Alexis Benz Email & Phone Number

Littleton, Co, Us

Littleton, Co, Us

Bethesda, Md, Us

• Responsible for Solar array production on all 12 GPS and NGG OPIR vehicles in production.• Lead the development of an Integrated Master Schedule (IMS), manage team Earned Value (EV), and perform monthly Variance Analysis to ensure project deliverables.• Utilize advanced EVM tools such as EVAR, EvDataPro, and Mission Control to monitor and optimize project performance.• Awarded for a cost-cutting initiative that led to a $3.9 million reduction in project expenses.

Bethesda, Md, Us

• Responsible for the Payload Data Formatter on the NGG OPIR.• Spearheaded development and training for the NGG Change Management Process, enhancing project productivity and communication.

Bethesda, Md, Us

Interim position working on LM-400 and Mayhem

Bethesda, Md, Us

Responsible for the Space Environmental In Situ Suite (SEISS) and Solar Ultra Violet Instrument (SUVI) instrument for all GOES vehicles in production.

Pasadena, Ca, Us

• Successfully negotiated MSL Operational Interface agreements, and thread tests between the 5 project elements• Developed plans and procedures to enable 8 hour turn around time between downlink and uplink• Developed a graphical tool identifying contingent critical paths for MSL’s daily operations to improve the development of operations plans and procedures. (This was on my own initiative).• Owner and co-author of the MSL Flight Design Document

Pasadena, Ca, Us

• Maintained Master Equipment Lists (MEL), Power Equipment Lists (PEL), and budget for competed and directed mission studies; monitored resource margins• Systems engineer for Team-X, JPL’s premier rapid-mission architecture team; responsible for managing all subsystem leads in dynamic, time critical, iterative design environment.• Guided 2 day workshop (27 scientists and engineers from around US) down selecting instruments for Venus Flagship road mapping effort. Presented results on behalf of team• Developed and maintained project requirements for Orbiter Exomars Design Team• Routinely calculated mass and cost for propulsion and structural subsystems• Deputy Proposal Manager for Snowpacks Ventures proposal, Deputy Systems Engineer on Venus Flagship Study• Assisted with 3 Venus balloon helicopter drop tests

Greenbelt, Md, Us

• Developed vacuum pyrolysis chamber to vaporize lunar rock and evolve gaseous oxygen• Designed ultra high temperature parts for vacuum pyrolysis system• Co-Authored American Institute of Physics paper 'Vacuum Pyrolysis and Related ISRU Techniques' which won STAIF's Best Paper of the Year for 2007

• Led 2006MY Wind Noise Initiatives for vehicle audits in full-scale Aero Acoustic Wind Tunnel• Worked with supplier to design and fabricate wind noise-reducing technology for Dodge Durango

Dallas, Texas, Us

• Created, edited, translated and rendered CAD (Alias and Unigraphics) drawings to client specifications• Designed diverse parts for manufacturability; included both plastic and metal design projects

• Coordinated people and schedules of the project's sub-teams• Co-authored paper on “Range and Terrain” presented at the Mars Week 2002 Convention at MIT

M.S.E., Space Systems

B.S.E, Aerospace

Education record

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Aerospace, Aeronautical And Astronautical Engineering