Mechanical Design Business Development

C. A. NAVARRO, MSME, PE

PO Box ****, Cedar Crest, NM 87008 575-***-**** / 505-***-**** *******@*****.***

Objective

Seeking responsible leadership contract or direct-hire role, focused on aerospace, defense, mechanical, or other industrial concerns. Particularly successful at organizing, managing, and mentoring junior engineering teams and staff members. Seasoned business traveler and expert with ANSYS-FEA in support of mechanical design interrogation and computation of confident margins.

Prefer team lead, chief engineer, program manager. or director role, with the education, training, and seasoning to exceed high expectations.

Current DOD TS/SCI security credentials; under continuous evaluation program and valid through 2029.

Introduction

A licensed professional engineer available for leadership employment opportunity. Just completed five years of SETA (Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance) support and management for acquisition and deployment of on-orbit space hardware for the US Space Force and US Air Force.

Now interested in new employment, offering substantial technical, administrative, and business development expertise, with documented leadership success, and diverse education and training.

Past LANL Staff engineer and contractor, with Distinguished Performance Award from that national laboratory.

This engineer is a fast learner and offers a demonstrated history of taking ownership, prioritizing competing demands and tasks, solving complex problems, and successfully managing to exceed high expectations. Current DOD Top Secret clearance and past DOE L and Q clearances.

Core Competencies

1)Directorate and program-level management using project management software.

2)Experienced technical business development as private consultant and engineering entrepreneur.

3)Experienced SETA contractor for program acquisition of US Space Force hardware within secure environments.

4)Practiced emotional intelligence, past recognitions as leader and mentor.

5)Seasoned director, manager, and chief engineer for consulting organization, programs, projects, and personnel.

6)Highly proficient with written communication and oral presentations.

7)Liaison responsibilities between US Space Force organizations (at remote national locations).

8)Consultancy leadership and military aviation-field service

9)Systems engineering and liaison, structural stress, and mechanical design.

10)Enrolled in distance learning PhD program with focus on hypersonic flight sciences.

11)Work environments supporting on-orbit domain and aerospace engineering, nuclear (weapons and facilities), mechanical design and manufacturing, and hardware assembly, integration, and testing.

12)Expert level structural-stress analysis using ANSYS-FEA and APDL for calculating confident margins. Highly proficient with MAPDL and Workbench analyses in coupled thermal, aero, and dynamic stress environments. Recent ABAQUS training with some past experience with NASTRAN and FEMAP.

13)Gaining proficiency with FLUENT for CFD analysis of high temperature and compressible fluid flow. Also, gaining familiarity with AI (Artificial Intelligence) and the PYTHON programming language.

14)DIY skills from diverse automotive, machine shop, and fabrication projects. Currently completing intermediate welding classes.

Education

MSME 1993 PURDUE UNIVERSITY, W. LAFAYETTE, IN.

·Major: Mechanical Design / Mechanics in Graduate Mechanical Engineering School

- Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering studies – Damage tolerance / fatigue / fracture.

oLaboratory materials testing under cryogenic conditions.

-Civil Engineering studies – FEA / laboratory techniques in construction.

oThesis Research: Constructive metallic fatigue and LEFM fracture strategies.

oNSF $90K fellowship / Purdue $60K fellowship.

BSME 1983 UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO, ALBUQUERQUE, NM

·Major: Mechanical and Machine Design

·Minor: Business Studies, Anderson School of Management.

·College Co-Op Experience: Sandia National Labs and Houston Lighting and Power.

U. OF ALABAMA, DISTANCE ENGR. DOCTORATE PROGRAM 2017 - PRESENT

·Enrolled in distance learner PhD program and studying aerospace curriculum in support of the US Space hardware mission. Completed some conceptual-aircraft and airfoil design, compressible fluid flow courses, and involved with ongoing CFD study.

·Major Interest: Hypersonic Flight Sciences / Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics

- Focused on hypersonic flight sciences; requiring broad aerodynamic and mechanical expertise.

- New skills with FLUENT-CFD, XFOIL, and various numerical CFD methods and schemes.

