Engineer Manager

Curriculum Vitae

Name: Sylvain Alarie

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

Rancho Santa Margarita

California 92688

USA

949-***-**** (cell)

E-Mail: ********@*****.***

Professional Experience in Aerospace Industry

Chief systems engineer with 25 years of leadership and execution experience in the design, analysis, integration, verification, validation, and certification of aircraft flight control systems. Additional relevant experience in avionics, landing gear, and utility systems. Career to date has spanned multiple levels of design and program phases, providing hands-on contribution for execution of tasks, to higher level team leadership and corporate strategy. Responsibilities have included management of in-house teams to strategic suppliers and joint ventures. Design experience ranges from component detail design to system architecture definition, including primary flight controls, spoiler systems, horizontal stabilizer trim systems, and slat/flap systems, incorporating both hydraulic and electrical technologies. Additional experience with mechanical, command-by-wire, and fly-by-wire architectures incorporating highly critical electronics. Embedded experience within design activities include system requirements capture using DOORS tool, flow-down, verification, and validation to the guidelines of SAE ARP4754A for highly integrated systems. Have also participated in component qualification programs, integrated flight control system test rig testing, aircraft ‘iron bird’ testing, and aircraft ground and flight testing. Project experience ranges from commercial proposal work and initial study phases, through the complete product development cycle to certification. Demonstrated capabilities in applying standardized project management, gated development processes, and earned value principles. Have also worked to support customer service engineering and product support.

Certification experience includes the preparation of the certification data package/documentation, presentations to certification authorities, and participation/lead in witnessed certification testing with the authorities. Have supported certification efforts in both systems and structural fields, including damage tolerance certification of flight critical actuators. Trained for Transport Canada (TCA) and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) design approval delegation (DER).

Complementary experience in business development and sales technical support through corporate representation and capabilities overview with potential customers. Capable of working within all aspects of the industry governing development guidelines such as SAE ARP 4754 and ARP 4761 for highly critical (Level A) systems, RTCA DO-178 and DO-254 for critical SW and HW.

2008 to Present Parker Hannifin, Aerospace Group, Control Systems Division 2011 to Present Technical Manager/Project Chief Engineer Project Chief Engineer for Gulfstream G500/G600 Advanced Aircraft Program. New development program with updated technology relative to the existing Gulfstream G650 platform. Major equipment includes the primary and spoiler actuation system, horizontal stabilizer actuation system, and actuation electronics. Actuation technology includes electrohydraulic, electromechanical, and electrical back-up hydraulic actuation. Responsibilities include complete oversight of the engineering aspect of the program, including technical solution, engineering resources, development schedule, and engineering development budget. Responsibilities also include implementation of company goals in terms of technology re-use and cost, and adherence to Parker System Design and Development Process. Technical focal for customer with regards to all project and technical aspects. Extensive on-site support to the program, including set up of on-site office and local team. 2008 to 2011 Technology Team Leader, Systems Development Physical architecture lead for all electromechanical systems, including pitch trim actuation and slat-flap actuation. Oversight of systems development team for high level requirements capture, physical architecture development, configuration item requirements allocation and development, requirements validation and verification, and product development teams. Responsibilities also include team management, and development of program budget and schedule. Scope of responsibilities spans across full development program life cycle from pre-bid phase to certification. Physical architecture lead for Embraer Legacy 450-500 FBW Flight Control System. Major equipment includes primary flight control and spoiler control surface actuation, horizontal stabilizer trim and flap actuation. Responsible for development of high level requirements, configuration item requirements allocation and development, requirements validation and verification, design layout, and aircraft physical interface. Technical focal for customer in regards to actuation systems, with extensive on-site support.

2006 to 2008 Rockwell Collins, ElectroMechanical Systems Principal Systems Engineer, Technical Project Manager Technical Project Manager for the Gulfstream G650 Pilot Controls System and the Horizontal Stabilizer Trim System. Major equipment includes FBW pilot controls for roll, pitch, and yaw axes, secondary control modules, horizontal stabilizer trim actuator, and horizontal stabilizer control unit. Oversight of system and product development team consisting of system, design, reliability/safety, stress, and project engineers. Responsible for complete development including high level requirements capture, requirements allocation, design, analysis, electrical/structural interface, and supplier technical management.

Also responsible for overall project development budget and schedule management, applying Rockwell Collins’ standard project management, accounting, and reporting, including earned-value principles.

