Kelly Ducote

CAD Designer/Drafter

Wichita, Kansas

spiveyrat@gmail.com - 316.744.9088

 

 

Experienced, skilled, and highly motivated CAD Designer/Drafter with 10+ years experience in commercial and defense aircraft part design, 3 years experience with Geographical Information Systems, and one year in Polymer Co-extrusion equipment design. Accurately and efficiently provided high quality drawings, designs, and datasets over my career.

 

WORK EXPERIENCE

 

Technical Product Designer

Spirit Aerosystems - Wichita, KS                                                                                                                                             2012-2013

Created and maintained layout models/drawings, installation/assembly and detail parts, and relational model for Boeing's 737 MAX Pylon Fire Seal Depressor. Assembled Powerpoint presentations outlining design changes, progress, and weight savings ideas of assigned work package. All milestones completed on time. Created systems brackets and maintained bracket/wiring interface model used between Spirit’s pylon systems group and an external wiring vendor for Boeing's 787-9 Pylon. All parts completed ahead of schedule.

 

Contracting Design Engineer

Triumph Aerospace Systems - Wichita, KS                                                                                                                               2011-2011

Designed detail parts, assemblies, and lay-up tooling for composite structural parts with CATIA V5.20 for a variety of Triumph's customers including Boeing and Cessna. Catia's complex surfacing as well as it's 2D and 3D capabilities were all utilized.

 

Design Engineer / Onsite Integrator

D3 Technologies - Wichita, KS                                                                                                                                             2011-2011

Acted as D3’s Onsite Project Integrator on Bombardier Learjet’s L-85 program. Supported D3’s offsite design group by uploading D3’s Catia models into Enovia, correcting errors in D3’s drawings and 3D models, and acted as liaison between Bombardier and D3. Supported D3’s offsite Stress group by downloading 3D models from Enovia to a repository where they could be accessed and analyzed.

 

Contracting Technical Product Designer

Spirit Aerosystems - Wichita, KS                                                                                                                                            2006-2010

-Created design layouts, and various Installation/Assembly models as well as their related sheet metal, machined, and extruded detail parts in Model Based Definition format for Sikorsky’s CH-53K. Supported the Cockpit Team’s efforts in achieving the 50% and 90% release milestones on time. Assisted the Cabin Team in their effort to achieve the 50% and 90% release milestones on time.

 

-Assigned to the Gulfstream G-650 group to assist them in their aggressive schedule. Checked wiring bracket part datasets and Enovia attributes against Gulfstream checklists and assisted in design of wiring bracket details/assemblies and wiring assemblies.

 

-Responsible for group checking, routing, and tracking hundreds of drawing packages from various outside vendors through Spirit’s Integrated Product Team for Boeing’s P-8A Section 46 Fuselage. Consolidated all comments from IPT in PowerPoint Presentations and electronically returned them to the vendors for correction.

 

Technical Product Designer

-Boeing Integrated Defense Systems - Wichita, KS                                                                                                                 2002-2005

Created all Layouts, Installation, Assembly and Detail drawings associated with the 767 Tanker Hose and Drogue Unit (HDU) Guide Tube. Responsible for solid modeling and release of all Guide Tube drawings/geometry which were all delivered on time. Assisted the Fuel Systems group with the design and drafting of the fuel piping systems assemblies. Supported the Mechanical Systems group in their design of various mechanical systems including oxygen header bars and overhead control panels.

 

-Boeing Commercial Airplane Group - Wichita, KS                                                                                                                1996-2002

Worked on a variety of Boeing Aircraft including the 737 Next Gen, 747 Freighter, 757-300, and 767. Design tasks included creation of many part types including Frames, Stringers, Skins, and Floors. Other tasks on these programs included generating Knowledge Based Product Definition inputs for stringers, pre-conversion of part list data into a Define and Control Aircraft Configuration format, and sustaining.

 

Geographical Information Systems Technician

Jasper County Appraisal District – Jasper, TX                                                                                                                 1993-1996

Used Unix driven Arc/Info and Cogo to generate digital maps creating property ownership boundaries. Attached account information between the District’s mainframe and our GIS workstation which enabled us to perform logical and spatial queries for data reports and map generation. Assisted in customization of our workstation to simplify its use with Arc Macro Language and creating a custom user interface of menus, pull-downs, and buttons.

 

Mechanical Designer

The Cloeren Company – Orange,Texas                                                                                                                              1992-1992

Applied AutoCAD to design working plans for customer approval and detailed drawings for manufacturing of polymer coextrusion dies, feedblocks, and pipe systems used in packaging, magnetic media, and other plastics related industries.

 

 

EDUCATION

 

Bachelor of Science, Industrial Technology - Design and Development

Sam Houston State University - Huntsville, TX

 

 

SKILLS

 

-          PC: Catia V5, Enovia LCA, Enovia VPM Navigator, PDM, AutoCAD, MS Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint),

MS Windows 95 / 98 / 2000 / XP / Vista / 7

 

-          Unix: Catia V4, Arc Info, Cogo