Aerospace Systems Engineer

P a g e *

Degrees

**** ****** **** ******* (Bloemfontein)

**** * ***. (Electronic) University of Durban

**** * ****. (Quantitative Cum Laude) Unisa

**** *** ******

Additional Qualifications

1988 Advanced Systems Engineering & Configuration

Management

UP (Atlas Aircraft)

1989-1995 Numerous Project Management Courses & OTJ IAI, Denel Aviation, Armscor 1998 Advanced Negotiations & OTJ Jack Quinlan & Other 1999-2005 Numerous Management Courses & OTJ International Aerospace Orgs & Denel Aviation 2000 - Present Advanced Programme Management & OTJ Aerospace, Pharmaceutical, FMCG, Clusters, IT. 1995 - Present Advanced Contracting & Sourcing & OTJ Denel Aviation, IAI, Saab, Boeing, Airbus, Embraer, Bae, Adcock Ingram, Lodestone, etc.

Own Learning

1988 -

Present

Level 5/6 Systems Engineering Applied Tools & Techniques (Including Project Management of Systems Engineering (Weapons and Interconnectness Acquisition). 1988 -

Present

Advanced Microsoft Office, Including MS Access, Project & Visio. Power BI, Power Query & Power Pivot for Data Mining and Data Visualisation (Auto Visio PBS/WBS etc. linked to Project/Excel). 1988 -

Present

Configuration Management Hardware and Software Development, Production and Support. Documentation, Change, Release and BOM Management and Control.

1990 -

Present

Modelling & Simulation, Matlab, Simulink, Simscape, CAD (Various), Simulation (e.g. Plant Simulation, AnyLogic) and other modelling of operations systems. 1995 -

Present

Management of Facilities, Departments, Teams, Functions and interaction/integration with counterparts internally, externally and internationally (Collaboration Engineering). 2005 -

Present

Lean, Six Sigma, Statistical Analysis, OEE, Standards and numerous Industrial Engineering techniques. 2010 -

Present

Industrial Design & Analysis. Plant Simulation & Optimisation. Industrial Cluster Design. Plant Energy Mapping & Renewable Energy Integration. Industrial Analysis of new and distressed businesses Career Summary

2014 - Present Consultant (Systems Engineering,

Configuration Management,

Project Management, Simulation.)

Trontium, Denel, DLS, Redflank, Northern Cape Government, DTI, IDC, TIC, Lodestone, Adcock Ingram, Renewable Energy, Etc.

2010-2016 Consultant (Systems Engineering,

Project Management,

Configuration Management,

Business Analysis, Industrial

Clusters, Lean, Energy)

Denel, Redflank, DTI, Northern Cape Government, IDC, TIC, Lodestone, Adcock Ingram, Lodestone., Renewable Energy, Etc. 2004 -2010 Denel Aviation Programmes Director & Aerostructures Company Establishment 1997 -2003 Denel Aviation New Programmes & Project Systems Engineer 1994 -1997 Denel Aviation/SAAF AFB LT) Handover & Commissioning Project Systems Engineer 1987 - 1993 Atlas Aircraft/(International

Aerospace Organisation-Overseas)

Aerospace System Engineer

1984 - 1986 SAAF/Atlas Aircraft National Service (Fighter Aircraft Modifications & Mission Control) Summary CV: Grant Sampson

Full name Grant Sampson

Contact Cell. 083-***-****, 082-***-**** (adeiwb@r.postjobfree.com) ID Number 610**********

Personal Married, 2 adult children, currently reside Bryanston Johannesburg P a g e 2

Career Highlights

• System Engineering Consultant for Aerospace, Unmanned Aerial Systems and Weapon Systems (2017-Current)

• System Engineering Consultant Denel Land Systems Badger Missile Variant. Traceability, DT&E, Advanced Project and Technical Status reporting (linked Excel and Visio Diagrams auto refreshing: Data Visualisation and status) of BOM, ECP’s, VCRM, PBS, WBS, FRACAS, ATP’s, Action Items, FMECA, CSOW, CM, SDP, etc. and any Level 5 and above System Engineering activities required. (2014-2017)

• General Consulting FMCG, Project Management, System Engineering, Process Optimisation, Business Analysis, Management Consulting, Contracting, etc. (2015-2016).

