Michael Santos

- Responsible for planning, scheduling and managing engineering design and certification activities of Cabin Safety Interiors Team. - Coordinate and collaborate with various technical personnel, departments and vendors to facilitate engineering efforts in meeting target dates. - Provide transparency between Seattle, WA and Nagoya, Japan via meetings and company management tools. Assemble data from various interiors teams which simplifies and expedites correspondence of project key factors.

- Design aircraft interiors monuments and water mechanical systems for cabin development. - Collaborate with interior designers while providing guidance and direction in possibilities of generated interior designs. - Interact with electrical engineers and routers for electrical component installations and EWIS compliance. - Developed concise guidelines for engineers to utilize in filtering errors in their model-based designs.

- Lead, mentor and support engineering teams in Hong Kong and Xiamen, China. - Liaise in various international locations to administer critical issues in engineering and production. - Interface with customers during critical phases of a project such as CDRs and aircraft cabin completions. Develop galley assemblies, monument modifications and window shades. Design of IFE, floor structures, and galley air chiller installations. - Perform flammability analysis and support certification efforts.

- Generate R & D of new products and design standards for VIP Interiors application. - Develop engineering designs for aircraft monuments, including IFE installations and VIP seats. - Perform design reviews on cabinet and structural drawings. - Create design specifications and interface with suppliers to ensure proper delivery of products.

- Design aircraft interior monuments, floor structures and water mechanical systems per customers’ specifications. Coordinate with other engineers, interior designers and manufacturing for design and fabrication of parts. - Liaise with Jet Aviation – Basel, Switzerland attending to issues in an accurate and fast pace manner while coordinating with other involved departments. - Spearhead an A319 seat track installation project. Introduced a simple and systematic way of surveying floor structures.

- Design experience from sideledge to galley assemblies. Knowledge in seat track (BBJ) installation and water system designs. Ability to interpret mechanical systems and electrical schematics. - Introduced design improvements that minimize manufacturing cost and provided better monument features. - Liaise with EAS Completions in Bangkok, Thailand and Custom Air Interiors in San Antonio, troubleshooting pressing situations in engineering and manufacturing issues. - Led two partial modification projects.

- Interface with customers and engineering, procurement and manufacturing groups to coordinate design, fabrication and field start-up of industrial equipment. - Develop Piping and Instrumentation Diagram (P&ID) per customers’ specifications. - Provide improvement on projects based on pressure calculations, parts’ features and costs. Research and gather information for specialty fluids for proper handling and material selection.

- Design and build test fixture for wound healing products (VAC Freedom). - Prepare clear, concise, user-friendly text for operation/maintenance manuals; logistics support documents and other printed material to support an end user group. - Work in teams with Engineers, Electronics Technicians and other manufacturing professionals.