Aerospace Technical Writer and Parts Catalog Expert

Hiram Rosenberg

Email: **************@*****.***

Phone: 203-***-****

Qualifications Summary

Experienced technical writer with expertise in developing comprehensive parts catalogs and service/repair manuals from complex engineering documentation.

Proven ability to interpret and apply engineering drawings, specifications, and change notices.

Strong industry knowledge within the aerospace sector, including familiarity with aircraft and helicopter operations, and an understanding of military standards.

Ability to incorporate customer feedback and ensure technical accuracy in documentation.

Experience in database management and basic database programming (SQL, MySQL, PHP).

Knowledge of contracts and proposal writing and production floor operations documents.

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with a commitment to accuracy and quality.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Senior Parts Lister, Dayton T. Brown, Inc. Bohemia, New York

October 1,2012 To March 18, 2025

• Illustrated Parts Breakdown (IPB) manual writer;

• Repair Parts and Special Tools List (RPSTL) Writer;

• Authorized Technical Reviewer;

Additional Responsibilities:

• Review and sign off work package submittals for technical accuracy and conformance to customer standards and specifications;

• Generate and deliver manuals and work packages using customer-proprietary software;

• Teach IPB and RPSTL writing methods, rules, techniques, software tools;

• Create work instructions, work flowcharts and program guidance documents to meet customer specifications;

• Teach implementation of military and commercial specifications;

• Train beginning and junior writers;

Technical Writer/Reviewer, RCM Aerospace and Defense; Westerly, Rhode Island

January 9, 2012 To September 15 2012

• Review submittals from writers and illustrators for technical accuracy and conformance to customer specifications;

• Update jet engine parts manual for original equipment manufacturer (OEM);

• Train beginning and junior writers;

Senior Technical Writer, Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation; Stratford, Connecticut

February 17, l987 To January 6, 2012

• Senior Parts catalog writer (IPB and RPSTL);

• Authorized Technical Reviewer;

• Research engineering documents, including engineering fields of drawing, parts and application lists, bills of materials, service bulletins, and engineering change orders;

• Validate and incorporate comments from fleet operators;

• Create and approve art mark—ups for submittal to the illustration group;

• Review and sign off work package submittals for technical accuracy to meet customer specifications;

Additional Responsibilities:

• Train new hires and inexperienced writers;

• Plan work programs, assist in job estimates, proposals and quotes;

• Database development and program customization for writing team;

• Represent employer's publication group to the US Army and to publication acceptance personnel of international helicopter fleet operators;

• Participate on quality teams developing and improving processes and workflow;

lntertec Design, Camden, New Jersey

Intertec Design has been absorbed into a division of its parent company, RCM Aerospace and Defense

October 1985 To February 1987

• Parts catalog writer (IPB and RPSTL);

EDUCATION

New York University

Bachelor of Arts, Liberal Arts; Classical Languages; 1971;

University Of Bridgeport Law School

Juris Doctor; 1991

Admitted to Connecticut State Bar 1991, retired 2009;

Sacred Heart University

Master of Science; MS in Information Technology, with emphasis on database creation; 2006;

MILITARY AND CIVILIAN/COMMERCIAL SPECIFICATION EXPERIENCE:

Military Specifications:

MIL-M-63001;

MIL-STD-335;

MIL-M-49502;

MIL-STD-40051 ;

MIL-STD-38784 ;

MIL-STD-1388 ;

Civilian/Commercial Specifications:

ATA-100;

S1000D;

Parentheses (bowlegs) on listings indicate experience with multiple versions of the base specification.

SKILLS

4GL Programming Language;

Aircraft and Aviation Knowledge;

Bill Of Material Analysis;

Customer Service;

Expository Writing;

Helicopter Operations;

HTML;

Information Technology;

Level Of Repair Analysis for Publications;

Maintenance, Service and Repair Manual Organization, Layout, and Production;

Microsoft Office;

Microsoft Word;

Microsoft EXCEL;

Microsoft Access;

Microsoft PowerPoint

Military Experience;

Military and Commercial Specification Reading, Interpretation and Application;

MySQL;

PHP;

Parts Catalog Writing from Engineering Documents;

Production Floor Operations Worksheet Reading;

Proposal Writing;

