Resume of Professional Experience for

Keith W. Henry
1511 Fenimore Lane
The Villages, Florida 32162

fernhenry[at]comcast.net
352-259-5903

As a solid, experienced stress analyst, possessing more than thirty years experience in the Aerospace Industry, performing static and fatigue stress analysis on a wide variety of aerospace structures ranging from aircraft fuselage, wing, and nacelle structures, to helicopter, missile, and spacecraft structures, and from aircraft landing gear and aircraft wheels and brakes to surface effect ship structures, with credentials at some of the worlds best companies, I am seeking a challenging assignment. I possess a strong theoretical background and an incomparable foundation in engineering fundamentals and I am a U.S. patent holder. I am very capable with finite element analysis and math modeling, and I am a master at classical hand analysis calculations including discontinuity analysis, vibration/resonant frequencies, beams and columns on elastic foundations, plastic bending, plate and shell buckling, etc., including a wide variety of structural analysis experience of practically any category of aerospace structure. I have in depth experience with fatigue analysis of structures exposed to cyclic loading conditions; determination of mean and alternating loads, stress concentration factors, determination of damage ratios utilizing S-N curves. With the wealth of knowledge, experience, talents, and capabilities I possess I have the wherewithal to quickly adapt to any project to which assigned and will very rapidly begin to produce results. My analyses are very thorough and comprehensive. I am very conscientious and I aim to achieve accuracy and strive to become the very best at whatever is attempted. I am an extremely competent, capable, and self motivated engineer.

My strong skills and capabilities include performing loads analysis and stress analysis for primary and secondary structures, stress analysis on structural designs for proposals, preliminary design projects, and production stress analysis including static and fatigue stress analysis and formal stress report writing. I have the patience and the skill to lead and direct the activities of less capable engineers. I also have MRB stress analysis experience on aircraft wing and body components and on landing gear components. I am a very capable and motivated engineer that can produce results quickly and without supervision.

For many years I was a contract engineer, during which time I had the opportunity to perform stress analysis on practically every component of the aircraft. That experience broadened my scope of capabilities, thereby increasing my understanding of the structural problems associated with the entire aircraft. As such, I possess the unique capability to recognize potential problem areas associated with any element of the airplane.

After developing a comprehensive background in aerospace engineering and stress analysis, I went into business for myself. For the past fifteen years I have been designing and analyzing a wide variety of mechanical equipment for various industries. During this period I worked on numerous projects with the goal of obtaining US and foreign patents on the items involved. The most recent project pertains to a jackknife prevention unit for use on tractor/trailer rigs. The provisional patent was obtained in October, 2008, and the non-provisional utility patent application for this device was filed in June, 2009. (In a recent meeting with executives from the heavy-duty truck components manufacturing business, they acknowledged that of the numerous designs which they have reviewed for such devices, my design was the very first one they observed that would actually work.)

Prior to operating my own business, I was self employed, working on a personal service contract basis for various aerospace firms. For approximately ten years I worked for the following companies on that basis:


Bendix -- (Allied Landing Systems) -- South Bend, Indiana I have worked for Bendix
on numerous occasions. I was responsible for the static and fatigue stress analysis of the shrink/planning mechanism for the F/A-18 MLG, and for the stress analysis on numerous proposals for wheel and brake projects utilizing solutions from the NASTRAN computer program. Previous assignments include static and fatigue stress analysis on a comprehensive proposal for the braking system on the TFX advanced fighter, static and comprehensive fatigue analysis of the C-5A MLG and NLG, F-14 MLG, and the stress analysis for the proposal for the F-18 MLG.

Cleveland Pneumatics Corp -- Cleveland, Ohio I have worked for ClevelandPneumatics on numerous occasions. I was responsible for the structural analysis
of the strut and bogie beam on the C-17 MLG and the associated braces. I was also responsible for the structural analysis on the Bromon 2000 NLG. Previous assignments include stress analysis, including static and fatigue analysis on the F-18 MLG, the Boeing 747 Wing MLG, and the EA-6B NLG and numerous miscellaneous landing gear projects.

Dee Howard Company -- San Antonio, Texas I was responsible for the structural analysis of interior furnishings and equipment installed in the Boeing 747 and the
Boeing 747SP and for the structural analysis of the aircraft structural modifications necessary for the installations of this equipment.


Engineering & Economic Research -- Seabrook, Maryland. Assigned to the Conestoga
Project, I was responsible for the stress analysis of the interstage structure between the solid propellant rocket booster and the Conestoga payload module. All analysis was completed utilizing classical hand analysis calculations.




The companies for which I have worked during my career, as a contract employee and as a direct employee, and the projects on which I have worked are the following:


Aerojet General -- Fullerton, Calif. I was responsible for structural analysis of nuclear
submarine reactor components and components for the Fast Flux Test Facility. I was also responsible for the structural analysis of equipment for transporting such components.

Bell Helicopter -- Ft. Worth, Texas Assigned to NPDC (New Products Development
Center), I was responsible for structural analysis of advanced helicopter preliminary design projects and for the production stress analysis on AH-1 Super Cobra attack helicopter utilizing solutions from the NASTRAN computer program. I was responsible for the structural analysis of the Tow Missile installation on the 406 Combat Scout, including resonant frequency calculation to insure that resonant frequencies were out of the range of the forcing frequency.

