Engineer Engineering

Travis A. Moebes, PhD, EMBA

Quality/Reliability Engineer

**** *********** ***** 713-***-****

Pearland, TX 77584 *********@*****.***

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

Lean Six Sigma Green Belt

Certified AS9110 lead auditor

NASA Certified Reliability Engineer

California Certification in Computer Programming

Experienced in QMS (Quality Management Systems) their relation, use and application for monitoring and evaluation within an organization.

PhD in Engineering and Analysis Mathematics

2 years’ experience in Lean, Six Sigma, and other continuous improvement methods

Successfully implemented continuous improvement methodologies in transactional, manufacturing, and service environments.

Conducted Kaizen events in order to bring about major change to within NASA Aviation.

Created Lean Six Sigma course for green belts, yellow belts, white belts, champions, and executives (MBA)

Trained over 20 LSS candidates in MBA program.

Led several cross-functional teams through change management while developing and employing new process

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills written and verbal, with related organizational and record keeping skills. Several papers published in IEEE journals.

Highly proficient in the use of the Microsoft Office software program suite, Reliasoft, PHStat and PC operations including Minitab and other programs and platforms.

Accomplished Statistician while working NASA Contracts, papers published.

Data Mining – SAS Presenter – several papers

Developed KPIs for Reliability

Worked on corrosive nature of plant environment and designed solutions for extended periods

Geophysical Programmer

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sigcom Scieneces LLC – Houston, Texas

Director Manager Data Scientist – Consultant (12/2015-present)

Work on NASA Contracts

Risk Assessment and Mitigation

System Engineering

Application Development: JAVA, C,C++,C Sharp

Worked with the data and business intelligence resources to build and deliver analytics capabilities to the business segments and support the business and IT transformation for clients

Developed & deployed modern machine learning and statistical methods (CART Classification and Regression Trees) and Random Forests, clustering and classification algorithms, Bayesian models, neural nets, SVM etc.), ensemble methods etc. for finding patterns/models from business and operational data

Familiarity with large data sets, R, Hadoop, Python etc. and other open source stack elements and frameworks and experience in putting an intelligent application in production is desirable. Experienced with enterprise systems like SAS and SAP.

Independently performed in-depth investigations of data problems employing statistical skills and developing predictions.

Developed and delivered synthesized predictive research findings that incorporate multiple business operational databases and provide tangible business insights.

DynCorp International

Quality and Process Improvement Specialist 11/12-9/15

Responsible for Quality Control, Quality assurance, and process improvement on the NASA Aircraft Maintenance Operation Support (AMOS) contract for DynCorp International. Auditor for 1SO9001, AS9100, and AS9110. Uses the Quality Management System to drive key performance initiatives such as monitoring turnaround time on major and minor inspections. Created Process Effectiveness Assessment Reports and prepared entire site for certification body audit. Was responsible for the team passing 2015 external audit without ANY findings or observations. Managed Quality Assurance Representatives (QARs). Increased the team’s surveillance activities and the business’ standard operating procedures through better auditing techniques.

Responsible for introducing Lean Six Sigma to NASA AMOS contract for DynCorp International. Created Lean Six Sigma Green Belt (GB), Yellow Belt (YB), Familiarization, and Champion curriculum for AMOS contract. Taught LSS GB, YB, Familiarization, and Champion training to ~50% of AMOS contract personnel and to NASA employees. Reduced parts wait time for T-38 Maintenance from 10 days to 1 day by creating a rotable pool from a list of critical parts. Instituted a KanBan system for a long distance hangar at Ellington Field for bench stock to reduce mechanic motion and wait times by ~280 hours per major inspection. Conducted Kaizen to reduce turnaround time on T-38 aircraft major phase inspection by 20% and minor phase inspections by 50%.

Project Management in Aviation involving cost/schedule/technical issues – Timely reports written

Recent Reliability Analysis paper presented at IEEE-ASTR convention

LSS Process improvement accomplished – Report written

FEMA on Corrosion Control accomplished.

Performed industrial analytics, data-driven prognostics, and data mining to determine life health of aviation parts.

Recent Reliability Analysis paper presented at IEEE-ASTR convention in Minnesota (September 2014)

Requirements Analysis for Battery Analysis Software Application using Enterprise Architect (UML) – Data Mining Application.

SAIC

Senior Reliability Engineer – SR OP SPE (8/1987 to 2012)

Drove improvements into operational processes such as customer complaint responses, oil contamination abatement protocols, product preservation, and used non-conformance trends that led to 12% reduction in Cost of Quality. Worked with operations to improve quality management system through revision review, update of processes, and document management Serves as a statistician/engineer/project manager for senior energy and aerospace company decision makers engaged in large, complex problems requiring quick and detailed qualitative and quantitative strategic analysis to maximize value and competitive advantage for the organization and solve engineering problems for customers.