Technical focal for customer with regards to all project and technical aspects. Extensive on-site support to the program, including set up of on-site office and local team.

1998 to 2006 Thales Avionics, Regional and Business Aircraft Group Systems Engineer, Manager Mechanical Systems

Responsible for the requirements, design, integration and certification of all mechanical components provided for the Bombardier CRJ Series 700 and Series 900 secondary flight control system. Major equipment provided includes horizontal stabilizer trim actuator, multi-function spoiler PCU, ground spoiler actuator and ground spoiler selector valve. Responsibilities include customer interface, partner/supplier design review, integration with various structural and system suppliers on the program, and preparation of the certification data package (design compliance report, type approval test report, structural integrity test plan, fatigue/damage tolerance verification report, etc.). Responsible for in-service mechanical engineering support for the Bombardier Global Express primary and secondary flight controls, and slat/flap systems. Major equipment provided includes primary surface PCU, horizontal stabilizer trim actuator, multi-function spoiler PCU, ground spoiler actuator, ground spoiler selector valve, and slat/flap actuation system. Responsibilities include resolution of service issues and re-certification of modifications (design compliance report addendum). Responsible for re-certification of complete Global Express primary and secondary flight controls, and slat/flap systems on the Global 5000 derivative aircraft. Responsibilities include on-site customer support during definition, build, pre-flight and certification phases. Responsibilities also include preparation of certification data package (design compliance report addendum).

Design and specification of a hydraulic test rig emulating an aircraft primary control axis as part of a government subsidized FBW research and development program. The integrated system test rig includes aircraft representative back-up structure, control surface, and electro-hydraulic servo-actuators (modified from flightworthy units to suit application).

Participation in engineering team representing Thales for new business development, including several presentations to major airframe manufacturers on system design and integration capabilities; successes include subsequent receipt of RFI, RFP, leading to contract. Participation on several proposal teams for the supply of integrated flight control systems (prime integrator) as mechanical systems lead; including on-sight representation to potential customers. Promoted to manager of new mechanical systems department in January 2004. Department created to group mechanical system activities related to proposal work, system development, in-service support, and test rig development across all programs.

1996-1998 Bombardier Inc., Canadair Group

Flight Control Systems Integrator:

Responsible for integration of slat/flap electro-mechanical actuation system and primary and secondary flight control hydraulic servo-actuators (PCU) on the Global Express aircraft. Interfacing between various structural and systems partners. Verification and approval of partner/supplier deliverable data. Support of aircraft build and ground test phase at DeHavilland, Toronto, Canada (13 months), and flight test phase at Bombardier Flight Test Center, Wichita, Kansas, U.S.A. (18 months).

1995-1996 Bombardier Inc., Canadair Group

Flight Control Systems Integrator:

Responsible for integration of aileron, rudder and elevator mechanical control systems on the Global Express aircraft. Coordination of design team during detail design phase and design check. Interfacing between various structural and system partners. Preparation of functional test engineering requirements (FTER) for production functional test procedures (FTP) preparation, and test definition sheets

(TDS) for iron bird and flight tests.

1994 to 1995 Aeroconcept Flight Systems

Engineering Consultant:

Project engineer on the Global Express aircraft landing gear manual release system for Hochelaga Aerospace, division of Devtek Aircraft Products Group. Part of system design and analysis team for requirements definition, stress and reliability, maintainability and safety tasks. Interfacing between various structural and system partners.

Proposal writing for various flight control system, landing gear system and auxiliary system components.

1990 to 1994 Hochelaga Aerospace Inc., division of Devtek Aircraft Products Group (known today as Heroux-Devtek)

Design Engineer:

Design of flight control system and auxiliary system components. Proposal writing, specification, stress analysis. Reliability, maintainability, and safety analysis. Technical writing for component maintenance manuals. Design of qualification test programs and rigs.

Education

2010 SAE FAA Certification Familiarization Course (1 week) Detroit, Michigan

Training course for Federal Aviation Administration certification practices 2005 Transport Canada Aircraft Certification Specialty Course (2 weeks) Montreal, Quebec

Training course for Transport Canada design approval delegates (DAR/DER) 1987 to 1990 Bachelors degree in mechanical engineering, design option. École de Technologie Supérieure, Université du Québec Montreal, Quebec

1984 to 1987 College degree in mechanical engineering technology, design option. Dawson College

Montreal, Quebec

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