Provided senior advisory services and managerial duties on complex aerospace projects through development, testing and certification.VIPER Lunar Rover Avionics, Systems Engineering Lead. Coaching the team on taking the designs from Critical Design Review through flight article production & systems integration in a pandemic environment in a Commercial Launch Provider Services arena.xEMU, Requirements & Verification Manager - Coaching bright talent in a technology development and integration environment. Arrived on the project at their Delta SRR with new (then new) requirements to go to the moon. Revised the project SEMP from classic boilerplate to reflect actual project inter-relationships with external participants - This template is being reflected in modern day project plans.

- Photographer / Columnist (Bay Area Media Services, Bay Group Media)-- The SCENE, Bay Area Houston, Change....- LFT Algo Programming -- Market Profile -- Static/Dynamic Resistance -- Volume/Order Flow & Supply/Demand Zones -- Cycles -- Backtesting- Industrial Consultant -- Operations Research & Industrial Engineering -- Process qualification -- Accident Risk elimination -- Growth planning

Bringing payloads & prime ISS equipment through the Safety Panel Process. Facilitating provider's development efforts and coordinating with Research/Project Integration Management.Payloads:- Combustion Behavior Experiment- Resin Bed Fluid Flow Experiment- Solar Array Upgrades (prime vehicle equipment)- Multi nano lab research facilities- Deployable Cubesats/Launchers- Station Spares- Processing demonstrations- Cookie Ovens- Wine

Integration Verification & Test, CST-100 Starliner- 192 Configuration End Items (Prop, Avionics, ECLSS, C&T, GNC, EPS, Ordnance, Landing & Recovery)- Component Qualification & Acceptance- Three spacecraft

Constellation Space Suit Systems: Networked product & organizational relationships, identified program gaps & overlaps - Charted long and near term execution paths. Identified product deficiencies against specification requirements.Master Verification Plan - Established environmental test requirements for qualification & acceptance for exploration space suits. Constructed Verification Logic Network from components to integrated space suit with associated Detailed Verification Objectives, 100% requirement coverage, and Verification Planning Sheets towards eventual Closure Notices. Identified both strategic resource gaps and efficiency opportunities.EEE Parts Planning - Drafted the Project Plan to support the component pedigree necessary to support human-in-the-loop applications in space based applications. Covered selection criteria, procurement, up-screening, administration.Failure Reviews - Applied Reliability Growth examination methods on the heritage system to project quantifiable reliability improvements and life cycle cost reductions.Logistics - Crafted the projects maintenance support concept for remote location scenarios (i.e. space based logistics) having limited support resources. Hurdles to overcome included traditional logistics definitions and practices.

Bioastronautics Contract, Flight Hardware Department - Improving the quality of living in outer space... - EEE Parts, Screening & Procurement Approvals (Upgrade screening of commercial and automotive grade parts for use in space) - Product Verification

Strengthens Customer Relations - Identified 2,094 unachievable customer verification requirements, withstood initial backlash and provided impetus for the resolution process. These differences and exchanges provided prime contractor opportunities to demonstrate integrity and earn customer trust.Reshapes Program Baseline - During asset / resource planning, uncovered numerous impossible network flows (Microsoft Project) supporting resource reallocations and baseline revisions.Requirement & Verification Planning - Bottom to top planning (Cradle database) for 30,000+ customer requirements into over 600 closeout events Managed / Satisfied Stakeholder Expectations – Liaison between Customer and Prime Contractor organizations. Understood & influenced customer desires, guided seller's projects teams. Influenced management decisions, and satisfied auditors.

Special Assignment - Safety Risk Quantification & Reduction- Measured and recommended steps reducing launch site incidents by two orders of magnitude.- Coauthor, "Launching Safely in the 21st Century, Final Report of the Special Committee on Range Operation and Procedure to the National Association of Rocketry", October 29, 2005- Influenced and approved national safety codes.- Administrator, NAR Safety Grant Program

- Educational Outreach Programs (math & science emphasis) through rocketry- Satisfied landowners Safety & Public Relations concerns- Developed nationally recognized range safety program- Spearheaded by-laws revisions for organizational robustness- Enjoyed designing, building and flying rocket gliders, multi-stage high powered rockets, flying scale replicas, duration events, and sport flying

Selected to join Constellation Team (SAIR SIG). Influenced decision makers and provided definition where none existed.Defines & Collects Requirements – Translated stakeholder needs into specifications and verification requirements.Process Planning – Stakeholder & expert contributor to the body of Project Management Plans for Constellation.

