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Dylan Nguyen

Aeronautical Engineering graduate from The University of Sydney. Last worked as Structural Design Engineer at Boeing, Seattle.

Headline: Engineer
Skills: Engineering
Groups: MBSEC - Melbourne Business School Entrepreneurship Club
Interested in: Consulting opportunities, Finding team mates, Meeting new people, Providing services to startups, Trading services

WORK EXPERIENCE

Employer: Boeing, Seattle, USA
Position: Structural Design Engineer (Boeing 747-8 program)
Time period: January 2007 - November 2008
Description: - Produced conceptual layout, preliminary and detail design of Ram Air Turbine doors in the Fixed Leading Edge Wing group. Worked within multi-disciplined team including Stress Analysts, Aerodynamicists and Manufacturing Engineers. Emphasis was on FEA optimized models, requiring input geometry and load path definition.

Employer: Boeing, Melbourne, Australia
Position: Structural Design Engineer (Boeing 787 program)
Time period: May 2006 - December 2006
Description: - Engineered conceptual and detail design of metallic structure on the Inboard Flap Mechanisms team using Boeing Design Standard and processes. Utilised Boeing software suite, including Enovia, IPSM and IVT to coordinate maturation of structure with other global partners.

Employer: GKN, Melbourne, Australia
Position: Design Engineer (Lockheed Martin Joint Strike Fighter Program)
Time period: February 2006 - May 2006
Description: - Provided structural layout designs for the first Carrier Variant of the JSF using CATIA V5 and PDM.

Employer: GKN Westland at Isle of Wight, UK
Position: Manufacturing Support Engineer
Time period: August 2005 - November 2005
Description: - Liaised with manufacturing personnel to resolve a variety of manufacturing issues with composite components. Investigations were carried out at all steps in the manufacturing process of composites, from lay-up to final assembly.

Employer: GKN, Melbourne, Australia
Position: Design/Manufacturing Support Engineer (Joint Strike Fighter program)
Time period: December 2004 - February 2006
Description: - Provided design and manufacturing support to Design Engineers on JSF activities for both Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin projects.
- Coached Design Engineers on manufacturing, weight and costs focus. This required knowledge of customers’ design and manufacturing requirement specific to JSF.
- Design maturation and optimisation of Metallic and Composite components using CATIA V5. Worked closely with Stress Engineers to achieve optimised weight.

Employer: GKN at NGC, El Segundo, USA
Position: Integration Engineer (Northrop Grumman Joint Strike Fighter program)
Time period: July 2004 - October 2004
Description: - Liaised with NGC engineering signatories to communicate design requirements to GKNAES Design Engineers in Melbourne.

Employer: GKN, Melbourne, Australia
Position: Design Engineer (Northrop Grumman Joint Strike Fighter program)
Time period: August 2003 - June 2004
Description: - Design maturation of JSF structural components including composite and metallic parts. This project involved conceptualising new parts to meet design requirements of the aircraft. Worked with Stress Engineers to produce a weight optimised designs

Employer: GKN, Melbourne, Australia
Position: Design Engineer (Galaxy C-5 program)
Time period: December 2002 - May 2003
Description: - Modelled and drafted of the C-5 Galaxy aircraft components using CATIA V4. Using Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing methods inline with British Standard 308.

Employer: GKN, Melbourne, Australia
Position: Stress Engineer (Airbus A340-500/600 Checkstress program)
Time period: December 2001 - November 2002
Description: - Performed Fatigue and Damage Tolerance calculations and prepared stress reports for various wing skin and stringers locations.

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  • Alex Levashov

    Bachelor from Vladivostok State University, MBA from University of Melbourne. Worked with Altima as a Managing Partner, Owner of Altima Interactive.