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Sheila Antonia Morales

Houston,United States

Summary

Dynamic Structural Engineering Manager with a proven track record at The Boeing Company, excelling in stress analysis and project oversight. Spearheaded team-building initiatives and mentored over 1,000 engineers, significantly enhancing team morale and performance. Expert in CASTLE and Microsoft Office, embodying leadership with a focus on safety and quality achievements.

Overview

21
21
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Structural Engineering Manager

Boeing
Houston, TX
07.2022 - Current
  • Lead and manage multiple projects and individual contributors from defense, space, and airplanes for Boeing Commercial Airplanes, and for Boeing, Defense and Space.
  • Develop team members' skills to prioritize safety and quality in everything we do.
  • Mentor and teach various individual contributors in the enterprise.
  • In charge of training over 1,000 engineers across the enterprise.
  • Constant communication with our clients to resolve any issues, maintain requirements up to date, seek to exceed their quality, safety, and schedule expectations by engaging them early on in the process, and keeping them apprised of any changes.
  • Team engagement: I prioritize the well-being of each of my direct reports by holding 1:1s at their discretion, providing the tools they need or seek an alternative, engaging in team-building activities, leading by example, demonstrating accountability, ethical actions, safety in the workplace and outside, providing training to strengthen their skills, filling gaps of knowledge, challenging their mind, etc.

777X Airframe Stress Liaison Manager

The Boeing Company
10.2021 - 07.2022
  • Manage day-to-day production issues for all 777X airframe tags.
  • Identify and prioritize all incoming tags by order of urgency, help support employees by arranging priorities in order to address incoming issues, while managing day-to-day expectations.
  • Support the 777x IPT (Integrated Project Team) and production with non-conformances, rework, and repairs.
  • Engage in one-on-one meetings with all employees, mentor them, provide advice, assist, and develop each of them.
  • Drive culture change to improve safety, quality, integrity, and engagement; development of engineers.
  • Develop and promote Stress Liaison expertise across the enterprise and connections outside Boeing.
  • Integrate across multiple programs, and capture lessons learned for future programs.
  • Challenge processes and standards to make improvements.
  • Successfully improved team morale, stability, promoted trust and respect, and encouraged SS&L (seek, speak, and listen) per survey results.

Airplane Safety Engineer

The Boeing Company
11.2017 - 09.2021
  • Highest record of accepted/approved BPSM (Boeing Problem Solving Model) by the FAA in safety organization
  • Achieved first pass quality on all projects
  • Recipient of the first Safety Recognition Award for 737NG/MAX Shimming Issue Investigation on Fuselage critical joints
  • Award presented by Boeing Chief Engineer and VP of BCA, in front of 70 leaders from Boeing and the FAA
  • Built a long and extensive relationship with the FAA/EASA and other regulators worldwide as we focused our minds and work to ensure incidents and accidents, productions issues, would not re-occur
  • Investigated and performed RCCA (Root Cause Corrective Action) analysis to support BPSM
  • Developed root causes when engineering, technical or operations problems are identified as airplane or personal level safety
  • Gathered/collected data, aid with quality investigations, provide support to supplier quality and supply chain, setup meetings for resolution and ultimately present results to upper level management and legal personnel
  • Main purpose was to provide first pass quality, resolve complex issues through process changes and improvements, internal and supplier reviews
  • Leading coordination throughout multiple teams across the enterprise
  • Engaged with various multi-functions (Structures Engineering, Service Bulletin Engineers, Quality Engineering, Supplier Management, Supplier Chain, Suppliers Tier 1 on a daily basis, lead meetings and presentations and achieve systemic resolutions that can be applied enterprise wide
  • On the case of complex projects, we directly present results to FAA SACO, CMO and BASOO offices
  • Managed potential safety issues from the time they become formally identified through their resolution and closure
  • Developed risk assessments for potential safety issues in order to ensure consistency and verifiable safety decisions
  • Support or present a clear, concise, and accurate presentation information for the safety review board evaluation
  • Requiring a consistent interpretation and use of safety process tools and guidance
  • Performed probability analysis to determine airplane level safety or personal level safety based on LSDYNA results, design guidelines, stress studies and information gathered from multiple functions: aero, avionics, propulsion, and system events data as needed to support the safety concern
  • Developed accurate and complete presentations for the safety review board in collaboration with program presenters
  • Perform comprehensive airplane-level consequence analyses for assigned issues
  • Perform data search of safety decision and fleet history and provide likelihood analyses for assigned issues
  • Monitored/reviewed in–service fleet event reports, COSP (Continued Operational Safety Program) and other sources of information to identify potential safety issues, adverse trends, and to be aware of events in areas of assigned functional expertise
  • Briefed upper leadership on a weekly basis on all complex projects progress, interim containment actions, actions to prevent reoccurrence, and what is in work to solve all safety complex issues, lessons learned documentation and future solution implementation
  • Provided FAA Support - service-oriented, responsive approach to FAA requests
  • Act as contact point for FAA coordination
  • High and effective engagement on a daily basis