- Have updated FORTRAN-77 seasoning and acquired new MATLAB programming skills.

- Completed Dr. Daniel Raymer’s independent summer Conceptual Aircraft Design course (2017),

Redondo Beach, CA.

RADAR AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL US ARMY, FT. RUCKER, AL.

·Combat ATC and airport-GCA services in Alabama, North Carolina, and Virginia.

·NCO Academy (Honor-Graduate - Primary Leadership School, Ft Bragg, NC).

Continuing Education -

·Management – SBA Executive level CEO/President level management, business development, and cost-plus accounting.

·Security – DOD FSO training and related OJT.

·Leadership – President, Program Manager, Director, Chief Engineer, Structures Manager, US Army NCO.

·Software – MS Project, ANSYS/APDL (MAPDL/Workbench), SolidWorks, F77, MATLAB, FLUENT, ABAQUS.

·Hardware – Windows, Apple/iOS, UNIX/Linux. Server deployment and management.

·Engineering – Advanced mathematics, mechanisms design, FEA, LEFM, stress, thermal, composite laminates, CFD, landing gear, etc., conceptual aircraft design, production, manufacturing, assembly, and repair, training, and mentoring.

·Aerospace – Past FAA-DER and ODA-UM training / licensed private pilot. Aircraft Certification training in 14CFR Parts 21,23,25,27, and 29.

·Broad Range of Mechanical and Civil Engineering standards and protocols.

·Reliability and configuration/change engineering protocols (FRB, MRB, CRB, PR).

Experience –

ANALYTICAN FEA, INC (AFEA) 1992 – CURRENT

-Chief Executive, Chief Engineer, and Program Manager for family’s professional engineering consultancy. Core offerings focused on diverse design and analysis services utilizing SolidWorks and ANSYS-FEA tools. Landed numerous team-based machine design and analysis contracts in support of aircraft (conventional, unmanned, and special mission) and spacecraft/rockets airworthiness, satellites, weapon systems, manufacturing, machine shop, and production facilities, nuclear facilities and civil infrastructure, validation testing, and innovative research. Successfully completed five-year government prime contract to provide civil and sanitary infrastructure drafting services for NM Indian Pueblos. Strong mission delivery focus with honed business acumen and proposal writing skills. Numerous contracts to support the American Warfighter or the US engineering infrastructure. Past independent, corp-to-corp and prime contractor W-2 contracts have included:

-Military “UAS/UAV” Airframe Sr. Project Contractor Insitu Oct 2016 – APR 2017

-Military Landing Gear Stress/Design Contractor USAF, Hill AFB NOV 2014 – NOV 2015

-Military Aircraft Power Supply Stress/Design Contractor Esterline Power Systems 2014

-Nuclear Structural Stress Contractor Westinghouse Nuclear 2013

-Nuclear Structural Stress Contractor AREVA Nuclear 2012 – 2013

-Special Mission Aircraft Structural Stress /Airworthiness Contractor 3S Consulting 2012

-Helicopter Structural Stress Contractor Bell Helicopter Repair Stations, TN (3/2008 – 3/09)

-Supplied Labor Contractor Honeywell Defense and Space – Glendale, AZ (10/2008 – 9/2010)

-Rocket Radome Structural Contractor NAVSEA – White Sands Missile Range, NM. (2006)

-Airworthiness Analyst Contractor NASA – Wallops Island, VA.

-Chief Engineer Flight Operations Contractor RAM, Inc.; El Paso, TX .

-Rocket Structural Engineer Contractor Orbital Sciences Corporation; Chandler, AZ .

oRecognized for achievement in resolving Fin Actuator shortcoming that led to Mach-7 and Mach-10 Hyper-X flight success.

-Offshore Oil Platform Structural Stress Contractor SBM Imodco; Houston, Tx.

-Stress Analyst (Contract); Belcan Engineering in support of Pratt & Whitney, (West Palm, FL) and Allied Signal Aerospace, (Phoenix, AZ) (1997 – 1999).

-Stress Analyst (Contract); Sundstrand Aerospace, (Rockford, Illinois). (1997).

