1. Gordon N. Mayer
6135 Wellington Ct.
Cumming, GA 30040
gordonnmayer@gmail.com
Mobile: 337-427-0933
Professional Overview
A combination of training and practical experience in electronics maintenance, mechanical engineering, electronic system
installation, mechanical design, electronics integration, machine shop practices, and operations management allows me to offer
an employer the services of a skilled, mature, resourceful and adaptable team member.
Key Skills
 Effective team leader in electromechanical
manufacturing environment
 Excellent communicator at all levels
 Ability to motivate others to achieve desired goals
 Proficient at applying mathematics and science
concepts to real world applications
 Avionics test lab mechanical designer
 Avionics test lab operations and maintenance
management
 Avionics maintenance and system integration
 Outstanding team building skills
 Machining experience
Professional Experience
2015-2016 Union Tank Car Company, LLC
Alexandria, Louisiana
Maintenance Manager
 Personnel, purchasing and technical oversight
 Five direct reports representing over 25 personnel
 Responsible for maintaining approximately $100 M worth of mechanical and electronic assets
 Executed to plan with over $4 M annual budget
1996-2014 DCS Corporation/L3 Government Services Inc./EER Systems, Inc.
China Lake, California
Senior Engineer/Task Order Leader
 Management of over 30 direct reports in avionics integration lab
o Provided coaching, counseling and career development guidance
 Established and executed to annual budget of over $2 M
o Budget covered labor, travel, training and materials allowances
 Contract proposal writing participation for two successful win efforts
 Conducted manufacturability reviews and served as outside vendor interface
o Reduced custom metalwork expenditure by over 50%
 Fibre Channel interconnect hardware design
 Avionics mounting and cooling system design
 Technical oversight of Electromechanical Fabrication Technicians, CAD Operator, Operations
Technicians and Maintenance Technicians
 Customer interface for computer network administration, computer system administration
 Customer interface for staffing issues, job requirements, status reporting,
 Responsible for team performance in electrical engineering, software engineering, overall lab
system architecture and technical writing
1992-1996 Information Network Systems, Inc.
Ridgecrest, California
Team Supervisor
 Supervised four flight line technicians
 Reported status of company operations to prime contractor
 Performed scheduled and unscheduled maintenance on avionics data acquisition systems
 Provided coaching and counselling to more junior personnel
1991 General Dynamics Aircraft Services
NAS Fallon, Fallon, Nevada
Avionics Technician
 Performed electronic and electrical flight line maintenance on F-5 and A-4 aircraft

2. 1986-1991 U.S. Navy
NAWS, Weapons Test Squadron, China Lake, California
Aviation Electronics Technician
 Provided flight line maintenance on F/A-18, A-6, EA-6 and A-7 aircraft
 Troubleshot navigational, communication, cockpit display, radar, data link, weapons delivery,
electronic warfare and mission computer systems
 Served as the shop Dispersed Technical Publications Librarian and the Divisional Career Counselor.
Prior to 1986 WKM Wellhead, Inc.
Eastman Whipstock, Inc., Corporate Machine and Equipment; Unifab/Uniscape, Inc.
Machinist and Assistant Designer
 Operated machine tools
o CNC lathe
o Vertical and horizontal lathe
o Drill press
o Surface grinder
o Shaper
o Vertical and horizontal mill
 Fabrication and design support
o Manual drafting and pattern making
o Personal computer programming for pattern making
o Mechanical component research
o Prototype fabrication and testing
Education
2002 B.S. Mechanical Engineering
California State Polytechnic University Pomona; Pomona, California
 Curriculum included in part stress analysis, statics, fluid mechanics, heat transfer,
thermodynamics, finite element analysis, HVAC, materials science, numerical methods, calculus,
manufacturing methods and CAD
 Project: Designed and built an instrumented fluid flow system (including thermocouples,
proximity sensors, flow rate sensors and pressure sensors) that interfaced with data acquisition
hardware and created a custom data display system using LabVIEW software
 Passed E.I.T. Examination in 2002
1988 Certificates of Completion
U.S. Navy
 Avionics A-School
 Advanced First-Term Avionics
 A-7 Corsair Fleet Readiness Aviation Maintenance Program
 Overall curriculum covered electronics theory, computer design theory and their application in
military avionic system design
1977 Diploma: Machine Shop Technology
Evangeline Area Tri-Parish Vocational Technical School, St. Martinville, Louisiana
 Curriculum covered machine tool operation, hand tool usage and shop safety practices
Computer Applications/Languages
AutoCAD/Mechanical Desktop/
Solid Edge
Nastran
LabVIEW
MATLAB
Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Project
C++
Pascal
FileMaker Pro
Mentor Graphics Design
Smart Sketch