Kevin Robert Drake

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Southport, NC 28461

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Belcan Engineering Group LLC

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Responsible for the design and systems integration of test enabling hardware components for GE-Aviation . Work experience includes combustion test rigs, M&I Exhaust system components and dynamic test rigs for bearing cartridge testing . Includes all aspects of mechanical, aero and thermal design, design analysis both handbook and FEM methods

GE Aviation

04/2001-04/2014 MSO / N&DP Programs Manager / MSO / N&DP

Marketing Manager / MSO / N&DP

Responsible for Marketing and Product Development of advanced propulsion systems and components for both Government and airframe company programs. Provide program coordination and planning, technical and project leadership, coordination with internal GE and external customer engineering product definition and manufacturing teams to complete all technical, cost and schedule requirements. Program size ranged from $500K to $25M. Responsible for customer interface and proposal preparation, work with both small and large working groups to develop requirements, select candidate propulsion technologies, conducting trade studies, prepare product roadmaps, and support customer meetings with the Government. Experience with critical path scheduling, EVM tools and Six Sigma tools.

03/1987 - 04/2001 AEED Senior Staff Engineer / MIESO

Department Staff Engineer / MIESO

Exhaust System Team Leader / MIESO

Design Engineer / SMPE

Responsible for the design and systems integration of advanced exhaust system components into advanced aircraft weapon systems. Included all aspects of mechanical, aero and thermal design, design analysis both handbook and FEM methods, component test, manufacturing support and model scale aero testing. With increasing levels of responsibility from 1991 through 1996 led multidiscipline engineering teams on several large programs. This role required technical coordination with engineering, project and manufacturing teams, leading technical reviews, program planning and management to technical and cost objectives. From 1996 through 2001 promoted to Senior Staff and Department Staff Engineer responsible for technical coordination with engineering and project teams, technical proposal support, leading technical design and leadership reviews, preparation and ownership of exhaust technology roadmaps. In this role demonstrated an ability to integrate advanced technologies with winning strategies to win new programs. Experience with heat transfer, combustion, gas dynamics, hot structures, high temperature materials, aero testing.

Industrial Experience

04/1985 - 03/1987 EFFOX, Inc Engineering Manager

Effox Inc is a Cincinnati based company specializing in the design and manufacture of dampers for the power and petrochemical industry. Responsible for the management of the product definition and engineering team, preparation of proposal drawings, shop drawings, sourcing packages for pneumatic and electrical actuators and ancillary equipment, electrical and pneumatic control schematics, engineering design calculations, field and shop support. Supported project team and company owners to meet technical, cost and schedule requirements.

12/1983 - 03/1985 Power Systems, Inc Consulting Engineer / Manufacturer's Rep

Power Systems, Inc was a Lexington, Kentucky based company specializing in the sale and service of electrical and mechanical equipment to the power industry. Responsible for the sale and service of heat recovery equipment, industrial burners, burner management incinerators, dampers and engineering services for a territory that included southern Ohio, Kentucky and West Virginia. Supported end users developing project specifications and proposals and closing orders.

02/1983 - 11/1983 Enerdyne Corp Principal Test Engineer

EnerDyne Corporation was a Minneapolis, Minnesota based company specializing in the design and development of small industrial biomass gasification electrical power generating systems capable of operating on wood, peat, corn cobs, as well as other fuels. Responsible for the design, development and testing of the gasification system which included pyrolyzing burner, gasification reactor, start-up gas system, pneumatic fuel handling system, gas clean-up system, and conversion of a Caterpillar natural gas-fired engine to run on a low-Btu producer gas. Operated the pilot plant demonstration unit for potential customers and investors.

12/1980 - 01/1983 Deltak Corporation Product Design Manager

Deltak Corporation is a Minneapolis, Minnesota based company specializing in the design and sale of wood and coal fired and unfired heat recovery boilers for the petrochemical and industrial market segments. Responsible for the design of the heat recovery system to end-user specifications, sourcing and pricing of auxiliary equipment such as burners, dampers, and controls, proposal preparation, customer meetings and negotiations on the sale of the equipment. Responsible for a product line of coal fired fluidized bed boilers. Supported national sales force of manufacturer’s reps, equipment suppliers, nationally recognized architects and engineers, turbine packagers, and engineering contractors.

01/1976 - 11/1980 FluiDyne Engineering Corp Product Test Engineer

FluiDyne Engineering Corporation is a Minneapolis, Minnesota based company specializing in the design of full scale wind tunnel test facilities and wind tunnel aero model testing services for the aircraft engine and airframe companies. During the 1970s FluiDyne was a Government contractor for the Department of Energy for advanced energy systems which included fluidized bed combustion of coal and coal-fired MHD power systems. Responsible for the design and testing of pilot scale fluidized bed coal combustors for programs with Oak Ridge National Lab to evaluate the corrosion resistance of in-bed heat exchanger materials for air cycle gas turbine applications; the Environmental Protection Agency to evaluate candidate limestones for the removal of sulfur from flue gases; and programs for industrial users to evaluate the feasibility of candidate waste fuels for energy recovery. Responsible for design and development of high temperature regenerative air heaters operating in a slagging coal ash environment for MHD power systems. Expertise with pneumatic solid fuel handling systems, fluidized bed coal combustion, burner controls, flue gas sampling, gas cleanup systems, refractory design and construction, gas and water piping design, high temperature heat exchanger materials, high temperature ceramics, temperature measurement, coal ash chemistry.

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