-Stress Analyst (Contract); Allied Signal Aero, (Phoenix, AZ / Taichung, Taiwan). (1996–1997).

-Stress Analyst (Contract); G.E. Aircraft Engine Company (OH - 1996) and Stress Analyst/Design Engineer (Contract); G.E. Power Generation Co.; (NY- 1995).

-Stress Analyst/Design Engineer (Contract); Lockheed-Martin (Pittsfield, MA). (1996).

-Nuclear Facilities/Design Engineer (Contract), Los Alamos National Lab (1994 – 1995).

oLANL Distinguished Performance Award for role in developing new tritium “SALT” facility.

KBR-CONTRACTOR SUPPORT TO PROGRAM OFFICES USAF, SpRCO, KAFB AFB NOV 2020 – FEB 2024.

Recruited from the former SMC organization on KAFB, and ultimately served four Space RCO programs to acquire and ultimately field on-orbit space vehicles in support of the national mission. Work included participating in unique program office acquisition strategies, primarily with engineering knowledge, and with vendor interface and coordination. Also served as Launch Integration lead for all assigned programs; working to plan and execute EIS’s (early integration studies), and all other coordination for the purpose of informing the mission assignment board (MAB), while coordinating with mission partners and LSIC’s (launch service integration contractors) to grow momentum and preserve operational security and program protections. This SCIF-based work required an active TS/SCI credential.

As the “Building-1 Liaison”, coordinated with mission partners and stakeholders for the “OIMD” (Operational Integration and Mission Delivery) program to burn down FEG (force element generation) risk. This effort ultimately contributed to the very important “OAP” (Operational Acceptance Plan / Criteria). Liaison effort was lightly referred to as “herding the cats”.

Last two assignments: matched up host launch vehicle and payload requirements, and Deputy PM in support of crypto hardware deliverables.

Assignments required a considerable amount of travel from KAFB to vendor and program office sites around the country, and to Space Force bases and the “Cape”. Provided SETA support for on-site mission essential meetings at military facilities in Hawaii.

A particularly enjoyable part of the job was coordinating acquisition activities, launch integration, test, and program management deliverables (including design reviews). In almost all cases, conversations and meetings reflected the importance of the work, and the privilege to work on these important endeavors. After five years, it was time to move on to other career opportunities.

SYSTEMS ENGINEERING USAF, SMC/ADSS, KAFB AFB FEB 2018 – OCT 2020.

Was employed by an SMC contractor to provide systems engineering support for the USAF LDPE-1 and other internal space vehicle programs. Supported two cube-sat and other ride-share payloads in conjunction with primary military satellite missions. This included DNH “Do No Harm”, MA “Mission Assurance”, and Operational/Flight Safety tasks. Also monitored out-of-state integration and testing at vendor locations, to include fit-check and environmental. Also supported the development of ICD and safety related documentation.

Successfully built a high-fidelity ANSYS-FEA model and APDL coding for a variant of the LDPE-1 space vehicle, with coding for internal stand-alone pre-stressed modal, and other Craig-Bampton structural-dynamics analyses.

PROGRAM MANAGER FIREFLY SPACE SYSTEMS (AUSTIN, TX) FEB - JULY 2016

·Direct hire at a now defunct cube-sat/rocket-launch startup company. In six months’ time, also served as acting structures chief for Alpha rocket, deputy/acting PM for Gamma 2.0 program, and first Program Manager for new Air Launch Systems (ALS). Diverse involvement included compiling level-2 design requirements in support of systems engineers as required to develop formal spacecraft design guidance. Accepted severance when ALS program was sold to foreign investor. That original company ceased business progress approximately one month later. Personal regret that the reusable winged, air launched and hypersonic cube-sat delivery vehicle that was the focus of employment, did not materialize.

ODA STRUCTURAL UM CANDIDATE DASSAULT FALCON JET MARCH 2011 – MARCH 2012

·Trained for seven months in ODA Certification Department. Transferred to Stress Department for half-a-year due to lack of Certification Department work in that department and was trained in CATIA v5 / ELFINI for structural substantiations of business jet aircraft interiors. Resigned after one year because of the lack of certification work due to the absence of US registered aircraft in the production queue.

