Engineer Project Manager
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DONALD E. BUCKLEY Home:
Cell: 972-***-****
Lantana, Texas 76226
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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Results oriented professional offering 30+ years of experience in Military
Defense and Commercial Aerospace Program and Project Management with 18+
years in technical design, development, test, and integration. Areas of
experience and expertise was in RF/Microwave guidance and control systems
design, system and subsystem hardware and software test development,
integration, factory test equipment, support equipment, and special purpose
test equipment. Additional areas of experience in Quality, Process,
Reliability, Systems Engineering, Liaison, Logistics, Manufacturing
Engineering, and Depot Repair.
Company resident Expert in Earned Value Management (EVM), implementation
via management of integration of both cost and schedule, (CPR) Cost
Performance Reporting to Executive Leadership and Government Customers,
Risk Management and Mitigation, and Government and FAA Compliance and
Certification.
SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT HIGHLIGHTS
Atlas, FORTRAN, Basic, C/C++, DITMCO, FACT, Lab View/Lab
Windows, GENRAD/HP In Circuit Test, CATIA, DOORS
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Bell Helicopter Textron Ft
Worth, Texas Dec. 2006 - Jan 2014
Level 4 IPT Team Leader, CAM
OTPS Design, Test, and Integration
. Team leader responsible for providing direction, leadership,
training, and development for a staff of TPS engineers in the
requirement development, systems analysis, design, development,
testing, integration, program execution and technical consistency of
all avionics, electronic and operational test program set (OTPS)
Support Equipment (SE) hardward and software products on the V-22
Program.
. Directed avionics hardware/software design effort through concept,
initial design, detailed design, and government selloff including
PDR, CDR, Performance Acceptance Testing, Technical Evaluation,
government on site verification.
. Developed staffing plan, hiring, promotions, performance
evaluations, administering of company discipline, developed team
goals and objectives, tactics, policies and procedures in support of
the company strategic goals and objectives.
. Responsible for contract negotiations, budgeting, cost estimating,
and proposal development.
. Lead engineering staff through all phases of air vehicle design
influence, SE development, electrical / software engineering
design, specification definition, vendor and customer coordination,
hardware/software fabrication, performance testing, engineering
liaison, and eventual support of customer fleet utilization for both
I Level and Depot Level effort.
. Recognized as technical point of contact to NAVAIR engineering
design staff regarding the level of detail required, content
decisions, thoroughness of analyses and customer/program preferences
regarding product development.
. Privide support to the L3 IPT leadership by providing technical
support for concept definition, proposal and estimating, EVM
performance management and reporting, and overall program management
of engineering activities. Control Account Manager (CAM) for $32M
budget for all engineering aspects of the SE program.
Bell Helicopter Textron Ft
Worth, Texas Oct. 2002 - Nov 2006
V-22 Avionics Sr. Logistics Engineer, CV22 CAM
Sr. ILS Engineer Specialist
. Provide Integrated Logistic Support to integrated product teams to
ensure that all requirements are met efficiently and effectively,
determine supportability program requirements (e.g., task, SDL
deliveries, etc.) of each ILS function based on FY00 contract SDL,
SOW, Management Requirements (MR), Procurement Specifications,
experience, and lessons learned from recent/previous programs.
Primary interface to customer for coordination and agreement of
maintenance concepts and support resource solutions.
. Perform ILS support activities and provide deliverables to include
proposals, ROM estimates, planning, post deliverable maintenance
task for V22 military aircraft, developing, implementing, and
sustaining supportability activities necessary to satisfy
contractual statement of work for military Avionics EW systems and
subsystems.
. Control Account Manager (CAM) for $23M budget for MV-22 and CV-22
sustainment effort, providing cost and schedule management of
program control accounts using Earned Value Management System
(EVMS), tracking cost and schedule using Winsight and TeamPlay
application software packages.
. Responsible for applying best practices and engineering tools for
analysis and modeling of support systems, reliability centered
maintenance analysis, direct operating and life cycle cost
analysis, trade-off and resource requirements analysis. Summarize
related availability characteristics resulting from Failure Modes
and Effects, Criticality Analysis (FMECA), reliability and
maintainability predictions.
. Perform analysis of aircraft systems and component designs to
determine maintenance level of repair, identify support resources
that provide optimum supportability which complements the design
requirements for fielded aircraft. Perform detailed trade studies
to identify logistics support alternatives, potential
supportability problems, maintenance requirements and intervals,
provide spares, and support equipment hardware and facility
resources recommendations. Develop maintenance and operator
technical information to include personnel required to support
newly designed or updated aircraft and systems.
.
Boeing Commercial Airplane Group,
Corinth, TX June 1993 - July 2002
Engineering Operations Manager
Manufacturing Production Support Engineering
. Directed and coordinated activities of a 40 member cross-functional
team consisting of Manufacturing, Process, Quality, and Industrial
Engineers, Planners, Method Process Analyst, Production Operation
Specialist, and Administrative/Data Processing personnel.
. Responsible for managing and executing $15 million dollar budget
supporting both commercial and military aircraft systems.
. Provided direction, guidance, and mentoring in program transition,
implementation of MRP and BAAN business systems, creation of
detailed work instructions, develop Bill of Materials, the
incorporation of Engineering changes using CATIA, configuration
management, the identification of parts/material requirements,
labor standards development facility/shop layouts, tooling, process
development and implementation of new business strategies.
