* Certified Dream Chaser Flight Controller* Member of the Flight Planning and Design team, developing integrated flight products such as mission timelines and ConOps, flight rules, procedures and displays for various phases of flight* Phase Manager for the Dream Chaser Ascent and Post Insertion Mission Phase * Developed and currently leading a program to capture lessons learned and actions for flight operations training simulations (Sim Outcome Actions & Retrospective / SOAR)* Flight Activities Officer (FAO) and TIGER simulation instructor* Create and execute test plans for software certification and migrations* Real time integrated vehicle operations for testing and non-conformance closure verification

Principal Science Operations Specialist (SOS; 2019-2023)* Real-time 8m world-class telescope operations, queue observing, calibrations, fault troubleshooting* Operational liaison between summit engineering crew, software group and astronomers/scientists * Procedural documentation creation and modification in response to faults and new featuresGemini North SOS-software Group Chair; Ops Support Group Member (2021-2023)* Create/troubleshoot/modify operational scripts and cron jobs * Maintain and develop Gemini python operations module `gempyops` via gitlab repository* Hold meetings and trainings for SOS-software group, provide guidance on projects, maintain script workspace environments, create documentation and uphold policies* Collaborate with Gemini South in Chile to unify operational scripts and procedures at both sites* Create live updating webpage of telescope weather and status for astronomers to determine whether to trigger quick response observations (linked below)Instruments Teams Member (2020-2023) * Investigations on the limits of Gemini North adaptive optics unit on extended objects (Cooper et al., 2022, poster), creation of python data pipeline (https://github.com/britcooper/ap_ao)* Create scripts to command/run/analyze tests for IR detector controllers ahead of instrument upgrades (Miller et al., 2022, poster)* Training with the Gemini real-time software group to upgrade DM screens to PythonQueue Coordinator (2021-2023)* First Gemini SOS to become a fully trained queue coordinator* Create nightly observing queue schedules for multiple weather variants to maximize science output and efficiency, taking into account various priorities Technical Secretary for the International Time Allocation Committee (2020-2023)* Aid Committee Chair in generating semester queues of programs allocated time by observatory partners, taking into account technical limitations and conflicts

Regular participation in MSL Science Team mission operations from 2017-2019 as:* Mission Ops Certified Environmental Group (ENV) Lead and Keeper of the Plan (ESTLK; 2017-2019)* Mission Ops Certified Geological and Mineralogical (GEO) Group Keeper of the Plan (GEO-KOP; 2018-2019)Science Team Collaborator (2017-2019)* Proposed, presented, and worked with operations and instrument teams to design a new atmospheric monitoring observation that is still regularly observed (Phase Function Sky Survey)

* Developed bash and python scripts to calibrate, process, and analyze rover temperature measurements to investigate the radiative effects of Martian water ice clouds at night (published in AGU JGR Cooper et al., 2021; posters at AGU 2019, 2020).* Gave a presentation to the Curiosity/MSL Engineering Cameras (ECAM) team on scientific validation of Environmental Science Team ECAM observations, in addition to an ECAM payload uplink lead operational shadow shift.

Research Assistant in Planetary Volatiles Lab (PVL) at the Centre for Research in Earth and Space Science, Lassonde School of Engineering - York University (2014-2019)* Created MATLAB pipelines to calibrate, process, and analyze: -- Photometry and atmospheric lidar observations of Terrestrial cirrus clouds (as an analogue for Martian water ice clouds. -- Publicly available data from MSL, MRO (using NAIF SPICE) and Huygens to constrain the scattering and radiative properties of clouds on Mars and Titan ( Smith et al., 2016; Cooper et al., 2019; Cooper et al., 2020)* Acquired atmospheric temperature, humidity and pressure profiles through drone operation, as an analogue for a future planetary mission (Cooper and Moores, 2016, poster)Teaching Assistant (2018-2019): * Facilitated undergraduate laboratory sessions and graded lab reports, assignments, and exams in both the Earth & Space Science & Engineering (ESSE) and Physics and Astronomy (PHAS) departmentsYork Dept. of Earth and Space Science and Engineering (ESSE) Tenure and Promotions committee Undergraduate Representative (2016-2017)Helix Summer Science Institute Analog Mars Mission Facilitator (July-Aug 2017)* Co-designed and facilitated a three day analogue Mars rover mission for elementary school children, with engineering constraints, realistic data, and image acquisition that adapted to their decisions. Updated and gave a presentation-style lecture on the history of solar system exploration.