ARTURO GREEN
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Glendale, CA 91202 E-Mail: ************@*******.***
EXPERIENCE SUMMARY
Several years of experience in estimating aircraft component loads as a
design loads engineer
Estimation of hydrostatic loads and generation of structural proof test pad
loads for static test
Experienced in tracking and correlating measured flight test data as
structural flight test engineer
Supported structural flight testing of military and civilian aircrafts for
safety of flight and certification
Process development and enhancement using proprietary software such as
Excel and Fortran
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Belcan TechServices, East Hartford, CT 3/13-Present
Contract Ground Test Engineer (Aircraft component testing)
Developed Excel Macro to process test data
Reviewed supplier test plans, results and FAIs for system compliance
Derived forcing frequencies for vibration endurance testing to qualify
pilot/co-pilot seat
Project: Sikorsky CH-53K
CTS International, Bellevue, WA 11/10-8/11
Contract Loads Engineer (Aircraft component loads computation)
FORTRAN code re-hosting to UNIX platform
Loads validation
Wind tunnel data reduction using Excel and detail weight distribution on
FEM
Project: Boeing KC-46 Tanker
Northrop Grumman Corp, El Segundo, CA 10/04-4/10
Level 4 Loads Engineer (Aircraft component loads computation)
Development of balanced component loads and distributing results on
internal loads FEM
Developed optimization technique to simultaneously compute weights for
several non-symmetric fuel tanks to achieve target weight and cg
Developed method to derive optimum pad loads for static test
Developed method to reduced time to develop balanced loads by over 30
percent and automated loads process resulting in eliminating the
possibility of introducing errors and reducing overall loads development
time.
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Estimated hydrostatic loads for fuel tanks
Selection of critical design cases and extraction of inertia and air load
distribution for structural ground test
Created OML surface pressure database and Excel macro to extract and
annotate max and min surface pressures on grid points for panel design
Checked BDFs for errors and made corrections using in-house code and PATRAN
Provided localized pressure data for seal design
Project: JUCAS, F-18
4/02-9/04
THE BOEING COMPANY, Houston, TX
Level 4 Loads Engineer (Space Transportation System component loads
computation)
Computed Space Shuttle solid rocket engine nozzle on launch pad deflections
associated with wind forcing function to determine required clearance
between platform and propulsion element and presented results to NASA loads
panel
Predicted Space Shuttle critical component loads at high Q due to winds
aloft on day of launch in support of launch commit criteria
Conducted debris transport analysis in support of the STS-107 accident
investigation
Evaluated and certified SRB assembly for flight and reduced post flight
Ignition Over Pressure data
Project: Space Transportation System (Space Shuttle)
RAYTHEON AIRCRAFT COMPANY, Wichita, Kansas 1998-2001
Lead/Sr. Loads Engineer (Aircraft component and store loads computation)
Lead engineer for defining preliminary loads on model 450
Responsible for computing component design loads per CFR Part 23 for the
Joint Primary Aircraft Training System (JPATS) using 6DOF simulation
Development of software using FORTRAN to compute store cg loads for JPATS.
Developed method to distribute net loads on an external fuel tank for
selected conditions using Microsoft Excel
Supported loads flight-testing of JPATS by monitoring real time measured
loads, and extrapolated data for envelope expansion.
Computed maneuver, static gust, landing and ground handling component loads
for JPATS
Authored the flight test report to certify JAPTS for use by the USAF and
USN
Computed continuous PSD gust loads using NASTRAN results to update CFR Part
25 loads
Projects: T-6A (JPATS), Beechjet Model 400A, Model 450
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CESSNA AIRCRAFT, Wichita, Kansas 1995-1998
Loads Engineer (Aircraft component loads computation)
Developed software to correct wing side of body CP data, corrected vortex
lattice calculations
using wind tunnel data to accurately estimate wing air load distribution to
generate CFR Part 25 design loads.
Computed disconnect elevator loads per CFR Part 25
Estimated wing, flaps and control surface loads
Computed maneuver, landing and ground handling component loads
Projects: Cessna Citation 560 Excel
Temporary non-technical employment (1990-1994)
MCDONNEL DOUGLAS, St. Louis, Missouri 1988-1990
Sr. Loads Engineer (Store loads analysis and measurement for captive
carriage)
Responsible for computing store hardware interface and cg loads,
investigation of store
impact on overall wing loads, flight parameter modifications to obtain
desired loads results
interface with stress to expand interface hardware strength envelope, and
supported flight
test efforts for store captive carriage qualifications.
Projects: F/A-18, T45
GRUMMAN AEROSPACE CORPORATION, Bethpage, NY 1983-1988
Structural Flight Test Engineer (Measurement of aircraft component loads
with strain gages)
Planned ground test, interfacing with instrumentation engineers to maintain
data quality and to evaluate strain gage health, real time monitoring of
flight loads for safety of flight, data tracking for envelope expansion and
analysis of test data.
Lead engineer for evaluating the impact of ECS exhaust on composite
structure
Effective time-roll constant calculation for flying qualities evaluation
Recorded Cooper Harper rating assessment from pilot in the loop simulation
sessions
Projects: X-29 (Edwards AFB), A-6F
The Boeing Co., Seattle, WA 1980-1982
Structural Flight Test Engineer (Measurement of aircraft component loads
with strain gages)
Developed software to compute theoretical moment and torsion arm for
calibration
Created test plans for to measure horizontal tail center section loads
Interfaced with instrumentation engineers to maintain data quality
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Real time monitoring of flight loads for safety of flight
Reduced and transmitted measured loads to design engineers
Filtered and reduced accelerometer data
Generated PSD data for design engineers
Projects: 767-200
EDUCATION
Polytechnic Institute of New York, Brooklyn, NY
Bachelor of Science, Aerospace Engineering, 1979
TRAINING AND OPERATING SYSTEMS
Finite Element Analysis
Unsteady Aerodynamics
Jet Transport Performance Method
ZONAIR
PATRAN
NASTRAN
AUTOCAD
CATIA V5
FORTRAN
C Program
VAX/VMS
IBM TSO
UNIX
Microsoft Word
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Access