Dean Wilkens

About Dean Wilkens

As a Technical Fellow for Kaney Dean is helping create new product concepts and assisting new business pursuits.While at Honeywell Dean was the Flight Controls Senior Chief Engineer of Honeywell Inc. It was a privilege to be part of an organization supplying commercial Fly by Wire products to leading Air Transport, Regional Jet and military customers along with Automatic Flight Control and Automatic Landing Systems to a variety of Intercontinental Business Jets, Regional Airliners and personal business aircraft.In this role, Dean provided technical leadership of Flight Control product development, new product concepts, strategic plans, pursuit strategies, review and approval of program plans and cost estimates. Responsibilities include ensuring Flight Control electronics meet stringent FAA and EASA hardware and software certification standards.Prior to that, he was Chief Engineer for an Automatic Flight Control System, responsible for system architecture design, safety philosophy and certification. This Autoflight system is certified on Gulfstream G450/G550/G650, Dassault Cessna Sovereign, Hawker Horizon, Agusta/Leonardo AW-139 and Embraer ERJ-170/175/190/195. Dean represented Honeywell throughout the certification process with FAA, EASA and ANAC authorities for AFCS and Autoland certifications.Previous to that he was Team Lead for the Gulfstream G-IV and G-V Head Up Display product development. Responsible for technical program development including Hardware, Software, Systems, Flight Testing, Bench/Simulation, Safety Analysis and Certification.Prior to that, as Display System Group Leader, he developed the product concept and led the development team for an Integrated Display Guidance Computer. This computer is the heart of an avionics system selected by Cessna for the CitationJet, Bravo, Ultra, and the Excel; by Learjet for the Lear 45; by Embraer for the EMB-145, 140, 135, Legacy 600/650; and by Fokker for the F-50.

Experience

1. Technical Fellow

   Kaney Inc.

   Oct 2023 — Present

Education

• University of North Dakota

  BSEE, Electrical Engineering

  1975 — 1979

Skills

• Control Systems Design
• Aviation
• Flight Test
• System Design
• Embedded Software
• Requirements Management
• Avionics
• System Safety
• Electronics
• Sensors
• Simulations
• Simulink
• Product Development
• Embedded Systems
• Testing
• Electrical Engineering
• Engineering
• Aerospace
• Software Engineering
• Continuous Improvement
• Engineering Management
• Aircraft
• Telelogic Doors
• Rtos
• Six Sigma
• Arinc 429
• Configuration Management
• Software Development
• Aerospace Engineering
• Earned Value Management
• Rational Doors
• Integration
• Program Management
• System Architecture
• Do-178b
• Systems Engineering
• Systems Design
• Lean Manufacturing
• Matlab