Andrew B. Facciano, P.E.

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Tucson, Arizona, 85737

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acxtpx@r.postjobfree.com

Capabilities

Over 32 years of system integration and vehicle design, electronic product and instrument development, with unique combination of strong management experience and award winning engineering achievements.

IPT Lead on numerous concept and developmental programs from proposal to flight test and manufacturing.

Vehicle design experiences include propulsion hardware and mechanisms, canisters, ignition safety devices, microwave and electronic assemblies, airframes, PWBs, CCAs, harnessing, antenna and payload packaging.

Proven strength in conceptual and engineering development endeavors involving configuration studies, technology assessments, performance optimization, environments, requirements flow-down, platform trades, vehicle integration in partnership with simulation teams and design community.

Lead teams of 15-20 engineers over durations of 4-5 years, including schedule generation and project management, Earn Value Management compliance, customer briefings, and project white paper submits.

Recognized for technology breath and multi-disciplinary capabilities at resolving complex issues with broad understanding of performance requirements and applicable technologies, leading to numerous system innovations and new customer marketing strategies. Extensive experience on foreign programs.

Receive continuous requests from numerous program managers to resolve critical issues including system design optimization, test failure resolutions, hardware cost and weight reductions, and production stoppages.

Established reputation for creativity and technical capabilities in customer and industry communities with 31 Patent, 35 Journal and Conference Publications, two Commendations from Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Advanced Technology Directorate to Raytheon CEOs. Papers and patents cited in follow-on, industry publications. Participated on numerous DOD Advisory Committees and Technical Workshops.

Management Experience

Experienced in all levels of management from technical supervision to managing large, complex, engineering development projects, and highly specialized product research efforts. Projects ranged in budget from $5M to $25M, with a staff of up to 20 engineers.

Proven excellent functional, project, and technical management skills. I have repeatedly been utilized to plan, develop, and organize project teams for numerous endeavors including production program developments and other new business activities.

Experienced in developing and tracking project budget and schedules, and subcontract management. Work and present well before the customer, including multi-national collaborations where cultural interests are addressed to enable smooth program operations.

Instrument and Product Development

I have been directly responsible for system and requirements definition, hardware design, development integration, and fabrication of complete flight test vehicles including control systems, guidance seeker and electronics, mechanical components such as rocket motors and airframes, and autopilot software. Developed vehicle instrumentation modules that include communication datalinks, telemetries, inertial reference units, antennas, avionics, harnessing, and batteries. These are very large vehicle system projects.

Designed and developed subsystems for Airborne Radars and Commercial Satellites, All-Up-Round vehicles for Tactical Missile and Ballistic Missile Defense Systems providing analytical and design team coordination, vehicle design and systems point of contact to the customer community, technical direction, requirements allocations, qualification test supervision, cost and schedule control, subcontractor liaison and factory support.

Technical Excellence

Received the 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2009-2016 Raytheon Inventors and Authors Recognition Awards, 1996 Hughes Electronics Corporation Award for work on innovative mechanical mechanism designs, propulsion, electronic architecture, and advanced material technologies. Elected by peers as Raytheon’s Principal Mechanical Engineer with Honors, year 1999. Elected by Raytheon for Hispanic Engineer, Outstanding Technology Achievement Award for 1998, 1999, and 2000. Proposed and managed 20 university research projects over 15 years totaling $3M.

Proposal Development

Received 46 achievement awards from both Raytheon and the customer community for numerous efforts primarily for energy expended, strategic planning, documentation and presentation skills, design leadership capabilities, industry and academic collaboration activities while functioning in a fast moving, competitive business acquisition environment. I have developed project proposals funded with budgets between $5M and $25M.

Employment History

Senior Principal Engineer January 1990 to January 2017

Raytheon Missile Systems Tucson, AZ

Systems and Vehicle Design Team Leads responsible for Interceptor systems requirements flowdown and specification generation, configuration trade studies, performance mission assurance, developmental designs, technology evaluations, seeker and avionics integration, aerodynamic and structural dynamic analyses, airframe material trade studies, communication electronic developments, customer presentations, project and test planning.

Senior Product Design Engineer February 1989 to January 1990

Hughes Aircraft Company Manhattan Beach, CA

Mechanical Design Engineer responsible for HS 601 Satellite transmitter shelf layout and microwave payloads packaging; structural, dynamic, conduction and radiation heat transfer analyses using FEM and classical techniques.

