DONALD E. BUCKLEY Home:

972-***-****

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Cell: 972-***-****

Lantana, Texas 76226

acdbty@r.postjobfree.com

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Results oriented professional offering 30+ years of experience in Military

Defense and Commercial Aerospace Program and Project Management with 18+

years in technical design, development, test, and integration. Areas of

experience and expertise was in RF/Microwave guidance and control systems

design, system and subsystem hardware and software test development,

integration, factory test equipment, support equipment, and special purpose

test equipment. Additional areas of experience in Quality, Process,

Reliability, Systems Engineering, Liaison, Logistics, Manufacturing

Engineering, and Depot Repair.

Company resident Expert in Earned Value Management (EVM), implementation

via management of integration of both cost and schedule, (CPR) Cost

Performance Reporting to Executive Leadership and Government Customers,

Risk Management and Mitigation, and Government and FAA Compliance and

Certification.

SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT HIGHLIGHTS

Atlas, FORTRAN, Basic, C/C++, DITMCO, FACT, Lab View/Lab

Windows, GENRAD/HP In Circuit Test, CATIA, DOORS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Bell Helicopter Textron Ft

Worth, Texas Dec. 2006 - Jan 2014

Level 4 IPT Team Leader, CAM

OTPS Design, Test, and Integration

. Team leader responsible for providing direction, leadership,

training, and development for a staff of TPS engineers in the

requirement development, systems analysis, design, development,

testing, integration, program execution and technical consistency of

all avionics, electronic and operational test program set (OTPS)

Support Equipment (SE) hardward and software products on the V-22

Program.

. Directed avionics hardware/software design effort through concept,

initial design, detailed design, and government selloff including

PDR, CDR, Performance Acceptance Testing, Technical Evaluation,

government on site verification.

. Developed staffing plan, hiring, promotions, performance

evaluations, administering of company discipline, developed team

goals and objectives, tactics, policies and procedures in support of

the company strategic goals and objectives.

. Responsible for contract negotiations, budgeting, cost estimating,

and proposal development.

. Lead engineering staff through all phases of air vehicle design

influence, SE development, electrical / software engineering

design, specification definition, vendor and customer coordination,

hardware/software fabrication, performance testing, engineering

liaison, and eventual support of customer fleet utilization for both

I Level and Depot Level effort.

. Recognized as technical point of contact to NAVAIR engineering

design staff regarding the level of detail required, content

decisions, thoroughness of analyses and customer/program preferences

regarding product development.

. Privide support to the L3 IPT leadership by providing technical

support for concept definition, proposal and estimating, EVM

performance management and reporting, and overall program management

of engineering activities. Control Account Manager (CAM) for $32M

budget for all engineering aspects of the SE program.

Bell Helicopter Textron Ft

Worth, Texas Oct. 2002 - Nov 2006

V-22 Avionics Sr. Logistics Engineer, CV22 CAM

Sr. ILS Engineer Specialist

. Provide Integrated Logistic Support to integrated product teams to

ensure that all requirements are met efficiently and effectively,

determine supportability program requirements (e.g., task, SDL

deliveries, etc.) of each ILS function based on FY00 contract SDL,

SOW, Management Requirements (MR), Procurement Specifications,

experience, and lessons learned from recent/previous programs.

Primary interface to customer for coordination and agreement of

maintenance concepts and support resource solutions.

. Perform ILS support activities and provide deliverables to include

proposals, ROM estimates, planning, post deliverable maintenance

task for V22 military aircraft, developing, implementing, and

sustaining supportability activities necessary to satisfy

contractual statement of work for military Avionics EW systems and

subsystems.

. Control Account Manager (CAM) for $23M budget for MV-22 and CV-22

sustainment effort, providing cost and schedule management of

program control accounts using Earned Value Management System

(EVMS), tracking cost and schedule using Winsight and TeamPlay

application software packages.

. Responsible for applying best practices and engineering tools for

analysis and modeling of support systems, reliability centered

maintenance analysis, direct operating and life cycle cost

analysis, trade-off and resource requirements analysis. Summarize

related availability characteristics resulting from Failure Modes

and Effects, Criticality Analysis (FMECA), reliability and

maintainability predictions.

. Perform analysis of aircraft systems and component designs to

determine maintenance level of repair, identify support resources

that provide optimum supportability which complements the design

requirements for fielded aircraft. Perform detailed trade studies

to identify logistics support alternatives, potential

supportability problems, maintenance requirements and intervals,

provide spares, and support equipment hardware and facility

resources recommendations. Develop maintenance and operator

technical information to include personnel required to support

newly designed or updated aircraft and systems.

.

Boeing Commercial Airplane Group,

Corinth, TX June 1993 - July 2002

Engineering Operations Manager

Manufacturing Production Support Engineering

. Directed and coordinated activities of a 40 member cross-functional

team consisting of Manufacturing, Process, Quality, and Industrial

Engineers, Planners, Method Process Analyst, Production Operation

Specialist, and Administrative/Data Processing personnel.

. Responsible for managing and executing $15 million dollar budget

supporting both commercial and military aircraft systems.

. Provided direction, guidance, and mentoring in program transition,

implementation of MRP and BAAN business systems, creation of

detailed work instructions, develop Bill of Materials, the

incorporation of Engineering changes using CATIA, configuration

management, the identification of parts/material requirements,

labor standards development facility/shop layouts, tooling, process

development and implementation of new business strategies.

