Engineer Process Improvement
Resume:
Candi Engel
Email: ********@************.***
Address:
City: Manteno
State: IL
Zip: 60950
Country: USA
Phone: 319-***-****
Skill Level: Any
Salary Range:
Primary Skills/Experience:
Team-oriented and Accomplished Aerospace Engineer with an extensive background in software and system design and development. Customer focused leadership of many programs.
Educational Background:
High School Dipolma from University of Illinois, Urbana IL 1/2001 to 5/1986 (Aeronautical Engineering)
Job History / Details:
Profile
Team-oriented and Accomplished Aerospace Engineer with an extensive background in software and system design and development. Customer focused leadership of many programs.
Skills
Project management Managed quarter million budget retrofit program. Also planned and budgeted 5 million dollar new development program
Background in Flight Managment Engineering and Flight test support
Training program implementation
Continuous process Improvement: Lean advocate for previous corporation updates.
Strong presentation skills
Background in Aerospace engineering
Accomplishments
Project Management
Supervised project production efforts to ensure projects were completed to company standards, on time and within budget constraint.
Met with customers and pilots to develop and provide on sight training to pilots at AeroMexico home center.
Reviewed, selected and managed third-party activity for new cockpit configuration.
Provided drafting and project set-up support to the retrofit engineering staff, creating initial to final drawings various engineering projects.
Tested equipment to ensure compliance.
Supported flight test and certification activities.
Integration Test Improvement and Management
Initiated and directed process improvement activity to better estimate cost and effort of integration testing for product line FMS avionics offerings. Use of testing facilities and reversion test activities provided t for over 30 groupt members of department. Scheduled and allocated time and assignments for staff of varying experience and knowledge.
Professional Experience
May 2011 to July 2012
GE Aviation Grand Rapids, MI
Lead Systems Engineer
Preliminary effort for set up definition for a new product line development, Performed Patent search and content applicability for this effort
July 1995 to April 2010
Rockwell Collins Int Cedar Rapids, IA
Senior Systems Engineer
Technical Direction for AeroMexico Aircraft Flight Managment Sysstems. Lead group of 5 engineers to update and cerertigy newly equipped FMS aircraft resuling in first FAA certification of the Rockwell system in the aircraft.
Selected and managed third party engineers in development of cockpit configuration for new aircraft systems.
LEAN Engineering advocate: Orchestrated and managed department 5 S (Cleanup/organization) activity. Champion Engineer for Rapid Process Improvement of system integration Test Planning. Initiated 'Green Room' activities to formalize definition and requirements for new development features next generation flight system updates.
Leader for tiger team activity to respond to Request for Proposal from Airbus aircraft manufacturer.
June 1987 to August 1995
Honeywelll Inc Phoenix, AZ
Software Design Engineer
Performance engineering for the MD80 and MD90 aircraft. Created and updated existing software for the Douglas Aircraft. Software coding, testing and Flight test supported. Support British Airways updates to Classic 747 Flight Management Systems. Perfomed Polar Flight tests and multii functional updats for the 747 Classic aircraft. In England, performed testing on full motions simulators at British Airways. Liaison between Honeywell FMS department and Delta Airlines to answer pilot questions and provide update iinformation.
Education and Training
1986 University of Illinois Urbana, IL
Bachelor of Science Aeronautical Engineering
Studies in Aeronautical Engineering. First two years spent in Marketing before switching to AE.
Affiliations
Illinois Arts Council
AIAA
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