# Senior Stress Engineer résumé example

Twelve years of airframe and composite analysis, told through certification evidence that was accepted the first time.

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- Field: Engineering
- Career stage: Senior
- Written for: United States
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## Adrian Petrossian — Senior Stress Engineer

Stress engineer with twelve years on metallic and composite airframe structures, eight of them producing certification evidence for Part 25 programs. Owned the static and damage-tolerance substantiation for a composite wing-to-body fairing that the FAA accepted without a single finding. Appointed a Structures Designated Engineering Representative in 2024.

### Experience

**Senior Stress Engineer**, Hollis Aerostructures · April 2021 – present

Structures group of eleven; owns substantiation for composite empennage and fairing assemblies.

- Owned static and damage-tolerance substantiation for a composite wing-to-body fairing, accepted by the FAA with no findings across 340 pages of analysis.
- Cut a bonded-joint margin review from six weeks to nine days by replacing hand checks with a scripted Nastran post-processor the group still runs.
- Traced an in-service cracking report on 62 delivered shipsets to a fastener edge-margin shortfall and wrote the repair scheme that returned all 62 to service.
- Removed 41 lb per aircraft from the empennage by re-laminating three skin panels while holding every margin above 0.05.
- Mentors four engineers on composite failure criteria; two have since signed their first certification reports.

**Stress Engineer**, Whitmore Aero Systems · June 2017 – March 2021

- Built and correlated a 1.2 million-element finite element model of a cargo-door surround, matching full-scale strain-gauge data within 6%.
- Wrote 28 stress reports supporting a derivative type certificate, all accepted by the delegated authority on first submittal.
- Automated margin-of-safety rollups across 9,000 elements, removing about 200 engineer-hours per analysis cycle.

**Structural Analyst**, Larkfield Composites · August 2014 – May 2017

- Analyzed and tested 46 composite coupon and element configurations, building the allowables database two later programs were certified against.
- Showed the bearing-bypass method then in use carried 22% of unnecessary conservatism, releasing capability that removed 14 fasteners per panel.

### Education

- M.S. Aerospace Engineering · University of Kansas · August 2012 – May 2014
- B.S. Mechanical Engineering · Kansas State University · August 2008 – May 2012

### Skills

- **Analysis**: Classical hand analysis, Linear and nonlinear FEA, Damage tolerance, Fatigue and fracture, Composite failure criteria, Buckling and crippling
- **Tools**: MSC Nastran, Patran, Abaqus, HyperMesh, NASGRO, Python
- **Certification**: FAR Part 25 Subparts C and D, AC 20-107B, Static and fatigue test support, Stress report authoring, Repair dispositions