Project Manager Engineer

BRIAN KISTLER

**** ********* ***. ~ St. Louis, MO 63104

Cell: 314-***-**** Email: ********@*****.***

SUMMARY

Successful Professional with Master of Science in Information Systems and extensive experience as an Engineer/Project Manager for over 14 years managing Multi-Million Dollar Projects crossing multiple divisions and departments within the company. MBA is in business as well as IT. Have taken projects that were behind in their deadlines and brought them in on time saving more than $1M on a given project through effective Strategic Planning, Quality and Process Improvement, Buy In From Team, Utilization of Team, Training and Mentoring them along the way to achieve a 95% on time rate after bringing it from a 50% by my leadership. Utilize Lean and Six Sigma methodologies.

Technical Competencies:

AutoCad R14; AutoCad Mechanical; AutoCad 2005-Work and Formal Training

Catia V4-Work and Formal Training

Catia V5-Formal Training

Programming Languages: Basic; C++; Unix (Limited); Fortran; Pascal; Java; Oracle; Autocad Lisp; Visual Basic (V6 and .net); ASP.Net

Programs: Nastran; Smarteam; Microsoft Office Suite; Microsoft Project; Lotus Suite; Microsoft Windows Server 2000 and NT; Linux (Limuted)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Jet Aviation (formerly Midcoast Aviation) -St. Louis, MO 2007-Present

Senior Structural Engineer (2012-Present under new leader)

• Write Specifications for new product lines after review of all criteria for end use.

• Reduced man hours, costs, and brought projects in on time through effectively planning, scheduling, and implementation.

• Create new designs from customer specifications and company criteria.

Director of Engineering (2009-2011)

• Responsible for 4 direct reporting Managers and oversee over 80 engineers and configuration management personnel and responsible for headcount levels within the department.

• Took it from 50% on time to 95% on time, we cut costs by 50%, and reduced errors by 20%.

• Developed automated indexes. The indexes were a full part level definition of the aircraft that provided better configuration control, eliminated the human error in the drawing trees, provided better information to the downstream users to eliminate 200+ hours in data manipulation per aircraft.

• Took outsources global program that was outsourced and brought it in-house which in 1 year, saved $1M and dropped hours by 6,000 per product.

• Scheduled and planned engineering efforts for 3 product lines.

Manager Certification and Configuration Management (2008-2009)

• Directly supervised 20 certification engineers, technical writers, and configuration management personnel. Developed management policies and plans; trained and developed team.

• Took projects that were behind schedule by as much as a year prior to my direction and brought them in on time with cost savings.

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• Developed a certification conformity matrix. This was to list drawings, revision level, dash number and where it was in the process. This is still used today and is a key tool to getting the aircraft completed.

Program Lead-CL605 Structural Engineering (2007-2008)

• Supervised 10 engineers and responsible for all headcount levels within the department.

• Reviewed design specifications and design packages; scheduled and designed aircraft interiors to meet customer requirements.

• Developed a matrix that showed the production code level, the drawings, the serial number and a check box for existing or new that proved to be the basis for future index creation as well as an overall work scope definition and burn down of remaining drawings.

Gulfstream Aerospace, Appleton, WI 2000-2007

Group Head-Structural Engineering (2005-2007)

• Directly supervised 9 engineers and guided team of 18 design engineers; responsible for all headcount within the department.

• Reduced time it took a new hire to be trained and up to speed; took a normal training from 2 months to 2 weeks with a better feel by each new hire of being part of the organization.

• Reviewed design specifications and design packages and scheduled and designed aircraft interiors to meet customer requirements.

Lead Engineer-Structural Engineering (2000-2005)

• Guided team of 10-13 design engineers.

• Reviewed design specifications and design packages; scheduled and designed aircraft interiors to meet customer requirements.

• Worked on refurbishment and installed antenna and fuselage penetrations.

Design Engineer (1998-2000)

• Liaison with shop for aircraft and cabinet build issues.

• Created new designs for customer specification and design package ranging from new cabinets to fuselage penetrations and seating installations.

• Created Drafts and Stress Review Designs; created and reviewed stress reports for designs.

EDUCATION

Master of Science in Information Systems (Grad 2004) University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, WI

Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering/ Minor in Mathematics Embry Riddle Aeronautical University-Daytona Beach, FL

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