Gary Koval

Experience

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  City of Troy

  Jan 2002 - Jan 2004

  Planning Commission

  Planning & Zoning

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  Gulfstream Aerospace

  Apr 2004 - Oct 2005

  Avionics/Communicaton Systems Technician

  • Coordinated and interacted with maintenance, inspection, and support personnel to repair aircraft terrestrial and satellite communication systems of government, private and international corporate aircraft.• Captured and analyzed technical data from air data system, terrestrial and satellite systems; coordinated with supplier field-service-representatives, and organized personnel and repair activities to support required tasks to meet customer return-to-service schedules. • Identified and resolved communication and avionics related issues providing customer focused technical solutions to meet servicing requirements of Gulfstream G300/400/500 aircraft systems. Show less

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  Boeing

  Oct 2005 - now

  Performed requirement and specification analysis, traceability, functional analysis, and interface definition of P-8 maintenance procedures; Leads analysis to optimize system integration tasks.• Defined, schedules, and monitors completion of multiple hardware and virtual maintenance trainers’ development; assures system design concepts meet the intent of customer requirements.• Operated and tested pre-production Virtual Maintenance Trainers to verify valid function and operation; captures and identifies technical issues (TI) and deficiencies for resolution.• Performed Engineering activities including design, development, and review of the P-8 Maintenance Trainer System Standards Specification (SSS) and System Requirement Specification (SRS). Show less • Led, managed, coordinated, and communicated all Complex Requirements Processes for the Large Aircraft Spares and Engineering program contributing to 30% increase in first time quality of delivered parts/assemblies.• Provided weekly and monthly status of Complex process parts/assemblies regarding program execution to program management, peers, multifunctional teams, and internal and external customers at multiple sites.• Led, managed, and supported multiple projects simultaneously while establishing continuous process improvement; facilitating successful program execution during Solicitation, of Complex Aircraft spare parts and assemblies.• Led, managed, and coordinated Proposal Development, Statement of Work development, peer reviews, document approval and Configuration Management. • Provided technical direction to team participants and supported Program-level staff meetings; Program Management reviews; configuration control reviews; process reviews; Program and Supplier Statement of Work peer-reviews and approvals. Show less • Led Boeing’s Distributed Mission Operations Network (DMON) Standards effort for F-15C and F-16 Mission Training Centers (MTC); responsible for development and management of all DMO Standards activities with F-15E, F-16C, and F-22 program integrated product teams (IPT)s identifying and verifying system and subsystem impacts.• Authored and coordinated all DMO Operation & Integration (O&I) Data-calls, issue papers, point papers, implementation strategies, and revision reviews with IPTs; gaining consensus on a “One Boeing” position for Standards issues across multiple programs.• Worked closely with multi-disciplinary, cross functional teams ensuring technical integrity was maintained for operation and integration; building effective working relationships with program/project leads, internal and external customers. Show less • Employed systems engineering methods to perform research, design, and development activities in pursuit of new technologies, or new applications of existing technologies. • Research focus was to develop the project plan and implementation for “787 Critical Parts Marking” and “CH-47 Automated Cargo Management System” projects.• Leveraged existing and emerging passive and active RFID technology in support of 787 Gold Care strategic parts marking initiative. • Liaised with asset tracking enterprises for Hardware and software tools including passive/active RFID tags; Performed analysis of operations, maintainability, and testability into a preferred configuration for mission success. Show less

  • Product Integration Engineer at Boeing

    Sept 2018 - now

  • Product Integration Engineer at Boeing

    Sept 2018 - now

  • Tactical Aircraft Sustainment, Life Cycle Cost Analysis Engineer

    Oct 2015 - now

  • P-8 Maintenance Trainer Devices

    Feb 2014 - Sept 2015

  • Large Acft Spares & Engineering, Engineer

    Jul 2011 - Feb 2014

  • F-15C Mission Training Center (MTC) Engineer

    Aug 2008 - Jul 2011

  • Supportability, Maintainability Systems Engineer

    Oct 2005 - Aug 2008