Lu Zuckerman: CV/Resume
Towards the end of the "RBS, Precession and LZ" debate, I posted Nick Lappos' CV (the product of a little internet searching) and suggested Lu post his.
Unfortunately, the thread was closed before Lu had an opportunity to do so, and he has kindly e-mailed me a copy. As a matter of fairness to Lu, I reproduce a copy of his CV.
Note: Neither I nor Helidrvr closed the thread; I assume it was closed by someone in PPRuNe Admin.
Education
Michigan State University; Major - Product Design; Minor - General Science; UCLA Extension; Masters Program in trade and technical education
Credentials/Licenses
Federal Aviation Administration: Airframe and Powerplant Mechanic;
California Teaching Credential: Aerospace/Aircraft Technology; Drafting;
General Science; Speech
Summary
Over forty-five years of varied experience including assignments in: product support, design engineering, project engineering, assurance engineering, maintenance engineering, and contract management. Major involvement for the past thirty years has been in assurance engineering in positions ranging from reliability and maintainability engineering analyst to the development and management of assurance engineering programs. System/equipment involvement includes helicopters, military/civil aircraft, ballistic missiles, manned space programs, satellites, ships and atomic energy.
Detailed Work Experience
Maintenance Management:
Supervised maintenance engineering department, consisting of nineteen service engineers, two technical illustrators and sixty-two field engineers. Responsible, for all aspects of first and second level maintenance, on a mixed fleet of nine hundred helicopters, and eighteen fixed wing aircraft. Coordinated heavy maintenance and overhaul operations with other departments; supervised and participated in accident investigation; represented company at maintenance seminars; supervised training of host country nationals.
Product Assurance:
Developed reliability, maintainability and human factors contract proposals; implemented programs after contract award. Developed maintenance plans and programs; performed associated analyses (MTTR, MTBF, LSAR, MEA, MEAD, MEAR, FMECA and Safety Hazard). Developed computerized data base programs that provided all interrelated maintenance and operational cost data; developed optimum repair level analysis program.
Product Support:
Worked in all aspects of product support in positions ranging from service engineer trainee to manager of service engineering. Systems applications included helicopters, fixed wing aircraft and ballistics missiles. Assignments also included technical training, curriculum development, and task analysis, training device design and associated supervisory duties.
Project Management:
Assigned as Senior Project Engineer representing company project office at various customer installations. Duties included attendance at design review meetings, monitoring flight and test operations and supervision of three junior project engineers and subordinate technical personnel.
Design Supervision:
Supervised and coordinated design, production and operation of two complex computer driven space vehicle simulators with a combined total program cost of twenty-one million dollars. Supervised design of highly complex training devices, coordinated design and development of propulsion system, including design of alignment fixtures for engines.
Contract Management:
Managed and implemented design and development contract for M.R.C.A. (Tornado) automatic test system. Duties included coordination of contractual elements, which were being implemented by English, German, Italian and American manufacturing firms. Additional tasks included monitoring the configuration control program and review various contractual submittals for conformance.
Consulting Engineering:
Worked in consulting capacity at various firms in several diverse areas which include various types of reliability/maintainability/safety analyses on Aircraft Flap and Slat power systems, flight control and hydraulic systems, landing gear and braking systems, electrical and cargo systems, operational analyses of aircraft crew escape system, maintenance analysis of jet engine power management system, reliability program on jet engine fuel delivery system and maintenance analysis of flight control servo systems. Worked as a consultant at an Italian helicopter manufacturer, in a position of advisor to the Factory Director and the Manager of the Assurance Engineering department and other engineering departments with responsibility to establish total Reliability/Maintainability/Safety and Product Support program to include development of a totally computerized analysis and reporting system and training of the personnel in its implementation. As a consultant, established engineering department in a large firm in Germany; trained department personnel; represented company in all outside liaison as Departmental Manager. German and Italian consulting contracts required direct interface with civil airworthiness authorities from Germany, England, France, Italy and the United States. Duties also included participation in maintenance working groups and system safety meetings with the authorities. Worked as a consultant on similar contract with large Italian manufacturer of aircraft hydraulic components. Final European assignment was as a consultant at the European Space Technology Center (ESTEC) with responsibility to prepare and document the Maintainability program for the European Space Station.
Work History
1978 - present: Consulting and contract engineering (see paragraph above for additional details)
Various Reliability/Maintainability/Safety assignments at customer facilities; supervising and participating in the preparation of reliability/maintainability/ safety analyses. Systems included aircraft, helicopter, missile, spacecraft and communication satellites. Prepared contract proposals. Established RMS programs in three major European aerospace firms and trained personnel in preparation of analyses. Manager ATE design and production contract on major European fighter aircraft program. Established Maintainability program for European Space Station. Prepared safety analysis for Department of Energy. Provided expert witness services and evaluated witness depositions relating to helicopter accident investigations. Performed maintainability analyses on V-22 Osprey. Prepared assurance engineering response for contract proposals for KC-135 Systems Upgrade. Prepared reliability and maintainability analyses on 727-200 and 737 cargo modification. Prepared reliability and safety certification reports for CL-604 Business Jet and Regional Jet. Prepared RMS Documentation for air cycle powered hydraulic pumping system for 767-400ER and air conditioning/cooling system for F-16 recon pod. Prepared FMECA’s on industrial equipment in support of a major Proactive Asset Management program (PAM). This work was performed in accordance with OSHA and FDA guidelines, Prepared FMEAs on cargo handling system for A340 and A3XX aircraft. Prepared FMEAs on Fairchild-Dornier 728 Jet landing gear and hydraulic systems. Prepared reliability and maintainability documentation for Gulfstream G IV engine upgrade.
