User:Meztoofan

Mehzad Toofan - I was born in Jahrom Iran in 1965 and right after I graduated from high school in Shiraz, Iran I immigrated to the United States of America in 1984. I studied Mechanical Engineering emphasizing in Aerospace & Aerodynamics at University of California, Davis & California State University, Sacramento. After finishing my B.S. in Engineering, I started on my flying career and received a VFR license at San Jose Int'l airport back in 1991 and an IFR licenses in US Air Force Flying club in 1993.

I started my M.S. in Mechanical Engineering emphasizing in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and received my M.S. degree from California State University, Sacramento in 1995. While I at graduate school, I spent 3 years working at US Air Force Environmental Division at McClellan Air Force Base in Sacramento.

I jointed United Airlines in 1995 as a Component Engineer working on Pneumatic, Hydraulic, Landing Gears, Electrical and Avionics on Boeing Family aircraft B727, B737-300/-500, B747s-200/400, B757-200, B767-200/300 & B777-200/ER Pneumatic, Hydraulic, Landing Gears, Electrical and Avionics. Starting in year 2000, I jointed the Power Plant Engineering group to be responsible on Oil Systems, Engine Vibration monitoring systems, Pneumatic systems for Pratt & Whitney PW2000 and PW4000 Turbo Fan engines.

After 13.5 years of service at United I joined Cobham as Global Service Manger managing satellite Service Department. Failure Analysis, root cause analysis and customer visit globally was the main task that kept me busy for almost 1.5 years.