Ben Herbert Email & Phone Number

Sterling, Virginia, US

• Customers and Programs:
• 2019; 2021: Blue Origin: New Glenn - Systems Engineering and Requirements for Avionics Subsystem, New Glenn Validation and SEIT support
• 2020-2021: Northrop Grumman / Blue Origin “National Team”: Artemis Program Human Landing System (HLS) Appendix H - Fault Management and System Autonomy, Requirements and Functions, Safety and Hazard Analysis, Proposal.
• 2021: Northrop Grumman: NASA Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO) - Deputy CAM for Environmental Control and Life Support Subsystem
• 2021: UC Berkeley: Systems Engineering and high level design support for a large space telescope program study
• 2022: Northrop Grumman: Artemis Program Human Landing System (HLS) Appendix N and P- Environmental Control and Life Support System Integration and Team Lead; Deputy Lead Systems Engineer

• Performed and managed: power and energy budget, orbital analysis, requirement and interface development, concept of operations and mode development, risk management, trade studies, and fault management for small sat.
• Developed, coordinated, and led a successful critical design review and multiple technical interchange meetings
• Tasked and coordinated with subsystem disciplines to facilitate successful program execution
• Assisted in programmatic tasks including: schedule development, proposal writing, procurement, andvendor selection, and management

• Customer: Adcole Maryland AerospacePrograms: 12U CubeSat Phase I SBIR
• Served as lead systems engineer to mature vehicle and mission concept from proposal through Phase I SBIR
• Coordinated and led two successful design reviews with government customer
• Performed and managed: power and energy budget, data budget, requirement and interfacedevelopment, risk management, and trade studies
• Developed SBIR final report and technical content for Phase II proposal

Sparks, NV, US

• Senior Systems Engineer, Software and System Autonomy Group | Louisville, CO Programs: Dream Chaser Crew Transportation and Cargo Resupply Systems
• Facilitated task management across and between a broad range of technical areas and functional disciplines for a reusable spaceplane system intended to fly to the International Space Station
• Proactively sought out and resolved technical, process, and programmatic deficiencies
• Developed and managed: autonomy requirements, autonomy design and documentation, technical and programmatic trade studies, software development processes, systems engineering processes, software group tasking, concepts.
• Participated in and significantly contributed to: failure mode and effects analyses and other NASA Safety Review Panel products, system functional architecture definition (particularly with respect to channelization.
• Implemented use of Scrum and served as Scrum Master

Dulles, VA, US

• Principal Systems Engineer | Dulles, VA Programs: Orion Launch Abort System, Cygnus Cargo Resupply Service, Stratolaunch Air Launch System
• Developed, managed, and verified system ­level and low ­level requirements and interfaces in all phases of the program life cycle for human rated satellites and launch vehicles
• Developed functional test descriptions for software qualification testing and vehicle integration and test
• Reviewed test results to verify requirements
• Coordinated, developed materials for, and participated in several major design reviews
• Interacted significantly with both industry partners and government customers

Dulles, VA, US

Intern, Dulles, VA, May 2006 – Aug 2006Supported business development activities for LEO satellite systems, including engineering analysis, technical writing/presentations, and subcontractor selection.

Greenbelt, MD, US

Participated in multi-disciplinary NASA immersion program designed to develop leaders in the aerospace industry; Assisted with x-ray detector R&D.

Pasadena, CA, US

NASA/NY Space Grant Intern, Pasadena, CA, June 2003 - August 2003; June 2004 – August 2004 Worked on the proposal team for a Discovery-class lunar mission; Researched volatile transport on Triton (telescope data collection, data reduction, analysis).

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Applied And Engineering Physics

Master Of Science (Ms), Aerospace Engineering Sciences