Structural Dynamist, Senior Engineer April 1988 to February 1989

General Dynamics Space Systems` San Diego, CA

Mission Payload Specialist responsible for FEM and classical structural dynamic analyses on Atlas/Centaur and Titan/Centaur Space booster airframe, satellite adapter structure, and rocket engine assemblies.

Product Design Engineer September 1983 to April 1988

Hughes Aircraft Company El Segundo, CA

Mechanical Design Lead on B-2 Bomber developing airborne radar electronic modules and unit structure, directed design team on packaging transmitter electronics from initial concept to component details and final assembly.

Education and Scholarships

MS in Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles December, 1987

BS in Mechanical Engineering, California State University, Northridge, Magna Cum Laude May, 1984

Hughes Aircraft Fellowship, UCLA September 1985 to June 1987

Getty Oil Scholarship, CSUN September 1982 to May 1983

Engineering Awards

Raytheon Individual Achievement Award, EKV Systems Engineering October, 2016

Raytheon Individual Achievement Award, EKV Payload PIDS Revision Proposal Lead May, 2016

Raytheon Inventors and Authors Recognition Awards 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2009-2016

Raytheon Team Achievement Award, Paveway SRR, Systems IPT May, 2013

Raytheon Individual Achievement Award, RMS CPP Conference August, 2011

Raytheon Individual Achievement Award, SM3 Small Business Industry Day Lead November, 2009

MDA Commendation, SM3 Small Business Collaboration Lead November, 2009

Raytheon Team Achievement Award, JGAM Proposal, Systems IPT November, 2008

Raytheon Team Achievement Award, LGR Program Start-up, Systems IPT Lead July, 2008

Raytheon Team Achievement Award, EAPS Proposal, Vehicle Lead IPT Lead January, 2008

Raytheon Individual Achievement Award, KEI and RMS SBIR Leadership Dec 2005, Nov 2006, May 2007

Raytheon KEI IPT Individual Achievement Award, KEI AUR Team December, 2006

Raytheon Team Achievement Award, Hybrid Composite Dorsal Proposal July, 2006

Raytheon Individual Achievement Award, Advanced Strike SBIR Collaboration Lead December, 2005

MDA Commendation, KEI Small Business Collaboration Lead December, 2005

Raytheon and AIAA JPC Certificate of Appreciation for Session Lead and Publication August 1, 2005

Raytheon Team Achievement Award, KEI Payload Integration IPT Lead December, 2004

Raytheon Team Achievement Award, KEI Proposal Win December, 2003

Raytheon Individual Achievement Award, Publications in Peer-Reviewed Journals July, 2003

Raytheon Individual Achievement Award, KEI Payload Design Lead June, 2003

Raytheon Technical Papers Recognition Awards Dec 2000, March 2003

NTCC Second Best Technical Paper Award January, 2003

Raytheon Team Achievement Award, AIT SRR Program Award Fee January, 2001

Raytheon HENAAC Nominee, Outstanding Technical Achievement July 1998, July 1999, July 2000

Elected Raytheon Principal Mechanical Engineer with Honors by Peers January, 2000

Raytheon MPTN Best Composite Structures Presentation Award November, 1999

Raytheon Individual Achievement Award, AIT Vehicle Design Lead October, 1999

Hughes Electronics Patent Award for Excellence December, 1996

HMSC GEM Award, F-22 AMRAAM Launcher Development Team August, 1996

HMSC SPOT Award, Onsite Composite Airframe Course November, 1995

HMSC SPOT Award, ESSM Transition Section Design Lead March, 1995

HMSC High Performance Team Award, MCV Vehicle Design Team December, 1990

Publications

Facciano, Worley, and Travis, “Ballistic Missile Defense Interceptor System Innovations Concepts and Strategy “, AIAA MSC Monterey CA, January 23-27, 2012 and NSMMS Tampa Bay FL, June 25-29, 2012.

Blacker, Facciano, and Reid, “Novel Lightweight Composite Missile Components and Out-of-Autoclave Processing”, NSMMS, Madison WI, June 27-30, 2011.

