircraft.
- Modified payloads on 747, 757 and 767 airplanes, including cargo liners, insulation, cargo net and cargo partition design.
May 1991 - Oct 1991
6 monthsOrlando, United States
Design Eng
ECC Corp.
- Designed and performed layout of catwalk assy and parachute deployment mechanism installation on C-17 trainer.
- Designed detailed parts and installation using AutoCAD.
Sep 1987 - Jun 1990
2 years 10 monthsSt. Louis, United States
Design Eng.
McDonnell Douglas CO.
- Designed primary structures for wing section of the classified YF-23 fighter program.
- Oversaw layout of wing tip structure in coordination with Northrop personnel; also designed several other wing components.
- Released parts for primary structures, mechanism and landing gear system for the classified A-12 navy fighter program.
- Performed design and layout of the upper drag link, arresting hook and lower drag link on the A-12; responsible for design of various canopy structures.
Summary
- Conceptual & Detail Design of Aero-Structures: Wing, Fuselage, Landing Gear, Interiors, engine mounts.
- Conceptual & Detail Design of Aero-Systems: ECS, Hydraulics, Fuel etc.
- Extensive Experience with Assembly Requirements Models (ARMs).
- Experienced in aerospace composite/metallic structure design and system installation design.
- Adept at creating and using Interface Control Drawings (ICDs) and Models (ICMs).
- Extensive experience in creating Model Based Definitions (MBDs) and releasing 2D drawings.
- Experienced in creating design modifications and design repairs for shop floor support & manufacturing.
- CATIA V6: 3000 Hours. Skills: Assembly, Solid, GSD, FTA.
- CATIA V5: 40000+ Hours. Skills: Assy, Solid, DMU, Sheet metal, Drafting, GD&T)
Languages
English
NativeEducation
University of Virginia
Bachelor of Science · Aerospace Engineering · Charlottesville, United States
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