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Worked with a collective of philanthropic and technical partners in founding a community effort - Earth Fire Alliance - that guides the development of space-based tools supporting the frontline of the global wildfire crisis, FireSat. Assists in leading the effort, delivering on the commitment of Earth Fire Alliance to provide transformative data on a global scale through user-driven technology, philanthropic funding, and radical collaboration.Driving user-community engagement of Earth Fire Alliance, with particular focus on plans for building out the Early Adopter community program and advocacy outreach

Providing business formation, venture, strategy, innovation, emerging technology, and data analytics services to companies that are doing their part to use technology to make the world a better place.Mission Operations LLC was founded to bring together skills, strategy, community, and hustle to do our part in accelerating purpose-driven projects and companies. It's the center of the Venn diagram of NASA Engineering and Operations, Private Sector innovation, Entrepreneurship, and a passion and belief that these skills can help make the world a better, more equitable, more compassionate, and more humanitarian place.Parent Company of ThinkSpace Consulting and People Love Art. More to come.Every person has a mission, what's yours?

Assisted in business formation, web development, UX services, logistics, supply chain management, communications, branding, marketing, and strategy. People Love Art is a brand and community celebrating the art of people with disabilities. The mission is to make art from the disability community more accessible by featuring it on apparel and home goods and selling it through an e-commerce platform to reach a national audience. People Love Art also exists to provide an additional means of income for the disability community. Artists earn 50% of all profits from sales of their merchandise. (People with disabilities live in poverty at more than twice the rate of people without disabilities. Only 32% of working-age people with disabilities are employed compared with 73% of those without disabilities.)

Established in 2016, ThinkSpace Consulting is on a mission to accelerate purpose-driven endeavors that seek to build a better future for our planet and our people who live on it. We provide operations and innovation consulting services to support cutting edge missions aboard the ISS and organizations with a mission to do good here on our planet. ThinkSpace's first partnership with Google resulted in Street View imagery collection of the 16 modules of the the International Space Station. Since then we have worked with a variety of partners from hardware companies looking to expand their impact beyond Earth, to educational research studies that provide new ways to utilize the data and capabilities of the ISS.

Developed operational strategy and oversaw successful execution multiple Space Frontier Foundation operations. The Space Frontier Foundation is a space advocacy nonprofit dedicated to a freer and more prosperous life for all humankind. The Foundation works towards this mission through on-going programs (currently 7 active projects), political advocacy, global outreach, community engagement, sponsorships, internships, and hosting our annual NewSpace Conference. These activities promote the advancement of technology, science, and space enterprise, encourage the proper conservation and use of resources in space and on Earth, and intentionally design accessible, equitable, and representative space exploration.Founded in 1988, the Space Frontier Foundation has nearly 35 years advocating for commercial involvement in the space industry for the betterment of all humankind.

Directed operations for the AstroAccess Flight 1 including flight experiment planning, team coordination, program management, and execution of 3-day operations in Long Beach California culminating in the zero gravity parabolic flight on October 17th. Additionally managed external communications and press opportunities for the team and Ambassadors.Planned and facilitated a 3-day Accessible Design Workshop with the MIT Media Lab Space Exploration Initiative (SEI).AstroAccess is an organization dedicated to promoting disability inclusion in space exploration.

Royal Oak, Mi

• Create and lead internal and external Business Strategy around innovation• Run the R&D practice, utilizing research, insights, and data to invent and drive internal projects that help define the future and push the boundaries of what is possible• Develop programs and tools to help accelerate innovative ideas and transform them into potential business and venture opportunities• Collaborate to develop custom solutions that utilize emerging technology and human-centered design to tackle challenges within organizations and help prevent industry disruption• Experiment with the latest technology - Virtual and Augmented Reality, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Robotics, Internet of Things, Wearables, Autonomous Vehicles, Sensors - and develop inventive enterprise use cases that solve complex problems• Lead the Innovation Consultancy offering, helping companies envision the future and develop unique business opportunities within their organization. Facilitate collaborative innovation working sessions with internal teams of 10-25 people.

Moffett Field, Ca

• Lead the Operations Team for the Rodent Research (RR) Project• Rodent Research is the flagship mission to enable animal research on board the International Space Station (ISS)• Optimize hardware for launching on the SpaceX Dragon Capsule and for use by astronauts onboard the ISS• Oversee crew training for astronauts that will be working with RR on orbit• Write crew procedures for use during on-orbit life science studies• Provided mission control support for the Rodent Research 1 flight to two astronauts enabling them to execute the largest experiment on the ISS• Supervise schedule and budget for the mission operations component of the RR program

Palo Alto, California

• Head of Operations Development for the Solar Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (SUVI) Program• Ground Processing Lead for SUVI data products and liaison to the ground system contractor• Lead data analyst for the overall structural, thermal, and optical performance analysis for the SUVI telescope system • Functional and comprehensive performance test conductor for flight level instrumentation• Manage and run the weekly tag-up meetings with the SUVI program customer • Developed the pre-launch and on-orbit calibration procedures for the SUVI instrument• Designer, developer, webmaster for the Health and Safety On-Orbit Monitoring websites for the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) and the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) programs• Utilize IDL, Java, JavaScript, HTML, XML, CSS, Microsoft Office, UNIX, STOL, MATLAB, Zeemax

Master Of Engineering (Meng), Space Systems

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Astronomy And Astrophysics

Activities and Societies: Golf Team, Women in Science Project (WISP)