Structural Analysis Engineer 787 Interiors

The Boeing Company
11.2015 - 11.2017
  • Performed stress analysis engineering in 787 Interiors Stress
  • Concentration and focus on BFE (Buyer Furnished Equipment) Monuments
  • Managed 4 Customer Intro accounts
  • Reviewed supplier stress document reports such as FEM Validation, Stress Analysis, Testing of Monuments, Decompression Analysis, studying internal configurations to minimize down time
  • Developed and supported the implementation of Fully Kitted Checklist, Lessons Learned Database, and Customer Supplier Boeing feedback
  • Stress Engineering Leadership Team, People Engagement team, Airplane Development Vehicle Team, 5S and Lean
  • Helped our team achieve level 5(highest level) in 5S and optimizing lean

Structural Analysis Engineer- 777X Empennage

The Boeing Company
04.2015 - 11.2015
  • Supported new design and sizing of the Dorsal Fin structure for new 777X airplane
  • Performed stress analysis for the Dorsal Fin structure to Interface to Section 47 Fuselage and the Vertical Stabilizer

Structural Analysis Engineer- Fuselage/Wing and Empennage Rapid Response Center 737NG- Post Production Support Engineering

The Boeing Company
03.2014 - 04.2015
  • Performed Design and Stress analysis substantiations for Customer Support Airframe Short Flow 737NG
  • Performed Margin of Safety calculations for Static Strength, Stress analysis, Fatigue analysis, and Damage tolerance evaluations to daily airline operator service requests
  • Drawing Structural Repairs for Cat A, B and C
  • CASTLE Subject Matter Expert (Database for all repairs, strength check notes, analysis, drawings, 8100 forms)
  • LEAN process –creating, modifying and improving current methods
  • Knowledge Transfer –training and instructing So Cal engineers of our processes and structures stress analysis methods
  • Structures Checker - Making sure repairs performed on a high level were statically adequate, ensured basic good design practices were followed and obtain quality score for substantiation packages
  • First Pass Quality Leadership Team–create methods for team members to engage in better and on time performance for all repairs
  • Introduced RSQCL (Repair Substantiation Quality Check List)
  • Employee Involvement Team –Team leader
  • Worked days, evenings and weekends as needed for support

Structural Technical Analyst- Fuselage 727/757 Post Production Support Engineering

The Boeing Company
01.2008 - 03.2014
  • Performed Margin of Safety calculations and substantiations for Static Strength, Stress analysis, Fatigue analysis, and Damage tolerance evaluations to daily airline operator service requests
  • Drawing Structural Repairs
  • CASTLE (Common Assignment and Substantiation Technical Log and Evaluation) Subject Matter Expert (Database for all repairs, strength check notes, analysis, drawings, 8100 forms)
  • Data entering, monitoring, checking and archiving
  • Collecting and tracking data for metrics purposes
  • Preparing FAA 8100-9 forms for AR and FAA approval
  • Crack Growth analyzing preface
  • Worked days, evenings and weekends as needed for support

South Pole Researcher

ERAU- Space Physics Research Lab
Daytona Beach, United States
01.2004 - 12.2006
  • Oversaw the operation of spectrometers and interferometers used to determine airglow such as Michelson interferometer for data acquisition
  • Developed algorithms to improve the process of data analysis
  • Performed data analysis and reduction of temperature and brightness profiles across the winter polar mesosphere, programming in IDL, UNIX, and C++
  • Assisted in calibration of Michelson interferometer using liquid nitrogen
  • Supervised and trained students to work at the Space Physics Research Lab

