Hi, I’m
Christopher Burke
Seattle, WA,WA
Summary
I am a collaborative and technical leader with 18 years of industry experience. I believe in leading people through open and honest communication, and guiding with integrity to prioritize business and team member needs. My passion is resolving difficult challenges through driving cross-functional integration and developing key relationships in order to achieve completion. I am highly-experienced in product and program-level integration, having held engineering management and leadership roles in product development, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), Development Assurance (DA), and Regulatory compliance and certification. I also have significant familiarity with large-scale production systems, manufacturing capabilities, and supplier procurement.
Overview
18
years of professional experience
Work History
Boeing
Engineering Senior Manager
04.2024 - Current
Job overview
- Production integration leader for the 777X Propulsion & Fuels Engineering Integrated Product Team (IPT), leading integration of 777-9 design development with Supply Chain leadership, program management, and factory organizations
- Risk and Issue Management
- Assessing late design change implication to program schedule milestones, driving necessary mitigation and procurement actions
- Program Schedule Integration
- Led an assessment across all engineering IPTs of 777-9 design change, to inform program schedule scenario planning
- Program Management
- Leading the 777-9 Program System Functional Hazard Assessment (SFHA) / Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) / System Safety Assessment (SSA) performance to plan (PtP), driving stakeholder executive alignment and leading recurrent review of engineering teams’ execution
Boeing
Engineering Senior Manager
12.2022 - 04.2024
Job overview
- Cross-functional engineering leader in the 737 MAX Development Airplane Level Integration Team (ALIT), supporting critical regulatory and customer-facing activities
- Leading through Influence
- Drove integration and execution across impacted engineering organizations and leadership, for activities supported by up to approximately 100 engineering staff, without direct reporting structure alignment
- Issue Management
- Drove technical issue resolution through regulatory reporting, design and SSA development across impacted engineering IPTs, Reliability & Maintainability (R&M), and program leadership
- Regulator Engagement
- Led readiness and execution of 737-7 and 737-10 General Familiarization (Gen Fam) and Technical Familiarization (Tech Fam) activities with Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and Foreign Validating Authority representatives
Boeing
Engineering Manager
04.2020 - 12.2022
Job overview
- Manager for Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and Engineering Affordability capability development teams
- People Management
- Manager for 15 to 18 engineering staff
- Responsible for work statement execution, people development, performance management, talent retainment, and critical skill hiring activities
- Capability Development and Deployment
- Responsible for MBSE capability development with Information Technology (IT) and Boeing Research & Technology (BR&T) developers utilizing the SAFe Agile framework, testing execution, and release of IT-accredited capabilities to cross-enterprise programs
- Activity represented an approximate $25M yearly labor and capital investment
Boeing
Engineering Manager
09.2016 - 04.2020
Job overview
- Manager for Engineering Processes & Tools Site Support and BCA Engineering Document Management teams, with 15 to 18 reporting staff
- Skill Population Management
- Skill leader for an engineering technical specialist population of approximately 70, overseeing skill management, hiring, promotion, and retention activities
- Program Management
- Leader for a Boeing Commercial Airplanes (BCA)-wide, greater than $100M multi-year initiative to develop and implement Common Fall Protection solutions across airplane programs and production facilities [sponsored by BCA Airplane Programs Engineering Vice President and Enterprise Health & Safety (EHS) Director]
Boeing
Engineering Manager
11.2014 - 09.2016
Job overview
- Manager for the KC-46A Technical Integration & Configuration Management team, with approximately 12 engineering and administrative reporting staff
- Executed First Flight Readiness Reviews (FFRRs), Engineering Safety Reviews (ESRs), review of open production installations for Safety of Flight (SoF), Intellectual Property (IP) coordination, and Engineering Planning Commitment Request (EPCR) trade study responses
- Project Management
- Leader of a focused integration team to drive development closure for the closed vent fuel system configuration [assigned by the KC-46A Chief Project Engineer (CPE) and Propulsion & Fuels Engineering IPT Director]
Boeing
Project Engineer
07.2012 - 11.2014
Job overview
- Leader of Customer Introduction-Integrated Product Teams (CI-IPT), driving execution for first of customer-specific 777 and 767 configurations to delivery
- Integrated and ensured timely execution across option development, design development, build, test, certification, and delivery activities
- Design Development
- Organized, provided review of technical content, and conducted Preliminary Design Review (PDR) and Critical Design Review (CDR) activities
Boeing
Product Data Management Engineer
07.2011 - 07.2012
Job overview
- Assembled engineering recurring, non-recurring, labor, capital, and facilities estimates for 777 and 767 airplane configuration and production system trade studies
- Technical Project Management Performed technical project management across engineering IPTs, Warranty, Fleet Service Engineering (FSE), and Service Bulletin Engineering (SBE) to produce mitigations for Service-Related Problems (SRP)
Boeing
Materials Review Board (MRB) Liaison Engineer
09.2006 - 06.2011
Job overview
- Provided Non-Conformance Report (NCR) engineering dispositions for non-conforming 747, 767, 777 product and processed Corrective Action Records (CAR) to address engineering errors
- Delegated Design Engineer (DDE) and Design Approval Engineer (DAE)
- Held Delegated Design Engineer and Design Approval Engineer signature authorities for the approval of emergent drawing releases and Major/Minor certification determinations
Education
Gonzaga UniversitySpokane, WA
Bachelor of Science from Mechanical Engineering (abet)
06-2006
Gonzaga UniversitySpokane, WA
Minor in Business Administration
06-2006
Spokane Community CollegeSpokane, WA
Associate of Arts
06-2001
Skills
- Vehicles and Transportation Industry
- Product and Program-Level Integration
- Technical Leadership
- Program and Project Management
- Product Development
- Production Systems
- Strategic planning
- Cross-functional collaboration and team coordination
- Troubleshooting and problem resolution
- Data-driven decision making
- Documentation and reporting
- Data analytics
- Cross-functional communication
- Organizational improvement
- Logistics operations management
- Reporting oversight
- Influencing and negotiating
- Innovation management
- Cross-functional team leadership
- Teamwork and collaboration
- Team leadership
- Process improvement
- Problem-solving
- Problem resolution
Timeline
Engineering Senior Manager
Boeing
04.2024 - Current
Engineering Senior Manager
Boeing
12.2022 - 04.2024
Engineering Manager
Boeing
04.2020 - 12.2022
Engineering Manager
Boeing
09.2016 - 04.2020
Engineering Manager
Boeing
11.2014 - 09.2016
Project Engineer
Boeing
07.2012 - 11.2014
Product Data Management Engineer
Boeing
07.2011 - 07.2012
Materials Review Board (MRB) Liaison Engineer
Boeing
09.2006 - 06.2011
Gonzaga University
Bachelor of Science from Mechanical Engineering (abet)
Gonzaga University
Minor in Business Administration
Spokane Community College
Associate of Arts
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