• Consultant Adcock Ingram; Programme Management, System Engineering, Business Analysis, Sourcing, Contracts, Energy Optimisation, System Simulation and Optimisation, Industrial Engineering, etc. (2012 – 16)

• Consultant Redflank, Industrial Clusters, Project Management, System Engineering, Renewable Energy (CSP, PV, Wind), Business Analysis, Management Consulting, Contracting, etc. (2011-2016).

• Senior Project Member for establishment of a Denel Aviation and Saab company, Denel Aerostructures. (2003-2010)

• Programmes Director at Denel Aviation responsible for Saab, Bae, Agusta, IAI, Boeing, Airbus, Lockheed Martin, TMA, Embraer, and numerous Business Development campaigns. (2003 – 2010).

• Operations Manager at Denel Aviation responsible for a staff complement of 600.

• Project Manager for Saab/Denel Aviation cooperation in strategic aerospace acquisition programmes. (1998-2002)

• System Engineer for 4th Generation Missile Acquisition and Integration with South African Air Force fighter acquisition

(BGT, Raytheon, Denel, Embraer, Mectron, FMS: Pentagon)

• Project/Systems Engineer for acquisition, implementation and capability demonstration of major upgrade to SAAF Fighter (1995-97). 38 fighter aircraft consisting of +50 000 traceable CI’s each, Integrated Logistic Support consisting of 30 prime suppliers locally and internationally, numerous secondary suppliers, Change Management and full Configuration Management functionality.

• Developed a System (Database) for tracking and solving overall Mission Functionality of complete Air Weapon System

(Received letter of commendation from SAAF/Armscor Joint Project Office).

• Field Project Manager for commissioning of South African Air Force fighter system (1993-96), System Functionality, Configuration Management, Verification & Validation

• Weapons Systems, Mission Systems Engineer, Integration & Test, Configuration Management, Verification & Validation for South African Air Force fighter acquisition (1988-93).

• Development of Engineering Documentation Management System for major modification projects of Atlas Aircraft

(1986).

• Specification, Acquisition and Implementation of advanced software development and configuration management capability for large Aerospace applications (1984). Professional Profile Summary

• Comprehensive understanding of complex systems and systems acquisition environments. Extensive experience in applied system engineering, logistic support development, configuration management, project management, in all programme phases and most contracting levels, and implementation and commissioning of systems.

• Experienced Executive Department Manager; Budgets, Building Capability, Strategies and Tactics, Integration with other the other organisation divisions.

• Full Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), waterfall, agile, system engineering, configuration management and project management methodologies. Compiled a System Engineering Manifesto for SE integrating Agile with System Engineering approach and methodologies.

• Conceptualisation, tools and techniques design, commissioning, configuration management and lifecycle management of complex projects in industrial, pharmaceutical, FMCG and retail environments using system engineering.

• Industrial Cluster conceptualisation and detail design, including Renewable Energy Development including CSP PT, PV commercial and utility.

• Comprehensive business, throughput and cost benefit analysis using statistical techniques, models and advanced simulation. Industrial Analysis (including advanced simulations) of new and distressed businesses to determine viability and operating methodologies/benchmarks

• Advanced and unique skills in communication of Systems Engineering and project data management utilising the full capabilities of Visio, MS Project, Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Power BI and numerous other tools. Linked Project, Excel, Visio, etc. Data Visualisation of Project/Technical/Data that is automatically refreshable and fully customisable.

