Engineer Manager

Victor A. Dahlquist

**** ********* *****, **********, ******* 32780

(Cell) 321-***-**** (H) 321-***-**** ***************@*****.***

Summary of Technical Experience: Disciplined, methodical professional with private industry, and government experience exhibiting strong ethical background in diverse areas covering the fields of Project Engineering, System Engineering, Natural Science, Geology, Archeology, Protection, Law Enforcement, Administration, Budgeting, Material management, Supervision. Officials of the United States Supreme Court as well as maintaining strong interfaces with NASA management, and multiple agencies. Proven ability is reflected in numerous commendations. Problem solver and Mediator who is always there to support any Customer!

Skills to help You

o Military Major Subsystems Management o Project & Systems Engineering Coordination

o Success Resolving Problem Projects o Research Analyst

o Military and Law Enforcement Support o Support of Diverse Programs

o Logistics Engineering Life Cycle Acquisition o ISO 9001 Trained

o LSA with LORA type models o Safety and Security training

o WEB Curator for Critical parts o Procurement

o Mediate issues projects. o Field System Ops

Security Certification Current OPM/Homeland Security-NACI Certification ( National Agency Checks with inquires) USA Citizen

Aerospace worker in Employ Florida Market place with CSTAR designation

Professional Experience

This is how I serve the community about 200 plus hours a month since my "retirement"10-1-2010 from Space Shuttle program.

-Space Coast Technical Network ( founding member ) 2011

Success in resolving problem projects for Customers.

Founding member with many skills to Support Customers in our diverse group.

-Consultant: Aerospace, Military, Safety, Security : provide info and guidance.

-Vietnamese American Volunteer Alliance Liaison Officer to encourage -Vietnamese, Hmong communities many years, increase appreciation of their culture by other Citizens.

-Mentor to USAF and other Active Duty, Civilians: coordinate groups, encourage, provide technical information. PAFB, CCAFS, others over many years.

Veterans and Active duty Advisory Council for US Representative, Sandy Adams

-Boy Scout Leader. Lead with values and skills that empowered many over years.

Work Accomplishments:

1988 to October 2010: Rockwell International-KSC, now United Space Alliance (name change only). Product Support Manager, Logistics Engineer. End of Shuttle Program retirement.

Space Shuttle Critical Mission Expendable data base Manager –Curator responsible for all updating, reporting of mission critical space shuttle parts, and subsystems for each launch, recent assignment.

Space Shuttle Launch Pad Change out Part Data Base for critical repairs that could be preformed while Space Shuttle is on launch Pad.

WEB Curator & Author to support Mission Expendable and Pad Change out data bases kept current at all time. Mgt and other groups relied on info .

Safety, Security Officer. Recent additional assignment for Logistics Engineering. Special briefings on Safety & Security normally done by each manager. Revise briefing; condense into concise upbeat briefings to entire division, one group at a time. Safety Inspections of work area and encourage safe practices in a positive way. Fire Marshal complemented our group on high level of safety.

Space Shuttle System Purge, Vent Drain: Completely upgrade support of major Flight systems in Space Shuttle spare, repair, coordinate interface with Design, System Engineering, quality, Vendor support. One year to resolve long term issues then hand off in a fully supported system that runs smoothly.

State of Art Hazardous Sensor selection and Management Team. Serving as member of State of Art hazardous sensor program for KSC (HVDS) COTS team. Innovative concept to replace existing systems, with up to date sensors, computer systems, and data links, that save capital, and improve life cycle cost. This is Path finding concept for many other NASA, Military, Civilian sites.

Manage thousands of specialized materials, fasteners, machined parts for major Shuttle spare and repairs to maintain uninterrupted vehicle processing during all phases of launch at Rockwell Aerospace, United Space Alliance as Logistics Engineer. Utilize providing chemical and raw material computational analysis support in diverse, fast-paced environment. Serve as technical liaison with Engineering, Material, and Process, coordinate facility and hardware modifications and manage computer parts data bases. Resolved contractor-client problems for the Program. Management cited savings of hundreds of thousand dollars over the years by careful analysis, specification improvement, and ordering of materials.

