Objective

Technical Skills

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2002 – present       Freelance Consulting

1985 – 2002       United Airlines MOC, SF Int’l Airport

Staff Maintenance Specialist(Electronics)

• Direct & participate in Maintenance & Troubleshooting of shop equipment including: Machine Tools, Plating Rectifiers, Heat Treat Equipment, Welding Apparatus, Balancing Machines, Engine Component Test Stands, Hoists, UPS (Uninterruptable Power Systems), Security Systems, Calibrations, etc.
• Develop original equipment designs and re-designs.
• Create Maintenance Procedures and Training.
• Administered TICS (Tool Inventory Control System) to control calibration activities (helps meet ISO-9000 requirements).

1975 – 1985          United Airlines MOC, SF Int’l Airport

Maintenance Specialist(Electronics)

• Directed & participated in Maintenance & Troubleshooting of shop equipment including: Machine Tools, Plating Rectifiers, Heat Treat Equipment, Welding Apparatus, Balancing Machines, Engine Component Test Stands, Hoists, UPS (Uninterruptable Power Systems), Security Systems, Calibrations, etc.
• Developed original equipment designs and re-designs.
• Created Maintenance Procedures and Training.

02/1968 – 1975       United Airlines MOC, SF Int’l Airport

IAM Mechanic (Electronics)

• Engaged in Maintenance & Troubleshooting of shop equipment including: Machine Tools, Plating Rectifiers, Heat Treat Equipment, Welding Apparatus, Balancing Machines, Engine Component Test Stands, Hoists, UPS (Uninterruptable Power Systems), Security Systems, Calibrations, etc.
• Developed original equipment designs and re-designs.

Awards Received

• 1968 - 1975, Received numerous suggestion awards, resulting in membership in the $100,000 club.
• 1970, “Mechanic Of The Month Award”.
• 1970 - 1994, 6 Awards of Merit for various process improvements.
• 1985, Special Recognition Award for Test Stand upgrades including design and implementation of custom programmable liquid flow metering system.
• 1995, Division ROI Award (team member) for bringing in-house PW2000/4000 Engine Component rework and calibrations. My contribution was the design & construction of the Electronic Test Consoles and some of the procedures.
• 1995, Certificate Of Achievement: Dorries High Speed Grinder Quality Improvement Team.

Original Designs:

1. 1973 - 1976, Pulsed Arc Welding Apparatus (see attached patent)
   Patented apparatus (PN=3,989,922) that was a forerunner to the pulsed welding feature on modern TIG & Plasma welding processes. This attachment to existing TIG & Plasma welders enabled repairs of certain engine cases and other titanium parts resulting in a minimum savings, for UAL, of $160,000 in the first year it was used. It was used more or less continuously for 10 years until it was displaced by more modern OEM equipment.
    
2. 1978-1980, Liquid Flow and Miscellaneous Parameter Calibration System for Engine Component Test Stands
   This incorporated a Commodore PET computer and some OEM Instruments to enable calibrations of the test stand gauges while still installed in the Test Stands.
    
3. 1978-1983, Electronic Accuracy Compensation Circuitry for NC Machine Tools
   This predated the compensation feature now provided by nearly all control vendors. Installing the electronic compensation circuitry in the control of an “out of spec” rotary table yielded performance exceeding OEM specs. This permitted deferral of purchase of a new rotary table for about 9 years. The value of this 6-week design effort was, by the machine shop’s estimate, greater than $150,000.
   
   Accuracy of linear axes on other NC equipment was also improved. On a Burgmaster Bridge Mill, with this feature installed, accuracy was improved enough so that special fixtures could be reliably manufactured on the machine. This produced more $$ and time savings.
    
4. 1985-1987, Programmable Liquid Flow Metering System for Jet Engine Test Stands.
   
   With my design and implementation of this system, UAL was able to bring engine nozzle testing in-house (previously outsourced to Garret Air Research) resulting in $$ & time savings. I received a Special Recognition Award for this.
    
5. 1995-2002, Programmable Multi-Purpose Jet Engine Component Test Console
   This multipurpose tool for testing/certifying engine components such as SVAs (Stator Vane Actuators), AOHEVs (Air Oil Heat Exchanger Valves), and many other engine component types was part of the 1995 Division ROI award.
   
   It is configurable so that new parts can be easily added to its database of qualified items. Cost to manufacture is approximately $50,000 (as opposed to cost to purchase an OEM unit for more than $150,000). In addition to the Component Test Console’s greater versatility, certain evaluations suggest that it is more accurate than the OEM units, i.e. it meets or exceeds the OEM requirements.
    
6. Other accomplishments on request.

Equipment/Design Modifications:

1. 1969-1971, Balancing Machine Electronics Redesign
   To achieve the redesign necessary to address machine reliability issues, I “transistorized” the vacuum tube technology within the original Gisholt equipment. I designed and manufactured printed circuit boards to accomplish this.
   
   The result was essentially zero downtime and improved process accuracy during the 1970s. This was a modest $$ savings in terms of reduced maintenance costs, but the real benefit was in cycle time reductions (due to the reduced down time) when balancing engine parts.
    
2. 1980-1982, AMS (Asset Management System) Mark V Computer Modifications
   When Alton Technology (a contractor) went bankrupt during installation of UAL’s first generation Asset Management System (which includes keycard entry to the MOC), SFOMP Ron Brooks (another maintenance specialist) and SFOMP Jim Trainor (the Plant Maintenance Manager) requested that I evaluate the issues and assist in saving the project. This was a $1,600,000 project and had zero reliability and zero component interchangability (as left by the contractor).
   
   I re-manufactured three PDP11/03-based DEC Computers and made many other system improvements of an electrical/electronic nature. Within a year our efforts literally saved the project.
    
3. 1995-1996, High Speed Grinder Enhancements (Electrical, Mechanical, and Software)
   When the machine shop was contemplating buying a new high speed grinder, I was asked for my opinion. I decided that improvements to the Dorries were possible, would be less expensive, and could deliver needed functionality sooner.
   
   I suggested and directed certain mechanical improvements and created software that took advantage of those mechanical improvements. This resulted in the Dorries Grinder performing much better (+/- 0.0005”) than its original specifications. The improved accuracy was sufficient to meet the P&W spec for the PW40xx rotors (+/- 0.001”).
   
   As a consequence, no OSV grinds of PW40xx rotors since 1995 have been required. This accounts for more than 300 PW40xx rotors ground in-house as well as quality improvements for all other rotor types. At an estimated OSV charge (including shipping) of $20,000/rotor, these changes have yielded savings (not counting cycle times), since 1995, exceeding $8M (this includes a one time first year savings of about $2M, estimate by SFOEP). Cycle times have been reduced from a minimum of 3 weeks to 1 day.
    
4. Other accomplishments on request.

1968 FCC General Class Radio Telephone License

1985 California Electrical Contractors License (C10-454326)