Russell Gelfan 7915 224 St SE Woodinville, WA 98072 Phone: (425) 398-2510 russlfboe@verizon.net OBJECTIVE - Seeking an ENGINEERING DESIGN & ANALYST Disciplined position. CAPABILITIES CATIA V5 ENOVIA Primary Structural Analysis and Design Problem Solving/ Troubleshooting Systems Analysis and Engineering Full Life Cycle Product Engineering CAD Design and Modification Technical Support/ Airline Customer Relations Retrofit and Liaison engineering Government and FAA Coordination Payloads, ECS, floors, Control Systems Integrated Product Teams (IPT) Vibration Stress & Thermal Analysis Excellent personal communication skills Corrosion and Fatigue Analysis Statistics Advanced/ Mathematics Analysis and Design Coordination Security Clearance Held EXPERIENCE Boeing - Interiors - Certification Engineer, 787 - 10/06 to present 787 Major/Minor, FAR's and FAA/EASA coordination, with DCCS & BDCO. Flammability and Structural issues with closets, seats, lighting, linings, crew rests, and other furnishings. Worked with LOPA's for new customers installations. CATIA V5/ENOVIA/IVT & systems for analysis, 3D modeling, design and fabrication. Boeing Structural Test Laboratory - Modification Engineer 787- 9/06 to present 787 Major Static and Fatigue Test - Created/Designed/Analyzed/Stress simulated landing gear, doors, actuators, slats, spoilers, and other airplane parts to support 787 early model aircraft. CATIA V5/ENOVIA/IVT and other systems for stress, 3D modeling, design and fabrication. Fleet Engineer - Alaska Airlines (contract) Boeing 737NG Fleet 5/06 to 9/06 Created EO's in Structures, Fuel Systems, Landing Gear, Flight Controls, Flight Deck and other areas. Changed IPC's, Task Cards, AMM's, decisions on STC's and SB's and other documents in process. Design and Development Engineer, 787 New Airplane, Boeing (contract)8/04 to 5/06 Engineering and Design projects for all airlines, loaned to stress group for Primary Composite & Metallic Structures, Components & Systems Integration, strain gage and thermocouple allocation for Flight Test, Static, Fatigue & other Test Methods. Partner coordination with Alenia, Vought, SAAB, KHI, and others. CATIA V5 CAD and Enovia Systems used. Design Engineer, Retrofit Engineering, Boeing (contract) 2/00 Engineering and design/service bulletin projects for all airlines: Landing Gear Systems and Structure, Primary Structures, Control Systems, Fuels, ECS. Received multiple awards, outstanding coordination in projects from customers. Managed structural and system projects for field incorporation on aircraft fleet. Stress/Design, illustration, reliability with DER and FAA. Technical writing and engineering design skills. CATIA CAD Systems. Engineering Analyst, Corporate Matl's, Heavy Equipment, Genie Industries. 5/99 Responsible for architecture restructure, Bill of Materials, for over 40 lifting products: Restructure, re-categorized 30,000+ parts/assemblies. Developed tiered multilevel system to organize parts. Led training, over 20 groups, how to efficiently use new multilevel BOM database. Major cost reductions, quality improvement, and tracking abilities. Structural Design Engineer, Wing/Aft Fuselage/Empennage, Lockheed Martin 5/98 Designed primary Structural components for the C130J production airplane. Managed FAA and JAA certification projects. Utilized CATIA Solid Modeling and Surfacing to produce drawings. Proprietor, Instructor, Designer, Dreamflight Gliders 9/98 - Present Instructed over 200 people. Performed maintenance. Part designer, Club Chairman, Editor, Director, National Competitions. Glider Certification for local manufacturer. USHGA Certified Advanced Observer. Primary Structures Designer / Body Structures and Systems The Boeing Company 1/89- 5/98 Primary Structures, Landing Gear, Payloads, Control Systems, Fuels, ECS. Stringers, Frames, shear ties, window belts, doors/ door frames, WBS, Seat Tracks, Floor Beams, body plugs, cutouts. ELPHINI and Lofting, Structural Analysis and Test Utilization. Redesign for pinned landing gear beam, Ram Air Turbine, longeron, nose landing gear, floors, frames and stringer positions and new definition. Designed creating CATIA 3D solid geometry, digital models. Coordinated projects with all organizations including government. Stress, illustration, reliability, DER, customer and FAA coordination. Created process documents, supported production schedule. Recognized for vital cost savings, production streamlining, and statistical quality control. Special assignment to newest Boeing project. Supported airplane production line. Manipulated large electronic database to resolve repetitive manufacturing problems. Team participation/ development, system coordination estimation and planning. Received multiple awards, outstanding coordination in projects from customers. Preliminary Design, Liaison, and Project skills. COMPUTER KNOWLEDGE Operating Systems: Windows XP, 2000, NT, Unix, Mac, OS2, IBM AS400 Programming Languages: Visual Basic, Basic, FORTRAN, and HTML Applications: (MS Excel, MS Word, MS Project, Access), AUTOCAD, DBase, ENOVIA, CATIA V5, ELFINI, CADAM, NCAD, Apollo, Plot 10, Images 3D, RS6000, Frame Maker, Documentum, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, and Homesite. EDUCATION BS in Mechanical Engineering, EIT Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona 1988 MBA (Managerial Leadership Program) City University, Seattle, WA 1996 Private Pilot MCSE (Microsoft Certified Systems Engineering) Bellevue Community College 1999 CATIA Version 5 2003 References available upon request.