STRUCTURES MANAGER ERIKSON SKYCRANE 2010

·Employed in a difficult MRO (Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul) situation in which the former manager had been fired and the large staff was demoralized – but was eager for strong leadership and mentorship. In addition, the circumstances included a significant backlog of prioritized substantiation and systems engineering for the Erickson/Sikorski S-54 (E and F model) air crane helicopter. Staff were being pushed under an order of massive and unpaid overtime – to include weekends. This new manager took charge of a dozen employees and two DER consultants, significantly reduced unpaid OT to 5 hours’ maximum, and eliminated most weekend work. Morale improved immediately and the new team began in earnest to improve deliveries.

DIRECTOR OF ENGINEERING AEROSPACE COATINGS INTERNATIONAL 2009-2010

·Hired as top engineering manager at an FAA certified airplane parts repair station. Successfully upgraded the engineering department and mentored younger staff engineers in reverse engineering strategies, and in more sophisticated hand calculation and FEA strategies; all while developing leadership potential in each. The repair station was complete with all means of remedial structural repair and validation testing. The product line focused on repaired pneumatic and hydraulic control and landing gear hardware for commercial airliner customers. Also worked to develop PMA parts line for the company.

SR. STRUCTURAL ENGINEER AEROJET GENCORP FEB 2001 – MARCH 2002

·Main assignment: TOW Fire-and-Forget weapon system sole structural engineer. Also recruited to provide analysis support for the NET-Fires Rocket Motor development. Designed the Net Fires and Boost Sustain Aft Closure Profiles (rocket motor nozzles) using high-fidelity 3-D and 2-D ANSYS FEA models. Developed sophisticated 2-D computer simulations to show the interaction of lock-wire/joint interactions under load. Engaged in forensic engineering to interrogate two significant

explosives-manufacturing failures. Attended formal training in PATRAN, NASTRAN, and LS/DYNA.

STAFF MEMBER LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY 1984 – 1990.

·Mechanical engineer and work packet manager in a machine design & product development group (design, analysis, instrumentation, machine-shop). Design projects included an X-ray telescope for the Space Shuttle, test-validated hardware for various defense, energy, and environmental projects (ranging from weapons to oil-patch; from nuclear to chemical processes). Employed FEA & ASME Sections VIII and III in pressure-related component design. Supervised small technician/designer/engineer development teams to deliver products “on-time and budget”. Was trained in Project Management techniques and software.

RELIABILITY ENGINEER MCDONNELL DOUGLAS CORPORATION 1983 - 1984.

Reliability engineer involved in defense projects ranging from the C-17 aircraft to the Mast-Mounted-Site weapon system, to component electronics. Critiqued these aerospace designs with classical hand calculations and then recommended mechanical revisions from a reliability perspective.

US ARMY RADAR AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLER

Eight years total service / Honorable discharge E-6 Staff Sergeant); numerous achievement awards, to include NCO Academy Distinguished Graduate, Soldier-of-the-Year, and US ARMY Commendation Medal with Oak Leaf. Was privileged to meet General of the Army Omar Bradley during Soldier of the Year reception in Washington D.C.

Miscellaneous

Married to Martha, high school sweetheart.

Father of three successful professionals: two of the three are attorneys, two of the three are US Air Force Officers, one is a USAF JAG, and one of the three is a USAF combat veteran.

Grandfather of four amazing youngster grandchildren!

Private pilot license and FAA CTO license (from US ARMY ATC examination).

Performance BMW and Valkyrie motorcycle enthusiast.

Hobby - photographing bald eagles and other raptors, bears, and other diverse wildlife.

“Mountain-centric” with home and other property in the Sandia mountains.

Alabama college football fan – Roll Tide Roll!

Classic rock and roll music fan; from Chuck Berry to the Rolling Stones; from Bob Seger to AC-DC.

EXCEPTIONAL REFERENCES AND EXTENDED DETAILS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST.

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