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United States

Commercial Low-Earth Orbit Destination Starlab, Safety And Mission Assurance

Working together with engineers from APT Research, Nanoracks, Airbus, Voyager Space, Zin Technologies, and NASA on the Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability of Starlab, a continuously crewed, free-flying, commercial space station to serve NASA, global space agencies, and commercial customers.

Exploration Extravehicular Activity Services (Xevas) Program, Safety And Mission Assurance

Worked together with engineers from Bastion Technologies, Collins Aerospace, Oceaneering, ILC Dover, and NASA to develop reliability analyses for the Next Generation Space Suit, specifically the Oxygen Ventilation Loop, Thermal Control Cooling Loop, Primary Oxygen Loop, Secondary Oxygen Loop, and Power, Communication, Avionics, and Informatics subsystems. Products included Reliability Predictions, Reliability Block Diagrams, Failure Mode and Effects Analysis, Fault Trees, and Probabilistic Risk Assessment.Developed custom failure models containing collective data from NPRD, EPRD, and FMD databases to produce credible failure rate distributions for use within the quantitative Fault Tree Analysis to impact risk, design, and requirements of the Next Generation Space Suit. Provided MTBF values to Logistics and Maintainability for sparing analyses.

Axiom Space Station, Safety And Mission Assurance

Collaborated with Axiom and NASA engineering to develop hazard analyses for the Avionics and Guidance, Navigation, and Control subsystems to gain approval of the NASA Safety Review Panel for the integration of Axiom systems with the International Space Station

Stratolaunch Hypersonic Testbed Program

Worked as part of a team on the quantitative Fault Tree Analysis Modeling of the Talon-A Mach 6+ Hypersonic Testbed to ensure a reliable design and to develop the deliverables for the Federal Aviation Administration, Office of Commercial Space Transportation, Part 450 Launch and Reentry Licensing Requirements. Primary focus was the Talon Vehicle Propulsion System, Pylon Propulsion System, and Talon-A Engine System including the Ursa Major Hadley Rocket Engine.Assisted with the development of custom failure models containing collective data from NPRD, EPRD, and FMD databases to produce trustworthy failure rate distributions for use within the quantitative Fault Tree Analysis to impact risk, design, and requirements of the Talon-A Mach 6+ Hypersonic Testbed

Nasa Lunar Gateway Program, Nasa Glenn Research Center Safety, Health And Mission Assurance Contract

Provided Electrical, Electronic and Electromechanical Parts and Reliability support for various NASA Lunar Gateway Projects, namely, Solar Electric Propulsion, Power and Propulsion Element, Advanced Electric Propulsion System, Plasma Diagnostics Package, Main Electronics Package, and Advanced Exploration Systems Modular Power Systems. These projects are developing technologies for human exploration-class Solar Electric Propulsion transportation systems as well as highly efficient orbit transfer capabilities for commercial space operations and science missions. The technologies being developed include power processing units, high power magnetically shielded Hall thrusters, Xenon flow controllers, and diagnostic capabilities.Reviewed EEE Parts for compliance with spaceflight requirements including Grade Level, derating per NASA GSFC EEE-INST-002, and parts screening via the Government and Industry Data Exchange ProgramCollaborated with Orion propulsion engineers on the development and updating of the Failure Mode and Effect Analysis for the Orbital Maneuvering System Engine and Thrust Vector Control System for the Artemis ProgramReviewed the Reliability Prediction Analysis for seven electronics modules and five modular electronic units of the Advanced Exploration Systems Modular Power SystemsWorked as part of a team on the development of a piece-part Failure Mode, Effects, and Criticality Analysis for a space-based flash lidar system / 3D video system for the OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer) Mission. The piece-part FMECA included an analysis of all subsystems containing over 1,500 electrical, electronic, optical, and mechanical parts and over 11,000 failure modes.

Nasa International Space Station Program, Nasa Johnson Space Center Cargo Mission Contract

Produced Reliability and System Safety Engineering Analyses in support of pressurized cargo requirements for visiting vehicle flights to and from the International Space Station for: Northrop Grumman / Orbital ATK Cygnus, SpaceX Dragon, Russian Soyuz, Russian Progress, ESA ATV, JAXA H-II HTV, Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle, SpaceX Dragon 2, Boeing CST-100 Starliner, and Sierra Nevada Corporation Dream Chaser.Certified new hardware for the International Space Station by developing/utilizing: Flight Safety Data Packages, Standard Hazard Reports, Unique Hazard Reports, Integrated Hazard Analyses, Failure Mode and Effect Analyses, Critical Item Lists, Initial Assessments of Criticality, ISS Maintenance Analysis Data Set, Government-Industry Data Exchange Program, NASA Advisory Notice and Alerts Distribution and Response Tracking System, and Certification of Flight Readiness.Worked in an integrated role as part of a large team (NASA, Lockheed Martin, Leidos, Bastion Technologies, Visiting Vehicles, various NASA contractors) including sustaining hardware engineering, visiting vehicle engineering, cargo mission planning, cargo coordination, stowage integration, cargo processing, and quality assurance.