Facciano and Battle, “Advanced Vehicle Airframe Innovations for Application to Future Missile System”, AIAA WSE, NSMMS, and AIAA CONA Conferences, Tucson AZ, Sept 22-25, 2009, Madison WI, June 27-30, 2011, and Virginia Beach, VA, September 2011.

Facciano, A. B., “Simplify, Simplify, Simplify - Advanced Vehicle Airframe Innovations Cut Missile Cost, Schedule”, Raytheon Technology Today Magazine, Winter 2011.

Hundley, Hahn, Yang, and Facciano, “Multi-Scale Modeling of Metal-Composite Interfaces in Titanium-Graphite Fiber Metal Laminates Part 1: Molecules”, Journal of Composite Materials, October 2011.

Hundley, Hahn, Yang, and Facciano, “Three Dimensional Progressive Failure Analysis of Bolted Titanium-Graphite Fiber Metal Laminate Joints”, Journal of Composite Materials, 2010.

Facciano, et al, “Dual Nosecone Assembly Application to Enhance Flight Kinematics Capabilities of Ballistic BMD Interceptors”, AIAA Weapons Systems Effectiveness Conference, Tucson AZ, September 22-25, 2009.

Hundley, Hahn, Yang, and Facciano, “The Bearing Strength of Titanium-Graphite Fiber Metal Laminates”, SAMPE Journal, 2008 and American Society of Composites (ASC) Conference, Memphis TN, Sept 9, 2008.

Hundley, Yang, and Hahn, and Facciano, “Bearing Strength Analysis of Hybrid Titanium Composite Laminates”, AIAA Journal, Volume 48, Number 8, August 2008.

Facciano, Yang, and Hahn, “RMS University Collaboration Projects with UCLA on Advanced Light Weight, High Temperature Missile Airframes”, Raytheon Technology Today Magazine, January 2008.

Facciano, et al, “High Temperature Composite Material Development for Ballistic Missile Defense Interceptors and Future Applications”, XXVII High Temple Workshop, Sedona, Arizona, February 12-15, 2007.

Buesking, Casey, Boarts, Martin, Facciano, Arnold, and Bowman, “Thermostructural Response of Composites under Short Term, Extreme Thermal Loads,” 31st Conference on Composites, Materials, and Structures, Daytona Beach, Florida, January 22-25, 2007

Platero, Facciano, Diaz, and Chasman, “Advanced Integral High Temperature Airframe and Propulsion Developmental Concepts for the NATO Evolved SeaSparrow Missile”, SAMPE Conference, Dallas, Texas, November 6-9, 2006.

Platero, Facciano, Diaz, and Chasman, “Advanced High Temperature Airframe Developments on the NATO Evolved SeaSpaarrow Missile”, Fall SAMPE Conference, Dallas, Texas, November 6-9, 2006 and DMC, Nashville, Tennessee, November 27-30, 2006.

Diaz and Facciano, “Evolved SeaSparrow Missile All-Composite Warhead Fairing Transition from Conceptual Design through Qualification Testing to Production,” Fall SAMPE Conference, Long Beach, California, April 30-May 4, 2006 and NSMMS, Orlando, Florida, June 26-30, 2006.

Wonacott and Facciano, “Design and Analysis Methodologies for High Temperature Polymer Missile Structures Subjected to Severe Aerothermal Environments,” XXVI High Temple Workshop, Austin, TX, Feb 13-16, 2006.

Lavoie, Nutt, Sechrist, Facciano, and Clark, “Test and Modeling of Polymer Composite Subject to Severe Transient Heating,” XXVI High Temple Workshop, Austin, Texas, February 13-16, 2006 and NSMMS, Orlando, Florida, June 26-30, 2006.

Diaz, Facciano, Widmer, and MacMaster, “Transitioning from Conceptual Design through to Production for the Evolved SeaSparrow Missile Composite Aerodynamic Surfaces”, DMC, Orlando, Florida, November 29-December 2, 2005 and NSMMS, Orlando, Florida, June 26-30, 2006.

Chasman, Haight, and Facciano, “Excessive Nozzle Erosion in a Multi-Nozzle Grid Test,” 41st AIAA/ASME/SEA/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference, Tucson, Arizona, July 10-13, 2005.

Slocum, Schlocker, and Facciano, “Low Cost, High Performance Composite Nosecone for the Kinetic Energy Interceptor”, NSMMS, Summerlin, Nevada, June 27-July 1, 2005.

