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Angela Trego

PROFESSIONAL LICENSES

1999. Washington State Professional Engineer Ref: 35623

2007. Achieve Global Leadership Facilitator Certification

PATENTS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Developed strategy and team to perform launch services system level engineering
• Direct system requirements development on launch systems including design, structural analysis, weight management, ICD management, loads and environments and assembly level integration.
• Develop system level processes necessary to design and analyze launch services efficiently and thoroughly.
• College recruiting including interviewing students for prospective jobs and internships and interfacing with both the Society of Women Engineers and American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

2005 - 2006. Manager, Becton Dickinson Medical.

• Supervise and manage professional development of individuals with industrial design, packaging, graphics, BD Identity, molding and physical testing expertise and all associated regulatory compliances.
• Managed cross-functional OneCath PICC Flash Team to successful resolution of strategic direction.
• Managed worldwide CAE effort to align all BD personnel to uniform software packages resulting in increased collaboration, functionality and cost savings.

2004 - 2006. Project Engineer, PSI Forensics.

• Provide analysis, consultation, patent litigation and expert testimony regarding fatigue and fracture analysis of materials, statistical analysis involving quality control, process flow and regression analysis, finite element analysis, vibration analysis, design analysis, accident reconstruction and accident reconstruction computer modeling.

2003 - 2005 Lead Engineer, Phantom Works - Structures, Boeing.

• Structural IVHM Team Leader for Advanced Support Concepts Thrust. In charge of technology development, budgets, and personnel.
• Aging Aircraft Team Leader for Phantom Works. One of six team leaders across the Boeing Company and the only non-manager of the team leaders. This is an enterprise wide team defining the state of the art in structural life assessment and enhancement, maintenance and utilization of aging aerospace platforms. Responsible for the effective and efficient transition and integration of multiple advanced technologies into robust and reliable methods and practices ensuring the safe operation of Boeing products throughout their economic life.
• 787 Technical Lead for the development of an onboard structural health monitoring system for the new airplane development team. Responsibilities include developing and evaluating new technologies and presenting this information to upper management. Technologies include impact detection, damage detection and environmental damage for composite and metallic aircraft. Congruently, a flight qualified battery operated health monitoring system was developed which was retrofitted onto existing commercial airplanes.
• Program manager for joint research effort with Australian government research agencies, CSIRO and DSTO developing corrosion prognostic algorithms.
• Member of various proposal and non-advocate teams.
• College recruiting including interviewing students for prospective jobs, scholarships and internships and interfacing with both the Society of Women Engineers and American Society of Mechanical Engineering chapters.

2002 - 2003. Adjunct Faculty, Dynamics and Thermodynamics, Mechanical Engineering Dept., Seattle University.

• Taught junior level thermodynamics and dynamics courses to mechanical and civil engineers. Responsibilities included preparing and giving lectures, homework and tests. Student evaluation rating was 4.23 / 5.00.

2001 - present. Project Engineer, Injury and Crash Analysis.

• Teaching short course for under ride analysis to a variety of disciplines including lawyers, accident re-constructionists and policemen. Provide analysis, consultation, patent litigation and expert testimony regarding fatigue and fracture analysis of materials, finite element analysis, vibration analysis, design analysis, accident reconstruction and accident reconstruction computer modeling.

1997 - 2003. Senior Specialist Engineer, Phantom Works - Structures, Boeing.

• Principal investigator, including liaison, program management and subcontract management, for the X-34 Acoustic Emissions Structural Health Monitoring System Experiment. Provided customer interface, experiment analysis and presentation of final report to NASA Marshall. Integrated a flight qualified experiment onto the X-34 developed by Orbital Science Corporation.
• Principal investigator / technical lead, for the Internal Research and Development program overseeing remote NDI sensor development and autonomous corrosion monitoring for maintenance and modification repairs.
• Program manager / technical lead, including responsibility for statement of work, program budget and scheduling over several fiber optic health monitoring SBIR contracts. Developed new health monitoring technology using fiber optics.
• Assisted in developing a corrosion damage assessment framework for the USAF, including performing crack growth analysis and risk analysis to model fatigue cracking due to corrosion. Interfaced with the customer, maintenance crews and university consultants.
• Performed dynamic modal analysis using PATRAN and NASTRAN for various programs including JSF, B-52, Sea Launch, TRAM II, and the Space Station.

