Engineer Safety

Fabio Alonso da Silva

Address: *** ***** ***** ******, ******, GA, 31322, US.

Phone: 912-***-**** (mobile)

E-mail: ***********@*******.***

Summary

Aerospace and Robotics engineer with over 20 years of experience in the aerospace and self-driving vehicles industries working for leading companies of the market, building a strong career on Product Development with good exposure to the Product Development Life-Cycle and its main milestones (JDP, PDR and CDR). I have good working experience with the Development and Integration of highly integrated and complex systems, understanding of certification regulations and support to fleet. Objective

Senior Technical Leadership and/or management role in the Engineering group to support the development life cycle of highly integrated and complex systems as Fly-By-Wire (FBW), Drive-By-Wire (DBWS) and Smart Autonomous Systems.

Latest Achievements

Title Description Results

SAE EDGE Research Report

Unsettled Technology Areas in

Autonomous Systems Design,

Validation and Verification.

• Regulatory text suggestion

• Safety Approach

• V&V

• Hardware Verification

• Software Verification

challenges

Development of Script Generator

Engine to support CAS Message Logics

Testing and their Inhibitions

Development of an Engine in

MATLAB that creates scripts in

Python used to test CAS messages

logics and their inhibition conditions

in the G500/G600 programs in the

lab environment.

• Savings of U$ 500,000.00 per

year in “touch labor”

• Advanced detection of

interfaces or logic problems

• Support for better test

planning

Review of Software Upload and Return

to Service (RTS) Procedures after Flight

Control Computer software

update/upload

Simplification of tests to make the

RTS more time efficient. From 12

hours to 4 hours.

• Savings in the order of millions

of dollars

• Increase in the efficiency of

GAC’s Service Centers

• Improvement of GAC’s image

before clients

Professional Experience

Year(s) Company Position / Summary

May 2019 to Present ElletroCrafts Aerospace -

Start Up

(Palo Alto, CA, US)

Head of Systems (Autonomous, Fly-By-Wire, Avionics, etc.):

- Investors pitch presentation

- Prototype design (proof of concept)

- Product definition

- Systems development, Integration & certification

- System Engineering

- EIS support

May 2018 to May 2019

(1 year)

Zoox

(Foster City, CA, US)

Staff Engineer:

System development, intergration and safety analysis January 2011 to May

2018 (7 years)

Gulfstream Aerospace

(Savannah, GA, US)

Technical Specialist:

- Support to G650 Fly-By-wire (Flight Control System)

(Sustaining)

- G500/600 Aircraft Systems V&V Support

- G500/600 Mechanical Systems Development and Integration

(Electronics/Controls)

June 2008 to

October 2010

(2.5 years)

Bombardier Aerospace

(Dorval, QC, Canada)

Specialist in Engineering (Development):

C-Series Fly-By-wire (Flight Control System) Development and Integration (Electronics/Controls)

March 1997 to

February 2008

(11 years)

Embraer S.A. (Sao Jose

dos Campos, SP, Brazil)

Software Engineer:

- Development of Software for AM-X (bomber) Avionics Test Lab. Product Development Engineer:

- ERJ170/190 Hydraulics Systems, Doors, Stairs, and Fly-By-Wire Development and Integration (Electronics/Controls) Safety Engineer (Safety Assessment & Process):

- ERJ145/Legacy

- ERJ170/190, Lineage

- Phenom 300

Education

Year(s) School Course Description

2018 to

2021

Warwick Business School Master of Business

Administration

Strategy and Entrepreneurship Finances

of a Startup for Self-driving Vehicles

2006 to

2008

Instituto Técnico de

Aeronáutica (ITA)

Mechatronics/Robotics Studies on Validation of Modeling of a 2DOF Flexible planar arm by

identification techniques.

1991 to

1996

Universidade Federal de Santa

Cartarina (UFSC)

Automation & Control

Engineering (Mechatronics)

Automation and Control design of

processes and products.

