Senior Systems Engineer
Pasadena, Ca, Us
Systems Engineer and Study Manager for a Low-Cost Lander concept development team responsible defining/exploring the mission, EDL, and science mission architecture and trade space.Systems Engineer and Study manager for a Mars Lander concept development team including definition of the EDL, mobility, sample handling, and science mission architecture.Systems Engineer for NASA Mars Orbiter Mission for the 2016 opportunity. Duties include resource management, requirements definition, system modeling, payload-bus systems engineering, entry system consulting, ATLO and Integration & Test planning, and international collaboration with ESA.Lead systems engineer for a Mars Ascent vehicle study team. Responsibilities include task management of budget, schedule, and personnel, requirements definition, reliability assessment, technology maturation planning, risk management, and proposal writing.Principal Investigator and Task Manager for the Orion Earth Entry Capsule drogue parachute subscale test program. Responsible for test design, conduct, fabrication, diagnostics development, and computational analyses, and contract management. Also a member of NASA JSC expert review panel responsible for Orion Parachute system risk assessment, system reliability quantification, and V&V program development/conduct.