Working mission analyses in preparation for flight of IM missions. Primarily entails managing a team of spacecraft subsystem subject matter experts and directing analysis tasking to ensure mission success.

6 DOF sims, analysis, tool building, Monte Carlo, flight reconstruction, mission profiling, investigation of controllability and margin, numerical computation, parallel cluster computing, etc. Lots of Matlab, Linux scripting, OO design. Working ISS visiting vehicle profiles with Orbital, SpaceX, RS components. Part of the ISS GNC group under contract to Boeing under contract to NASA under contract to the good ol' USA. Duties include perform spacecraft/vehicle 6DOF control systems analysis, test, design and/or development. Run detailed 6DOF flexible model spacecraft simulations using various in house and NASA code. Perform Monte Carlo Simulations and post process results. Enhance and extend simulation capability while documenting and presenting results to an international team of partners.

Working guidance, navigation, and control analysis for the International Space Station (ISS) Program. A mixed windows/Linux environment with Matlab, C++, shell scripting, OpenGL coding, parallel programming and batch job control. Analysis tasks involve attitude prediction and control, anomaly resolution, optimization, dispersion/boundary analysis, mission planning. Some keywords... Orbital dynamics, flexible structures, propulsion, 6 degree of freedom, cross team coordination with flight controllers as well as analysts in Russia, etc. Highlights include a combination of code and procedure optimization that took analysis time from weeks down to hours.

Consultant under contract to Halliburton working in their research technology division, in the Acoustics domain. Every day is different, a fast paced windows C# environment using Agile processes and lots of projects. Working on optimization and architecture tasks in Matlab to C/C++/C# for realtime and non-realtime applications. Some keywords: down hole drilling, fourier analysis, realtime, C#, acoustics, inverse modeling, unit test, visual studio, team foundation.

Principal Investigator (PI) for biologically inspired algorithm optimization for the Morpheus flight vehicle, tuning parameters in uncertain and dynamic environments. PI for Lunar Surface Navigation. Presented research at conferences and workshops. Crew Exploration Vehicle Oversight team member within both GNC and Robotics groups. Project Lead on the Payload Deployment and Retrieval System for the space shuttle (robotic). Integrated Shuttle/Space Station robotic arm real-time simulations in a Linux/C networked environment. Performed modifications according to customer requirements and merged changes into overall distributed simulations. Delivered finished code to customer to be used in training astronauts on spacecraft subsystems. Worked customer hot issues, requested modifications, optimization, and development.

Worked on MPI based parallel computing algorithms in a high performance computing environment for Space Object Identification (SOI) projects. Worked on inverse modeling, periodic analysis, and cost function optimization for Satellite/Orbital Debris Characterization from photometric data. Supported Orbit Prediction studies in a mixed Perl/Fortran/Python environment. Developed data mining algorithms to extract variously formatted and archived astronomical and geospatial data for reduction. Spearheaded and won both the Experimental Computer Cluster effort and the Mars Steerable Parachute Maui sub-contract. Developed atmospheric, gravity, dynamic wind, and noise models for the Steerable Parachute to be flown on next robotic Mars mission. Developed a Particle Swarm Optimization variant that can track changing environments. Mentored summer cadets.

Worked on physical based modeling utilizing advanced AI concepts including Particle Swarm Optimization, Neural Nets, Fuzzy Logic, and Genetic Algorithms. Applied skills towards adaptive control systems and cooperative agent flight communications development for NASA Dryden’s research F15 project. Worked on simulation and model development in the Matlab environment for Unmanned Autonomous Vehicle (UAV) control, including 3D and 6D simulation and visualization. Developed atmosphere and oblate earth gravity models using neural nets. Ported undocumented legacy code from Fortran to Matlab.

Developed precision landing control strategies for next generation state of the art robotic Mars missions. This included data mining from 3DOF simulations to develop the optimal adaptive machine learning control strategies. Designed multi-agent computational intelligent control architectures consisting of artificial neural networks trained via particle swarm optimization and modified genetic algorithms within a fuzzy control shell, programmed in Fortran, C/C++, and Matlab.

Mostly worked as a tech engineer fixing and maintaining all the recording equipment but also produced recording sessions (on off hours usually), as well as assisted on some large label projects.

Engineered recording sessions, produced records, applied razor blades to magnetic tape. Worked on production of jingles for advertising agencies and musical records for various record labels. Maintained recording equipment, installed upgrades.