Engineer Mechanical

Peter Barrett P.E. C.Ht.

Orbital Debris Analysis, Vibration, Project

Management, Reliability, Aerospace Systems, Flight

Test Engineer

Box 191, 1379 Park Western Dr

San Pedro, Ca 90732

310-***-**** Cell

*********@****.***

Position(s): Orbital Debris Analysis Reliability and Flight Test Engineer, Management of

Small Engineering Projects, Instrumentation, Structural Analysis and Test,

Acoustics Tribology, Analysis and Testing of Major Spacecraft Structures,

Lightning and Fire testing, Electro-Mechanical Systems Engineer, Flight Test

Engineer, Systems/Environmental Requirements Engineer (RF and Mechanical),

Mechanical Test and Analysis, (NASTRAN, FAMOSS, dynamic, static, thermal and

EMC to Mil Std 810, DO178B, DO-254, MIL-STD-882, MIL-STD-217 and DO 160,

Flight and Ground Test and Analysis Engineer, Structural Dynamics, FAA

Certifications of Hardware and Software FARs 21 and 25, Safety and Reliability

Engineer,

Education: BS, Aerospace Engineering, Auburn University 1976

MS, Aerospace Engineering, Northrop University, 1982

Graduate Study Control Systems, University of Southern California

Graduate Study Economics (Statistics), California State University, Los

Angeles

Graduate Study Russian History, The Pastoral School Chicago

Professional California Professional Engineer (License No. M 21372)

Certifications: Extra Class Ham Radio Operator (License KG6PZO)

36 hr Private Pilot Training

Total Presented 13 Orbital Debris Assessment Reports to NASA Headquarters as a part of

JPL/NASA Launch Approval and customers at all NASA centers. Interfaced with

Army Customers On the Hunter UAV Program at Northrop Grumman, Navy customers

on the SSAT program at CEI and on Several Spacecraft programs while working at

Boeing Spacecraft

Combined Dynamic and Hydraulic testing from Cryogenic to 2000 degree Flame

testing. Spacecraft Structural Testing with Hydraulic Loading. 30 Years in

the fields of: Aircraft and Spacecraft System/Subsystem and component

Structures/Dynamic Design Analysis and Testing. Management and Direction of

Subcontracted Environmental Testing.

Experience: Small Project Management, Fabrication and Testing, Specification

Development/Allocation, Thermal Analysis and Testing and Mechanical

Reliability Analysis (Fault Tree, Mean Time to Failure, Weibull Analysis with

RELEX and Reliability Workbench, FRACAS, FMECA and Orbital Debris Analysis,

DOORS software, Proposal and Test Plan and Report Writing. Trade Studies,

Proposal Writing, Control Systems analysis, Digital and Analog. System

Modeling. Fault Detection, Maintenance Predictions, Failure Mode and Effects

Analysis, System Simulations with Matlab and Simulink, Software (DO-178B) and

Hardware (DO-254) Compliance

Expertise:

• Flight Testing of Aircraft and Unmanned Air Vehicles

• Mechanical Safety/Reliability/maintainability Analysis (MTBF, FMECA, SSA,

Reliability Prediction Analysis, Accelerated Life Testing, FTA)

• Structural Dynamics Environment Estimation, Analysis and testing of flight systems

and components

• Vibroacoustic Prediction Analysis

• Load Prediction using NASTRAN, PATRAN

• Orbital Debris Mitigation, including 15 NASA, NSS 1740.14 Spacecraft Assessments.

• Flight data Instrumentation and Analysis of static, shock, random vibration, and

deployment loads,

• Passive damping for composite graphite structures,

• Environmental test specification development,

• Spacecraft deployment analysis and failure analysis,

• Analysis of interactions of spacecraft attitude controls and structural dynamic

responses.

Work History

10/2013 Boeing (St Charles, Mo.) Flight and Ground Test Engineer (Contract Yoh)

Perform Ground testing, Humility, Thermal Cycling, Vibration, Shock process flight test data.

7/2013-10/213 Zodiac Aerospace (Buffalo, N.Y.) Reliability and Systems Engineer (Contract L&T)

Managing a team of 4 engineers obtain FAA certification of Oxygen Systems in Commercial Aircraft.

HALT testing and Qualification testing of Passenger Oxygen generator systems,

6/2011-6/2013 P and H Mining (Milwaukee, Wi.) Reliability and Systems Engineer, (Contract Experis)

• Responsible for Leading a Team of 5 Engineers performing Reliability Analysis for new

mining Equipment. Costing and Management of testing, Test Planning and Conducting

Validation, Verification and Accelerated Life Testing.

• Reliability Trade Studies. MTBF, FMECA, SSA, Reliability Prediction Analysis,

Accelerated Life Testing, FTA

• Allocating Reliability targets for all components, Forecasting Availability,

Maintainability and Component Replacement Costs.

• Performing DFMEAs, Reliability Centered Maintenance Analysis

• Calculating the Optimal Cost Spare Parts Depot Strategy.

