Engineer Program Manager

William R. Cook

Burleson, TX *****-**** C: 817-***-**** *******.*.****.****@*****.***

www.linkedin.com/in/WilliamRCook1995

Summary of Qualifications

Highly accomplished professional with more than 20 years of experience in the Aerospace industry.

A solid background in structural design layout.

Material Review Board (MRB) Certified Engineer with extensive knowledge of the structural repair manual.

Demonstrated ability to acquire new skills, thoroughly research projects, and work individually or in a team environment.

Superior problem-solving and time-management abilities.

Detail driven with outstanding communication skills and proven successful interfacing with both customers and co-workers.

Assumed mentor role, interacts well with diverse personalities, heavily involved in community service and a man of integrity in all areas of life.

Core Competencies

Good communication skills

Quality assurance

Team building

MS Office

Problem resolution

Leadership skills

Technical expertise

Proficiency of CATIA V4 & V5

Customer relations

Project Management

Program Manager

Modification Engineer

Professional Experience

American Airlines Fort Worth, TX

Senior Interior Engineer 04/2014 to 06/2020

Interface between the Aircraft Interior Engineers and All Fleet Technical Operations Desks Employees.

Coordinated Engineering Repairs and parts required to fix aircraft write-ups for the entire AA Fleet

Responsible for passenger accommodations onboard American Airlines Aircraft on all interior items

(seats, galleys, lavatories, overhead bins, sidewalls, floor panels and carpet).

Provided internal shop, aircraft hangar and onsite vendor support.

Developed manual revisions, drawings and Engineering Change Orders. Progressive Incorporated Arlington, TX

Lockheed Product Program Manager for the F35, F16 & F22 Aircraft 03/2013 to 09/2013

Overall responsibility for customer communication relative to production schedules, deliveries and all other matters affecting customer relations, products, complaints and feedback.

Provided bid proposals and customer statements of work obtaining the appropriate approvals as required.

Scheduled and conducted contract review meetings and processed contract amendments.

Interpreted Engineering drawings, quality assurance and manufacturing operations to internal shop operations.

Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co Fort Worth, TX

F-35 Material Review Engineer (MRB), F-35 Liaison Engineer, CAD Development Engineer 06/2003 to 02/2013

Provided support to the assembly line production floor and flight line support when repairs or drawing interpretations were required on F-35 parts or procedures

Worked with outside part suppliers on dispositions on non-conforming parts for the F35 Program.

Team representative for coordination with Production Operations, Procurement Integrators, Structural Designers and Planning Personnel.

Required good communication skills, the ability to work well with people and rapid response to problems.

Produced the Lockheed Martin function for CATIA V5 (Format@) that allowed the user to place and populate the annotation for the drawing formats for each individual program.

Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the CATIA V5 Drafting Workbench and worked Customer Interfacing Issues.

Developed the CATIA V5 Functional Tolerancing & Annotation (FTA) Workbench in conjunction with producing Reduced Dimension Drawing (RDD).

Analyzed parts for the F22 Program to reduce the cost in the manufacturing of individual parts and determining which candidates had a high return value validating a part design change. Britax-Heath Tecna Bellingham, WA

Payloads Engineer 06/2002 to 05/2003, 11/1998 to 03/2000

Retrofit existing 747 aircraft interiors.

Developed the design of the video shroud for British Airways

Designed the ladder assembly for ceiling panels for the main deck, the sidewall panels and their structural support attachments for the upper deck and the installation of attendant seats for Qantas 747.

Goodrich Aerospace Everett, WA

Senior Modification Engineer 01/2001 to 05/2002

Transformed Bombardier Global Express BD700 "green aircraft” into a completed aircraft certified by the FAA.

Provided shop orders to purchase the parts necessary for job completion, including installation procedures for shop floor mechanics as well information regarding certification testing required by the FAA.

Worked with customer supplied Completion Specification Document and provided new engineering drawings when required to meet FAA approval and customer satisfaction. Boeing Commercial Airplane Group Everett, WA

Structures Engineer 04/2000 to 01/2001

Designed the Boeing 777 passenger floors and floor beams.

Reconfigured the first 777 (WA001) to a new customer configuration requiring floor beam and floor panel modification.

Responsible for the liaison between the group and manufacturing personnel modifying the aircraft.

Program Lead of a group of four engineers in completing the project on time. Education

Bachelor of Science: Mechanical Engineering

University of TX-Austin

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