Legacy Engineering, LLC
18662 MacArthur Blvd. Suite 457
Irvine, CA 92612-1426
Telephone: (949) 794-5860
Home Page: www.Legacyeng.com
ERWIN L. TESCHER
OBJECTIVE
I am interested in assignments where I can apply my extensive experience in the structural
dynamics (aero-elasticity and vibro-acoustics) field. I also have an extensive background in
technical matters and in management/IPT positions, which allows me to provide and manage
both programmatic issues and detailed technical tasks.
EXPERIENCE
05/2011 to Present: Legacy Engineering, LLC, Irvine, CA
 Consultant.
12/2008 to Present: Northrop-Grumman Corporation, Hawthorne, CA
 Consultant. Unmanned Combat Air System (“UCAS”). Integrated Systems Division.
Assigned to NGC. Provided expertise for hardware qualification efforts in the disciplines
of vibration & shock (dynamics), thermal, and any other environmental criteria required.
Efforts consisted of: review of documentation provided to suppliers; review of supplier test
results; review/approval of Commercial off the Shelf (“COTS”) equipment used on vehicle;
communication with customer in support of the above.
05/2002 to 03/2008: Northrop-Grumman Corporation, Hawthorne, CA
 06/2004 to 03/2008: Manager/IPT Leader. Integrated Systems Division. NGC F-35
Specialty Engineering. Joint Strike Fighter Program (“JSF”). Technical quality, budgeting
& scheduling issues with respect to these disciplines: electro-magnetic Environmental
Effects (“EEE”), system safety, vulnerability, mass properties, Material & Processes (“M &
P”), structural integrity (thermal analysis, damage & durability tolerance, AV finite element
modeling, loads & dynamics and integrity), and LO signature integration.
 05/2002 to 06/2004: Engineer5. Integrated Systems Division. JSF. Permanent DOA
for Survivability IPT Leader. Cost Account Manager (“CAM”) for A/V integrity
engineering, mass properties, subsystem verification & A/V specialty engineering. Cost,
schedule, earned value reporting for these areas. NGC focal point for AirVehicle integrity
engineering, providing expertise on subject matter.
04/2001 to 05/2002: Rockwell Collins, Pomona, CA
 Senior Engineering Manager. Airlines Application & Hardware Engineering. Developed
standards/policies/procedures for the airline applications & hardware engineering
organizations. Technical and administrative management of the cable design
organization, including performance reviews, manpower projections, etc.
07/1993 to 04/2001: Northrop-Grumman Corporation/Aircraft Division, Hawthorne, CA
 01/1999 to 04/2001: Integrated Product Team Leader/Technical Manager. JSF.
Identified Northrop Grumman workshare for Engineering & Manufacturing Development
(“E & MD”) effort. Responsible for: development/integration of proposal, defining tasks,
developing staffing &cost estimates, developing and coordinating technical processes and
procedures. Functional Manager of Structural Design & Analysis Organization.
 06/1997 to 01/1999: Integrated Product Team Leader/Technical Manager. Kistler
Program. Leadership of Forward & Mid Body Skins/Frames teams. The Kistler Program is a
two-stage re-useable launch vehicle, the barrels (skins) being of composite structure and the
sub-structure consisting of metallic and non-metallic components. Responsible for:
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coordination between all disciplines during concept development, i.e., technical direction of
structural designers and analysts (using CATIA, NASTRAN & PATRAN), tooling designers,
tooling fabrication, manufacturing engineers, test & evaluation engineering, and the
procurement of buy parts and materials. Responsible for design, analyses and procurement of
stage separation system. Administrative tasks included developing budgets, staffing
requirements, preparing management reviews for internal and external customers and
maintaining/providing visibility into processes.
07/1996 to 06/1997: Integrated Product Team Leader /Program Manager. Structures
Research & Development. Unitized Composites Demonstration for JSF aircraft. Staff
Member to Manager of Structures R & D. Developed proposals to customers. Directed daily
efforts of multi-disciplined engineers in striving to execute these tasks.
09/1995 to 07/1996: Integrated Product Team Leader. Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile
(“JASSM”). Aft Module of JASSM. Technical and financial issues pertaining to product, such
as design & analysis, manufacturing, assembly, tooling, procurement and product assurance.
Developed staffing estimates and developed new hardware. The Aft Module consisted
primarily of structural and mechanical components requiring extensive design and dynamic
analysis to meet system objectives.
03/1995 to 09/1995: Integrated Product Team Leader, Level IV Deputy Team Leader.
Center Fuselage Product Definition Team, F/A - 18E/F. Directed activities necessary to
achieve product design using Unigraphics, NASTRAN & PATRAN), process design, product
and process verification, quality assurance and product support, and directed analytical
activities associated with structures product definition necessary to support proper design.
