Design Engineer

Huntington Beach, CA • 415-***-**** • ********@*****.*** • linkedin.com/in/pavel-v-yakovlev

Design Engineer

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

•Composites Design

• Prototype Manufacturing

• Sheet Metal Design

•Machine Design

• Vacuum Forming

• Design for Manufacturing

•Mechanism Analysis

• Injection Molding

• Tolerance Analysis

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

DESIGN ENGINEER II 9/2016 – 9/2020

Safran Huntington Beach, CA

Spent 9 years working on variety of increasingly complex design projects at a multinational aircraft engine, aerospace-component and defense company.

•Airbus A350:

New Generation Lavatory - drove the cabinet door module from JDP to drawing release while decreasing cost by over 20%

Virgin Air Lavatories – designed a wingwall cover while ensuring compliance with tight tolerances and available manufacturing methods

•Airbus A220:

Air Canada Aft Monuments - expedited drawing release and design corrections

Air France FWD Wardrobe – led bonded structure and trim installation design from PDR to CDR, controlled new part creation to minimize new part quantity

•COMAC C919:

Cockpit door – performed modifications to comply with ballistics and flammability requirements

Lavatories – designed a CMT cover with a simple unique attachment method at the lowest cost possible

•Irkut MC-21:

Overhead Stowage Compartments – created and got customer approval on a unique solution to increase luggage bucket stiffness while staying within weight targets and complying with stress and closing force requirements; implemented passive lift assist into existing design with virtually no modifications, refined the design and constructed test rigs to pass static tests

Lavatories & Galleys – expedited drawing release to comply and exceed aggressive completion dates

DESIGN ENGINEER I 7/2011 – 9/2016

Safran Santa Maria, CA

•Irkut MC-21:

Door liners, Bustles & Surrounds (PAX, SVC, & Emergency) – created new design definition with limited or missing aircraft structure, presented and received approval form the customer from JDP to CDR stages

Cockpit liners – collaborated with industrial design to create A-surface and preliminary design definition, pushed for timely cockpit liner installation at customer FAL in Irkutsk, Russia under compressed schedule to meet the roll-out date

•Bombardier C-Series

Dado panels: 3D design, 2D drafting and release, decompression/blowout test rig development and construction

Door surrounds (PAX & SVC), Emergency Door Liner (OWEED): Installation drawing release on-site at Bombardier (Canada) in ENOVIA

CO-OP ENGINEER 1/2009 – 6/2009

New United Motor Manufacturing, Inc. Fremont, CA

•Assembly engineering and conveyance support.

•Learned Lean Manufacturing through participating in numerous projects.

•Worked on design of a muffler assembly table to reduce burden on team members.

•Implemented tools and jigs to improve ergonomics of the assembly process.

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATION

•B.S., Mechanical Engineering, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA.

•Engineer in Training (EIT) Certification – California (#142881).

•Study Abroad, Munich University of Applied Sciences.

•Fluent in Russian.

TECHNICAL SKILLS & SOFTWARE

CATIA V5 • SmarTeam • ENOVIA • Matlab • Microsoft Office • SolidWorks • AutoCAD

PAVEL YAKOVLEV

Machine Design • Composites • Prototype Manufacturing

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