John C (Chuck) Wortham

321-***-****

r2zh1i@r.postjobfree.com

Security Clearance – NACI

Proficiencies:

- Technical Writing

- Integration

- Innovation

- Project Management

- System Engineering

Mind-set

- Committed to ownership of responsibilities

- Passion for excellence in performance and safety.

Accomplishments:

- Created and maintained over 250 work instruction sets (e.g. operational, testing, repair, modification) as primary system engineer for Orbiter environmental purge hardware during ground processing for nine Shuttle missions and Orbiter ground cooling equipment for more than 30 Shuttle missions.

- Developed excellent ‘customer relationship management’ capabilities via working with NASA technical customers, involvement in several management-sponsored initiatives, and insuring hardware availability by balancing the needs/viewpoints of disparate user, provider and oversight organizations.

- Represented group/department/directorate for management-sourced efforts such as assessing use of modern tools (graphics, video’s etc.) for work procedure development, developing proposal to upgrade refrigeration hardware to new EPA rules, defining causes and developing metrics for intra-release work instruction changes and analysis of integrated planning needs.

- Proposed multiple innovative processing concepts, including two NASA New Technology submittals (leading-edge “active schematic” concept for creating work instructions; refined pressure vessel processing approach) that were derived from a prior work instruction proposal integrating design, hardware, planning and shop needs.

- Applied corporate policies and relevant Federal, NASA and industry safety, environmental and processing regulations to assigned Fluid, Mechanical and Electrical responsibilities.

- Consistently achieved “Exceeds Expectations” or “Exceptional” ratings for Initiative, Work Quality and Work Quantity categories, as well as an ongoing aggregate “Exceeds Expectations” rating.

Competencies – Software

- Microsoft – Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project power user; Access, Visio, Draw user

- Solumina – Engineering Authoring, Industrial Engineering, Future Work Instruction Team assessment

- MAXIMO (4.x; 7.x) – Engineering Authoring, Equipment/PM/Routing hierarchy, Condition Monitoring

Training / Courses

- Pro Engineer/Wildfire 4.0 – CAD Modeling

- United Space Alliance – Integrated Project Management process

- United Space Alliance – Requirements Lifecycle Project Management

Awards:

- Received over two dozen NASA or corporate commendations/awards, including a 2011 ‘United Space Alliance Corporate Quality Award’.

Education

- B.S., Business Administration, Emphasis in Management – University of Central Florida

Motivating principle: The Secret of Success is Constancy to Purpose (Disraeli)

Additional Experience:

- Directed multi-disciplinary Shuttle Propellant Tanking Simulations for 10 Shuttle flows to preserve / enhance troubleshooting skills and protocol familiarity for the relevant engineering disciplines.

- Led NASA Space Shuttle Program teams that successfully activated, operated, refurbished or upgraded fixed and mobile hardware systems; project costs ranged from $300,000 to $6 million, schedules spanned six months to four years, all completed with no ‘critical path’ schedule impact.

- Evaluated ground cooling system designs for future NASA human spaceflight needs.

- Initiated hardware designs that improved operational efficiency or eliminated process gaps.

- Defined a method for ‘refrigerant exchange’ that reduced logistics materiel costs over $200,000.

- Developed / directed development of various software applications including multi-user Refrigerant Tracking, Space Shuttle Vent Door payload damage prevention, a logistics ‘parts characteristics’ search, several Work Instruction authoring enhancements, and assessing Voice Input Recognition.

Excerpts from Awards, Commendations and Personal References:

- “His knowledge of the systems and willingness to get involved in all areas of support has overcome many problems in the systems. He has been an important member of other team awards for activation of new or modified systems” (S. Camick, Awards Board representative, USA)

- “(Chuck) is being recognized for his commitment to systems engineering practices, relentless determination for technical excellence, and protection of process quality…” (D. Ciccateri, Deputy Chief Engineer, USA)

- “… always a self-starter, requiring little supervision for day to day responsibilities. Work was accomplished on time or ahead of milestones… Chuck was always reliable, timely and responsive in support of a demanding 24/7 schedule.” (D. Murray, PVD/ECS/Ground Cooling Supervisor, USA)

- “…his work is thorough, detailed, conscientious, knowledgeable... Chuck helped me many times by providing comments to improve the design and is an excellent team player.” (M. Katz, Senior GSE design engineer, USA)

- “… a very self-motivated and results oriented individual. He consistently thought out of the box when it came to solving specific technical problems with the complex Space Shuttle Orbiter ground support equipment…” (P. Brinko, Senior Technical Manager, USA)

- “Mr. Wortham’s efforts have yielded exemplary results… his efforts have gone far beyond what is normally asked… his dedication, professionalism and personal integrity are unequalled” (D. Schafer, Lead PVD Flight Systems Engineer, NASA/KSC)

- “…outstanding support to Senior Technical Management in the development of the Technical Plan for VAB High Bay 3 turnover…” (W. Kidd, Senior Technical Manager, USA)

- “… in the months preceding this event, Chuck… had pushed the issue of being able to support… to at least have a plan in place in the remote case that it was needed, knowing there would not be time to do it once is was needed…” (NASA Teamwork Award, author unknown, USA)

- “…tanking simulations conducted by Chuck provided thorough, concise failures that exercised the loading teams troubleshooting skills in a positive manner” (J. Sterritt, Supervisor, Lockheed Space Operations Company)

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