P.O. Box 213
Ravenna, OH 44266
ccarey@kent.edu
Northrop University, B.S. (Mechanical Engineering), 1981
University
of Bridgeport, M.S. (Mechanical Engineering - Heat Transfer/
Fluid Dynamics concentration), 1988
Norton Radomes a division of
Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics,
Structural Design Engineer, Radomes and Composite Structures - April 2000 - present
¤ Design, development, analysis and product
introduction radomes, covers and structures for aircraft
¤ Finite Element Analysis of composite structures for strength, vibration, buckling and impact
United Aircraft Products Division of Parker Aerospace,
Senior Product Engineer - March 1998 - October 1999
¤ Design, development, analysis and product
introduction of plate fin and tube shell heat exchangers
¤ Formulate bids and responses for commercial and military
products
Hunter Manufacturing Company,
Manager, Engineering - March 1996 - August 1997
¤ Manage the commercial and military product
development for a $15,000,000 business.
¤ Department manager with
9-12 direct reports. Initiate, oversee and evaluate the work of
engineers, technicians and drafters.
¤ Formulate and evaluate solicitation
responses, bids, and proposals for commercial and military
products.
¤ Provide expert knowledge in liquid
and gaseous fuel combustion and heat
transfer.
NASA Lewis Research
Center, (Contract Engineer) - November 1989 -
February 1996
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ANALEX Corporation, Consulting Thermal Engineer
¤ Provide heat transfer engineering support and analysis of U.S.
and Russian design of a Solar Power
module
. ¤ Radiative/conductive heat transfer, insulation gas
venting, liquid nitrogen thermal control design and test facility
design and development.
¤ Fluid dynamics design of cryogenic test facility and
supporting gas to liquid heat exchangers.
Payload Integration Engineer
¤ Plan, control and evaluate integration of Solar
Dynamic Flight Demonstration in U.S. shuttle and Russian
space station. Determine project requirements for safety of
flight and mission success in thermal, gas and electronics
disciplines.
¤ Coordinate inputs from U.S. and Russian specialists. Negotiate
common interface design.
¤ Interface between project and Russian designers and Space
Shuttle program
Sverdrup
Technology Inc./NYMA Inc. LeRC
Group, Thermal/Fluid
Systems Analysis Section, Supervisor
¤ Supervise engineers working on heat transfer, thermodynamics,
fluid dynamics and rocket systems analysis tasks. Plan and
schedule work on assigned tasks.
¤ Act as liaison with NASA principal engineers.
¤ Support heat pipe and capillary pumped heat transfer research
and development program.
¤ Provide fluid flow and heat transfer engineering expertise and
analytical verification of contractor analyses for Space Station
Freedom thermal control and environmental heat exchange systems.
¤ Use SINDA'85/FLUINT, TRASYS and Patran to model designs.
¤ Plan and implement shared computer analysis network for
department PCs, VAX and UNIX workstations. Control department
data processing equipment purchases.
Senior Engineer
¤ Provide heat transfer and fluid flow engineering support and
analytical verification of contractor analyses for Space Station
Freedom thermal control and environmental heat exchange systems.
¤ VAX/VMS system administrator.
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Perkin-Elmer Corporation, Electro-optical
Technology Division, Engineer, March 1983 - October
1989
¤ Conceptual design and analysis of structural systems, thermal
engineering and analysis, and cryogenic engineering of
electro-optical systems.
¤ Modification and maintenance of thermal and radiation heat
transfer computer programs used on Thermal Design Group
microcomputers.
American Cyanamid Company, Materials Test Engineer, July
1981-March 1983
¤ Designed and conducted tests of new materials; including
Kevlar, fiberglass, and graphite composites, for aerospace,
medical and automotive structures in temperature regimes from
cryogenic to equatorial tropics environments.
¤ Analysis of test data directed at the improvement of the
materials.
¤ Planned and directed construction of advanced composites
fabrication laboratory
¤ Researched fabrication processes for use with new
reinforcement materials and matrices.
Northrop Corporation, Electronics Division, Engineer
(Student), June 1980-June 1981
¤ Performed thermal analyses and heat transfer analyses directed
at the development of computer techniques for analysis of small,
high reliability hybrid electronic circuits.
Hughes Helicopters, Engineer (Student), April
1979-September 1979
¤ Performed flight data reduction for an advanced helicopter's
flight tests.
¤ Used analytical techniques of fatigue life prediction in
support of design improvements of rotor system components.
¤ Computer applications expertise: SINDA, TRASYS, NEVADA, Vector
Sweep, Patran3, P3/Therm, MathCAD, FuzziCalc, Lotus 123, Excel,
MS Word, WordPerfect, PageMaker, Fortran, C, Basic, HTML, Win95,
MS Windows Networking, VAX/VMS Administrator
¤ Seven years experience as USAF aviation electronics
technician, preforming assembly, board and component level repair
and diagnostics of navigation and automated test equipment
¤ Foreign languages: German, Russian and French (in progress)
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
Secret: USAF 1974-1979
Secret: Northrop Electronics 1980-1981
I am an experienced Engineering Manager of organizations specializing in design, research and development of custom made and consumer products. I am recognized as a creative engineer, a good team builder and good communicator. I have a natural ability to solve complex and abstract design problems, using analytic, synthetic and empirical approaches. My background is as a Mechanical Engineer, Supervisor and Manager with seventeen years of broad experience in Mechanical Engineering. I have five years of management experience. I earned a MSME in 1988 and have experience in analysis, design, research and management in high technology research and development organizations. I have lead proposal teams and response evaluation groups. I have supervised multidisciplinary teams including electronics, chemical, mechanical and systems engineers and technicians. My experience has given me the ability to competently direct, motivate and review the work of engineers in these fields, including geometric tolerancing to ANSI Y14.5M in a AutoCAD r10-13 environment. I am proficient in verbal and written communication, having acted as a mentor in technical presentation writing and delivery techniques. I am sure that I have the qualities you are seeking for this position. I will bring the experience and abilities shown on the accompanying pages to this position. Please review the attached resume, then contact me to discuss how I can participate in the growth of your organization.