Transition Agent - Provided continuity and accomplished imperative tasking while the 25+ year incumbent departed and the new contractor took position.Scope Verification & Close Out – This project was abandoned by the departing contractor & receiving urgent customer concern. Grasped control in the middle of a wholesale organizational transition, Regained management & customer confidence, regained schedule control and supported the return to flight status. Received multiple Group Achievement awards.

Came aboard to help get a Space Station out of the factory, to the launch pad, and started up....Monitor & Control Procurements – Major product sell-offs were incuring hundreds to thousands of findings - Customer & seller relationships were highly stressed. Brought in as a third party liaison and implemented on-site multi-discipline processes at the sellers facilities, reducing findings to zero. Address environmental testing, EEE pedigree, qualification & acceptance, Proactively brought in Subject Matter Experts to address issues. Earned a NASA Public Service Medal, Silver Snoopy Award, and four Group Achievement Awards. (Return to Flight - OBSS, Return to Flight Digital Camera System, Space Station Test & Verification, Space Station Stowage Management Team)Program Office Integration – Prioritized and guided project engineers on daily matters. Reduced 3,600+ part numbers in the inventory by 60%. Addressed development, procurement, production, obsolescence replacements, user support & disposal.Fast Track Test Operations - Brought aboard to stabilize a critical path environmental testing program of multiple products experiencing hyper management scrutiny. Ascertained the entire program through network & resource modeling, implemented processes, activities, motivated staff, secured management & customer confidence, Institutionalized accelerated burn-in methods reducing test time from 300 to 17 hours per end-item and made deliveries.

The U.S. had just won the Cold War and it was time to clean up the mess...Procurement Monitoring & Control - Multitudes of different corporate backgrounds were resulting in general procurement snarl. Unified the supplier teams around proven procurement guides, regained control neutralizing customer & management scrutiny. ($13,000,000 budget)Fast Track Risk Reduction – Hands-on Engineering Field Manager for a critical path chemical test bed project (plutonium recovery, $24M budget, 12 skids, 300 major equipment items, 1500 instruments). Handled procurements, work progress, change control and stakeholder notifications. Brought the system on-line in less than ten months.Requirement Definition – Translated customer needs into tangible requirements for in-house, team mates, and sub-tiers. Products included remotely operated robotic retrieval systems and material handlers.Beyond plutonium recovery, other projects included Nerve Gas neutralization and soil vapor extraction.

West coast contractor relocated a diversified portfolio to a new lower cost work center. Supported 40+ major programs and product lines (Command & Control, Surveillance Systems, Weapons Targeting, Launch Vehicle Controllers, Electronics & Mechanical Manufacturing, Environmental Remediation)- Engineering Project & Procurement Lead for production line relocation ($54,000,000 budget). Provided 24 sets of Expendable Launch Vehicle flight control avionics with Zero field failures. Secured and qualified new sources, chaired Parts Control Board, supervised 17+ engineers.- Legitimized design fixes, support strategies and fully funded multiple worldwide product upgrades (8 sites) by gathering & presenting availability performance.- Reviewed field reliability & maintainability performance, on-site & factory repair information, and confirmed corrective actions supporting worldwide user site.- Resolved production line in-house stoppages- New Business Development - Analysis, planning, pricing, teaming agreements (16 proposals)- Designed & coded models (Monte-Carlo, Markov & Life Cycle Cost, Reliability, Maintainability, Availability) supporting local and corporate enterprises.- Wrote software that reduced test program development by 60-80% per design.

Human implant production -- Numerical control machine setup/operation, and FDA-rated quality inspection. Invaluable blue collar production experience.

Center for Transportation Research - Data collection and scientific data reduction programming supporting ergodic examination of two-fluid flow traffic efficiency.

Assembly and startup on the Texas Experimental Tokamak fusion reactor project. Invaluable hands on experience with the crafts & trades in a research environment.

Designed, assembled and employed pressure vessel apparatus to explore hydrocarbon fuel gas production via induction pyrolysis.