Boeing Co. -- Seattle, Wash. Assigned to the 727-200 project in the CommercialAirplane Division I was responsible for the stress analysis of the redesign of the
nose landing gear support structure. Upon completion of the NLG project, I was later reassigned to the 727 QC project. There I was responsible for the structural analysis of palletized structures containing all of the aircraft interior furnishing. Later, assigned to the MX missile in the Boeing Military Division, I was responsible for the stress analysis of the liquid spring and various structural components of the shock isolation system on the MX missile launch facility.

Conductron-Missouri -- St. Charles, Mo. Assigned to the 747 Flight Simulator project
I was responsible for the loads analysis and the stress analysis of the Boeing 747 flight simulator including analysis of the installation facility.

Douglas Aircraft Co. -- Huntington Beach, Calif. Assigned to the Saturn S-IVB project,
I was responsible for stress analysis on the skin/stringer interstage structure and for the discontinuity stress analysis on the tank/skirt/bulkhead joints on the Saturn S-IVB booster.

Fairchild/Hiller -- Germantown & Rockville, Md. I was responsible for the structural
analysis on numerous assignments on the FH-1100 helicopter, and the Porter STOL aircraft at the Rockville facility, and at the Germantown facility I was later responsible for the stress analysis of the interface structure between the booster and the payload on the ATS satellite spacecraft project.

General Dynamics -- Ft. Worth, Texas Assigned to the F-111 fighter project, I was
responsible for the structural analysis of sandwich construction side shear panels on the center fuselage structure.

Grumman Aircraft -- Bethpage, L.I., N.Y. Assigned to the F-111 project I was
responsible for the structural analysis of the main landing gear support structure (clip fitting) on the F-111 fighter aircraft. Upon completion of that assignment I was reassigned to the Gulfstream Project where I was responsible for the stress analysis on the flap structure and the flap support structure on the Gulfstream business jet.

Hughes Aircraft -- Fullerton, Calif. I was responsible for the structural analysis of
shipboard mounted Billboard Radar electronic equipment and for the stress analysis on numerous air-transportable heli-hut radar installations for U.S. Army rapid deployment equipment.

Lockheed Aircraft Service Co. -- Jamaica, L.I., N.Y. I was responsible for the
stress analysis for numerous structural repair and structural modifications for airline passenger and military transport type aircraft including the VC-137, the C-121, the EC-121 (WV-2), the Convair 540, and the DC-8.

Lockheed Aircraft Co. -- Burbank, Calif. Assigned to the L-1011 Project, I was responsible for the structural analysis, including static stress and fatigue analysis of the strut, bogie beam and associated braces on the L-1011 MLG.

National Steel & Shipbuilding -- San Diego, Calif. I was assigned to analyze the
structural Capability of all jib cranes in the plate shop and made modifications as required by OSHA.

Nortronics Anaheim, Calif. Assigned to the Polaris project, I was responsible for the
structural analysis of launch control system equipment, exposed to shock and vibration environment, installed on submarines.

Rockwell -- Los Angeles, Calif. I have worked for Rockwell on numerous occasions as
a direct employee and as a contract employee performing stress analysis on a variety of projects ranging from installation of inertial navigation equipment for the B-70, the stress analysis of the B-1 bomber forward fuselage, the proposal for a Super Sonic Transport; at S&ID in Downey, I was responsible for the structural optimization on the Advanced Tankage Project, a weight optimization program utilizing Titanium Sandwich cylinder with a Titanium bulkhead, which included analysis of the discontinuity stresses at the tank/skirt/bulkhead joint. Later reassigned to the Apollo Spacecraft, I was responsible for studies for a possible window canopy to assist in landing the Apollo spacecraft. Later assigned to the Space Shuttle program I was responsible for the static analysis and the sonic fatigue analysis on the Space Shuttle thrust structure.



Rohr Corp. -- Chula Vista, Calif. I was responsible for the structural analysis of the
transverse frames and bulkheads on the 3K Surface Effect Ship utilizing the NASTRAN computer program at the Marine Division. When assigned to the Aircraft Division, I was responsible for the static stress analysis and the fatigue analysis on a variety of projects ranging from various engine nacelle projects and various thrust reverser projects.

Stresskin Products -- Santa Ana, Calif. I was the lead stress engineer responsible for
the static and sonic fatigue stress analysis on the quiet engine project, a Titanium sandwich cylinder located aft of the burner cans on the P&W JT-8D engine for use on the French Mercure aircraft. I was responsible for introducing the concept of discontinuity stresses at the joint consisting of the titanium rolled ring forging and the titanium sandwich cylinder section. Later reassigned, I was the lead stress engineer on the nacelle/thrust reverser structure for the Concord Super Sonic Transport project where the analysis was conducted utilizing the NASTRAN computer program..

Education

I studied Mechanical Engineering at the University of California at Berkeley and was awarded a Bachelor of Science Degree in Engineering from the University of California College of Engineering.