07/1994 to 03/1995: Technical Manager. Dynamics and Loads Orgn. - Tri-Services Standoff
Attack Missile (“TSSAM”). Responsible for flutter, dynamic loads, vibro-acoustic environments
and structural dynamics of the missile. Developed a scenario to resolve the technical issues of
measured vibration flight exceedances, measured during flight testing, above component
qualification requirements; led the effort in preparation for the system level dynamic
qualification test; responded to supplier failures by re-establishing realistic test requirements;
and actively supported program goals.
07/1993 to 07/1994: Integrated Product Team Leader. F/A 18E/F Forward Center
Fuselage/LEX. Directed activities necessary to achieve product design and analysis, process
design, product and process verification, quality assurance, and product support. Directed the
preparation of integrated design/manufacturing/quality assurance/product support trade
studies and direct risk management activities for structures and materials issues. Direct
preparation and maintenance of structures layouts, drawings/data models, specifications, and
related design/manufacturing documents required for definition, production, and
test/verification of the structure. Responsible for coordination and interfacing with customers
on structures and materials related activities.
04/1981 to 07/1993: Northrop Corporation (B-2 Division), Pico Rivera, CA
 01/1993 to 07/1993: Project Engineer. B-2 Program. Responsible for ensuring
qualification requirements for ‘black-boxes” are met; statusing and tracking of qualification
to management and customer; technical consultant to suppliers, providing
recommendations / direction which aided in satisfying qualification testing.
 11/1986 to 01/1993: Technical Manager. Structural Dynamics Department, B-2
program. Recognized as leading authority for aero elastic/dynamics modules of
NASTRAN. Responsible for technical expertise in the areas of flutter, vibration, vibroacoustics, and dynamic loads (gust, landing/taxi), hiring of technical personnel, generating
performance reviews, developing manpower requirements. Engineering Organizations
Representative for Employee Empowerment. Involved in the Total Quality Management
(“TQM”) program. Involved in several Continuous Process Improvement (“CPI”) teams
that successfully attained the goals. Responsible for: satisfactory completion of the flutter
clearance verification of the B-2 (initial flutter and divergence report through completion
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and reporting of the flight flutter test program); qualification of all hardware in the vehicle
from the vibro-acoustics aspect (vibration and acoustics); and for defining the scope and
type of tests required for qualification and reliability testing. Led a Line Replaceable Unit
(“LRU”) qualification team. Responsible for ensuring that hardware was qualified to the
proper requirements. This task required me to become knowledgeable with the charters
of the procurement, configuration management, contracts, quality assurance, and
Engineering Standards organizations’ in order to issue a Certification of Qualification.
04/1981 to 11/1986: Senior Technical Specialist. Structural Technology Department,
B-2 Program. Lead Engineer in Flutter and Vibro-acoustics Orgn. Responsible for:
development of analytical structural and aerodynamic models used for Vibration, Flutter
and Gust analyses; developing aero/structural models used by Flight Controls Orgn. to
design control laws; for development of NASTRAN aero elastic package for the
corporation. Developed DMAP alters to enhance output capability of flutter and gust
solutions in NASTRAN. Responsible for dynamic analyses and development of full finite
element models. Attended various NASTRAN classes including DMAP and super
element classes. Responsible for implementing active control modeling into analytical
models and generating gust loads.
06/1979 to 04/1981: McDonnell Douglas Aircraft, Long Beach, CA
 Engineer/Scientist Specialist. Structural Mechanics Department.
12/1977 to 06/1979: Pratt & Whitney Aircraft, East Hartford, CT
 Senior Analytical Engineer. Structural Analysis Group.
09/1977 to 11/1977: Aeronautics Research & Design, North Hollywood, CA
 Senior Engineer.
1972 to 09/1977: Northrop Corporation, Hawthorne, CA
 1974 to 09/1977: Engineer Senior. Structural Dynamics Group. Aircraft Division.
 1973 to 1974: Engineer. Loads Group.
 1972 to 1973: Engineer. Structural Dynamics Group.
1967 to 1972: North American Rockwell Corporation
 1970 t0 1972: Engineer. Inglewood, CA. Wind Tunnel Model Design Group.
 1967 to 1970: Engineer. Long Beach, CA. Vibration Group.
EDUCATION/ADDITIONAL TRAINING
M.S., Engineering - California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA (Thesis: “On
the Bending and Vibration of Beams”)
B.S., Aerospace Engineering - Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY
Certificate, Engineering and Management Program at UCLA Extension
Developed course notes and taught course in the use of the Aeroelastic capabilities in
MSC/NASTRAN
RECOGNITIONS
Engineer of the Month (September 1992), Northrop B-2 Division, Engineering
Engineer of the Month (March 1988) from Northrop Advanced Systems Division