Professional Resume _____________________________________________________________________________
Mike Erdahl
EMPLOYMENT:
Piper Aircraft – October 2014 – Present
Flight Test Instrumentation Engineer/Contract employee – Flight Test Operations. Instrumented multiple aircraft for flight certification. Perform instrumentation installation, calibration, data collection and data storage, and deliver data for flight test analysts. Experience with most commercial data acquisition equipment and processing/display systems.
Bombardier-LearJet Flight Test Center - July 2012 – June 2014
Project Engineer/Contract employee – Project Management. Managed multiple projects in the Bombardier Flight Test Center in support of certifying the Rockwell Collins Global Vision and Pro Line Flight Deck. Ran flight test projects for flight test readiness on multiple aircraft in support of new aircraft, upgraded aircraft, and sustaining engineering. Managed the avionics and structural Change Control Board to evaluate problem reports and assign priorities for resolution.
Manufacturer’s Representative/Technical Consultant - October 2002 – December 2011
Self-employed consultant and technical sales representative in the telemetry and communications industry. Representative for companies providing airborne and ground telemetry and avionics equipment to defense contractors, airframe manufacturers, and military sites. Provided technical consulting and field applications support. Evaluating technical requirements and maintaining customer relations. Have specific expertise in commercial products used for aviation instrumentation, flight test, tracking airborne aircraft, data acquisition and data processing.
Acterna Corporation(formerly Cheetah Technologies) - Bradenton, Florida. - February 2000- April 2002
Sr. Program Manager/Product Manager - Manager of a project management team. Developed and managed a broadband telecommunications transponder product line for data acquisition and status monitoring systems in the cable TV and ISP industry.
Veridian Systems, Inc. - California, Maryland, January 1996 - February 2000
Manager of Systems Applications Engineering - Technical business position operating out of Florida to provide applications engineering and sales support in the southeast territory.
The products consisted of telemetry hardware and software, instrumentation and avionics hardware, and telecommunications equipment. These components were used to integrate custom turnkey telemetry data acquisition/processing and communications systems used primarily in aircraft flight test, launch control, and range safety systems to monitor on-board sensors.
Microdyne Corporation - Ocala, Florida, May 1995 - January 1996
Systems Manager - Management of a systems engineering and marketing team in domestic and international sales of telemetry, RF, and communications systems. This position involved working in a start-up division of the company to expand and g...
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