Space Systems Consultant
CurrentBusiness Objective:Provide value added support (improved win probability) to aerospace firms in their pursuits of space systems opportunities in the areas of mission architecture design and development, instruments, both EOIR and Microwave, and payload accommodations for US civil, international, and commercial missions.Most Recent EmploymentCalTech/Jet Propulsion Laboratories (JPL) Senior Manager, Civil and Commercial (C&C) Space Program Office - Responsible for all commercial partnerships and non-NASA Civil Agency activities within JPL with a yearly revenue growth rate of 25% and 2013 revenues, exceeding $60M.Prior to managing the C&C Space Program Office - Principal Engineer responsible for advanced conceptual mission architecture designs primarily for near Earth space missions and advanced instrument design studies. TeachingTaught advanced engineering courses - UCLA, The Catholic University of America and Montgomery College. Courses included space systems engineering, electronics, microprocessors and microcomputer system design and development through working prototypes EducationMSEE degree from The George Washington University School of Engineering in Networks, Systems & Controls, and a BSEE degree from The Catholic University of America (CUA) School of Engineering in Electronics Engineering. As an undergraduate at Catholic University - employed by CUA’s Nuclear Engineering (NE) Laboratory to perform Nuclear Research - co-authored numerous reports and publications and rose to the position of NE Associate Laboratory Director as an undergraduate.