Education

Private Pilot - Ground School

Everett Community College
Everett, WA, United States

Certificate in Architecture and Systems Engineering - Models

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA, United States

Bachelor of Science - Mechanical Engineering

Oregon Institute of Technology
Renton, WA, United States

Partial Degree - Engineering Physics/Mathematics

Embry Riddle Aeronautical University
Daytona Beach, FL, United States

Certificate in Leadership Skills & Essentials -

Ed Wells Partnership –Boeing/SPEEA, Everett Community College
Seattle, WA

Skills

  • Stress Analysis Tools and database: IAS, SA, CASTLE (Common Assignment and Substantiation Technical Log and Evaluation), FEADMS, CSW Jolt Modeling, UNIX Jolt modeling, Shear Compression, Magic, BCS NG (Boeing Communication Systems for Commercial Airplanes)
  • Customer Support REDARS, BCS, MyBoeing Fleet Maintenance Documents, ACT (Airplane Configuration Tracking), SRM/SB/AMM, etc
  • Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Access, Visio)
  • CATIA, CANVAS, Matlab, Visual Basic, Pro-Engineer Mechanica, Linux, C, Maple, FEA (Finite Element Analysis)
  • -CAFTA, TARAM, Safety Risk Assessments
  • Performance updates
  • Training and mentoring
  • Team building
  • Project oversight
  • Engineering design

Additional Information

Fluent in English and Spanish, Safety is my drive everyday, Proven leadership skills –lead multiple teams in various roles, currently mentoring a variety of disciplines, Strong customer/supplier support experience –helped with customer resolutions- developed a tool for customer feedback, Exceptional research and problem solving skills, Great organizational and interpersonal skills, Ability to work efficiently with a wide range of colleagues with very diverse backgrounds, Experience in teaching/training and mentoring in multiple areas of expertise, Building positive relationships, communication, contributing to team success, developing others, Initiating actions, planning and organizing

Languages

  • English, Advanced, Advanced, Advanced
  • Spanish, Advanced, Advanced, Advanced

Accomplishments

  • Boeing Leadership and Engineering various outstanding awards
  • Highest record of accepted/approved BPSM (Boeing Problem Solving Model) by the FAA in safety organization. Achieved first pass quality on all projects.
  • Recipient of the first Safety Recognition Award for 737NG/MAX Shimming Issue Investigation on Fuselage critical joints. Award presented by Boeing Chief Engineer and VP of Boeing Commercial Airplanes, in front of 70 leaders from Boeing and the FAA.
  • State of Texas Certificate of Recognition - Hispanic Pride Community Service Award 2024
  • Forbes Top 100 Powerful Women 2024

Certification

  • Certificate in Architecture and Systems Engineering: Models completed at Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA United States
  • Certificate in Leadership Skills & Essentials from Ed Wells Partnership –Boeing/SPEEA, Everett Community College Seattle Campus, WA

Timeline

Structural Engineering Manager

Boeing
07.2022 - Current

777X Airframe Stress Liaison Manager

The Boeing Company
10.2021 - 07.2022

Airplane Safety Engineer

The Boeing Company
11.2017 - 09.2021

Structural Analysis Engineer 787 Interiors

The Boeing Company
11.2015 - 11.2017

Structural Analysis Engineer- 777X Empennage

The Boeing Company
04.2015 - 11.2015

Structural Analysis Engineer- Fuselage/Wing and Empennage Rapid Response Center 737NG- Post Production Support Engineering

The Boeing Company
03.2014 - 04.2015

Structural Technical Analyst- Fuselage 727/757 Post Production Support Engineering

The Boeing Company
01.2008 - 03.2014

South Pole Researcher

ERAU- Space Physics Research Lab
01.2004 - 12.2006

Private Pilot - Ground School

Everett Community College

Certificate in Architecture and Systems Engineering - Models

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Bachelor of Science - Mechanical Engineering

Oregon Institute of Technology

Partial Degree - Engineering Physics/Mathematics

Embry Riddle Aeronautical University

Certificate in Leadership Skills & Essentials -

Ed Wells Partnership –Boeing/SPEEA, Everett Community College

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