• Business Intelligence. Advanced data mining and visualisation of any systems data. All organisations have different systems containing critical data, which require Merging, Transformations, Auto refresh, Summaries (like Pivot Tables), Statistical analysis and mapping of trends. DOC ID: Grant Portfolio Detail 2020

FILE: Vitae-GSCV June 2020.docx COMMERCIAL-IN-CONFIDENCE Page 3 of 7 Grant Sampson: Summary Portfolio of Significant Past & Present Assignments In Service of SANDF/Atlas Aircraft/Armscor (1984 - 1997) TIMEFRAME ASSIGNMENT ROLE, SERVICE DESCRIPTION EMPLOYER/CLIENT 1984-1986 Officer Mission Controller: South

African Air Force (SAAF) National

Service

Following Basic Training and extensive aptitude testing, selected for exclusive Mission Control and Officers course. Successfully completed both courses and only candidate to fully complete the final assessment. Commissioned as an Officer.

South African Air

Force

1986-1988 Atlas Aircraft Junior System Engineer Integration of advanced reconnaissance camera into a Mirage III fighter aircraft. Design, development and reverse engineering of fighter and camera systems. This also involved setting up the respective system engineering methodologies. Selection and procurement of Software development tools. Establishment of Software development methodologies. Atlas Aircraft.

1988-1993 Aerospace System Engineer: New

Fighter Aircraft: Overseas Assignment

Selected engineer to develop state of the art onboard Mission System for new fighter aircraft.

Responsible for design and development of weapon delivery subsystems and integration and test of complete system, both hardware and software. This involved reverse engineering other advanced Mission Systems, development of the new system incorporating pilot tactics and strategies and testing to ensure specifications were achieved.

A further goal was transfer of technology for 4th-line support in South African Industry, establishment of service and maintenance relationships and contracts.

This also required establishment and management of aircraft development and build configuration, development and delivery of data, transfer of technology through data.

Armscor Aircraft

Division

DOC ID: Grant Portfolio Detail 2020

FILE: Vitae-GSCV June 2020.docx COMMERCIAL-IN-CONFIDENCE Page 4 of 7 TIMEFRAME ASSIGNMENT ROLE, SERVICE DESCRIPTION EMPLOYER/CLIENT 1993 - 1996 Chief Field System Engineer:

Aerospace Acquisition and

Commissioning

Volunteered to represent the Project at Air Force Base Louis Trichardt responsible to achieve commissioning and handover to steady-state operations of SAAF Cheetah C Fighter Aircraft Weapon System.

Developed a unique tool to monitor the mission performance of the Air Weapon System and in doing so was able to achieve successful handover of the system to the SAAF within the project schedules.

Solved a variety of Operational and Technical from Airframe, Engine, Avionics, EW, Support, Mission, Pilot, etc.

Requested by the Squadron Commander to join the daily Mission briefing and debriefing sessions to facilitate deeper understating of capabilities and tactics. Received a letter of commendation from The Armscor Programme Manager and the SAAF Programme Manager for the effort to achieve handover. The Cheetah C Fighter Aircraft Weapon System consists of 38 fighter aircraft, associated support systems and associated logistics infrastructure established throughout the country including an advanced ICT system and infrastructure.

(Each aircraft comprises 50000 (tracking) parts and 40 embedded computer systems. Support infrastructure setup around South Africa includes 50 companies)

Armscor Aircraft

Division

1996 - 1997 Project Manager: Technology Transfer

Demonstration

Selected to Project manage the upgrade of the complete Cheetah C Air Vehicle System and to demonstrate technology transfer achieved. A comprehensive upgrade package was compiled, executed and the entire fleet of 38 aircraft retrofitted included the support items and logistics infrastructure across the country.

Armscor Aircraft

Division

Denel 1998-2009

TIMEFRAME ASSIGNMENT ROLE, SERVICE DESCRIPTION EMPLOYER/CLIENT 1998-2000 Project Manager: New Programmes Selected as a Project Manager to represent Denel Aviation in the new Strategic Aircraft Acquisition Programmes. Established relationships with 12 Denel

DOC ID: Grant Portfolio Detail 2020

FILE: Vitae-GSCV June 2020.docx COMMERCIAL-IN-CONFIDENCE Page 5 of 7 TIMEFRAME ASSIGNMENT ROLE, SERVICE DESCRIPTION EMPLOYER/CLIENT selected international suppliers and developed workshare understandings with them.