Provisioning Use and Analysis for Publications;

Reviewing and Analyzing User Comments, Fleet Service Correspondence, and Publication Change Requests for Incorporation into Manuals;

Reviewing and Interpreting Alert Service Bulletins and Customer Service Notices for Incorporation into Manuals;

Reading and Interpreting Design Change Notices (DCNs) and Engineering Change Notices (ECNs) for Incorporation into User Manuals;

Reading and Interpreting Engineering Drawings, Bills of Materials, and System Schematics;

Relational Database Design;

SGML;

Source, Maintenance And Recovery Coding;

SQL;

vi (a text editor language);

Writing Program Status Control;

XML;

ACHIEVEMENTS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS IN ADDITION TO TECHNICAL WRITING RESPONSIBILITIES

Problem and Challenge:

The Army helicopter parts catalogs contained over 1,200 work packages in two separate manuals;

A complete manual set included an airframe parts catalog and an avionics parts catalog;

The two manuals contained over 1400 individually identified illustrations;

The work packages contained over 45,000 individual part number callouts;

All manuals required redelivery updates 2 to 4 times yearly while the aircraft was in production;

The department had no controlling organizational oversight for maintaining its writing plan;

All status and metrics were tracked by hand written entries updated on a random schedule;

There was no coordinated control to track illustrations between the writers and illustrators;

Solution

Beginning in 1991, I designed, coded, and deployed a database management system to track and maintain work packages for US Army helicopter repair part catalogs;

Required learning relational database design and construction (NORMAL FORMS);

Required learning a 4GL database coding language;

Teamed with the IT and the production groups and adapted the database to enable 2 people to produce fully deliverable manuals within one business day after the writing and illustration effort was complete. This reduced the production workload that previously required 3 people working 8 business days;

Expanded the database to track and maintain work packages for over ten helicopter models, each with two manuals to update and deliver every year;

Problem and Challenge:

The department had programs to write individually tailored RPSTLs for new helicopter fleets that were modified derivatives of existing models, which required copying an existing manual and electronically comparing it to the bill of material of the new model;

The existing manual Group Assembly Parts List (GAPL), which represented the parts list text contents, was extracted to a separate data file;

Electronic comparison was performed as part of a Logistical Support Analysis (LSA) and Provisioning effort; the comparison was built by mapping part number/next higher assembly combinations in the existing RPSTL’s GAPL to the new derivative helicopter’s bill of material;

Comparing the two unique helicopter models generated a draft GAPL for the new model which contained hundreds of gaps, or part number/next higher assembly mismatches (GAPL gaps);

Each new helicopter model’s manuals together contained between 550 and 800 work packages;

Each new helicopter model’s manuals together contained between 20,000 and 25,000 individual GAPL line items;

Finding and identifying every GAPL gap required up to 4 writers working up to 5 business days;

Solution

I designed, coded and deployed a function in the database I had built which electronically identified every gap in the new manual, allowing all writers to begin filling GAPL gaps and revising work packages the same day the existing manual was compared to the new model’s bill of material;

Problem and Challenge:

Sikorsky’s military customer (United States Army Aviation and Missile Command; AMCOM) contracted for an LSA-30 Group Assembly Parts List (GAPL) formatted to AMCOM’s requirements for each manual; this was a contract deliverable item for all RPSTLs, both reissues and updates;

The GAPL requirement had originally required submitting LSA records in 80 column datasets to a subcontractor to have the data extracted and reconfigured into the LSA-30 structure;

The company stored the datasets on a main computer and updated them on a daily schedule;

The AMCOM datasets contained over 100,000 records, of which 44,000 to 45,000 had GAPL data;

In addition to GAPL data a complete LSA-30 required data element records unique to individual parts as well as to each individual work package;

Solution

Designed, coded and deployed a function in the database which electronically identified every record in the datasets that contained elements needed to be present in the LSA-30;

Arranged for Sikorsky’s IT group to download all necessary datasets to be converted by the database into a properly formatted LSA-30 that I designed to meet AMCOM’s delivery requirements;

Eliminated the need to engage subcontractors to create the deliverable document;

Reduced the time required to meet the contract deliverable requirement from between two and three business days down to become a same-day process.

Expanded this process to be available for all derivative helicopter models for delivery needs;

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