Space Systems Division

Performed Reliability and System Safety Engineering Analyses for the next generation NASA Exploration Spacesuit, specifically, the Advanced Life Support System, and the Power, Communication, Avionics, and Informatics subsystems.Provided electrical engineering support to the power design team during the Preliminary Design Review and System Design Review phases for the Power, Communication, Avionics, and Informatics subsystems. Primary focus was the Power Distribution Architecture, lithium-ion battery pack development, and battery management system.

Aeronautics F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Flight Operations, Test, And Evaluation Division

Flight Test Planning and Metrics Reporting: Worked as part of a team on the development of a high profile, enterprise level web application for flight test planning and metrics reporting across all test sites: Fort Worth, TX, Edwards AFB, CA, and Patuxent River, MD.Flight Test Telemetry and Data Processing: Worked as part of a team on the development of software applications for monitoring, collecting, processing, and analyzing telemetered data from various aircraft instrumentation to support air vehicle testing.

Nasa Constellation Space Exploration Program: Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle

Space Radiation Analysis: Performed space vehicle shielding optimization analyses to verify requirements for crew protection from the ionizing space radiation environment (solar particle events, galactic cosmic rays, geo-magnetically trapped radiation) and to further reduce crew exposure within mass limit constraints.Materials and Processes (Contamination Control): Executed contamination control trade studies to verify cleanliness level requirements for Orion spacecraft contamination sensitive surfaces during all phases (e.g., design, manufacturing, assembly, integration, test, storage, transportation, launch site integration, mission operations, and post-flight recovery). These analyses involved modeling end-of-life contamination levels seen by the contamination sensitive surfaces to ensure that hardware performance is not degraded by the accumulation or proliferation of contaminants generated by other subsystems, structures, or launch systems.Safety, Reliability, Quality Assurance, Mission Assurance: Worked closely with engineering (hardware, software, and integration), risk management, and operations functions to ensure that safe designs and operational concepts are identified as early as possible in the product life cycle, and hazards are identified and mitigated. Presented hazard analyses to the NASA Constellation Safety and Engineering Review Panel.

Space Operations / Remote Sensing Division

Performed optical analyses on remote sensing engineering projects for the NASA Earth Science Applications Directorate.

Business Services Division

Responsible for commercial telephony and data engineering management functions including quality assurance, cost control, and service provisioning in the local Cox Business Services market. Provided customers with an all-in-one Voice (telephone), Video (Cable TV), and Data (internet) package to compete in the telecommunications industry.

Network Systems Division

Engineered BellSouth central office and customer premise SONET (Synchronous Optical Network) TEOs (Telephone Equipment Orders) for Lucent installation.

Microelectronics Division

Designed and implemented photolithography projects to maximize stepper capacity, increase cycle time, maximize yield, reduce rework, and reduce cost. These projects were conducted in a 24-hour 7-day high-pressure production line environment running sixty-nine technologies between 0.18-, 0.20-, 0.25-, 0.30-, 0.35-, and 0.50-micron gate line sizes, and ranging from 17 to 29 lithography levels. Some of the technologies were: ASIC, SRAM, DRAM, Flash, MBIC, Linear, and Analog. Stepper models included: G-Line (436 nm), I-Line (365 nm), and deep ultraviolet (DUV) (248 nm) Nikon Steppers (Models 7 through EX-12B).

Research And Development Division

Department of Defense Top Secret Security Clearance. Researched, developed, and utilized computer models to predict the interaction between electromagnetic radiation and suspended multi-spectral screening materials to design obscurants capable of defeating smart weapons operating at various frequencies. These models were verified during military field tests.

College Of Optics And Photonics, Laser Plasma Laboratory For Science And Technology

Completed a variety of research and development projects in the field of extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography (50 to 200 angstroms) in collaboration with AT&T Bell Laboratories, Sandia National Laboratories, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories. This advanced high-resolution lithography enabled semiconductor wafer fabrication facilities to print more microchips per silicon wafer.

Master Of Science, Electrical Engineering

Specialization: Optics and Photonics

Bachelor Of Science, Electrical Engineering