Name: Alan Berg
Hollywood MD 20636
Cell: 301-***-****
Past Job Categories/positions: Engineer, Aeronautical 3, Senior Engineer, Project Engineer/Mechanical Design Lead Engineer
Security Clearance Level: Secret
Education:
B.A. Degree, Academic Curriculum, Central High School of Philadelphia, Philadelphia Pa.
B.S. Degree, Mechanical Engineering, Drexel Institute of Technology, Philadelphia, Pa.
DAWIA Certification Level III
Work Experience:
More than 20 years as Project/Lead Mechanical engineer responsible for the technical management, planning, direction and control of all design and aircraft installation/modification activities involving major air vehicle reconfiguration, system integration, and installation projects.
The application of specialized experience in the performance of aircraft modifications, avionics systems integration, and data management towards the investigation, analysis, design, development, and implementation of complex mechanical systems.
Mechanical/technical design lead in the analysis of mechanical system requirements, development of system architectures and system integration approaches, preparation of detailed test plans, and the investigation of system problems.
CNI-Specific Systems:
oC-2A Greyhound-CNS/ATM (Communication Navigation Surveillance Air Traffic Management) - Integration of flat panel displays in new instrument panels in addition to multiple avionics systems
oE-2C Hawkeye-CNS/ATM
External Nose-mounted Infrared (IR) Sensor (Northrup-Grumman design changes/corrections)
Temporary Oxygen Bottle Installation in the fuselage during IR Sensor flight tests
Provided detailed technical recommendations in the areas of system design, system evaluation, system modification, and system problems.
Senior Engineer, Engility Corporation, February 23 2015 to August 1 2016
Duties and responsibilities include the following:
Investigating avionics communications systems for UCLASS UAV (Unmanned Air Vehicle).
Developing high level requirements for a major Government contractual effort involving the design and manufacture of the UCLASS UAV.
Performing requirements tracing between the three major elements defined by performance specifications; the Air Segment, the Control Segment, and the CVN Segment.
Senior Lead Engineer, Computer Sciences Corporation, Sept 2005 to Oct 2011
Worked in Design Engineering and Air Vehicle Integration Branch
Duties and responsibilities included the following:
Planning and oversight of all the technical aspects of projects; coordination of the efforts of technical support staff in the performance of assigned projects.
Providing highly complex technical support to customers by investigating and resolving systems-related matters of significance.
Providing technical consultation on current and proposed systems to other organizations and clients.
Providing leadership and work guidance to less experienced personnel.
Technical management of GS-13 and lower professionals.
Preparation of schedule and establishment of project milestones
Definition of resource requirements and the formation of a technical support team, including system analysts and performance monitors.
Integration of all technical and programmatic support for program development efforts.
Providing technical guidance to all supporting activities performing analysis and laboratory development, test and evaluation.
Generating and delivering technical and programmatic slide presentations to the Navy team at various stages in the design effort.
Aerospace Engineer, NAS PAX River August 1995 to Sept 2005 (Retirement)
Same duties and responsibilities as defined above.
Mechanical Engineer. Johnsville NAS (later changed to NAS Warminster)
August 1966 to July 1995
Position title officially changed to Aerospace Engineer in 1967
Worked in aircraft modification design section. Duties included design of mechanical systems associated with converting manned aircraft to pilotless drones (T-33, F-4B) and instrumentation of their flight control surfaces to provide telemetry during flight testing. Over the years, duties and responsibilities came to include the following as it pertained to modification projects involving the following aircraft: T-33, F-9, F-4, F-14, F-18, and P-3.
Specific duties and responsibilities included the following:
Generation of an RFP and head of the source selection team for the design and fabrication of an avionics rack to house ISEM-3A electronic modules.
Generation of the Program Plan and the Statement of Work for the modification of P-3 aircraft and incorporation of operator displays and specialized avionics equipment and associated antennae required to perform critical ISR operations, including the identification of the specific frequencies associated with each antenna.
Feasibility studies, analyses, conception, design and development of aeromechanical, electromechanical, and electric/electronic systems, subsystems, and related equipment and their installation as required for air vehicle modifications.
Technical management of GS-12 and lower professionals who were assigned to me in support of a variety of new aircraft development tasks as well as reconfiguration/modification and installation tasks from concept through installation.
Acting as the single point of contact between my technical team and NAVAIR and other government agency or contractor sponsors
Preparation of documentation needed to meet DOD and sponsor requirements
Generating and delivering technical and programmatic slide presentations to the Navy team at various stages in the design effort.
Mechanical Design Lead on the following projects:
C-2A Greyhound-CNS/ATM (Communication Navigation Surveillance Air Traffic Management) (Integration of flat panel displays in new instrument panels in addition to multiple avionics systems)
C-12 Huron-Ferry Tank Restraint System
E-2C Hawkeye-CNS/ATM (Communication Navigation Surveillance Air Traffic Management)
(Integration of flat panel displays in new instrument panels in addition to multiple avionics systems)
External Nose-mounted Infrared (IR) Sensor (Correcting Northrup-Grumman’s design)
Temporary Oxygen Bottle Installation in the fuselage during IR Sensor flight tests
F-4B Phantom-Differential Brake Steering System (Patent), Stabilator Hydraulic Emergency System
F-9 Cougar-Installation of potentiometers to instrument various flight controls
F-14 Tomcat-OBOGS (On Board Oxygen Generating System)
F-18 Hornet-Blue Angels Camera Installation
V-22 Osprey-Schlomer Frame Fast Rope
P-3 Orion-MLR-2020 Installation, Gas-1 CRPA Antenna Installation, ADDU Installation
T-33 Shooting Star-Remote landing gear control mechanism
Flap Position Controller
Nose Wheel Steering System
CH-53 Sea Stallion-EVAR (Flight Controls in the Cargo Compartment for a third pilot) (Patent)
GHMD Global Hawk-AIS Receiver, Antenna & Amplifier Installation
Radar and Nose Cone installation in a fuel tank converted to carry sensors
Project Engineer on the following projects:
P-3 Orion-EEECS (Energy Efficient Environmental Control System)
Instrumentation in the wings, fuselage, and tail section to detect airborne magnetic fields
Additional Sonobuoy storage rack
Instrumentation of sonobuoys and Arctic Circle flight test along with Stress Analysis of rack/recorder installation
Addition of Sonobuoys to early P-3
Bomb Bay Sonobuoy Launcher for early P-3
SH-3 Sea King-Installation of SH-2 radar
F-18-Helmet mounted video camera control
UH-1NIroquois- Integration of a Multi-function Display in the instrument panel
GPS Integration
Computer skills:
AutoCad (2D)
Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project)
PATENTS:
4008868 Aircraft Steering and Braking System
4122927 Disconnect Linkage for Force Transmission