My intrinsic motivation for leading lies with the essence of who I am as a person, not an engineer. An engineer is just the outer shell that defines my “what”, meaning what I do for a living.

I have come to recognize that I am someone who needs to help advance society in a significant way. I want to see others benefit from my efforts.

It was important for me to gear the briefs toward a wide audience, many of which didn’t have technical backgrounds. I accomplished this with separate slides for the introduction/objective, summary, and recommendations.

Quite often in my career I have received data requests from engineering specialists in other disciplines. Another skill that I developed was to work with the requester to understand how data I provided would be used and what questions they were trying to answer for their own customer.

I wrote a detailed wind tunnel post-test report summarizing the effects that a major airframe change had on aircraft performance.

I am well versed in communicating engineering data to aircrew. Over time, I noticed many different squadrons (i.e., a group of personnel that operate aircraft) came to our team with similar technical questions.