Aerospace & Mechanical Engineer

Arlan Carroll

*** ******** ******, **** **** Bay, CA 94019

T: 916-***-**** / E: *************@*****.***

Objective

To utilize knowledge as an Aerospace & Mechanical Engineer in the areas of propulsion, structural analysis, aircraft

design, aerodynamics and other related fields to the Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering industry.

Education

Arizona State University, Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering

B.S.E. in Aerospace Engineering with a concentration in Aeronautics, Graduated May 2012

Experience

Process Engineer/Project Manager, Starbucks; South San Francisco, CA, January 2013 - Present

• Assist in research/support lean tools such as kaizen events, cycle times, cost/waste reduction, data tracking

• Attain advanced knowledge of production operation, inventory management, shipping & receiving, & quality

aspects

• Maintain & control process logs, review process for improvements, coordinate improvements with New

Product Development Managers

• Observe the plant & report to Lead Engineers & VP of Manufacturing

• Assist in turning current manufacturing plant into a R&D manufacturing facility

• Manage over $12 million dollar budget on multiple project expansion

• Lead construction management within production plant

• Research new technology for future R&D manufacturing facility

• Work with vendors and contractors to improve quality of the plant and production

• Coordinate with Marketing, Sales, and Maintenance teams to purchase new instruments and equipment for

improvement of the facility and manufacturing

• Support Maintenance team in new equipment research and create S.O.P.’s, S.o.W.’s, P.M.’s, etc.

• Lead Design Engineer of AutoCAD projects to create CAD drawings of manufacturing plant, equipment, and

P&ID’s

Customer Service Representative, Safeway; Half Moon Bay, CA, July 2012 - January 2013

• Audit and balance all register tills and safe; worked with Brinks to confirm money transfers

• Completed customer satisfaction both in-person and over the phone

• Assisted customers send money transfers through Western Union and complete money orders

Avionics Co-Op Engineer, U.S. Airways; Phoenix, AZ, May 2011 - August 2011

• Provided technical and engineering support to personnel that maintained and tested aircraft fleet.

• Supported maintenance in painting VHF Antennae on multiple aircraft fleet

• Assisted multiple engineering teams determine vibrational analysis between aircraft engines

and avionics

• Collaborated with avionic engineering team to determine placement of new Boeing Avionic

GPS hardware in the 757 fleet avionics bay

• Designed and implemented modifications and installations to improve safety, reliability, customer

satisfaction and cost effectiveness of aircraft products and systems.

• Wrote technical and reliability reports determining avionic cost analysis and multiple hardware

& software breakdowns and repairs for aircraft

• Monitored and reviewed avionic documents and blueprints published by regulatory agencies, aircraft

manufacturers and equipment vendors.

• Reviewed avionic wiring diagrams for multiple aircraft fleet

• Reviewed manuals from avionic companies such as ARINC

Engineering Intern, Ocotillo Medical; Tempe, AZ, May 2010 - August 2010

• Created and designed an inventory catalog for all medical engineering products including production costs

and quality standards for use by customers, management and sales team.

• Used Microsoft Office tools to create and design medical engineering product catalog

• Cooperated with sales and marketing teams to organize medical engineering products

• Coordinated with management to restock and organize medical engineering warehouse.

• Approved and evaluated all received and shipped medical engineering products.

Skills

• Matlab, Simulink, Solid Works, Lotus Notes, S.C.E.P.T.R.E. software

• Used Lotus Notes and S.C.E.P.T.R.E. software to assist U.S. Airways’ multiple engineering

teams with many diverse projects

• Used Solid Works in multiple classes for design purposes including designing an entire

Kitchen Sink System Project in a CAD class

• Used Simulink for multiple classes such as Sensors and Controls for diverse purposes and

assignments

• Utilized Matlab to solve for multiple types of assignments such as cost analysis, different

types of iterative numerical methods, and computational fluid dynamics

• Fieldview, LabVIEW, ANSYS FLUENT, USAF DATCOM + software

• Utilized Fieldview to determine aerodynamics such as drag, lift, velocity and coefficients of

drag, lift, pressure on multiple types of airfoils

• Utilized LabVIEW to optimize and determine answers to assignments for multiple classes

such as Electrical Engineering and Sensors & Controls

• Used USAF DATCOM + to determine simplified aircraft trim, stability and control

• Used ANSYS FLUENT to determine aerodynamics and computational fluid dynamics of

Propulsion project: Analyses of Thrust Vectoring Nozzles

• Microsoft Office software including Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and Project

• Used Microsoft Office tools for multiple jobs and in-class assignments such as Microsoft

Project for cost analysis and Gantt Charts as examples

• Experience in using wind tunnels, wind tunnel software, other laboratory tools and solving assignments

using data from experiments

• AutoCAD

Classes

• Vibrational Analysis, Solid Mechanics, Structural Analysis, Propulsion, Rocket Propulsion

• Thermofluids I, Thermofluids II, Numerical Methods, Computational Fluid Dynamics

• Computer-Aided Design, Fundamental Aerospace Design, Aircraft Dynamics and Control

• Aerodynamics, High-Speed Aerodynamics, Space Vehicle Dynamics/Control, Sensors and Controls

Projects

• Designed, calculated and optimized a Blended Wing Body (BWB) aircraft with a Boxed-Wing design,

Geared Turbofan Engines, and Liquid Hydrogen Fuel.

• Designed, calculated and optimized a Conventional Aircraft to carry 250 passengers a distance equivalent

to flying from LAX to Singapore.

• Analyses of Thrust Vectoring Nozzles such as Liquid Injection, Hot Gas Injection, Jet Vane, Axial Plate, Jet

Tab, Movable Nozzle and Reaction Jet.

• Designed an entire kitchen sink system using Solid Works.

Affiliations

• American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

• Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE)

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