Engineer System

N. DOMBAWELA, M. SC

*** ******** ******** • Royal Palm Beach, Florida 33411

Home: 561-***-**** • Cell: 561-***-**** • email: ********@*****.***

BACKGROUND SUMMARY

** ***** ** ********* ***erience in ECS, Pneumatics, Apu, Wing and Airframe Ice Protection (Design Analysis, Evaluation, laboratory & Flight-Test). Icing Tunnel Testing of Wing Sections for Ice accumulation and Thermal Wing Anti-icing System Development. Flight test and Certification of ECS and Thermal Wing Anti-icing Systems. Analytical background in Thermodynamics, Heat Transfer, Gas Dynamics, Fluid Mechanics, Combustion, Machine Design and CFD simulations. Five years of Automotive Engine Research and Development experience. Multilingual.

WORK SKILLS

Technical guidance, Formulation of Concepts; Systems Requirements Definition; Architecture Definition; Trade-off Studies; Performance Analysis; System Modeling, Simulation & Tool Development; Technical Report Writing; Supplier Technical Evaluation; System Integration, Test & Compliance; Engineering Support to Hardware Design, Fabrication, Sales & Marketing

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

LEARJET, Wichita, Kansas 2008 – to date

Thermodynamics Engineer

Responsible for Technical Aspects of Flight Testing at the Bombardier Flight Test Center. Provide Thermodynamic Support to Flight Test Activities. Assist in the development of Lear 85 Thermal Wing Anti-Icing System.

• Develop Test Requirements, Prepare Test plans, Define Instrumentation.

• Carry out tests, Analyze results, Produce Test Reports.

• Assist in the Design, Development and Certification of the Lear85 Thermal Wing Anti-Icing System.

• Support Icing Tunnel Testing and Flight Testing of the Lear85 Thermal Wing Anti-Icing system.

GULFSTREAM AEROSPACE, Savannah, Georgia 2005 – 2008

Thermodynamics Engineer

Design Development of Thermal Wing Anti-Icing Systems for new aircraft models. Completed, Design Analysis, System Sizing, Rig testing and Detail Design of the new G250 business Aircraft Ice protection System. Transferred to Design the Ice protection System for the new G650 Business Aircraft. Completed Defining the requirements, Concept definition, Design Analysis, Rig testing and Detail Design of the Thermal Wing Anti-Icing System.

EMBRAER AEROSPACE, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida 2001 - 2005

Development Engineer

Thermodynamic responsibility for Aircraft models under development and in production

• Design analysis of the Pneumatic System and the thermal wing anti-icing system for the ERJ170 and ERJ190 family of passenger jets.

• Performance analysis of the Environmental control system for the ERJ190.

• Icing tunnel testing of the wing sections and the thermal anti-icing system at NASA Lewis Research Center for the ERJ170 and ERJ190 aeroplanes.

• Design of the under wing thermal de-icing system using Electrical Heating Mats for the ERJ170 (as a backup system).

• Defining Dry Air and Natural Icing Flight Tetsts for the ERJ170 wing anti-icing system.

• Conceptual design, sizing and selection of components for the JetBlue(ERJ190) In Flight Entertainment System rack cooling, defining the cooling test plan and the smoke penetration test plan.

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• Predicting ice shapes on the JetBlue fuselage radome housing, on the ERJ145 surveillance aeroplane radar antennas, wing surfaces and fuselage.

BOMBARDIER AEOSPACE, St. Laurent, Quebec 1984 - 2001

Engineering Specialist

Aircraft Systems Thermodynamic responsibility for Aircraft Models in production or under development.

• Analyzed Pneumatic System, ECS, A/C Fuel system and heating/cooling of Brakes for the CL601 Executive Jet. Engine and APU performance prediction using engine decks.

• Involved from conceptual design phases through flight-testing and final certification of the 50-passenger Bombardier Regional Jet Pneumatic System and the Thermal Wing Anti-Icing System.

• Total responsibility for the Canadair Regional Jet Cabin Ozone compliance testing for Comair.

• Involved in the testing of Global ExpressÒ wing sections at NASA LEWIS Icing tunnel (3 series of tests).

• Responsible for sizing of the Global ExpressÒ ECS, the APU & the Design of the Thermal Wing anti-icing system.

• Responsible for the flight-testing and certification of the Global ExpressÒ thermal wing anti-icing system in Dry Air and in Natural Icing.

• Responsible for testing of the BD-700, 70 passenger Regional Jet aircraft wing section at NASA LEWIS icing tunnel.

• Conceptual design of the ECS and Wing Anti-icing system of the BRJX 110 passanger Regional Jet.

• Nominated as the Airworthiness Design Acceptance Designee for the BD-100 executive jet in addition to providing engineering support for the Aircraft Pneumatic System & Thermal Ice Protection System Design.

EDUCATION

Masc. (Eng.) London M.Sc. (Eng.) Moscow

COMPUTER SKILLS AND SPECIALIZED TRAINING

Working experience in STAR_CD, STARCCM, FLUENT, Gambit,

CANICE, LEWICE2D,LEWICE 3D, LEWICE 3.0 & CATIA V5

Trained in the use of CFD++, CADAM

Programming skills in FORTRAN77, FORTRAN90 and Fortran Basic

Working experience on Cray J932 mainframe, IBM mainframe, VAX, SGI and Sun workstations

JOB SPECIFIC TRAINING

Airframe Ice Protection (KU)• Aircraft Propulsion System Integration(KU)

Auxiliary Power Systems integration for Aircraft(KU) and Aircraft Certification(Bombardier Airworthiness).

LANGUAGES

English (fluent) • Russian (fluent) • French (student) • Portuguese (student)

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

Registered Professional Engineer, Ontario, Canada. Member of SAE, USA

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