• 2 Air Force Achievement Medals for Meritorious Service for Exceptional Maintenance Practices
  
• Airman of the Year for 2006, Kunsan Air Base, Korea
  
• Collaborated with Lockheed Martin Engineers to develop a battery charging system wire harness that resolved a catastrophic, spontaneous fire trend on block 40 F-16's at Kunsan Air Base
• Utilized complex electrical and mechanical schematics to troubleshoot and repair electrical and environmental systems of Boeing F-15  and Lockheed Martin F-16 fighter aircraft.
  

Steve Boothe

Mechanical Engineer

My Experience

October 2016 -  Present

ENERCON SERVICES INC.
Mechanical Engineering Consultant

• Developed new tooling and procedures to permit and assist maintenance personnel with changing the nose landing gear lock links ON the aircraft, saving time, effort, and money involved in this procedure.
• Analyze and interpret reliability data in order to recommend, develop, and implement modifications to the MD-88, MD-90, and Boeing B717 fleet.
• Author engineering documents relevant to fleet-wide modifications, FAA Airworthiness Directive implementation, manufacturer generated Service Bulletins, and Service Letter requests
  

United States Air Force

Aircraft Electrician/Mechanic

November 2015 - July 2016

February 2004 - June 2011

My certifications

• FE Exam Passed; EIT Application Approved

Pratt and Whitney

Structural Analysis Engineer

• Performed Structural Analysis of tubes, brackets, component mounts, fittings, large engine cases, and associated hardware in Support of Advanced Military Development Programs (ADPs) and Operational Military Programs to meet key program durability requirements.
• Proficient in analysis of advanced alloys and metals using traditional methods and Finite Element Models (FE, FEA) utilizing ANSYS classic and WorkBench V14.0-V19.3 to produce linear and non-linear solutions.
• Extensive mastery of writing macros in APDL and Visual Basic to post-process analyses, produce load-case computations, and summarize results.
• Proficient in high cycle fatigue vibrational (modal) stress assessments, and low cycle fatigue including proof and burst capability of high temp plumbing.
• Adept at performing strength and maneuver capability assessments of various pieces of simple and complex hardware utilizing rigid body dynamics and load transformations.
• Experienced in utilizing fracture mechanics to assess damage tolerance cycles to failure and manufacturing non-conformances.
• Adept at working closely with Integrated Product Teams (IPTs) consisting of multiple disciplines utilizing excellent interpersonal, writing, and communication skills.
• Performed several root-cause analysis of military engine hardware developing cost-effective solutions in collaboration with IPTs; assigned to tiger teams and lauded with Eagle Award for efforts involving the investigation and remedy of
• 2 Eagle Awards for recognition of exceptional performance helping develop novel technology on an ADP and planning, executing, and post-processing tests of hardware.
• Experienced constructing instrumentation callouts, developing test plans, supervising test execution, and operating data collection and monitoring systems as well as data post-processing in support of test execution.
• Lauded with 2 Eagle Awards as wells as Employee of the Month for May 2019 for driving 6 tasks to completion to assist teammates meet project deadlines as well as developing a collection of macros/scripts that reduce the execution time of damage tolerance from ~2 weeks to ~30 minutes.  System utilized on 4 engine programs, 50+ personnel, and 1000+ components.
• Formal training in finite element analysis (FEA/FEM) utilizing industry-standard tools such as Ansys, Hypermesh, fracture propagation and analysis techniques, export regulations (EAR), and international trafficking in arms regulations (ITAR).

My Skills

• Design, Hands-On Fabrication, and Maintenance
  
• Visual Basic for Applications (VBA for Excel) Programming
• 3D Modelling:
  
  • Inventor
    
  • Solidworks
    
  • Siemens NX/UG
• Matlab, Simulink, LabView
  
• Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, Access)
• ​Technical Writing
  
• ​Test Planning, Implementation, and Data Analysis
  
• Design for:
  
  • Manufacture
    
  • Producibility
    
  • Assembly
    
  • Maintenance
    
• ​Coding Languages
  
  • ​Ansys
  • Java
    
  • ​Python