Facciano, et al, “Advanced Composite Materials and High Temperature Airframe Applications on the Kinetic Energy Interceptor Vehicle Development,” NSMMS, Summerlin, Nevada, June 27-July 1, 2005.

Benzie, Wonacott, Facciano, and Medley, “Next Generation Interceptor Missile Fuselage with Integral Radome”, XXV High Temple Workshop, Point Clear, Alabama, February 14-17, 2005 and NSMMS, Summerlin, Nevada, June 27-July 1, 2005.

Facciano, et al, “High Temperature Composite Applications for Ballistic Missile Defense Interceptor Airframes,” AIAA Missile Defense Conference, Washington DC, March 22-26, 2004 and NSMMS, Seattle, Washington, June 21-25, 2004.

Chasman, Facciano, and Haight, “An Innovative Technology for Missile Defense – Multi-Nozzle Grid with Thrust Vectoring Control,” AIAA Missile Defense Conference, Washington DC, March 22-26, 2004.

Wonacott, Facciano, Collins, and Goodrich, “Design, Analysis, Fabrication and Test of a Graphite Reinforced AFRPE-4, Carbon Foam Sandwich Composite Missile Control Surface,” XXIV High Temple Workshop, Sacramento, California, February 2-5, 2004.

Facciano, A. B., “Workshop Tutorial – High Temperature Composite Applications for Missile Defense Agency Interceptor Airframes,” NSMMS, San Diego, California, June 23-27, 2003.

Carrasco, Huerta, Carrera, Facciano, Williams, and Dutton, “Evaluation of High-Temperature Composites in Air-Interceptor-Missile Control Surface Application,” NSMMS, San Diego, California, June 23-27, 2003.

Choo, Facciano, and Benzie, “Characterization of Composite Materials in the Design of Integral Missile Antenna/Fuselage Assemblies,” NSMMS, San Diego, California, June 23-27, 2003.

Benzie, Facciano, and Choo, “Composite Guidance Section Fuselage Trade Study and Prototype Overwrap Evaluation for a Supersonic, Air Breathing Threat Interceptor,” SAMPE Journal, March/April, 2002 and NSMMS, Colorado Springs, Colorado, June 24-27, 2002.

Facciano, et al, “High Temperature, Hybrid Composite Airframe Components for Tactical Ballistic Missile Interceptors,” 50th JANNAF/CPIA Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, July 11-13, 2001 and NSMMS, Monterey, California, June 24-28, 2001.

MacMaster, MacLaren, Yelland, Facciano, and Widmer, “Thrust Vector Control System Collaborative Multi-National Development for the Evolved SeaSparrow Missile,” 50th JANNAF Propulsion Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, July 11-13, 2001 and Multi-National BMD Conference, Maastricht, The Netherlands, June 5-8, 2001.

Facciano, et al, “Jet Vane Control System Prototype Hardware Development for Evolved SeaSparrow Missile,” AIAA MSC, Monterey, California, November 9, 2000 and AIAA JSR, Volume 39, Number 4, 2002.

Facciano, et al, “Advanced Kinetic Kill Vehicle Airframe Weight and Cost Optimization Study for Enhanced Seeker Dynamics Performance,” TriService sponsored Symposium on Advancements in Heatshield Technology, Huntsville, Alabama, May 10, 2000 and NSMMS, Colorado Springs, Colorado, June 24-27, 2002.

Facciano, A. B., “High Temperature Organic Composite Applications for Supersonic Missile Airframes,” 50th JANNAF Propulsion Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, July 11-13, 2001 and SAMPE Journal, Jan/Feb, 2000.

Facciano, et al, "Rigid Flex Printed Wiring Board Plated Through Hole Design Enhancements,” Flexible Circuitry & Electronic Packaging Technologies, June/July, 1999 and IPC Fifth Annual National Conference, Denver, Colorado, June 8, 1999.

Patents

Nordahl, Manzi, Gee, and Facciano, “Smart Separation”, Raytheon Patent Disclosure 16-8155, February 24, 2016.

Krebs, Bielas, Facciano, Mitchell, Tretschok, and Spangler, “Forward Strap Down IR Seeker, Dorsal AESA Interceptor Configuration”, USPTO Serial Number 14/494,105, September 23, 2014.