Product Support Manager for Life Science missions project that improved customer relations by providing superior support. Instrumental in the customer's final decision making to manufacture product at NASA Depot located in Cocoa Beach, Florida at 50% cost savings to the Shuttle Program. Resolved engineering, manufacturing, and support issues which took system from being a single point failure, impacting launch, to being prepared to support all phases of real-time launch processing. This saved the program millions of dollars according to NASA. Received NASA award for effort. Letters of commendation from Lockheed/Martin.

2005 to 2010: Security Assistance Corp. Consulting concurrent off duty from shuttle job. Work directly with NASA-KSC for Dept NA which is Technical Science Field operations at Cape Canaveral Air Force Base at Launch Complex 20 test center, NASA & USAF. Inventory Mgr Project Engineer, Security. Program completed, end consultant.

2009 to 2011: Federal Fire-Rescue Academy Certifications & Florida State Fire Certifications toward Certified Fire –Rescue Professional. Professional Interface with Paid Fire depts. across jurisdictions in Florida.

1984 to 1988: McDonnell Douglas, Defense and Commercial Aircraft Titusville Florida, a

Material and Logistics Engineer, and Analyst

Managed Sensitive Projects, Logistics Engineering and Advanced Projects consisting of major flight systems such as electronic/mechanical guidance control systems. Responsible for working technical issues between departments such as Engineering, Quality, and Material & Processing laboratories. Coordinated material deliveries with shop fabrication for classified military air frames; including part loan with other co-producer of dual source product to keep both production lines in operation to support program. On Team resolved Dock-to-Stock part documentation and distribution system which improved production efficiency.

Programs Supported included BGM-109, Tomahawk Cruise Missile, Harpoon Missile, F15 fighter, ACES 2 ejection seat. Lockheed/ Martin C130 Hercules enthusiast. Supplied material to AC130U Spectra, 1996 through Rockwell.

1979 to 1984: United States Supreme Court, Washington, DC

Marshall’s Office Staff: Business Mgt., Legal Research & Liaison, Executive Protection

Provided U.S. Marshall’s office with business skills for operation of Marshall’s Office. Performed detailed legal research and writing to support vast array of requests in a timely manner. Wrote and presented briefings to the public as well as to the internal staff for special projects. Established and maintained liaison contact with other agencies, US Senate, House of Representatives. Including Federal law enforcement, FBI, USSS, others. Responsible management of fleet of specially equipped vehicles to transport Court staff and Government Officials. Responsible for protection and transportation of high level Government Officials. Accomplished many special assignments with other government agencies. Over 20 years of no cost consulting after job change.

EDUCATION

FEMA Counter Terror cert 2010,FEMA Fire-Rescue certs 2009,10,11. Florida State Fire Rescue certs.

1996-1999 BA, Organizational Management Degree in Business Administration, Warner Southern College, completed while working at Kennedy Space Center

1975 Associate of Science, Northern Virginia Community College in Natural & Physical Science

Associate Science in Aerospace and Business complete , pending certification 2010 Brevard Community College

2003 Certification Mgt. Studies for 200+ hours college level courses for Professional Management development through Kennedy Space Center National Management Association

1987 Two Year First-line Supervisory Program through National Management Association and awards from NMA Member of the month, Booster of month several times.

1985 Material Management Program, University of Central Florida.

Other Data Base systems: Logistics Information Management System (LIMS) and MACPAC . Windows, Word, Excel, Peoplesoft.

Additional Course Work includes: WEB Curator, Reliability Engineering, Mechanical, airframe, Material and process Engineering, Basic Programming, IBM PC Applications, Logistics Management, Law, and Accounting. Extensive in service training in government, Military and industry

Community Service: Many years of voluntary service as Boy Scout Leader, for Native American history Order of Arrow. US Vietnam Veterans and local Vietnamese Culture. Air Commando Association, coordinator.

Mentor current active duty Military, Have been local Volunteer for Police,& school ( 42 )

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