. Developed staffing plan, hiring, promotions, performance
evaluations, administering of company discipline, developed team
goals and objectives, tactics, policies and procedures in support
of the company strategic goals and objectives.
. Support product design efforts with input on producibility,
reliability, maintainability, cost trade studies, etc...
. Facilitate team efforts towards improving plant production target
goals around Quality, Delivery, Cost, Safety, Morale, and Customer
Satisfaction.
. Facilitate the implementation of process improvement/cost saving
initiatives such as Kaizen AIW's, LEAN Manufacturing, work cell
flow reduction, cellular manufacturing, point of use material
and tooling, and inventory reduction.
. Directed efforts involving corrective actions, Root Cause
Analysis, and MRB disposition of discrepant hardware.
. Programs supported were V22, F22, AWACS, B1/B2, CH47, Sea Launch,
Minuteman, and all 7XX Commercial Aircraft Programs, Customer Field
Returns and Depot Repair.
Boeing Commercial Airplane Group,
Corinth, TX Feb 1988 - June 1993
Lead Systems Engineer/Test Engineer
. Lead Systems/Test Engineer responsible for managing and directing
engineering staff of 12 engineers involving requirements analysis,
design, implementation, verification and validation of an advanced
radar tracking systems, AWACS. Ensured provisions of
system/subsystem requirements, design concept definition, trade-
offs, test plans and supporting documentation. Provided guidance
for functional design, development, checkout, test and installation
activities. Coordinated system engineering status, issues, and
risk between Installation sites and other engineering functional
teams.
. Responsibilities included providing direction, leadership,
and training for a staff of 12 engineers and 6 technicians
in troubleshooting, fault isolation, evaluation and
resolution of both military and commercial hardware.
. Team provided factory support involving design, fabrication, and
functional test software development for ATE and bench testing for
RF/Microwave and digital circuitry associated with radar
applications, flight deck electronics, UHF radio and radar
tracking/warning systems including field returns and Depot repair.
. Additional duties involved the development of test procedures, desk
and operating instructions, command media, fixture design, assembly
and integration for ESS (environmental), shock and vibration
testing.
. Set up FRACAS system for failure tracking and analysis of
historical failure data to determine root cause mechanisms and real-
time failure trends for fast and accurate decision-making.
. Help implement ISO9000 quality system and initiatives to
facilitate production improvements.
. Directed group activities involving the implementation of process
improvement/cost saving initiatives such as Kaizen AIW's, LEAN
Manufacturing, work cell flow reduction and cellular manufacturing.
. Facilitated the implementation of fault isolation, failure
reporting, analysis, corrective actions systems (FRACAS) with Auto
Quality, Producibility, Reliability analysis and predictions based
on established models, Product/Process FMEA/FMECA, MTTF/MTBF, Root
Cause Analysis, and MRB disposition of discrepant hardware.
. Extensive knowledge of various Military/Commercial
Standards and specifications.
Texas Instruments, Inc.,
Lewisville, TX, Sept. 1985 -
Feb. 1988
Engineering Project Manager
RF/Microwave Design/Test Group
. Provided management and execution of $7 million dollar budget,
direction and guidance to a team of 10 engineers and 5 technicians
in the design, integration, and testing of microwave/RF/IF and
video hardware, along with the design of special purpose test
equipment. Directed efforts to redesign, modify and upgrade
existing test systems to achieve optimum testing capabilities,
integration of state-of-the-art test measurement equipment, and
the implementation of new test methods, strategies, and design
improvements.
. Provided reliability analysis using various models such as Fault
Tree, Event Tree, and Mil-HDBK-217 to help analyze component and
complex system design and performance, identify failure trends and
help improve overall system performance.
. Programs supported were the HARM, SideWinder, and Pave Way missiles
along with several DOD proprietary programs.
. Other duties included budgeting, staffing, organizational
development, and implementation of program improvement initiatives
and Chief MRB Engineer.
Texas Instruments, Inc.,
Lewisville, TX, May 1983 - Aug. 1985
Product RF Design/Microwave Design Engineer
. Systems Design Engineer responsible for analysis and management of
requirements, design, implementation, verification and validation
of radar tracking system application. Ensured provisions of
system/subsystem requirements, design concept definition, trade-
offs, test plans and supporting documentation. Provided guidance
for functional design, development, checkout, test and installation
activities. Coordinated system engineering status, issues, and
risk between Training System Deployment IPT and other engineering
functional IPT teams.
. Performed design, testing, and integration of state-of-art
Microwave/RF/IF hardware for electronic weaponry and missile
systems control and guidance hardware.
. Developed component specification, performed reliability analysis,
vendor interface, and generation of test software, test procedures,
and the generation of test requirement documents for hardware
testing, troubleshooting manuals, and engineering change notices.
. Coordinated implementation of engineering change notices with the
Naval Weapons Center, China Lake, CA along with interpretation of
military specs.
. Developed program proposals, budgets/cost estimates and
milestone packages.
. Served as Chief MRB Engineer for Black Box program responsible for
generating repair instructions and the disposition of discrepant
hardware.
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, MSSE in Systems Engineering, May
2012
University of Dallas at Irving, Irving, TX, MBA in Engineering Management
with emphasis in Strategic Planning and Technical Management, May 1987
Southern University, Baton Rouge, LA, BSEE degree, May 1983
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