Material Specialist / Analyst, Nozzle Structural Analysis Resume Brigham City, UT - Hire IT People

SUMMARY

Principal investigator with demonstrated expertise in leading new product development and product support for composites and polymers.
Develops projects from initial concept to production as part of cross - functional team. Adept at managing multiple projects / activities independently and within a team. Skilled at resolving customer concerns.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

Structural Modeling
Experimental Design
Finite Element Analysis
Statistical Data Analysis
Statistical Process Control
Failure Model Development
Structure-Property Relationships
Fracture & Mechanical Characterization
Failure Analysis
Project Management
Cross-functional Teams
Customer Relationships

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Brigham City, UT

Material Specialist / Analyst, Nozzle Structural Analysis

Responsibilities:

Provided technical expertise for composite, elastomeric and polymeric materials to Confidential and reusable solid rocket motor (RSRM) nozzle work center; recruited for this position based on specific prior expertise.
Increased RSRM nozzle reliability and safety by creating and revising material models that accurately described the physics and chemical behavior of materials used in the RSRM nozzle.
Created constitutive model for thermally decomposing ablative material that accurately described stress - strain behavior while retaining linear elastic assumptions.
Characterized and validated material models for composites, adhesives and elastomers by designing and managing multiple research efforts.
Prepared and presented test results and issue resolutions to senior management and external customers.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Saved $300K by enabling retention of flight hardware by creating multiple test protocols for validating nozzle structural analysis.
Contributed to iterative product development model, promoting high degree of transparency as required by Confidential chief engineers and other experts.
Led and participated in Tiger Teams to expose and resolve issues related to safety, nozzle integrity and hardware failure in motor.
Consulted throughout manufacturing and development processes with Confidential and ATK structural analysts, plus upper-division internal management and divisions across.

R&D Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Supported manufacturing work centers in the areas of adhesive, paints, sealants, coatings, and adhesion and determined causes of observed adhesion-related phenomena through chemical and mechanical testing.
Saved multiple $100K’s by determining cause of cold temperature failure on new Confidential adhesive, resulting in increased performance and astronaut safety.
Developed technical approaches to resolving material and process issues, reporting issue resolution to management and customers.
As primary investigator, managed budgets up to $100K, plus project scheduling, team selection and resources; sourced external company to characterize materials and wrote proposals for research and development, reporting weekly on projects.
Received management recognition for optimized research process; thoroughly documented all aspects of research; achieved optimal results while minimizing costs for raw materials and experimental iterations.
Demonstrated team orientation and leadership for improving safety margins, reduced manufacturing process times, reduced costs, improved product performance and improved material properties.
Improved modeling accuracy by a factor of two, up to several orders of magnitude developing and validating experimental approach for accurately measuring one-dimensional curing stress in adhesives.
Significantly increased accuracy of fracture measurement by developing a numerical model for measuring fracture toughness of brittle adhesives under slip-stick conditions.
Received two patents through research and development effort.

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