Chris Poranski

-Lead the three disciplines to identify, hire and develop critical talent needed

-Drive the creation and institutionalization of key business processes that drive Design for Assembly and Overhaul as well as accurate and achievable line maintenance goals for our customers.

-Develop and promote key technical leadership/ controlled title holders within the team

-Drive the adoption and everyday use of Flight Deck as our Lean operating system

-Create business and customer value through our contributions to our NPI and fielded programs.

-Responsible for leading and building the maintainability, supportability and human factors engineering teams.

-Over my time in this role we more than doubled the size of the team to meet the needs of the business, increased our contribution to fielded commercial programs and successfully navigated the challenges of the pandemic lockdown.

-Created and sustained a team culture that has yielded year over year increases in critical Glint survey topics and significantly higher scores than the rest of the business in key parameters

-Developed first ever NPI KPI's for Maintainability

-Embraced Flight Deck and have accelerated our Lean journey with standard work.

-Responsible for identifying hardware that had cost and delivery problems and executing cost-out workouts at the supplier.

-Conducted over 50 vendor workouts and identified over 200 parts with significant cost-out action items.

-Generated and maintained cost out action item database for reviewed parts

-Identified ~$500k in per engine cost reductions

-Technical Leader for Externals Hardware, Airframer Physical and Functional Integration, Life Cycle Cost of Assembly/MRO.

-Responsible for ensuring that engine design met Design for Assembly and Overhaul, as well as line maintenance, requirements and goals.

Responsible for the following: Digital Engine Content, Internal ICD's, Airframer ICD's, EBU Physical Integration, Fire Protection, Undercowl Ventilation, Nacelle Aero Integration, Nacelle Physical Integration, Airframer Requirements, Airframer Functional Integration, Controls and Acc Integration, Undercowl Phys Integration, Configs Integration, Assy/MRO process definition, Program C-parts Plan, GSE Tooling reqt and delivery, Engine Maintainability, Engine Reliability, PHM Reqt/Implementation, Assembly Readiness Level, Depot MRO Integration

Responsible for the design and analysis of the externals and EBU hardware for the LEAP1A/C program.

Led the generation and management of the Technology Roadmaps for the Product Integration Center. Secured funding for and led technology maturation plans for controls and accessories hardware Influenced supplier technology maturation spending and testing less.

-Delivered externals package that met cost and weight goals.

-Led effort to institutionalize the digital engine within the Fighter Engine Team and delivered the first program with a digital engine for every serial number in the development program.

-Led physical integration activities with the airframe and other major system suppliers.

-Completed several 6 sigma projects for product cost reduction