Xinyuan Tan

Principal Engineer at Quest Defense

Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

About

Passionate about advanced technology in Aerospace Engineering. Demonstrated success in Academia Research and Turbine Aircraft Engine Industry. Effective at managing deeply technical projects to deliver creative solutions to meet aggressive business needs. Strong leader in driving concurrence/buy-in for complicated challenging technical issues across diverse organizations.

Experience

  • Principal Engineer at Quest Defense
    Apr 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 4 mos

    Advanced Technical Program Management -demonstrating effective communication across disciplines and company cultures. Portfolio of technical projects across companies and engine programs. Translate customer needs into technical requirements, define workscope and drive internal technical team to meet deliverables. • Effective in identifying gaps in team and adaptable in bridging gaps to steer team towards customer needs • Strong interpersonal skills to lead team managers globally in crafting technical solutions for business unit, creating training curriculum and planning on technical needs/focus area upcoming • Efficient at developing new technical disciplines to expand company technical breadth and secure SOW, including assembly/disassembly and tooling, composites modeling, RCA assessment and Cost Engineering • Technical responsible includes both commercial and classified military work

  • GE Aerospace ()
    • Senior Staff Engineer/Technologist
      Nov 2022 - Feb 2024 · 1 yr 4 mos

      Senior Staff Engineer/Technologist, LEAP Systems Hot Section Module Integrator. Advanced Technical Program Management -demonstrating integration of technical depth, effective leadership. Strong leader -driving concurrence/buy-in for complicated challenging technical issues across diverse organizations.

    • Senior Staff Engineer
      May 2021 - Nov 2022 · 1 yr 7 mos

      Airworthiness & Certification -engine RCE, CFM CVE, COS joint-focal for enterprise-wide program safety issues. Technical Program Management –synthesizing technical breadth from fundamental Academia Research and Turbine Aircraft Engine industrial understanding to align to Airworthiness of Turbine Aircraft Engine. Effective communication skills –to guide GE/CFM in demonstrating compliance to FAA/EASA/foreign validation.

    • Staff Engineer
      Apr 2019 - May 2021 · 2 yrs 2 mos

      Staff Engineer/Technologist, Design Engineering, GE9X Engineering. Technical team lead –technically designed and managed the delivery of the most challenging high pressure turbine flowpath hardware across diverse technical disciplines (manufacturing, quality, sourcing, etc). Mission based cost-out team –leveraged leadership skills to creatively come up with Action Work Out idea with a $41k cost opportunity.

  • Adjunct Faculty and Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University of Texas
    May 2009 - May 2012 · 3 yrs 1 mo

    Research contract sponsors include Bell Helicopter Xworx and Boeing. Research topics include: -Analysis of equivalent stiffness for composite laminates with regular shapes -Effect of barely visible impact damage on hygrothermally stable bend-twist maximized laminates -Spring-in behavior of thick composite structures -Hybrid bonded/bolted joint repair of composites -Composites fan with increased mass flow rate under thermal loading Classes taught include: -Engineering Analysis (MAE 3360) -Materials and Structures Lab (MAE 3181) -Solid Mechanics (MAE 2312) -Engineering Statics (MAE 312)