Brandon P. Email & Phone Number

SpaceX (launch vehicle and spacecraft) - 2006 to 2014 : - Acting VP of Avionics during Commercial Crew. - Director of Avionics Hardware Dev - Falcon 9 1.0 through Dragon Crew. Grew team from 4 to 120 - Key contributor to avionics architect for F9 1.0 through Commercial Crew - Avionics Responsible Engineer for Dragon COTS / CRS and Crew. - Radiation and EEE Piece Parts methodologies for COTS, CRS Crew, EELV and much of new space - Ownership of AS9100 compliance and auditing Virgin Orbit (air dropped launch vehicle) - 2014 to 2017 - Director Avionics and Flight Software - Developed Avionics Hardware architecture, org chart, budget and schedule - Grew team from myself to 40+, - Co-Developed Avionics Software architecture - flew successfully - Co-Developed Autonomous Flight Safety System architecture and novel algorithms - flew successfully - Did schematics and bring-up for the Engine Controller and Stage Controllers - flew successfully - Developed RF link budget, power budget and AS9100 tailoring - Key contributor to culture and branding developments, including key April 1st effortsZoox (Self Driving Taxi) - 2017 to 2018 - VP of Sense and Compute - Joined to stabilize the team and finalize sense and compute architecture for self driving car - Successfully stabilized and grew team - Compute architecture was straightforward and didn't really require my input - operating today - Successfully finalized sensor architecture - operating today - Sensor architecture, including long, mid, and short range cameras, radar, lidar, long wave IR, ToF, etc. Relativity Space 2018 to 2022 - VP of Avionics and Integrated Software (Flight, Test and Launch) - Co-developed Avionics Hardware architecture, org chart, budget and schedule - Co-developed Avionics Software architecture - flew successfully - Grew team from one to over 50 - Developed org chart, budget, schedule, RF link budget, power budget and AS9100 tailoring - Key contributor to defining culture and early Venture Capital efforts Beech Systems - 2022 - Present - CTO and co-founder - Working with amazing people to tackle challenging problems and accomplish amazing outcomes - Develop an Avionics ecosystem to disrupt the industry and support next phase of aerospace - Partner with other teams on team management, system architectures and detailed design