Aerospace Engineering Senior Staff Leader

Dr. Surya Surampudi

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Palmdale, CA-93551

Cell: 661-***-****

E-Mail: **********@***.***

SUMMARY OF SKILLS (Brief summary of background)

•Ph. D in Aeronautical Engineering, Air War College Graduate

•44 years of experience in US Industry, Air Force, NASA and Universities

•Areas of Expertise: Project Management, Risk management, Requirements development, Earned value management, Verification and Validation, Modelling and Simulation, Mentoring & Training Employees, Preparation of budgets schedules for Projects.

•Successfully completed Supervisory courses and Supervisory probationary period

•Acquisition Corps Member, Level 3, SPRD&E, Science & Technology Manager

•Team of the Quarter Award 2013 & 2015, Special Act/Service Award, 2012, NATO/RTO Scientific Achievement Award, 2011, F-22 Engineer of the quarter,

2003, Boeing Pride in Excellence Award 1993

•AIAA Associate Fellow, DOD Top Secret Clearance

EXPERIENCE

Sept 2022 – Present, Senior Staff Engineer, Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Company, Palmdale, CA

• Implementation of customer requirements for design, analysis and testing

• Update the requirements based on changes in the product design

• Coordinated with Subcontractors and suppliers to produce technically best product within allocated budget and Time

• Prediction of risk for various stages of project and implemented risk mitigation techniques

Jan2020 – Dec 2021, Supervisory Engineer, Defense Contract Management Agency, Palmdale, CA-93551

•Supervised 14 Engineers involved in Acquisition Management

•Interfaced with Industries and DOD organizations on policies & practices

•Implemented corrective actions formulated from independent reviews

•Conducted independent assessments of project cost and schedule performance and develop project status reports for ACAT 1, 2 programs

•Performed program integration and supported contracting, acquisition strategy and life cycle cost processes to development and delivery of the newest, and most complex major defense weapon systems and programs.

•Directed DCMA operational functions to direct studies, program audits, and internal review assessments to solve unique, complicated problems.

•Monitored and motivated Acquisition employees effectively by providing opportunities to improve or initiate new methods and processes to carry out DCMA missions.

Dec 2018 – Jan 2020, Senior Technical Director, Air Force Joint Program Office, Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada

• Reviewed Project Proposals and made suggestions for improving them and evaluated ongoing projects.

•Developed project management systems, methods and techniques for various projects (Hypersonic Missiles)

•Maintained effective relationships among interfacing offices, contractors, and other parties.

June 2014 – November 2018, Technical Advisor, International Technology

Office, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio

•Managed various program like, the International Collaborative Research and Development Program and Coalition Warfare Program to leverage additional funds for AFRL Scientists & Engineers

•Facilitated the development of Critical Technologies in Europe, Asia,

Australia in the areas of Aerodynamics and Propulsion Technologies for

Aerospace Vehicles. Auto air collision avoidance system & Alternate

Aviation Fuels were developed with international partners

•The technologies developed with international partners were transitioned to Industries for future weapon Development for warfighters

June 2012 – May2014, Acting Chief, International Technology Office, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio

•Supervised a team of 12 Civilian and Military Employees. Managed, supervised and led professional engineering and scientific work to develop new technologies in aeronautics, space and Cyberspace research.

•Identified the areas of research work for future weapon development for warfighter and facilitated research collaboration to work with international partners in developing new technologies in Hypersonics & Robotics

•Briefed AFRL Commander and Executive Director periodically on international collaborative activities. Organized annual meetings between AFRL Senior Management and International Partners on the progress of research collaboration

•The technologies developed jointly with Navy and Army Research Labs were used by Industries for improving the capabilities of existing weapon systems.

June 2010 – May 2012, Deputy Chief, International Technology Office, DR-801-03, AFRL/XPPI, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio

•Coordinates various program like, the Engineer and Scientist Exchange Program Window-on-Science with AFOSR and SAF/IAPC

•Coordinated with SAF/IA, SAF/AQ and OSD for getting approvals of international project agreements to carry out collaborative research

•Assisted Branch Chief in Administrative activities

•Assigned workload to Team Members and mentored them to initiate new research collaborative projects with foreign partners.

•Organized focused workshops to initiate new research projects in Micro

Air vehicles and Electric Aircraft Technologies

April 2005– May 2010, Chief Aeronautical Sciences, AFOSR/EOARD, London, UK

•Led an international basic research program in the areas of Energy, hypersonic flight, propulsion and power technologies for aerospace vehicles, orbital mechanics and space Technology

•Followed a strategic approach in managing university research through small grants that progress USAF long-term objectives.