Computer Skills

Software Packages Description / Comments

MS Office Basic usage of main packages: MS Word, MS Excel, MS Power Point, MS Visio and MS Project.

CATIA V5 Familiarization with main modules: Assembly Design, Component, Part design, Drafting and Sketcher.

ADI Applied Dynamics International provides the software and hardware platform on which Gulfstream has built G650 and G500 aircraft integration labs. They allow systems simulation, failure injections, script testing (test automation), data recording to provide verification artifacts (data) for systems integration testing (interfaces, functionalities and operation). Good familiarity with its features. CAFTA Computer Aided Fault Tree Analysis System (CAFTA): CAFTA is a program used for developing reliability models using fault tree and event tree methodology. Mathematica Familiarization with basic features such as Algebra, Symbolic and Numeric computation.

MATLAB / Simulink Familiarization with main toolboxes (Control System, Signal Processing, Simulink, System Identification, image acquisition, etc.) to simulate systems, design closed loop controllers, generate scripts to process data and create Python scripts. Capital Harness Systems Designed Block diagrams and wire schematics for the G500 Mechanical systems. Wireshark Familiarization with the main features to analyze data transiting in the network. IBM DOORS Requirements Management Software Tool

IADS IADS is a Real Time and Post Test display and analysis software suite that supports multidiscipline testing in a single comprehensive package. STI-FTI Thales Avionics proprietary package for FBW data analysis. Escape Tools, TIU Tools Honeywell Avionics proprietary package for avionics data analysis. Polarion Requirement database

ReliaSoft Safety Analysis

Computer languages: Description / Comments

C and C++ Object Orientated Programming to develop GUI and data recording and saving functionalities for the RIG environment.

Python Design of customized script for aircraft systems integration testing and data recording using the ADI platform.

MATLAB Scripts Design of scripts to process data and also generate Python scripts from standard excel spread sheets with pseudo-code language.

Courses

Title - Source On-Line Courses Description – Status - Grade Certificate Links Robotics: Aerial Robotics

– www.Coursera.org

Dynamics and Control or aerial robots (drones) by

University of Pennsylvania: Completed

Certificate on Aerial Robotics

Foundations of

Management –

www.Coursera.org

IESE Business School:

a. Principles of Accounting - Completed

b. Operational Finance: Finance for

Managers

c. Marketing: Customer Needs and Wants

d. Organizational Behavior: How to Manage

People

e. Analysis of Business Problems

a) Certificate on Accounting

b) Certificate Finance

c) Customer Needs and Wants

d) How to Manage People

e) Business Problems

Grade: 91.06% average.

General Skills

Capability of working in a multicultural environment and multidisciplinary groups. Strong planning, coordinating and problem solving/troubleshooting abilities, together with multitasking capabilities. Solid aircraft and self-driving systems development experience:

1. Self-Driving Vehicle

a. Preliminary Safety Assessment of Automotive Systems and DBWS b. Certification Plan

c. Development Plan

d. Validation and Verification Plan (Alignment to ODD expansions) e. Requirements definition for Collision Avoidance Function (trajectory selection) f. Robot Monitoring methodology

g. Test Plan for Collision Avoidance Function

h. Test Plan for AI and DBWS Safety Clearance

2. Support to Flight Control Computer Software New Version development and Certification 3. Experience with 14 CFR Part 23 and Part 25 providing technical support to certification plan(s). 4. Familiarity with SAE ARP 4761, Safety processes and tools and guidelines SAE ARP 4754 and ISO 26262

(Systems Engineering)

5. Release, Review and Approval of development and certification documents 6. FBW System troubleshooting in support to Flight Test Campaign 7. Systems Integration Bench (SIB) Coordinator/Team Leader 8. Release of the Tech Pubs source data to support flight control computer software update in fleet 9. Familiarity of RTCA DO-178, RTCA DO-254 and RTCA DO-297 10. Support to the aircraft flight and ground test campaigns;

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