Legacy Engineering, LLC
18662 MacArthur Blvd. Suite 457
Irvine, CA 92612-1426
Telephone: (949) 794-5860
Home Page: www.Legacyeng.com
OBJECTIVE
I am interested in short-term consulting assignments where I can contribute and add value utilizing my extensive executive leadership in engineering and manufacturing in the aerospace and defense industry.
EXPERIENCE
03/2001 to Present: Legacy Engineering, Irvine, CA
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Aerospace Consultant. Multiple engineering and manufacturing assignments including: o Leader of C-17 Globe Master lll and Boeing Delta Launch Vehicle “Must Cost” teams o Leader of Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet “Must Cost” project o Support to the U.S. Navy on V-22 Osprey First Flight Readiness o Support to Bell Helicopter regarding advanced composite structures o Member of Pentago/Lockheed Martin/Northrop Grumman F-35 Joint Strike Fighter
Independent Manufacturing Review Team o Member of Pentagon Review Team on Lockheed Martin F22 “Raptor” Weapons/ Avionics
Modernization Program
06/2002 to Present: MIT Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics
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Senior Lecturer . As a member of the MIT faculty, conducted lectures in Aircraft Systems
Engineering, Preliminary Design, and Lean Enterprise courses to graduate and undergraduate students. On behalf of MIT, provided lean engineering, lean manufacturing and lean supply chain instruction to numerous universities including Arizona State University; University of Southern
California; University of Missouri-Rolla; Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Defense Acquisition
University; University of South Carolina; and University of Sonora, Mexico.
09/2001 to 05/2002: MIT Department of Aeronautical Engineering
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Hunsaker Visiting Professor of Aeronautics & Astronautics . Conducted lectures in Aircraft
Systems Engineering/Architecture of Aviation Systems to MIT graduate and undergraduate students. Author and presenter to the MIT faculty of the 2002 MIT Minta Martin lecture: “Lean
Engineering h as Finally Come of Age or Why We Can’t Ignore 80% of a Product’s Cost”.
11/1997 to 04/2001: Boeing Military Aircraft and Missiles
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Vice President - General Manager Engineering. Responsible for the engineering design, processes, tools and technical workforce development for all military fighters, transports, bombers, helicopters and missiles for the Boeing Company including the F/A-18 Super Hornet, F-
15E Strike Eagle, AV-8B Super Harrier, T-45 Trainer, C-17 transport, CH-47 Chinook, AH-64
Apache, Harpoon Missile, JDAM attack munition, SLAM Cruise Missile. Served as Executive
Focal Point for the Lean Enterprise for the unit and St. Louis Executive for the Phantom Works
Advanced Development Organization. Was the Boeing member of the Executive Board of the
USAF-MIT Lean Aerospace Initiative. Recognized in 2001, as a Boeing Honorary Senior
Technical Fellow.

EXPERIENCE (CONTINUED)
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1991 to 1997: Douglas Aircraft Company, McDonnell Douglas Corporation.
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Vice President – General Manager Engineering . Responsible for all design, development,
FAA/JAA Certification and technical support for commercial transports including the MD-11 passenger, freighter, Combi, MD-11 ER extended range, MD-80 and MD-90.
1981 to 1991: McDonnell Douglas Helicopter Company
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1986 to 1991: Executive Vice President Engineering & Operations. Responsible for the design, development and research for all McDonnell Douglas Helicopters and factory manufacturing operations, procurement, production control, quality assurance, and production flight test of all McDonnell Douglas Helicopters for both the Culver City, CA and Mesa, AZ operations.
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1981 to 1986 : Senior Vice President. Manufacturing Operations . Responsible for the design, development, ground test, flight test as well as the manufacture, fabrication, production planning, production control, tooling, industrial engineering for the U.S. Army AH-64 Apache, MD-500 helicopter, MD-500 NOTAR, and all ordnance production (25mm Automatic Cannon Chain Gun;
30 mm Automatic Cannon Chain Gun).
1976 to 1981: Boeing Helicopters, Philadelphia, PA
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1979 to 1981: Director of Commercial Helicopters, Program Director Boeing 234
Commercial Chinook Helicopter. Responsible for design, development and FAA certification of an advanced transport helicopter to fly 44 oil rig workers 300 miles from Aberdeen, Scotland to the North Sea oil rigs.
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1976 to 1979: Director of Manufacturing Operations. CH-47D Modernization Program .
Responsible for all manufacturing operations leading to the fabrication, assembly, test and qualification and ahead-of schedule delivery of the CH-47D prototype helicopter.
EDUCATION
M.S., Management - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
B.S., Aeronautical Engineering - Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration Program for Management Development
HONORS
2001 Elected Boeing Honorary Senior Technical Fellow
2000 Aviation Week & Space Technology Laurels Award for Outstanding Achievement in the field of
Aeronautics/Propulsion
1997 SAE Kelly Johnson Aerospace Design and Development Award
AFFILIATIONS
Board of Councilors - School of Engineering, University of Southern California; Engineering Board of
Advisors, University of Missouri (Rolla); Engineering Advisory Board, President - Embry Riddle
Aeronautical University; Executive Board - USAF MANTECH 2015 Steering Committee
MEMBERSHIP
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Society of Manufacturing Engineers, American
Helicopter Society, Fellow-National Academy for the Advancement of Engineering
PATENT
U.S. Patent for the Snap Ring Grommet device for aircraft electrical wiring