Curriculum Vitae

Jacques Johan Botha

Surname: Botha

Name: Jacques Johan

ID: 800-***-**** 088

Date of Birth: 1980-04-03

Home Address

Richards Avenue 182

Pierre Van Ryneveld

Pretoria

0157

Postal Address:

P O Box 600020

Pierre Van Ryneveld

Pretoria

0045

Telephone no: 072-***-****

Marital Status: Married

Nationality: S A Citizen

Home Language: Afrikaans

Other Language English

Criminal Record None

Sport Squash, Cycling

Hobbies Motorcycles, RC Planes

School Matriculated:

Voortrekkerhoogte High school

Pretoria

Year Matriculated: 1998

Matric Results:

Afrikaans HG C

English, HG D

Mathematics HG E

Science HG D

Computer Science HG E

Accounting HG C

Technical Drawings HG B

Tertiary Studies:

1. Technicon Pretoria

Completed BTech Mechanical Engineering

Subjects passed 4th

year:

- Stress Analysis

- Strength of Materials

- Mechanics of Machines

- Engineering design Project

- Automatic Control

- Turbo Machinery

- Fluid Mechanics

2. Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Advanced Materials IFAM:

- European Adhesive Specialist Course 2011

3. University of Pretoria

Part time studying

Completed BSC Honours in Applied Science : Mechanics at the University of Pretoria Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering

Modules Passed:

Thermoflow:

- Thermodynamics

- Fluid Mechanics

- Heat Transfer

Structural Mechanics

- Static Structural Analysis

- Dynamics

- Vibration

Reliability Engineering

Maintenance Logistics

Maintenance Practice 1

Maintenance Practice 2

Software: - Autocad Packages 2000,2001, light

- Basic Matlab

- Solidworks

- Microsoft Office – Excel, Word, Powerpoint, Visio, Project

- Catia

- Material Ply Cutting Software

- Syspro

- Introduction Course to MSC Patran Nastran

- AGECON – Maintenance and replacement

Skills: 1. Project Leader:

Government(TIA) funded4 Year Project: Rapid manufacturing of Continuous Fibre reinforced Thermosets

- Leading a consortium

- Project Leader

- Familiar with contractual agreements

- Assisted in compiling project proposals

- Quarterly and Annual reporting

- Scheduling and leading Steercom meetings

- Consortium expansion process

- Project Budget Management and reporting

- Project Audit

2. - Manufacturing Execution of Engineering proposed project plan

- Process Industrialization

- Manufacturing Process requirements and Component Specifications interpretation

- Manufacturing Process requirements and Component Specifications flow down to production, sub-contractor and procurement

- Process of qualifying and approving a process

- Compiling Process Instructions

- Performing Training

- Procurement of specialised equipment/material according to spec

- Design, develop and build specialised equipment

- Planning routes, bill of materials and operations for Product process sheets

3. Production Industrialisation

Project Team leader on Product Industrialisation allocated to various product industrialisation teams to assist team members and Project Managers to identify, scope and plan industrialisation and concurrent engineering activities.

4. Composite Component Manufacturing

- Composite Material Selection

- Composite Material Storage and Handling

- Manufacturing processes for Fibre Reinforced ThermoSets and ThermoPlastic (Autoclave, Heated Press…)

- Composite/Metal Tooling Design and Manufacturing

- Familiar with Non Destructive Test Equipment and Processes

- Material testing

- Material testing Procedures and Processes

- CMM inspection processes and Procedures

5. Aluminium Sheet Metal Details and Assemblies

- Sheet Metal forming processes

- Sheet Metal Assembly processes

- Sheet Metal Welding processes

- Tooling and Clamping Fixtures

6. Aluminium/Steel Billet Matchings and Assemblies

- Billet Machining process

- Billet Assembly Process

- Tooling and clamping fixtures

7. Quality System Implementation and application

- Material Review boards

- Assisting In-house Audits

- Assisting Customer Audits

- Audit Preparations

- NadCap Composites and ISO9001 Qualification process

- Closing Non Conformances

- Compiling quality processes and procedures

- Assisting final inspection

8. Hand skills

- Basic Wood, Metal and Composite drilling,tapping, cutting, milling and routing

- Basic Composite wet lay-up,prepreg lay-up and resin infusion

- Basic Assembly of hydraulic and pneumatic systems

- Precise measuring of components

- Digitizing of components(reverse engineering)

