Stephen Price

Currently working within the Chief Engineering Office helping to develop, integrate, verify and certify the aircraft level systems requirements across the multi disciplined engineering teams.

Director of the company

Systems Engineer on a major naval marine program involved in developing the system requirements within DOORS for the Centralised Control Console (CCC) and Submarine Control Console (SCC) for the Dreadnought Submarine. Tasks also included helping to develop the system development process and change management system for the project within the sys-tems team, as well as helping to develop the validation and verification strategy for the customer requirements.

Systems Engineer on a major naval marine program involved in developing Power Plant EC&I system requirements, System and LRU architecture requirement documents and Sub-System requirement documents. Tasks also involved the review and resolution of customer and system level PRs and technical queries, identification of risks and appropriate mitigation action and development of the system development processes and documentation for the project.

Writing of System Requirements using DOORS, system development to ARP4754 and RTCA DO-160G, supporting HW/SW development in accordance with RTCA DO-254 and 178C, supplier/customer management, writing and approving systems documents including SDD, ICD, SDP, SysVal Plan and SysVer Plan, approving QTO, QTP and QTR’s. Writing of the System Verification Test Procedures, review and approve of System Verification test results and analysis. Write and review PR’s and CR’s in accordance to the Change Control process.

Responsible for preparing and completing the Risk Analysis Reports for the Aerostructures and Equipped Insulation Tank of the Ariane 6 Launcher. This involved a "Top Down" analysis, based upon the Statement of Work(s) and Technical Specification(s). Plus a "Bottom Up" analysis, this concentrated on the individual risks at sub-system and component level.

Responsible for the completion of the Sub-System VCD's on the Galileo project.

Responsibilities included; management of the System Verification Control Documents (VCD's), chairing the Verification Control Board (VCB) for the different VCD's, book captain for the Test Requirements Specifications (TRS’s), the transition of activities between system design and AIT, maintaining the Requirements Management Database (within DOORS), V&V of all customer, systems and Unit level (supplier) requirements. I led a team of 3 to 4 people successfully to oversee the above mentioned tasks.

Responsible for; Coordination of the Technical Supply Managers, Experts and monitoring of all ‎engineering activities. Technical support to the System Development, Schedule, WBS/WPD, Cost Control, Risk ‎Management, CRs/CCNs. Management of the ‘Invitation To Tender’ (ITT) process for supplier selection.‎ ‎ The System Requirements Specifications. V&V of the requirements from supplier to sub-system level, providing the verification evidence and justification files. Maintenance of the DOORS database.

Responsible for writing the certification documentation required for the TP400 D6 CMS Soft-ware Releases. Documentation includes Validation Strategy Reports, Standardisation Re-ports and Flight Approval Sheets. The task involves liaising with the various stake holders and design groups, including System Design, Software Design and Hardware to prepare and produce the documentation in conjunction with the CS-E’s for airworthiness approval and ultimately issue to the authorities (EASA).

Verification of the TP400 CMS requirements by alternative methods to system integration test. These include hardware qualification, design traceability, engine and flight test and analysis methods. The task includes producing and validating (with system design) the design traceability of top level system requirements down to the lowest level requirement that can be verified. The tasks involved obtaining and producing the verification evidence by the chosen method that provide complete verification coverage.

Working within the Validation and Verification department on the TP400 D6 project, I was responsible for producing the EPI System Development Plan and System Implementation and End Product Validation Plan to industry and project standards including ARP4754 and ABD0100 / 200. I was also responsible for producing and issuing the Flight Approval Sheets for different software trims and releases of the CMS on the Flying Test Bed engine.

(TP400 and BR725) Responsible as the Unit Engineer for Engine Anti-Ice Valve and Handling Bleed System for TP400. Plus the Starter Air Valve and Handling Bleed Valve for BR725. Responsibilities include Requirements capture, Integration, definition, Specification, Risk, Interface, Supplier Selection and Supplier Technical management / liaison. This was from development stage to qualification and certification throughout the unit design life cycle.

Responsible taking technical lead and leading a team of engineers the design of the A380 Wing Anti-Ice System through the design process of initial concept stage to Type Certifica-tion. This involves initial requirements capture, pneumatic architecture, definition, supplier selection, project management, integration (with Wing) and other systems to cost and schedule.

Responsible for the feasibility study of new Wing Ice Protection Systems architectures for the Power Optimised Aircraft (POA). This involved determining the heat power usage of the current bleed air anti-ice system and converting that in terms of drain off of the engines. This was then assessed against alternative Wing Ice Protection Systems in terms of power usage off the engine, integration with the aircraft and other systems and ability to met the JAR.25.1419 Appendix C requirements.

Dealing with in service WAIS issues on all Airbus A/C involving the WAIV and Telescopic Duct redesign and qualification. Ice Shapes prediction using Trajice2 and 3 (Airbus Ice shape prediction code) and dealing with the thermal and pneumatic part of the system using Flowmaster and first principles. Writing FTR’s and FAS’s for the various flight test campaigns involving the verification of the WAIS. Includes FTI preparation and analysis of the Flight Test reports and data against the system requirements

Responsible for the Systems Technical Lead on the Airbus Laminar Flow Project. This in-volved the design and feasibility study of an active Hybrid Laminar Flow System on the A320 Fin, (where we designed, built, and test flew on an A320 demonstrator), The A310 “Design for Retrofit and Retrofit for Design Project”, and the ALTTA project. This also included assessing and designing suitable Wing Ice Protection Systems, De-Contamination Systems and architecture of the suction system in terms of valves, ducting a

Working in the British Aerospace Toolroom responsible for the capacity planning, MRP and shop loading of the shop floor in terms of receiving the initial job and route card from the Tool Planning department and loading it on the relevant “Tool Cells”. This included procuring or organising the materials and resource for the job and liasing with the customer to ensure it was delivered on time and quality. I also acted as the “Front Desk” support for any tooling issues around the British Aerospace site.

Responsible for the planning of tooling work for the Fabrication department, Redux depart-ment, and the Main Assembly departments. This would range from programming CNC Cutter Paths (Anvil), cut and file, jigs, Bonding tools and assembly jigs.