James W.

Experience

• Senior Stress Engineer, CVE aerospace company in Germany · Contract Oct 2024 – Present 2 yrs Germany Senior Stress Engineer, EASA static and fatigue CVE, in an aerospace company in Germany, Landing gear and Airframe: Stress analysis, Test Procedure, Witness static and fatigue test, CVE approval static & fatigue.
• Research Fellow cum PhD Scholar German Federal Institute for Material Research and Testing · Contract Apr 2024 – Oct 2024 6 mos Berlin, Germany Research fellow (Post Doc) in the German Federal Institute for Material Research and Testing, Division Safety of Gas Storage Systems. Tasks: Reliability and safety of gaseous and cryogenic hydrogen storage systems; coordination and management of EU and BMBF hydrogen projects.
• Airbus UK Subcontractor from 2010-2017 Airbus UK as Subcontractor · Contract Oct 2010 – Mar 2017 6 yrs 5 mos England, UK June 2017 – March 2018: Technical Lead and Expert in Fatigue & Damage Tolerance in an international consultancy company in Munich Germany. (static, fatigue and damage tolerance analysis and checking for A350 program and Airbus long range program).
  July 2016 – May 2017: Senior Fatigue & Damage Tolerance Engineer for the A350-1000 Fixed Leading-Edge certification in company Quest Global Engineering in the UK (Subcontractor; level 2 checker for A350-1000 Fixed Leading Edge).
  April 2015 – June 2016: Senior Fatigue & Damage Tolerance Engineer for A350-1000 Wing Structure onsite Airbus UK Filton on behalf of Quest Global Engineering (Subcontractor).
  October 2013 - December 2014: Stress Engineer, F&DT Subcontractor onsite Airbus UK in Filton, A350-1000 Fixed Leading Edge & Front Spar Metallic Parts on behalf of Sitec Group.
  Tasks: update F&DT Analysis Method and Procedure, Fatigue Spectra correlation, interface loads, detail F&DT analysis for Fixed Leading edge and Root Joint parts.
  August - October 2013: Stress Engineer, F&DT Subcontractor on behalf of company QuEST in UK Tasks: A400M FTE Composite Panel Fatigue for SRM and A350XWB-900 F&DT stress dossier checking.
  January - July 2013: Stress Engineer, F&DT Subcontractor on behalf of Atkins in UK: High Level Checker for composite fatigue stress dossier of the A350-900 Fixed Trailing Edge; General checker for metallic F&DT Stress Dossier.
  May 2012 - December 2012: Stress Engineer, F&DT Subcontractor onsite Airbus UK in Filton for Long Range program (A330/A340): FE analysis for Main Landing Gear support structure (Abaqus); A340 fatigue assessment for FTE & FLE composite panels.
  November 2010 - April 2012: Stress Engineer, F&DT Subcontractor onsite Airbus UK in Filton on A350-900 Main Landing Gear Support Structure on behalf of Hyde group.
• Landing Gear Senior Stress Engineer Messier-Dowty · Full-time Oct 2010 – Oct 2010 0 mos England, UK In the company Messier-Dowty (Safran - Landing and Braking Systems) in England working on the A350-900 Main Landing Gear project. Main tasks: creating parametric landing gear Beam Model with Nastran/Patran (using PCL) to run static and fatigue loads; Landing gear Attachment & Internal loads; Modal analysis, instability analysis of Main Landing Gear; static sizing; fatigue analysis for landing gear components, writing technical report. (Tools: Nastran/Patran, Hypermesh, ncode, company software).
• Landing Gear Stress Engineer LIEBHERR Aerospace Lindenberg in Germany · Full-time Jul 2003 – Sep 2006 3 yrs 2 mos Germany In the company LIEBHERR Aerospace Lindenberg in Germany. Task Leader for medium range passenger aircraft’s main landing gear: FEA and Hand calculation, fatigue analysis, static test definitions, support for the Landing Gear design, generating stress and fatigue report for certification, external and internal communications. FEA tools Ansys.