1996 - 1997. Instructor, Integrated Product and Process Engineering, Mechanical Engineering Dept., Brigham Young University

• Faculty coach for two 5 person senior student design teams learning a structured design process while each team worked with a company liaison engineer to solve industrially sponsored and financed, two semester long "design and build" projects.

1996. Instructor, Material Science & Associated Laboratory, Mechanical Engineering Dept., Brigham Young University.

• Developed and taught sophomore level materials science course and laboratory for mechanical engineers. Responsibilities included preparing and giving lectures, homework and tests.

1996. Teaching Assistant, Aerodynamics, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Dept., Australian Defence Force Academy.

• Taught sophomore engineering drawing class. Developed and graded homework and design problems for second year aerodynamics design class.

1994 - 1997. Research Assistant, Composites, Mechanical Engineering Dept., Brigham Young University.

• Developed new modeling tools for analyzing and predicting passive damping in composite structures utilizing a new damping technology. Developed manufacturing methods of novel passively damped composite structures. Tested and designed composite damping structures utilizing this new technology.

1990 - 1994. Research Assistant, Tolerance Analysis, Mechanical Engineering Dept., Brigham Young University.

• Programmed, developed, tested, debugged and marketed AutoCATS, a Computer-Aided Tolerance Modeling System. Wrote users manual and presented software to sponsoring/buying companies.

EDUCATION

1994 - 1997. Mechanical Engineering, Ph. D., Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah.

• DISSERTATION: Modeling of Stress Coupled Passively Damped Composite Structures in Axial & Flexural Vibration.
• GPA 4.0 / 4.0.

1993 - 1994. Mechanical Engineering, M. S., Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah.

• THESIS: A Comprehensive System for Modeling Variation in Mechanical Assemblies
• GPA 4.0 / 4.0.

1990 - 1992. Mechanical Engineering, B. S., Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah.

• GPA 3.88 / 4.0, Magna Cum Laude.

1988 - 1990. Idaho State University, Pocatello, Idaho.

• GPA 3.94 / 4.0.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Appointments

• ABET Aerospace/Mechanical Engineering Evaluator, 2008.
• Professional Development Committee, AIAA, 2007.
• External reviewer for ADFA Mechanical Engineering PHD Thesis, 2006.
• External Advisory Board, ME Department, Brigham Young University, 2004.

Organizing Committee

• Expanding Your Horizons (Chair), 2009, 2010.
• SPIE International Symposium on Nondestructive Evaluation, 2005, 2006.
• SAMPE Material Exposition, 2003, 2004.
• Northwest Fiber Optic Society Workshop, 2003.
• Australian International Aerospace Congress, 2001.

Session Chair

• Congress on Corrosion in the Military Cost Reduction Strategies, 2005.
• AEROMAT Conference, 2004.
• Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring, 2003.
• Fifth Joint DOD/FAA/NASA Conference on Aging Aircraft, 2002.
• SPIE International Symposium on Nondestructive Evaluation, 2000.
• Techniques for Aging Infrastructure & Manufacturing Conference, 2000.

Short Courses Taught

• ACTAR Approved: Trailer Underride Analysis, 2002, 2008.
• Foundations for Leadership, 2007, 2008.

Short Courses Taken

• Crucial Conversations, 2008.
• Achieve Global Facilitator Training (management courses), 2008.
• Mentoring Techniques, 2005.
• Object Oriented C++ Programming for Non-C Programmers, 2003.
• Reconstruction of Trailer Side Underride Analysis, 2001.
• Behavior Description Interview Training, 1999, 2005.
• Hazardous Material on the Job Training, 1999.
• Structural Integrity of New and Aging Metallic Aircraft, 1999.
• Computer Based Modeling for Design Analysis with MSC/NASTRAN, 1999.
• Hands on Fiber Optics Sensor Course, 1998.
• Computer Based Modeling for Design Analysis with MSC/PATRAN, 1997.
• Fatigue, Fracture Mechanics & Damage Tolerance, 1997.