3/2010-5/2011 Composite Engineering (Sacramento, Ca.) Systems Engineer-Flight Test Engineer

(Contract 804 Tech)

• As the Flight Test Engineer Lead a team of 8 technicians and pilots performing Flight Tests of the SSAT

Unmanned Arial Vehicle (UAV),

• Designing a Passive damping system for fairings and cowlings.

5/2009-2/2010 Northrop Grumman (Sierra Vista, Az.) Flight and Instrumentation Test Engineer

(Contractor Volt)

• As the Flight Test Engineer Lead a team of technicians and pilots performing Flight Tests of the for the

Hunter Unmanned Arial Vehicle (UAV),

• Passive damping of fairings

• Determining Flight Requirements, Goals and Timelines to Verify All Requirements.

6/2008-5/2009 Goodrich Aerostructures (Chula Vista, Ca.) Ground Test/Reliability Engineer Jet Engines

(Contractor PDT)

• Flight Test of Nacelles on Boeing and Air Bus aircraft and Mechanical Reliability and Maintainability

Engineering, FRACAS, Fault Trees, Fault Detection, Overall Reliability

• Drainage Analysis, Lightning and Fire Testing of Jet Nacelle components,

• Perform Reliability Analysis to meet FAA Certification of Hardware, fault trees, mean time to failure, Weibull

Analysis, SAE ARP-4761

• Hydromechanicial Thrustreverser reliability analysis.

2006-2008 Boeing Space Systems (Hawthorne, Ca.) Product/Systems/Ground Test Engineer RF components

• Technical Team Lead on Shock Testing of Spacecraft Components. Lead a team of 5 engineers to qualify 5

antennas for Spacecraft Shock and Vibration.

• Requirements Generation for Spacecraft Communication

• Manufacturing and Structural Liaison for GPS antennas,

• Analysis of Spacecraft components and structures using NASTRAN and FAMOSS

• Performed Vibration, Shock, Thermal and EMC Testing of Spacecraft Components to Mil Std 810,

• Managed the Cost, Schedule and Technical Details of Reflector Antenna Environmental Qualification Testing

• Used Concepts of Operations requirements flow and DOORS for Requirements management of 3 Spacecraft

2005-2008 Gibbel Technologies Corp. – (El Segundo, Ca.) Electronic Packaging Engineer

• Design and verification testing of an ultra low cost passive damping system for commercial disk drive

systems.

• Operate shakers and rebuild a shakers

• Tested Drives to Mils Std 810 Sine Shock Test

1995 – 2006 Jet Propulsion Laboratory– (Pasadena, Ca.)Senior Reliability/Flight Data Analyst / Dynamics

Engineer

Managed the Technical and Cost Aspects of 14 Spacecraft Environmental Qualification Tests

(Contract EER Systems)

• As the Lead Test Engineer, direct a team of technicians in Vibration, Shock and Thermal Vacuum Testing of

Spacecraft Components

• As the Lead Customer Test Engineer, oversee Testing of the SIRTF Spacecraft

• Develop spacecraft system/sub-system and component dynamics design and test environmental requirements,

monitor, review and evaluation of test results.

• Vibroacoustic and thermal environmental test support, vibration response analysis on the NASA Cassini

spacecraft and the Multi-imaging Spectral Radiometer (MISR) instrument for the Earth Observing System (EOS)

spacecraft. Conducted Tests to Mil Std 810

• Designed and fabricated a Mechanical Pyro-shock test simulator machine

• Performed Orbital Debris Assessments for 15 Programs And Presented These Reports at NASA HQ for

Launch Approval.

• Performed an investigation of solder joint failures on the shuttle-borne Active Cavity Radiometer circuit boards;

determined them to be caused by the extreme thermal shock environment and not a result of the

dynamics/vibroacoustics environments.

• Performed Fault Tree Analysis and Mean Time to Failure for Orbital Carbon Observatory Spacecraft (OCOS),

Cloud SAT

• Worked Hardware/Software compatibility for the Mars Rovers

1979 – 1995 Northrop Grumman Corporation (El Segundo, Ca.) – Dynamic Loads Analysis, Flight Test and

Component Test Engineer

• Data analysis of the in-flight shock, random vibration, and deployment loads for the TSSAM Flight program

with emphasis on failure analysis, instrumentation specifications, and requirements verification.

• Ground test simulations of weapon deployments from fighter aircraft.

• Designed custom accelerometers for in flight data analysis

• Salt Fog Testing per Mil Std 810

• Cognizant Engineer for the Acoustics Subsystem for the Tri Services Standoff Attack Missile (TSSAM)

Program

• Dynamic Analyst for programs including (MILSTAR, TDRSS, DSP, AMOS, Eagle Class Commercial Spacecraft)

from preliminary load path design through detailed NASTRAN load cycles, environmental specification

development through spacecraft and component vibration testing.

• Design passive damping into Graphite epoxy honeycomb spacecraft equipment panels and electronic circuit

boards.

• Design passive damping into various product lines for TRW’s Automotive Components Division.

1981 – 1986 West Coast University (Los Angles, Ca.) –Engineering Instructor

• Introductory Programming Languages, Heat Transfer, Dynamics and Statics.

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