1977 - 1978, Hughes Helicopters, Div. of Summa Corp.
Senior Assurance Engineer responsible for verification of maintainability design criteria on AH-64 Apache, interfaced with customer and major associate contractors.
1974 - 1977, Bell Helicopter International, Div. of Textron Corp. Manager of technical assistance branch, product support and field service. Manager of reliability and maintainability department.
1973 - 1974, Hughes Helicopters, Div. of Summa Corp.
Private Consultant: Developed, defined and documented maintainability program proposal for AH-64 Apache.
1969 - 1972, Litton Ship Systems
Senior Reliability and Maintainability Engineer on DD-963 and LHA ships. Advised design engineers on integration of helicopter and ship interface.
1968 - 1969, Lockheed - CDI
Maintainability Design Engineer on Cheyenne helicopter worked on flight control, power train and hydraulic systems.
1962 - 1968, Douglas MSSD, McDonnell-Douglas Corp.
Design Supervisor on Saturn SIV-B dynamic simulator: managed systems integration laboratory. Promoted to Senior Project Engineer and assigned to NASA-MSFC.
1958 - 1962, General Dynamics
Field Engineer assigned to Atlas Missile Squadron. Responsible for structures, propulsion and ground handling.
1956 - 1958, Philco Corporation, TecRep Division
Training Manger: Established and supervised instructional program for U.S. Army helicopter mechanics and maintenance officers.
1955 - 1956, Sikorsky Aircraft
Service Engineer advising on operational maintenance and overhaul of H-19, H-34, HSS-1, H-37 and S-58 helicopters.
Military Experience:
Helicopter and aircraft mechanic in U.S. Coast Guard assigned to land based operations and ships. Performed and supervised maintenance on land and sea fixed wing aircraft and various types of helicopters. Qualified as Flight Engineer and relief Pilot on multi-engine patrol aircraft. Qualified as Crew chief (plane captain) on four types of multi-engine aircraft and four types of helicopters.
Management Engineering Training:
Attended company sponsored training program in inter-cultural management of technical programs in third world countries. Attended management training programs sponsored by National Management Association; attended reliability engineering, value engineering and programming courses sponsored by employers; participated in intensive fourteen month training program stressing design, manufacture and engineering development and testing of helicopters.
Special Qualifications:
Capable of establishing various types of technical training programs including initial task analysis, curriculum development and instructor training; strong communications skills including drafting of complex technical documents and making technical presentations; able to supervise technology transfer programs; able to communicate effectively with all levels of personnel from technicians to top management. Detailed understanding of problems involved in training and supervising personnel in a cross cultural environment.
Additional qualifications include the development of turnkey assurance engineering programs to include program development, training of personnel in assurance engineering philosophy and techniques, developing of data analysis formats and associated computerized data base and collection programs. Extensive background in working in an Integrated Product Management Team Environment.
Special Schooling (training/teaching related):
Attended instructional methods courses conducted by U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force, Bell Helicopter, General Dynamics, Philco-Ford, Douglas Aircraft/NASA. Attended masters program conducted by University of California, majoring in industrial training and establishment of apprentice programs.
Aviation Schooling and Air Vehicle Familiarization and/or Training:
Aircraft Mechanic School USCG
Engine School – USCG
H-13 Helicopter - U.S. Army
HO3-S Helicopter - Sikorsky (maint.)
B-206 Helicopter - Bell
HO3-S Helicopter - Sikorsky (overhaul)
B-205 Helicopter - Bell
HO4-S Helicopter – Sikorsky
B-209 Helicopter - Bell AH-J
HO5-S Helicopter - USCG/Sikorsky
B-214 Helicopter - Bell
H-34 Helicopter – Sikorsky
AH-64 Helicopter - Hughes
HSS Helicopter - Sikorsky
PT6 Twin Pac Engine - P&W
HSS Auto Pilot - Lear/Sikorsky
A-129 Helicopter - Augusta
H-37 Helicopter - U.S. Army/Sikorsky
EH-101 Helicopter - Augusta
AH-56 Cheyenne - Lockheed
V-22 Bell - Boeing
UH-12 Helicopter - U.S. Army
CL-600/601/604/ Regional Jet - Canadair
HTL-1 Helicopter – USCG
B-737, MD-80 and B-737 Cargo systems.
A-310, A-300/600 Flap/Slat/Landing Gear
KC-135 Electrical System, Fairchild-Dornier
728 landing gear and hydraulic systems.
Gulfstream G IV engine upgrade.
A-340 and A-380 cargo handling systems.
Overseas Employment:
Worked in engineering management positions in Iran, Italy, Germany and Holland with frequent trips to other middle eastern and European countries, as well as, Canada. Able to relate to other people with diverse cultural and religious backgrounds and communicate at a personal and technical level. Keenly aware of how cultural attitudes and religious beliefs effect learning and working attitudes, as well as, management employee relations.