Senior Engineering / R&D Manager

Dr. Peter J. Rohl *****@*****.***

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Objective: Senior engineering management position in, R&D, projects, or programs in Aerospace and Defense technology & product development, systems engineering, international programs

Selected Accomplishments:

Designed 3D stress analysis process, reducing time and slashing manufacturing scrap $2M.

GE analysis of jet engine parts was very labor intensive and time consuming. Developed process and computational tool to automate the generation of stress analysis models from 3D CAD geometry. Reduced time from four weeks to under two hours. Saved $500K annually in labor costs. Salvaged manufactured parts with defects that previously were scrapped. Received a US patent to protect the revolutionary analysis procedure.

Coordinated RFP response to NIST, leading to $21M four-year research grant.

GE received an RFP from the National Institute for Standards and Technology for development methods regarding global collaboration to speed up development of highly engineered products in order to improve the competitiveness of US manufacturing. Integrated input from Engineous Software, BF Goodrich, Parker Hannifin, Stanford University and Ohio University. Wrote proposal sections on optimization, CAD interface standards and CAD-CAE integration. Received multi-year grant.

Coordinated company SBIR and STTR responses, resulting in $7M in contracts.

Initially, Advatech had a hit-and-miss approach regarding SBIR/STTR solicitations. Streamlined Advatech’s process of responding to solicitations, leading to 15 Phase I, II and III wins, many of them with new customers, opening the doors for future follow-on business.

Education: Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering, Aerospace Systems Design

Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia

MS AE

Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia

Diplomingenieur in Mechanical Engineering

Technische Universität Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany

Areas of Line management of a geographically dispersed engineering department, program management,

Expertise: management of Government (DoD, NASA) R&D programs, management of IR&D activities at the corporate level for a small business, proposal & business development, design for Six Sigma/quality methods, systems engineering and design methods development, structural optimization, multidisciplinary, optimization, aerospace structures, engineering software development, CAD, CAE, PLM systems and their integration, Avionics and systems of GA aircraft

Career History: Aerospace Consultant, independent since Feb 2015

Supporting businesses with business development, proposals and R&D project execution, especially SBIR projects, in the field of aircraft design tools and methods development

Engineering Manager, Range Telemetry, Arcata Associates May 2015-Sept. 2015

Management of a group at NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center providing software engineering and IT support for flight test telemetry, radar and communication systems.

Engineering and IR&D Manager, Programs Director, Advatech Pacific May 2008-April 2015

Management of Advatech’s engineering and software development staff at multiple locations, program management, proposal and business development, principal investigator. Management of multiple concurrent programs. Development of electronic communication equipment for the US Department of Defense. Closed down the government services business unit (and Advatech’s California operations) in March of 2015 as the company retrenched and changed its focus to other areas.

Manager, Internal R&D, Advatech Pacific Aug. 2004-May 2008

Management of Advatech’s corporate-wide IR&D activities, principal investigator and project manager on NASA and DoD R&D projects, proposal and business development support.

Solutions Architect/Project Manager, RAND Worldwide, Canada Oct. 2001-Aug. 2004

Manager and lead technical support for optimization framework software, manager,

design automation projects, Six Sigma tools, evaluation of automation software, pre-sales support, led international software development team

Staff Engineer, General Electric Corporate Research and Development Aug. 1995-Sep. 2001

Development of optimization systems, multidisciplinary optimization algorithms, CAE-CAD-PDM

integration, parametric CAD modeling, bulk metal forming process optimization, finite element

analysis, extensive software development, GUI development, project management in the above areas

with budgets of between $400K and $800K/year and staff of 4 to 8 developers. Established design tools development team in Bangalore, India.

Publications: 25 conference papers and refereed journal articles, available upon request.

Other Qualif.: Six Sigma Green Belt. Certified Project Manager. Member of AIAA MDO Technical Committee. Commercial Pilot (Instrument Rated), US, Canadian and German certificates, >1100 hrs total time. Multilingual (English, German, Spanish, French).

Naturalized US Citizen. Current DoD Secret Security Clearance.

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