•The basic research projects developed at European Universities and research organizations were transitioned to AFRL Technical Directorates to carry out further applied research in critical technologies

•Promoted Exchange Programs between US DOD and International Organizations using Window on Science and Window on World programs to initiate new projects

May- 2001- April 2005, Lead Flight Test Engineer, Edwards Air Force Base, CA

•F-22 Flight Test Lead: Successfully completed Developmental testing. F22 CTF commander presented Employee of the quarter award in 2003.

•Managed a team consisting of 16 Air Force, Lockheed Martin and Boeing Engineers and won a group award outstanding contribution to flight test program.

•Gave presentations to Base Commander and Test Wing Commander on the progress of F-22 Flight and Ground Test Programs for all phases.

•Negotiated with Lockheed Martin and Boeing Management in reducing Flight test points to complete flight-testing on schedule.

Feb 1997- April 2001, Lead Engineer, Lockheed Martin Skunk Work, Palmdale, CA

•Led design, analysis and testing of international fighter programs such as Joint Strike Fighter. Lockheed Martin won the contract from US Air Force.

•Worked with NASA on the development of computational methods for spacecraft programs such as X-33

•Developed new methods for Joint Defense organization projects such as JASSM for missile separation from F-16. JASSM program was successfully completed on

Schedule

•Conducted flutter analysis for Unmanned Aircraft Dark Star. This analysis helped the program to complete successful flight testing

June 1995 –January 1997 Senior Engineer, Raytheon Aircraft, Wichita, Kansas

•Responsible for successful transition of Hawker Aircraft program from British

Aerospace Company in England to Raytheon Aircraft in Wichita, KS

•Developed a new procedure for Flutter and Gust Load Analyses for Business Aircrafts. Two research papers were presented based on this analysis at AIAA conferences in 1996. This work was used for design of Hawker 800 Program • Conducted Flutter analysis & testing of Joint agency Trainer Program (JPATS). This program helped young pilots to acquire required Training

Aug 1989- May 95, Principal Engineer, Boeing Commercial Aircraft Company, Seattle, WA

•Developed new methods for analysis and Design of Boeing 777 Aircraft. These methods have been used later on Boeing 737 and 787 Dream liner programs

•Implemented system engineering methods to design Boeing-737-700 aircraft precooler. I received Boeing Pride in excellence award for this work.

•Conducted tests for accurately predicting thermal coefficients for designing insulation blankets on Boeing 737-700 Engine Nacelle. This project helped Boeing to reduce the weight and increase payload.

•Developed Engine Rotor burst analysis for Boeing 777 Engines to isolate critical aircraft parts from the disk fragment path. This method was used at preliminary design to avoid damage to critical parts

April 1987 – July 1989, Research Specialist, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ • successfully completed a NASA project on computational fluid dynamic analysis for airfoils with high angle of attack. This tool helped for redesign of Space shuttle flight.

•Taught various courses and provided guidance to graduate research students

April 1982 – Mar 1987, Engineer, NASA Lewis Research Center, Cleveland, OH

•Developed a theory to find the response of multistage turbine to unsteady flow to help redesign of space shuttle engine design.

•Developed a new damping media for aircraft landing gear of Cleveland Pneumatic using rheological fluids. The led to improved landing gear design.

•Developed advanced computational flow analysis for turbomachine blades. Based on this new theory, a paper was published in AIAA journal.

EDUCATION:

Ph. D 1981, Aeronautical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India

M.S 1974, Aeronautical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India B.S 1972, Civil Engineering, Mysore University, India

SPECIALIZED TRAINING

2003 Air War College Seminar Course

2010 AF Supervisory courses, Civilian and Military Personnel Management

LICENSES/CERTIFICATES

2002 Test & Evaluation Level 3

2010 SPRD&E and Science and Technology Management Level 3

2012 Program Management Level 2

2002 Acquisition Corps Member

AWARDS/Recognition

2013, 2017 & 2018 USAF Headquarters International Collaboration Team Award

2015 US Air Force Special Act or Service Award

2012 NATO/RTO Scientific Achievement Award

2011 US Air Force Achievement Award (2011)

2003 F/A-22 Engineer of the Quarter

1993 Boeing Pride-In Excellence

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

Associate Fellow, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS:

25 Research papers in Journals and Conference Proceedings

Security Clearance: DOD Top Secret Clearance. NATO Top Secret Clearance

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