2001-2005 Programme Manager: New

Programmes Gripen

Selected as a Programme Manager to represent Denel in the Gripen fighter Aircraft acquisition. Established Industrial Participation Projects comprising manufacturing, technology transfer, software development, skills development and flight testing. Emphasis on programme structuring & establishment, contracts and contracting.

Denel

2005-2009 Programmes Director & Saab

Aerostructures Team Member

Responsible for all Aviation Programmes. Strong contracting experience and application.

In parallel jointly developed the establishment of a joint company between Denel/Saab and the implementation of the organisation turnaround. A new ICT infrastructure was installed along with a new enterprise solution. In addition, the total turnaround programme over 36 months entailed a total restructuring of existing operations, transformation to a business culture and attitude, tough decision making, retrenchments, establishment of operations where control is directly linked to the contracts, strict management in the deployment of policies and objectives, establishment of a joint venture, joint sales & marketing and new business development..

Denel

Consulting 2010-Present

TIMEFRAME ASSIGNMENT ROLE, SERVICE DESCRIPTION EMPLOYER/CLIENT 2010 - 2013 System Engineer: Engineering Renewable Energy Commercial and Utility Development (CSP PT and PV), Industrial Clusters Design, Feasibility Studies, Assessments, Project Management and general System Engineering

Industrial Clusters, Project Management, System Engineering, Renewable Energy (CSP, PV, Wind), Business Analysis, Management Consulting, Contracting, etc.

Industrial Analysis (including advanced simulations) of new and distressed businesses to determine viability and operating methodologies/benchmarks Redflank

DOC ID: Grant Portfolio Detail 2020

FILE: Vitae-GSCV June 2020.docx COMMERCIAL-IN-CONFIDENCE Page 6 of 7 TIMEFRAME ASSIGNMENT ROLE, SERVICE DESCRIPTION EMPLOYER/CLIENT Comprehensive business, throughput and cost benefit analysis using statistical techniques, models and advanced simulation.

2013 - 2015 Project & System Engineer Energy reduction assessments and implementation, Project Management structuring and methodologies establishment. Throughput analysis and simulation. Lean implementation. Business analysis. OEE implementation. Programme Management, System Engineering, Business Analysis, Sourcing, Contracts, Energy Optimisation, System Simulation and Optimisation, Industrial Engineering, etc.

General Consulting FMCG, Project Management, System Engineering, Process Optimisation, Business Analysis, Management Consulting, Contracting, etc. Comprehensive business, throughput and cost benefit analysis using statistical techniques, models and advanced simulation.

Adcock Ingram

2014 - Present Systems Engineer & Project Manager Systems Engineering and Project Management Traceability, DT&E, System Engineering as required on Denel Land Systems Badger Missile Variant. Verification, Traceability, DT&E, Advanced Project and Technical Status reporting (linked Excel and Visio Diagrams auto refreshing) of BOM, ECP’s, VCRM, PBS, WBS, FRACAS, ATP’s, Action Items, FMECA, CSOW, CM, SDP, etc. and any Level 5 and above System Engineering activities required.

Wea[on System development. System Engineering establishment, structuring and capability maturity processes/methodology installation. Unmanned Aircraft Systems. System Engineering establishment, structuring and capability maturity processes/methodology installation. Various

DOC ID: Grant Portfolio Detail 2020

FILE: Vitae-GSCV June 2020.docx COMMERCIAL-IN-CONFIDENCE Page 7 of 7 Software Knowledgebase

SOFTWARE Packages Capability

Microsoft Office

95 - 2016

Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Project, Visio, Access,

Power BI

Advanced. Including Power Query/Power Pivot and linking of Project, Visio, and Excel for refreshable updating. Interactive Data visualization and summarization with Power BI Adobe Acrobat, Photoshop, Illustrator, Advanced

Plant Simulation Plant Simulation Advanced

Mathworks Matlab & Simulink Advanced

CAD AutoCAD, Solid Works Intermediate

Languages Python, C++, Java, SQL, Fortran, Assembler Intermediate Enterprise

Solutions

As required

Contact this candidate