. Developed staffing plan, hiring, promotions, performance

evaluations, administering of company discipline, developed team

goals and objectives, tactics, policies and procedures in support

of the company strategic goals and objectives.

. Support product design efforts with input on producibility,

reliability, maintainability, cost trade studies, etc...

. Facilitate team efforts towards improving plant production target

goals around Quality, Delivery, Cost, Safety, Morale, and Customer

Satisfaction.

. Facilitate the implementation of process improvement/cost saving

initiatives such as Kaizen AIW's, LEAN Manufacturing, work cell

flow reduction, cellular manufacturing, point of use material

and tooling, and inventory reduction.

. Directed efforts involving corrective actions, Root Cause

Analysis, and MRB disposition of discrepant hardware.

. Programs supported were V22, F22, AWACS, B1/B2, CH47, Sea Launch,

Minuteman, and all 7XX Commercial Aircraft Programs, Customer Field

Returns and Depot Repair.

Boeing Commercial Airplane Group,

Corinth, TX Feb 1988 - June 1993

Lead Systems Engineer/Test Engineer

. Lead Systems/Test Engineer responsible for managing and directing

engineering staff of 12 engineers involving requirements analysis,

design, implementation, verification and validation of an advanced

radar tracking systems, AWACS. Ensured provisions of

system/subsystem requirements, design concept definition, trade-

offs, test plans and supporting documentation. Provided guidance

for functional design, development, checkout, test and installation

activities. Coordinated system engineering status, issues, and

risk between Installation sites and other engineering functional

teams.

. Responsibilities included providing direction, leadership,

and training for a staff of 12 engineers and 6 technicians

in troubleshooting, fault isolation, evaluation and

resolution of both military and commercial hardware.

. Team provided factory support involving design, fabrication, and

functional test software development for ATE and bench testing for

RF/Microwave and digital circuitry associated with radar

applications, flight deck electronics, UHF radio and radar

tracking/warning systems including field returns and Depot repair.

. Additional duties involved the development of test procedures, desk

and operating instructions, command media, fixture design, assembly

and integration for ESS (environmental), shock and vibration

testing.

. Set up FRACAS system for failure tracking and analysis of

historical failure data to determine root cause mechanisms and real-

time failure trends for fast and accurate decision-making.

. Help implement ISO9000 quality system and initiatives to

facilitate production improvements.

. Directed group activities involving the implementation of process

improvement/cost saving initiatives such as Kaizen AIW's, LEAN

Manufacturing, work cell flow reduction and cellular manufacturing.

. Facilitated the implementation of fault isolation, failure

reporting, analysis, corrective actions systems (FRACAS) with Auto

Quality, Producibility, Reliability analysis and predictions based

on established models, Product/Process FMEA/FMECA, MTTF/MTBF, Root

Cause Analysis, and MRB disposition of discrepant hardware.

. Extensive knowledge of various Military/Commercial

Standards and specifications.

Texas Instruments, Inc.,

Lewisville, TX, Sept. 1985 -

Feb. 1988

Engineering Project Manager

RF/Microwave Design/Test Group

. Provided management and execution of $7 million dollar budget,

direction and guidance to a team of 10 engineers and 5 technicians

in the design, integration, and testing of microwave/RF/IF and

video hardware, along with the design of special purpose test

equipment. Directed efforts to redesign, modify and upgrade

existing test systems to achieve optimum testing capabilities,

integration of state-of-the-art test measurement equipment, and

the implementation of new test methods, strategies, and design

improvements.

. Provided reliability analysis using various models such as Fault

Tree, Event Tree, and Mil-HDBK-217 to help analyze component and

complex system design and performance, identify failure trends and

help improve overall system performance.

. Programs supported were the HARM, SideWinder, and Pave Way missiles

along with several DOD proprietary programs.

. Other duties included budgeting, staffing, organizational

development, and implementation of program improvement initiatives

and Chief MRB Engineer.

Texas Instruments, Inc.,

Lewisville, TX, May 1983 - Aug. 1985

Product RF Design/Microwave Design Engineer

. Systems Design Engineer responsible for analysis and management of

requirements, design, implementation, verification and validation

of radar tracking system application. Ensured provisions of

system/subsystem requirements, design concept definition, trade-

offs, test plans and supporting documentation. Provided guidance

for functional design, development, checkout, test and installation

activities. Coordinated system engineering status, issues, and

risk between Training System Deployment IPT and other engineering

functional IPT teams.

. Performed design, testing, and integration of state-of-art

Microwave/RF/IF hardware for electronic weaponry and missile

systems control and guidance hardware.

. Developed component specification, performed reliability analysis,

vendor interface, and generation of test software, test procedures,

and the generation of test requirement documents for hardware

testing, troubleshooting manuals, and engineering change notices.

. Coordinated implementation of engineering change notices with the

Naval Weapons Center, China Lake, CA along with interpretation of

military specs.

. Developed program proposals, budgets/cost estimates and

milestone packages.

. Served as Chief MRB Engineer for Black Box program responsible for

generating repair instructions and the disposition of discrepant

hardware.

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, MSSE in Systems Engineering, May

2012

University of Dallas at Irving, Irving, TX, MBA in Engineering Management

with emphasis in Strategic Planning and Technical Management, May 1987

Southern University, Baton Rouge, LA, BSEE degree, May 1983

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