Brian Yount
Senior Principle Engineer

Brian attended the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy from 1981 to 1983 prior to transferring and graduating in 1985 from Purdue University with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering. Upon graduation, he began his professional career with Lockheed Aeronautical Systems Company in Burbank, CA. He quickly became a project engineer in the Facilities department for manufacturing equipment procurements and installations along with mechanical building support systems. This included upgrades and process improvements to enhance production of composite aircraft structures.

In 1990, Brian joined The Boeing Company as an Equipment Engineer focused on composite manufacturing of the B-2 wing structures in Seattle, WA. He was responsible for the mechanical systems such as natural gas burners, heat exchangers, vacuum piping and pumps, primary drive motor forced air circulation, and material handling for two of the largest composite curing autoclaves in the U.S. at that time. Major projects included a $ 1.5M modernization of a gas fired autoclave that included a completed rebuild from the pressure vessel shell, insulation, and stainless interior skin after a complete stainless air-to-air circular tube exchanger was retrofitted into the rear of the autoclave. A right sized natural gas combustion burner was installed to provide greater temperature control for the 25 ft diameter by 90 ft long autoclave unit. At the conclusion of this project, Brian was awarded the Boeing Defense & Space Facilities Employee of the Year 1992. Other composite equipment projects in the Boeing Developmental Center were a composite tape layer machine, laboratory paint application unit, and post cure ovens. During this period, Brian gained significant understanding and application of the ASME Pressure Vessel code, Section VII, Div 1 along the its associated NDT inspection requirements.

In 1994, Brian transferred to The Boeing Defense & Space group’s Oak Ridge, TN facility as a Sr. Equipment Engineer to oversee the modernization of its aluminum and titanium machining operations. A three year capital improvement campaign to assess and acquire the best commercially available CNC machines fell as his assignment. After the completion of these projects, he underwent a change in responsibility to a Manufacturing Process Engineer. This assignment allowed a closer tie to the daily manufacturing requirements, schedules, and processes directly connected to aircraft components and sub-assemblies, both machined and sheet metal forming. In 2000, Brian completed the GE Aircraft Engines Six Sigma program to earn his green belt. A significant green belt project was the application of on machine probe inspection routines to validate hardware on a real basis. In 2005, Brian was certified as a MRB Liaison Engineer by The Boeing Company.

At the beginning of 2006, he became assigned as the Project Engineer for the design-build effort for the centrifuge rotor balance stand. He lead a team of technicians, designers, and contract augmented staff to complete the installation, checkout, and qualification on the stand. The documentation and drawing configuration on that effort was under his supervision to allow for the 2007 expansion of additional stands required for the commercial plant delivery schedule. Brian served in this role as Balance Stand Project Engineer until joining NSA in January of 2005 to support the GEH Silex Enrichment Plant design effort.