• Aviation Certification & Technical Service
  Principal Consultant - 1978 to Present
  Management & engineering consultant for over 33 years, working with, or for, many of commercial aviation’s best known companies & others. General experience in commercial aviation with a specialization in propulsion, engines & equipment.
  
  FAA/EASA applications submitted for approval or acceptance for STC, PMA, repair and/or alteration of systems, equipment & installations on behalf of clients.
  
  Consultant to organizations seeking certification to AS9000 & ISO9000.
  
  Salvaged National Airlines 727-200 from Escambia Bay, Florida, the largest aircraft salvaged from deep water at the time. Directed disassembly & preservation at the Pensacola Naval Air Station, the first Commercial project there. Directed air frame rebuilding & repair project at Van Nuys.
  
  Led project to convert 727-100 aircraft to the 727-200 by retro-stretching the fuselage, adding barrel sections ahead of & behind the wings.
  Directed effort to improve acoustic performance of re-engined Convair 880 Freighter converted aircraft.
  
  Modification of new propjet for application as a US Air Force single engine basic flight trainer.
  
  Engineering for modification of civilian & military aircraft to add fuel tanks, reengine, install APU, cabin heater, extend wingspan & re-route engine exhaust, for FAA certification.
  
  

• Overseas National Airways
  Director of Engineering -1973 to 1978
  Technical direction for operation & maintenance of DC-I0, DC-9, DC-8 & L-188 aircraft fleets. Contracted with major 0 & R & support firms worldwide.
  
  Led purchasing effort for most aspects of airplanes, spares & support equipment. Troubleshooting of engineering & operational problems. Established aircraft engine overhaul facility at main base.
  
  

• Pacific Airmotive Corp.
  Project Manager & Engineer - 1969 to 1973
  Directed maintenance & engineering for Flying Tiger Line, Wardair Canada & Overseas National Airways DC-8 & DC-9 fleets. Instrumental in obtaining FAA & DOT (Canada) approvals for totally on-condition/condition-monitored maintenance programs operated with hard time limitations removed. Consulting, problem solving & troubleshooting for company & clients. Program Manager for Industrial Turbine & Marine Power based on aircraft jet engines.
  
  

• The Boeing Company
  Research Engineer - 1964 to 1969
  Support for 727-200 & 747 aircraft certification programs. Contributed to design of advanced wide body trijet transport aircraft & 200 configurations of the advanced model 737, including the 'tail-sting' version. Design & development of gas turbine engines. Maintenance & repair of Air Force One fleet. Manufacturing support for manufacture of airframe actuators & gearboxes.

EDUCATION & PROFESSIONAL LICENSING

• BSME Newark College of Engineering, Newark, N.J.
• MSME University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
  (Aero-Thermodynamics major, all but thesis)
• Registered Professional Engineer
• Married with three grown children

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