Design Engineer Quality Assurance

Thomas' InformationLocation: TOPEKA, KSTitle: Senior Airframe Design EngineerWilling to Relocate: NoMember Since: 2012-10-01 Helpful Links

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Thomas Edmund Engelhardt

Senior Airframe Design Engineer

2113 S.W. Wayne Ave., #1 Phone: 785-***-****

Topeka, KS 66611 E-mail: *******@*****.***

SUMMARY OF WORK EXPERIENCE:

After leaving aerospace, I worked as a patient escort/volunteer at the Colmery-O’Neil Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Topeka. Prior experience includes over 20 years designing primary and secondary structural components in the aerospace industry. Over thirty-five thousand hours using CATIA V4 and six hundred hours using CATIA V5. Background includes design of carbon fiber reinforced plastic, (CFRP), skin panels; high speed machined aluminum components; formed and bent sheet metal components; and extruded aluminum components. Other areas of expertise include ASME and ANSI Standards; Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing; Digital Pre-Assembly, Fly-Thru, 4D-Navigator; Dataset Checking; Illustration and Drafting. Abilities include complex solid modeling, advanced surfacing, complex volume construction, advanced wireframe construction, and composite design using COVERST and FiberSim.

Awards for, “Outstanding Performance”, in meeting all, “Critical Release Dates”, and for, “Critical Design Review”, presentations for the Royal Air Force.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

June, 2008- March, 2010

Hawker Beechcraft Corporation, Wichita, Kansas

SENIOR AIRFRAME DESIGN ENGINEER- Special Missions Group

Work involved the design of a Radome and Fairing to fit under the King Air B300/350 to meet special mission requirements defined by customer. This also involved the relocation of existing avionics equipment and antenna locations, as well as the re-routing of new and existing wiring harnesses, to meet new configuration requirements. Work also involved doing initial concepts to meet Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance, (ISR), requirements for various customers, including the military. Concepts were also done for mounting air-to-ground missiles and guided bombs under the wing.

April, 2006-August 2007

Boeing Commercial Airplane Group, Seattle, Washington

Boeing Commercial Airplane Services, Long Beach, California

SENIOR DESIGN ENGINEER- Boeing 747-8F; Structures, Section 42 and Section 46

Work involved designing new machined aluminum frames and chem-milled aluminum skin panels, and skin panel assemblies, to reduce part count and enhance Manufacturing Processes and Procedures for the 747-8 Freighter. Also redesigned the Aft Chords at the Empennage-Fuselage aircraft splice using extruded aluminum shapes that were to be formed and machined. Both jobs utilized CATIA- V4.2.

Acted as CATIA Focal Point and Drawing Quality Assurance Focal Point, as well as DIRRECT Focal Point and EPIC, (Electronic Pre-assembly in CATIA) Focal Point.

November, 2004-August, 2005

Northrop-Grumman, El Segundo, California

SENIOR DESIGN ENGINEER- F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, Duct Assembly Integrated Product Team.

Work involved the design of primary and secondary structural components in the Lift Fan Bay area using CATIA- V5.12.

September, 2003-October, 2004

Butler International Engineering Services, Shelton, Connecticut

SENIOR DESIGN ENGINEER- VH-92 Helicopter, Structures Design Group.

Work involved the design of structural components to upgrade the S-92 helicopter for a bid for the new presidential helicopter. Performed complex solid modeling, revised existing geometry.

September, 1998-August, 2001

Sikorsky Aircraft, Stratford, Connecticut

SENIOR DESIGN ENGINEER- Blackhawk and Seahawk Helicopters.

Work involved building a Digital Mock-up for the SH-60R helicopter by converting existing legacy data from Mylar and CADRA geometry into exact CATIA models utilizing CATIA-V4.

September, 1997-August, 1998

Boeing Helicopters & The Aerostructures Corporation, Tennessee

DESIGNER/ SYSTEMS COORDINATOR- Bell/ Boeing 609 Commercial Tilt-Rotor.

Work involved the design of carbon fiber station frames and the coordination of all systems penetrations between Bell and Boeing at the wing to fuselage interface.

February, 1997-August, 1997

Lockheed-Martin Aerospace Company, Marietta, Georgia

DESIGNER- F-22A Air Superiority Fighter, Forward Fuselage Integrated Product Team.

Work involved re-designing the upper tie-in fittings for the engine inlet. Area involved complex angles in the primary structure and compound curvature in the inlet duct and outer skin.

September, 1990-January, 1997

Boeing Commercial/ Boeing Defense & Space

Seattle, Washington and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

DESIGNER/DRAFTER- 777, CH-47D Chinook and V-22 Osprey Design Build Teams.

Work involved the design of carbon fiber reinforced plastic skin panels and structural components for the 777 commercial airliner. The conversion of structural sheet metal assemblies into high speed machined unitized aluminum detail parts and the design of a composite skin panel to aid in the dynamic stiffening of the cockpit.

EDUCATION - MILITARY:

Boeing Commercial Airplane Group: Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing 1992

American Business College, San Diego, California: Computer Aided Design 1989

United States Marine Corps, 3rd Marine Air Wing, El Toro, California 1976 - 1980

Honorable Discharge 1980

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