Project Manager Engineer

Brian Guthrie

Email: abqeru@r.postjobfree.com

Address: *** * *** *****

City: Mesa

State: AZ

Zip: 85201

Country: USA

Phone: 480-***-****

Skill Level: Experienced

Salary Range: $80,000

Willing to Relocate

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Brian Guthrie

111 W 7th place, Mesa, AZ 85201 602-***-****

abqeru@r.postjobfree.com

Aerospace Engineer

A systems-oriented, team spirited, and performance driven engineering professional with a background in programming, research and development, testing, manufacturing, and project management. Has shown the ability to quickly learn and adapt to new situations. Able to effectively communicate through written and verbal channels. Authored and coauthored publications, reports, and procedures. Served as a point of contact to determine customers needs and solve problems.

Core Competencies

Creative Problem Solving

Multi-Project Coordination

Labview Programming

Instrumentation Configuration

SolidWorks Solid Modeling

SolidWorks Simulation

Numerical Modeling

Scientific Computing

Scientific Methodology

Linux

Windows XP

Windows 7

Microsoft Office Suite

Microsoft Project

Matlab

Employment

Azmark Aero Systems

2009 to Present

Design and Test Engineer, June 2012 to Present

Turboalternator Design, Fabrication, and Testing

Designed hardware to adapt a recuperator for testing

Designed fuel nozzles and a combustor for minimizing the effects of high inlet temperature on fuel coking

Developed LabVIEW software for testing a recuperator, foil bearings, and an alternator

Project Manager, July 2012 to Present

Turboalternator Design, Fabrication, and Testing

Designed an alternator to adapt to an existing turbine platform

Project Manager, July 2012 to Present

Electric Motor Driven Alternator Design, Fabrication, and Testing

Designed a dual-motor, rotordynamically-decoupled system to simulate turboalternator performance for ECU development

Project Manager, March 2012 to July 2012

Centrifugal Compressor Feasibility Study and Proposal

Worked with specialist to design compressor

Designed hermetic system for driving compressor

Developed a development schedule and budget, and production budget

Authored a proposal for submittal to customer

Project Manager, January 2011 to March 2012

Unmanned Rotorcraft Component Development, Assembly and Testing

Maintained schedules and line of balance (LOB) sheets for reporting to customers for four programs.

Developed assembly and testing procedures and instructed employees in proper execution.

Served as engineering point-of-contact between customer and Azmark. Discussed problems and proposed solutions to customer problems. Developed systems for acceptance testing customer products.

Worked closely with customer engineering team to determine root cause failures and develop appropriate repair procedures.

Managed employees to complete design and assembly work and ensure on-time delivery.

Managed component fabrication through shop to maintain schedules.

Lead Design and Test Engineer, July 2009 to January 2011

100,000ft Turbofan Research, Conceptual Design and High-Risk Component Testing

Worked closely with experts in turbine, compressor, heat exchanger, and combustion to develop a viable engine concept.

Created numerical models in Python to compare the effects of recuperator effectiveness on the size, weight, and output of the engine. Subsequently used the program to establish local maxima and minima in performance characteristics to establish a final engine configuration.

Worked closely with experts to develop detailed designs of two high-risk engine components; recuperator and combustor.

Developed a testing apparatus to simulate operational conditions of the concept engine. Scaled engine hardware to accurately represent the conditions being simulated in the apparatus. Specified and designed instrumentation for data acquisition.

Developed models and drawing packages for component fabrication.

Performed stress analysis for key components in COSMOS.

Managed component acquisition for off the shelf (COTS) and fabricated parts. Worked closely with vendors to maintain project schedule. Tracked component costs to maintain budgets.

Developed a LabVIEW VI for data acquisition.

Managed employees during the test rig assembly, configuration, calibration and testing.

Lead Design Engineer, April 2009 to July 2009

Personal VTOL Aircraft Electric Power System Conceptual Design and Failure Analysis

Conceptual design of multiple configurations for the aircraft power system. Designs consisted of multi-motor gearbox, single motor belt drive, and planetary gearbox configurations.

Developed a code to analyze the reliability of the aircraft power system.

Used the reliability analysis code to develop emergency landing scenarios and generate survival probabilities for each engine configuration. Used the generated data to identify the safest power system for continued development.

Authored report sections detailing the reliability and associated safety probabilities for each system configuration for use in public presentation and printings such as AUVSI and Popular Science.

Lead Design and Test Engineer, February 2009 to July 2009

Micro Turbojet/Turboalternator for Missile and Unmanned Aircraft Development and Testing

Design and development of engine hardware for a micro turbine with thrust and electrical generation capabilities.

Developed test hardware for testing of key components. Designed and fabricated a burner test rig for developing a light off procedure and judging burn patterns. Designed a bearing test rig to perform initial testing for the bearing system.

Performed stress analysis using COSMOS to design spring plates and generator rotors.

Performed rotor dynamics analysis to identify critical speeds using XLRotor. Performed analysis in COSMOS for side-by-side comparisons.

Developed testing software in LabVIEW for testing, data acquisition and real time analysis.

Education

Arizona State University

2003 to 2008

Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Aerospace

Conceptual Design of a 100 Passenger Regional Commuter Jet

Served as program manager. Liaised between three international design teams to organize design efforts and ensure key progress dates were met.

Performed analysis of aerodynamic surfaces to minimize drag, weight and to maximize controllability and structural integrity. Worked closely with structural analysis team to determine best design for aircraft components.

Performed control analysis and design for aircraft.

Developed code which used a rubber engine to simplify the interdependent relationships between aircraft components and find a size solution which was most efficient.

Developed a proposal for the aircraft and authored reports for submittal as a senior design project.

Conceptual Design of a 100 Passenger Regional Commuter Turboprop

Served as program manager. Organized design efforts and developed schedules.

Developed a sizing code to simulate take off, landing and mission requirements. Code iterated to most efficient aircraft configuration.

Authored reports to detail design criteria and findings. Presented carpet plots and

Conceptual Design and Feasibility Study of a Super Sonic Commuter Jet

Performed research on noise emissions of supersonic aircraft to develop an appropriate operational envelope.

Developed sizing code to simulate the design mission, and multiple takeoff and landing configurations. Utilized configuration files to allow easy modification of configurations and mission design goals. Code iterated to a most efficient aircraft design.

Authored reports detailing the feasibility of the jet. Presented comparisons between existing commuter aircraft (non-supersonic) and the concept aircraft and presented arguments.

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