Principal Engineer

Giuseppe Volpe, Ph.D.

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Smithtown, NY 11787

631-***-**** *******@*********.***

SUMMARY

Creative, responsive scientist and engineer with extensive experience conducting research and design activities in aerospace and defense programs. Analytical, experienced in sophisticated physical and mathematical modeling and numerical techniques. Business oriented, initiated and supported entries in new markets. Professional strengths include:

• Aerodynamics • Hydrodynamics • CFD

• Aircraft Performance • Submarine Technology • ASW

• Technology Assessments

• Program and strategic planning

• Fluent Italian • Wing Design

• Numerical Analysis

• Modeling and Simulation • Experimental Testing

• Scientific Visualization

• Proposal Preparation

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

ALOPEX VISIONS, Smithtown, NY

Consultant, Providing subject matter expertise in Aerodynamics, Hydrodynamics, Analytical and Computational Fluid Mechanics

ALLIANT TECHSYSTEMS INC., Ronkonkoma, NY

Chief Scientist, Fluid Dynamics, GASL Operations – Performed analytical, computational, and experimental research on varied programs related to high speed propulsion, vehicle design, and physical flows; supported and initiated new business development activities targeting a wide range of DOD, NASA, and DOE programs; mentored junior staff; served as aerodynamic consultant to other company business units. Made significant contributions in the following areas:

• Developed innovative design for conducting urban ground surveillance resulting in WallFly concept

• Executed mission tasking and conceptual design tasks of a small autonomous underwater vehicle being explored by DARPA

• Performed Computational Fluid Mechanics studies for missile and aircraft configurations

• Directed effort to determine impact on aerodynamic performance of Cessna Grand Caravan aircraft due to modifications for ISR and combat missions

• Planned and directed wind tunnel test programs of hypersonic nozzle designs

NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORP., Bethpage, NY

Principal Engineer, Technology Development, AEW&EW Systems – Defined, managed, and performed activities for successful execution of contractual and internal research and development programs in submarine technology, Anti-Submarine Warfare, and manufacturing methods.

• Developed numerical techniques for analyzing wide-area surveillance field measurements and for computing induced magnetic fields

• Developed methodologies for assessing and improving performance of marine vehicles

• Performed CFD and analytical studies to refine polymer ejection design and supported field testing of hydrodynamic drag reduction system on X-Craft hydrofoil

• Established and supervised High Performance Computing Center projects

• Designed computer simulation and devised innovative experimental technique to improve chopped fiber spray process used in the manufacture of composite auto body parts

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GRUMMAN AEROSPACE CORP., Bethpage, NY

Senior Staff Scientist, Corporate Research Center - Developed CFD methods and conducted numerical and experimental investigations to enable faster analysis and design of advanced aircraft; investigated and implemented new applications for the developed technologies. Notable achievements include:

• Created methods and accompanying software for designing supercritical airfoil sections and high-lift systems; stated first well-posed formulation of transonic airfoil design problem

• Designed airfoil profiles for various projects including advanced profiles for natural laminar flow wing applications

• Developed CFD methods for the numerical analysis of complete aircraft

• Provided configurations performance assessments for several aircraft programs (Grumman F-14, A-6, Republic A-10)

• Conceived innovative numerical flow visualization techniques; sample picture featured on front cover of a July 1989 Science magazine issue

• Spearheaded effort to focus on hydrodynamic configuration design; resulting multi-year, multi-million dollar contractual work offset decline in aircraft-related funding

Senior Engineer, Aerodynamics, Flight Sciences Department – Performed design and testing of aircraft systems and subsystems

• Designed software for modifying and constructing wing contours

• Developed one of the earliest numerical methods for the computation of the viscous flow on transonic airfoils

EDUCATION

• Ph.D., Aeronautics and Astronautics, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn

• MBA, Economics and Finance, Iona College

• M.S., Astronautics, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn

• B.S., Aerospace Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn; magna cum laude

ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Lectured at Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics, Belgium

• Visiting Professor at University of Rome and Polytechnic of Bari, Italy

• Author of over fifty technical papers, reports, book chapters, and journal publications

• Served as member of AIAA Technical Committee on Fluid Dynamics and NASA Peer Review Committee on Grid Generation

• Reviewer for several technical journals

SECURITY CLEARANCE

• Currently Secret; Top Secret 2003-2006

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

• Associate Fellow American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

• Member of Sigma Gamma Tau, Sigma Xi and United States Association for Computational Mechanics

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