Facciano, et al, “Special Forces Replenishment Vehicle”, USPTO Application Number 2015/0284080 A1, October 8, 2015.

Facciano, et al, “Cluster Rocket Motor Boosters”, USPTO Application Number 2015/0159587 A1, June 11, 2015.

Alkema, Barker, Graves, Larson, and Facciano, “Rocket Cluster Divert and Attitude Control System”, USPTO Patent 9,377,279, June 28, 2016.

Alkema, Facciano, Leal, Moore, and Chasman, “Integral Injection Thrust Vector Control with Booster Attitude Control System”, USPTO Patent 9,115,964, August 25, 2015.

Alkema, Moore, and Facciano, “Rocket Propelled Payload with Divert Control System within Nose Cone”, USPTO Patent 9,018,572, April 28, 2015.

Facciano, et al, “Projectile and Method that include Speed Adjusting Guidance and Propulsion Systems”, USPTO Patent 8,729,443, issued May 10, 2014.

Bielas, Leal, Facciano, Laporte, Schlatter, Theriault, and Ebel, “Mitigation of Drift Effects in Secondary Inertial Measurements of an Isolated Detector Assembly”, USPTO Patent 8,552,350, issued October 8, 2013.

Facciano, et al, “Multi-stage Rocket, Deployable Raceway and Methods for Controlling Stage Thereof”, USPTO Patent 8,424,438 B2, issued April 23, 2013.

Shiau and Facciano, “Digital Interface Unit (DUI) and Method for Controlling Stages of a Multi-stage Missile”, USPTO Patent 8,104,719 B2, issued January 31, 2012.

Hlavacek, Adang, Flahart, and Facciano, “Missile System for Separating Subvehicles”, USPTO Patent 8,082,848 B2, issued December 27, 2011.

Facciano, et al, “Method and Apparatus for Non-Axisymmetric Radome”, USPTO Patent 8,074,516 B2, issued December 13, 2011.

Facciano, et al, “Methods and Apparatus for Transferring a Fluid”, USPTO Patent 7,989,744 B2, August 2, 2011.

Facciano, et al, “Integral Composite Rocket Motor Dome/Missile Assembly”, Patent, 7,980,057 B2, July 19, 2011.

Facciano, et al, “Detachable Aerodynamic Missile Stabilizing System”, USPTO Patent, 7,800,032 B1, issued September 21, 2010.

Facciano, et al, “Piezoelectric Fiber, Active Damped, Composite Electronics Housing”, USPTO Patents 7,767,944 B2 and 8,049,148, issued August 3, 2010 and November 1, 2011.

Facciano, et al, “Composite Missile Nosecone”, USPTO Patent 7,681,834 B2, issued March 23, 2010.

Facciano, et al, “Integral Missile Airframe-Reactive Laminate Interstage Separation Assembly”, USPTO Patents 7,509,903 B2 and 7,819,048 B2, issued March 31, 2009 and October 26, 2010.

Facciano, et al, “Missile with Multiple Nosecones”, USPTO Patent 7,082,878, issued August 1, 2006.

Chasman, Haight, and Facciano, “Missile Control System and Method”, USPTO Patent 7,108,223, issued September 19, 2006.

Facciano, et al, "Dissolvable Thrust Vector Control Jet Vane”, USPTO Patent 6,548,794, issued April 15, 2003.

Facciano, et al, "Composite Concentric Launch Canister”, USPTO Patent 6,526,860, issued March 4, 2003.

Facciano and Taylor, "Integral Missile Harness-Fairing Assembly”, USPTO Patent 6,343,954, issued February 5, 2002.

Brown, Allred, Duncan, Facciano, and Kirby, "Hybrid Composite Articles, and Missile Components”, USPTO Patents 5,979,826 and 5,824,404, issued November 9, 1999 and October 20, 1998.

Hatalsky, Facciano, Haight, Johnson, and Jordan, "Detachable Missile Jet Vane Control System”, USPTO Patent 5,806,791, issued September 15, 1998.

Facciano, et al, "Integral Missile Antenna-Fuselage Assembly”, USPTO Patent 5,483,894, issued January 16, 1996.

Facciano, et al, "Stage Separation Mechanism for Space Vehicles”, USPTO Patent 5,318,255, issued June 7, 1994.

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