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An Aviator, engineer and maker with a love for all things geek. Flying is fun, there is no doubts about the majesty and wonders that one can have while surfing the clouds. It is one of man’s most beautiful achievements, both unfathomable in its complexities and elegant in its execution. I am a tactically experienced Naval Aviator with nearly 1,500 hours of flight time in over 25 different aircraft; helicopters to jets, bombers to fighters. I am formally trained in the determination of a system’s mission suitability based on its characteristics and behaviors both individually and combined. I have also helped bring to fruition the intrepid Kepler space observatory and the MAGIC Tether, a satellite gravity gradient stabilization deployment system among many others. I have taken a personal interest in deployable embedded training systems to advance our nations readiness and warfighting capabilities. Reaching towards emerging technologies my team and I identified a new display system that was low cost, highly adaptable and easily integrated that leveraged existing infrastructure while offering vast new capabilities. Having been able to prove the validity and identify the potential of this system on three different aircraft on a shoe string budget it has since been picked up by NAVAIR AIRworks. This was done out of love for the cause as an aside to normal duties. I’m known as a man of many skills with a diverse and extensive knowledge base. This comes from years of formal and informal education, experimentation and dabbling in whatever takes my interest. From embedded software and hardware development, to metal work and machining, if it’s different or difficult I pursue it. I have built from scratch my own CNC Router, and 3D Printer utilizing a plethora of skills to include CAD/CAM, programming, machining and electronics design. With these tools I now explore the design of manual and autonomous robotics for both land and airborne platforms.

Naval Test Pilot and Project Officer @ From June 2015 to Present (7 months) Naval Aviator - Test Pilot Under Instruction @ Class 147 From March 2014 to June 2015 (1 year 4 months) Graduate Student @ Masters in Systems Engineering From August 2012 to March 2014 (1 year 8 months) Naval Aviator - Junior Officer @ Tactics Deptment Head, Aircraft Division Officer From March 2009 to August 2012 (3 years 6 months) Naval Aviator - Student @ From January 2008 to March 2009 (1 year 3 months) Student Naval Aviator @ API, VT-2, VT-9 From July 2005 to December 2007 (2 years 6 months) Associate Engineer @ Wire harness design and mass estimation From March 2004 to July 2005 (1 year 5 months) Structures and Mechanisms Engineering Team Lead @ Structures and mechanisms engineering team lead for the Deployment and Intelligent Nanosatellite Operations project From May 2003 to March 2004 (11 months) Machinist and Design Engineer @ Lead machinist for the production of prototype structures for the Deployment and Intelligent Nanosatellite Operations project From August 2002 to May 2003 (10 months)

Aircraft/System Test @ United States Naval Test Pilot School From 2014 to 2015 Master of Science (MS), Systems Engineering @ Naval Postgraduate School From 2013 to 2015 BS, Aerospace Engineering Sciences @ University of Colorado Boulder From 2001 to 2005 Tim Shilling is skilled in: Systems Engineering, Flight Test, Electronic Warfare, Military Experience, Additive Manufacturing, CAD/CAM, SolidWorks, Geomagic, 3D Printing, CNC Machine, Microcontrollers, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, C#, Command