Apply a focused systems engineering approach to consult with client companies/government agencies and internal decision makers to present viable plans and solutions for integrating programs and enhancing strategies for managing reliability engineering and geosciences projects. Research and analyze data; conduct risk analysis (Probability) Risk Assessment, Statistical Risk Assessment, Maintenance and Reliability Analysis and compile into accessible presentations and report results to senior and program managers. Support full cycle decision-making process for client organizations seeking to add revenue and development value. Hold informal management role coordinating the selection, organization, training, and supervision of research teams. Compile and provide reports for clients; write engineering and research analysis along with project reports and related correspondence.

Selected Contributions:

Planned and modeled a needed battery cell test analysis for space exploration. Examination of alternative battery companies created over $ 1000,000 in savings for NASA (approximately). Data Mining Application.

Determined the most favorable text data mining procedures, procurement and applications in the NASA trouble report environment for space flights on Shuttle and Station. Analyzed the complex engineering reporting environment in the various NASA centers for classification and clustering of important documents and trouble reports to reduce engineer workloads by 70%.

Modeled and analyzed four major unconventional gas plays in North America. Determined which plays would be economically feasible and identified the breakeven points for specific natural gas prices.

Developed strategies for a major non-profit to successfully meet its goal of teaching fiscal responsibility to over 200,000 students on limited budget during a challenging economic environment in the region.

Identified strategies for a multi-billion dollar major downstream petrochemical company to assist in the maintaining a competitive advantage in a challenging and dynamic market.

Reliability Modeling on Space Shuttle and other NASA space vehicles.

Developed Requirements, Design, and software for AI System used to support Mud Engineering.

Performed industrial analytics, data-driven prognostics, and data mining to determine life health of Shuttle parts.

Deployed Machine Learning for NASA Martian Rover Project – Supervised and Unsupervised learning.

Developed Classification techniques for Space Station and Shuttle Strip Chart Data for internal operation systems. Used C,C++,JAVA

Developed Medical Applications for crew health and crew treatment applications.

Developed and programmed the Contextual Alarm Management System to support crew surgery and crew health on long space journeys – NASA Outstanding award given.

Development in: JAVA,C,C++,C- Sharp, Fortran

4 NASA Outstanding Achievement Awards for Software Development

4 NASA Outstanding Achievement Awards for Engineering

SAIC awards for Business Development

Senior Research Specialist (Geosciences), Exxon Production Research Company, Inc., Houston, Texas. 1981 – 1986

Developed software in FORTRAN and C for Geophysical Data Processing applications. Papers were written on Deconvolution, filtering, seismic data processing, well log processing, and procedure documents for procuring seismic and well log data. Experience included applications experience on IBM mainframes. Worked in C, and FORTRAN development in a VAX environment with Ingress database applications. Participated in the development of an Adage 3D Geophysical Interpretation system and taught advanced Mathematics at the University of Houston. A paper on interpretation was written and published by the Society of Exploration Geophysicists.

Developed software in C and FORTRAN for measure while drilling (MWD) applications and pore pressure fracture gradient determination.

Reliability modeling on seismic tools.

Senior Geophysicist, Texaco, Inc., Houston, Texas. 1975 – 1981

Developed software in FORTRAN for Geophysical Data Processing applications. Papers were written on Deconvolution, filtering, seismic data processing, and well log processing. Included applications experience on CDC mainframes.

Systems Engineer, Texas Instruments Inc., Houston, Texas. 1973 – 1975

Developed software in FORTRAN and ASSEMBLY for process control applications. Visitations to customers were made to install and modify the software. Papers were written on data processing. Experience included applications experience TI 980 and 960 mini-computers. Also wrote and conducted TI software engineering industrial education courses on assembly and machine language and computer hardware. Wrote several procedures documents and is the author of the TI 980 Machine Language Manual.

Education and Credentials

Doctorate of Philosophy (PhD) in Mathematics Analysis University of Houston – Houston, TX (1980)

Master of Science (MS) in Applied Mathematics Sam Houston State University (MS) – Huntsville, TX, and Texas A&M University – College Station, Texas, in joint degree program

Bachelor of Science (BS) in Mathematics with Engineering Applications University of Texas – Austin, TX

EMBA – UCLA, Pacific – Los Angeles, CA

ISO 9000 and Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Training Human Resources Elements for Managers, Supervisors, or Employees – Letourneau University – Houston, TX

California Certification in Computer Programming

NASA Certification Reliability Engineering

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