- Sanding and surface finishing on composite components

- Mixing and Casting of bulk polyurethanes

- Mixing and application of various types of adhesives

- Manufacturing of concept/prototype models

Work Experience

Employers

IST (Integrated

Systems Technology)

I flew and helped with the build of

low cost Aerial Target systems

June holiday 2000

IST (Integrated

Systems Technology)

I did my practical 1 experience. I

worked on the production of electronic

aiming control systems

Dec 2000 – May

2001

Master Drilling(Pty)Ltd I did my practical 2 experience. Drawing office/designing

June 2001 – Nov

2001

Microptic Part time job. Metrology – calibration of instruments

Nov 2002 – Feb 2003

Mecad (Pty) Application engineer for Solidworks. I did training essentials and advanced

training, installation and support.

March 2003 – Aug 2003

BlackStoneTek Junior Engineer Composite and

Aluminium environment of high performance

structures

1. Quality Control

2. Mechanical design

3. Project Manager

4. Maintenance

5. Process design

Sept 2003 – April 2007

Denel Saab

Aerostructures:

Composites Process Engineer:

Ensuring that technical requirements

w.r.t Special Processes is met at process

level. These requirements are flowed

down from Aerospace Specifications

(OEM and/or International Accreditation

bodies)

May 2007 – April

2010

Key Performance Areas:

1. Technical Process

Qualifications

2. Facilities/Operations

3. Process Engineering/Supply Chain

4. Quality

5. Industrialization

Nadcap

Nadcap Implementation in the

Composites Facility

Projects:

1. Airbus A400M Wing to

Fuselage Fairing Data

Transfer

2. Airbus A400M Ribs and Spars

3. Israel Aerospace Industry –

Elevator G150

Abroad:

One Week to Saab Aerostructures in

Sweden to obtain process information for

Airbus A400M WFF work package

transfer

Aerosud Innovation and

Training Center:

Project Engineer/Leader

- Government(TIA) funded project :

Rapid Manufacturing of Continuous Fiber

reinforced thermosets

- Polyurethane tooling/parts development

and manufacturing

May 2010 – October 2012

Aerosud Aviation: Manufacturing Engineer

- A400M Cargo panels Industrialization

- A400M Wingtip Industrialization

- A400M Wingtip production support

- A400M Wingtip Quality control

- A350 Track Can Production and

development support

- A320 Track Can Production support and

development support

- Concurrent Engineering on A320, A350

and A400M Wingtip projects

November 2013 – December

2019

Hensoldt Optronics Mechanical Engineer –

Product Industrialization

- Member of various DFMAS Lead Teams

for products under development

- Collaborate with product design

engineers to establish, apply and monitor

DFMA design principles and techniques;

- Define requirements and scope of

DFMAS and industrialisation tasks and

coordinate implementation among

all team members

- Perform DFMAS analysis and reviews in

collaboration with design engineers and

ensure compliance to mandatory and

best practice processes

- Assist development teams with

mechanical design work

- Develop requirements and specifications

for Assembly Line Design and Facility

layout

- Facilitate Production Baseline

Establishment and maintain accordingly

(collaborate with DR&T and

- Operations role players)

- Assist with the development of

production aid documentation (i.e. build

to-, test to-, calibrate to-, train to-,QC to-,

documents and material)

DFMAS – Design for Manufacturing, Assembly

and Support

January 2020 and still current

References:

Mr Gatiep Prinsloo :

Principle of Voortrekkerhoogte

High School

(012-***-****/5

Mr. Roelof Van Rooyen : Engineer at IST (012-***-**** Mr. Koos Jordaan: Managing Engineer at Master Drilling 082-***-**** Mr. Johan Van Aswegen: Partner Microptic 082-***-**** Mr. Freek Van Den Berg: Mecad 012-***-****

Mr. Chris Adrian: Technical Director BlackstoneTek 082-***-**** Mr Victor Xaba:

Department Materials Technology Denel

Saab Aerostructure

011-***-****

Mr Ryan Brameld Aerosud Aviation 072-***-****

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