Wayne Bruce Sitz

Electro-Mechanical Designer

**** ********* ***** ***** ****, CA 92626

C310-691-0174 adjta7@r.postjobfree.com

Background

15+ years of experience in product development & mechanical design with a broad variety of products & industries including valves, sensors, mechanisms, aircraft structures & reverse product engineering.

Operated projects throughout entire life cycle from initial concept through development & test, qualification/certification & into production and/or installation.

15+ years of experience in operating under ISO9000, AS9100, DO9000 & QS9000 (ISO TS16949) quality systems.

Direct, hands-on SOLIDWORKS design modeling, prototype & production drawing preparation, configuration management & BOM creation.

Experience with designing products to qualified/certified with such commercial regulatory agencies such as FAA, UL, CSA, and FM.

Prepared & executed a variety of FRACA, Root Cause Analysis, HALT, Validation & Verification Test procedures & reports; supported internal testing activities & outside test laboratories & regulatory agency test facilities.

Extensive experience with a large variety of manufacturing techniques including: machining, casting, forging, stamping, drawing, forming, heat treatment, surface finishing, injection molding, & many others.

Professional Experience:

Airborne Systems, Santa Ana, CA 02/19 - Present

Designer III performing:

A variety of engineering tasks related to the design, development & manufacture of dynamic decelerator (parachute) products.

AMETEK Aerospace, Irvine, CA 07/16 - 02/19

Senior Mechanical Designer tasked with: Supporting the design & development of SOI & Thin Film pressure & temperature sensing products for the nuclear, aviation & space industries.

Alliance Aerospace Engineering LLC, Costa Mesa, CA 06/12 - 07/16

Senior Designer, providing:

A variety of engineering duties related the acquisition, fabrication & sale of PMA- and TSO-approved spare parts for such aircraft as A300, A320, 757, 737, Eurocopter Dauphin & others.

VACCO Industries, South El Monte, CA 02/09 - 06/12

Designer assigned to:

Providing a variety of engineering services related to a highly diverse group of aerospace products including, space-rated quick disconnects, torpedo firing control valves, spacecraft fuel & oxidizer valves.

Rogerson Aircraft Corp. Irvine, CA. 03/01 - 11/08

Senior Mechanical Designer; responsible for:

Design, development, manufacture & installation activities for direct reading pressure gauge product line; aircraft fuel, air & hydraulic valve product line & aircraft vacuum lavatory product line.

Significant Career Accomplishments

Airborne Systems

Prepared & executed several test procedures and subsequent tests related to the F-35A Landing Deceleration Parachute.

AMETEK Aerospace

Designed family of (7) differential, static & temperature/sensors for the SAFRAN LEAP & Silvercrest aircraft engines.

Took over HONDA AERO project consisting of (4) differential & static pressure sensors when assigned designer went on (5) months paternity leave. Led PDR’s & CDR’s, redesigned (2) of the sensors when it was discovered that they were not designed according to customer requirements.

Performed major stress analysis activity to support out-of-spec finding by SAFRAN of TIG & EB weld joints for LEAP pressure sensors.

Alliance Aerospace Engineering LLC

Reverse engineered, obtained PMA-approval for, & brought into production 13 major components of the Airbus Helicopter Dauphin Helicopter Fwd & Main Landing Gear.

Reverse engineered, obtained PMA-approval for, & brought into production 5 major structural components of the 737 Flap Track Mechanism.

Reverse engineered, obtained PMA-approval & RS-approval for Clutch Plate System for 737 Alternate Flap Track Actuator.

Developed & brought into production an aircraft Cargo Hold Door & Divider Net Product Line beginning with (9) Net systems for the A320 family of transport aircraft

VACCO Industries

Designed new valve system for torpedo firing which resulted in $5M development & production contract from Huntington-Ingalls, Newport News shipyards.

Created group of 3 In-Line Stop Valves for Ohio Replacement Boat Program culminating in a development & production contract for $11M from GD-Electric Boat Division.

Developed new Pressure Reducing Valve Manifold System for Moored Training Boat program for GD-Electric Boat Division which won a $4.6M contract.

Designed & proposed BOG Isolation & Switching Valve Module as a solution to F-22 in-flight oxygen problem.

Designed & developed 8-Mixing Valve Manifold System for Ohio Replacement Boat Program.

Rogerson Aircraft Corp

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Designed DC-motor powered actuator for mid-range Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.

Supported the design & development of the Vacuum Lavatory System for Gulfstream G650 – first business jet to offer a vacuum lavatory system.

Designed & developed Direct Reading Fill Valve/Pressure Gauge for Tire Pressure Measurement System for all Boeing Aircraft.

Designed & developed Direct Reading Fill Valve/Pressure Gauge for Tire Pressure Measurement System for a variety of aircraft brake system manufacturers including Goodrich & Eaton.

Redesigned the all Fuel Valves for the F-18 Wing & Centerline Fuel Tanks for Lockheed-Martin to eliminate cast aluminum bodies & replace with net shape machined parts.

Headed a mission to design, develop, manufacture & install a complete 4-Seat Vacuum Lavatory System in the luxury conversion of a Boeing 757-200.

Professional competence in the following area

Manufacturing & Quality liaison

CAD Skills:

Solidworks, Inventor, Unigraphics, AutoCAD

COSMOS FEA & Mathcad

MS Office & Project Sales/Marketing liaison Regulatory Agencies:

FAA: TSO, PMA, Conformity (8110, 8130)

FM & CSA Explosion-Proof & Intrinsically Safe

Materials requirements definition & selection

Stress analysis Mechanical drafting & tolerance analysis

Configuration management & design control

Use of PDMWorks, WINDCHILL, SMARTeam Hydraulic & Pneumatic component design

Aircraft structural design

Aircraft interior design

Precision mechanism design

Pressure & temperature instrument design

Pressure vessel design

Tool, jig & fixture design

Design for ergonomics

Plastic part (injection molded) design

Sheet metal design & layout

Casting: die, permanent mold, investment, sand

General machine shop practices: turning, milling, grinding, forming, etc. Welding: EB, TIG, MEG, spot

Education

A.A. Engineering Technology Cerritos College, Norwalk, CA

Mechanical Engineering CSULB, Long Beach, CA

B.S. Industrial Technology CSULB, Long Beach, CA

Information regarding additional & advanced degrees, specialized training & education are available upon request.

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