AWARDS & HONORS

• Women Tech Council "Rising Star", 2009.
• Boeing High Potential Team, 2004.
• Boeing Pre Management Assessment Program, 2004.
• Boeing Achievement Award, 7E7 CAS, 2003.
• Employee Appreciation Award, 7E7 Nacelle, 2003.
• Boeing Future Leaders Program, 2003.
• Employee Appreciation Award, Boeing Sonic Cruiser, 2002.
• Employee Appreciation Award, MRB & Liaison, 2001.
• Employee Appreciation Award, Phantom Works, 2001.
• Boeing Cash Award, Phantom Works, 2001.
• ASM Outstanding Technical Presentation, 2000.
• Employee Appreciation Award, Boeing Test Facilities, 2000.
• National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, 1995-1997.
• Brigham Young University Mechanical Engineering Outstanding Scholar, 1992.
• Boeing Undergraduate Scholarship, 1990-1991.
• Big Sky Academic / Athletic Top Ten Team, 1989.
• Sigma Nu Fraternity Scholarship, 1989.
• Idaho State University Full Academic Scholarship, 1988.
• Society of Women Engineers Freshman Scholarship, 1988.

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

• AIAA (associate fellow), 2007-present.
• WATAI, 2004-present.
• Tau Beta Pi (service committee member for 3 years), 1991-present.
• Society of Women Engineers (publicity chairman for 3 years), 1988-present.
• American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1992-2006.
• ASM International, 2000-2006.
• Phi Kappa Phi, 1992-present.

SERVICE / ACTIVITIES

• Jr. USAV Girl's Volleyball Coach, 2004-2005.
• Interlake High School Varsity Volleyball Assistant Coach, 2001-2002.
• USAV Executive Board Adult Representative, 1999-2000.
• USAV Women's Volleyball Coach, 1998-2000.
• Varsity Volleyball (Idaho State University), 1988-1990.
• LDSSA Student Organization (service committee member), 1988-1990.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Underride crash analysis.
• Material failure and fracture analysis.
• Subject matter expert in Structural Health Monitoring and sensor technologies for Boeing.
• Basic Finite Element Analysis (static and dynamic) using PATRAN and NASTRAN.
• Mechanical assembly of fiber optic components.
• Quality control, design of experiments and statistical processes using MINITAB and QFD.
• UNIX and DOS environment programming with FORTRAN, AutoLISP and RLAB.
• Designing with CATIA, CADAM, and AutoCAD systems.
• SEM and XRAY analysis including dark room experience.

PUBLICATIONS

Peer Reviewed Journals

• A. Trego, et al, 2003, "A Scientific Approach to Side Underride Analysis," Advances in Vehicle Aggressivity and Compatibility, Side and Rear Impact and Rollover Protection, SP-1775, Society of Automotive Engineers, Warrendale, PA, SAE Technical Paper No. 2003-01-0178, pp. 41-47, 2003.
• A. Trego et al, 2001, "Axial Passive Damping Testing of Mass Produced Stress Coupled, Co-cured Damped Composites," AIAA Journal, Vol. 41, No. 3.
• A. Trego and D. Cope, 2001, "Evaluation of DaDT Lap Joint Analysis Tools," AIAA Journal, Vol. 39, No. 12, pp. 2250-2254.
• A. Trego and P. Eastman, 1999, "Flexural Damping Predictions of Mechanical Elements Designed Using Stress Coupled, Co-cured Damped Fiber Reinforced Composites," Journal of Advanced Materials, Vol. 31, No. 1, pp. 7- 17.
• A. Trego and P. Eastman, 1997, "Optimization of Passively Damped Composite Structures," International Journal of Modelling & Simulation, Vol. 17, No. 4, pp. 284-288.
• A. Trego, D. Olcott, and P. Eastman, 1997, "Improved Axial Damping of Mechanical Elements Through the Use of Multiple Layered, Stress Coupled, Co-cured Damped Fiber Reinforced Composites," Journal of Advanced Materials, Vol. 28, No. 2, pp. 28-34.

Journals / Papers

• A. Trego et al, 2001, "Structural Technology and Analysis Program (STAP) Delivery Order 0004: Durability Patch," AFRL-VA-WP-TR-2001-3037.
• A. Trego et al, 2001, "Analysis of Side Underride Crashes Misconceptions and the Problems," Accident Investigation Quarterly, Issue 27, summer 2001, pp.17-19.

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