Manager Engineer

Tom Blackwell

713-***-**** *******@*********.*** Houston, TX www.linkedin.com/in/tomblackwell2

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

SKILLS & EXPERTISE

Project Management

Reliability Engineering

Continuous Improvement

Contract Negotiation

Troubleshooting

Trend Analysis

Budgeting/Cost Controls

Regulatory Compliance

Process Standardization

Team Leadership

Supplier Audits

Critical Thinking

Fault Surveillance

Results-oriented, accomplished Operations, Quality Improvement and Repair Services professional with broad-based experience developing and implementing technical solutions that improve cost efficiency, consistency, and reliability of components and systems. Effective manager in hiring, training and staff development to high levels of performance. Known to deliver accurately and timely with integrity and honesty. Practical experience in troubleshooting and repair of complex systems.

Captured >40M in annual TCO savings via project driven sourcing strategies and negotiation.

Administered annual budgets $300M - $650M in support of technical operations improvement, technical standardization, and improved safety.

Achieved $9.8M savings in long and short term repair contract workscope development and re-negotiations.

Streamlined administrative process, improving repair volume efficiencies >10%. Reduced critical ops (AOG) events to zero for +36 months, increasing availability and decreasing spares count requirements

Drove operational consistency through improved components and problem identification strategies, eliminating top 10 delay drivers and reducing chronic and deteriorating performance candidates ~80%.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Technical Operations

United Airlines Houston, Tx, Chicago, Il 2015 – 2020

Aircraft Fleet Health Analyst:

Performed continuous live monitoring and trend analysis of mainline fleet operations using Boeing AHM and Airbus Airman software platforms, responding to real time fault messages and sensor data.

Creation of maintenance workload callouts for problem resolution via recommended troubleshooting steps. Airworthiness Release Authorization 737NG, 777.

Employed resources such as Aircraft Maintenance, Wiring, and Fault Isolation Manuals, parts & effectivities, tooling, ground and labor hours. Verified Engineering document effectivity.

Coordinated maintenance plans with multiple adjacent teams.

Senior Fleet Reliability Engineer:

Provided continuous operational improvements through in-depth evaluation of daily pilot reports, mechanical irregularities, and flight and ground interruptions that result in delays or interruptions.

Performance Trend Analysis via Continuous Analysis and Surveillance (CASS) guidelines.

Reviewed and approved Short Term Escalation of planned maintenance.

Conducted reliability performance review and analysis to align with Maintenance Program Documents (MPD), coordinating with Maintenance Program Specialists to develop optimized programs.

Maintenance Delay Coding to final corrective action.

Contract Specialist - Independent

United Airlines: Houston, TX 2014 - 2015

Regulatory surveillance and reporting of ETOPS Significant Events (eSFR) and Service Difficulty Reporting (SDR) to meet requirements of AC 120-42B for subsidiary United and Continental Airlines.

Maintenance delay report coding and other fleet reliability projects as needed.

Atlas Air: Purchase, NY 2013 - 2014

Analysis of Engineering Order reliability effectiveness. Airplane health monitoring trend analysis.

Recommended component build specification and/or maintenance program via FMECA, ATA top ten performance reviews, Operational critical defects (AOG) quick analysis.

Presented presentation of findings and recommendations to engineering management.

Technical Services

Continental/United Airlines: Houston, TX, Chicago Il 1985 - 2013

Senior Manager - Technical Services Procurement, Components

Project driven strategic sourcing of component services and equipment purchase related to fleet standardization activities.

Cost and service contract development and negotiation.

>$40MM negotiated savings and cost reductions.

$300-650M annual spend.

Manager - Repair Services

Managed outside repair, overhaul and modification of Avionics/IFE components utilizing Repair Buyer staff. Streamlined efficiencies 10% (reducing ~1500 repair orders), achieving $18K annual savings per Repair Buyer.

Developed, negotiated, and executed repair contracts. Achieved $9.8M savings initiatives through contract renegotiations. $10M annual repair budget

Measured supplier performance. Reduced repair pipeline AOG to zero for 36 months+, increasing availability and decreasing spares requirements.

Sr. Reliability Engineer – Avionics Components / Fleet Reliability

Analyzed and investigated performance deterioration of rotable avionics components. Reduced alert level candidate list (deteriorating performance) ~ 80%

Delivered quality improvements through FMECA techniques and managed projects to final action. Successful root cause and corrective action of several key components benefitting fleet and industry.

Measured and monitored performance improvements for effectiveness. Eliminated top ten avionics D&C drivers. Reduced chronic component count 40%.

Provided continuous maintenance performance audit of Boeing 737 fleet via evaluation of daily pilot reports, mechanical irregularities and ground interruptions resulting in delays and cancellations.

EDUCATION / PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Leadership Development Just In Time Planning and Performance

Crew Coordination Concepts Quality Through Speed

Kennedy Western University – Mgmt of Technology Lincoln Tech Institute – Diesel Technology

LICENSE & CERTIFICATION

Federal Aviation Administration Airman Airframe Certificate

Federal Communications Commission General Radiotelephone Operator License

Certificate of Technology – Instrumentation Technology (P&ID)

Certification – Process Operations Technology

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint) Sceptre

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