Extensive experience in engineering structural mechanics including stress/deformation/load/failure analysis of aircraft, aircraft turbine engines and ground-based turbomachinery structures.

Broad expertise in the experimental, analytical, and numerical areas.

Balanced combination of academic and industrial experience with strong teamwork skills.

• Participate in the Aging Aircraft Program on fatigue examination of pressurized fuselage test articles and panel specimens.
• Develop finite element models of different scope and scale and carried out the stress/deformation/load/failure analysis for the fuselage test articles and flat specimens.
• Manage and perform the massive instrumentation, data acquisition and video monitoring of articles , components and laboratory specimens. Made advanced improvements of procedures.

• Conducted finite element stress analysis of aircraft structures and the structural details in the context of fatigue life assessment and design modification for the military aviation company.
• Instructed postgraduate students in FEA with applications in aircraft structures and structural details.
• Participated in the development of customized CAE software and provided technical support for the customers from military aeroengine company and research institute.
• Conducted numerical/analytical stress/fracture analysis of aircraft structures for the commercial aircraft company.
• Developed an algorithm to solve contact problem with FE method. Performed numerical/analytical/experimental stress/deformation analysis of aircraft turbine engine details and laboratory specimens.

• The Fourth Joint DoD/FAA/NASA Conference on Aging Aircraft, St.Louis, Missouri, USA, May 15-18, 2000.
• Tokyo Aerospace 2000, International Aerospace Exhibition/Seminar/Symposium, March 22-26, 2000
• ANSYS Conference in Japan’99, Tokyo, Japan, October 21-22, 1999.
• Meeting of the International Committee on Aeronautical Fatigue "Structural Integrity for the Next Millennium", 26th ICAF Conference, 20th ICAF Symposium, Bellevue, Washington, USA, July 11-16, 1999.
• International Conference on Fracture and Damage Mechanics, Queen Mary & Westfield College, University of London, London, UK, July 26, 1999.
• International Workshop on Technical Elements for Aviation Safety, Tokyo, Japan, March 15-17, 1999.
• International Conference on Modern Computer Engineering Technologies, Kharkov, Ukraine, April 10-12, 1996

• FEA experience: ANSYS, PAPST
• Experimental experience: Thermoelastic stress analysis
• Programming skills: Fortran, Pascal, Mathcad, APDL (ANSYS Parametric Design Language)
• Language proficiency: Russian, Ukrainian, basics in Japanese