Christopher Gilmore Email & Phone Number

Washington, DC, US

• Visiting Vehicle Integration Lead - Destinations Program - Responsible for coordinating technical and programmatic inputs relevant to crew and cargo integration into Space Destinations
• Design integration engineer for Electrical Power Systems and Inter-Element Interfaces for the Orbital Reef commercial space station - Responsible for defining interfaces between space station modules and for the space.

• Managed over 25 engineers responsible for all System Engineering efforts for the Dream Chaser commercial cargo vehicle program
• Team performed technical integration, requirements development, and verification planning and execution with all subsystem areas (ECLSS, TCS, Structures, EPS, Avionics, Software, GN&C)
• Managed development and maintenance of scalable processes and related tools supporting requirements development, decomposition, allocation, validation, and verification
• Tracked completion/review status ~3000 verification tasks (system/ subsystem/ components), ~4000 internal system/subsystem requirements, ~600 Customer requirements, and ~3000 Hazard Controls
• Served as the ISS-NASA Integration Lead responsible technical and programmatic ISS interfaces, managing customer milestone meetings (design reviews/quarterlies), tracking programmatic actions, presenting requirement.
• Co-Chair for the Systems Integration Panel that oversaw interdisciplinary trades and issue resolution activities

• Deputy for the Systems Engineering, Integration, and Test Directorate consisting of over 115 direct and consultant personnel in the following disciplines: Systems Engineering, System Analysis - Aerodynamics, Dynamic.
• Represented the directorate as approver at various technical and program level decision boards
• Assisted in budget management, Earned Value Management (EVM) reporting, overall metrics strategies, and cross-program planning for the directorate

Houston, Texas, US

• Performed systems engineering activities such as requirement and verification development for system specifications, trade studies, and cross-discipline integration
• Consulted, and ultimately converted to direct employee, for the Sierra Nevada Corporation on technical and programmatic interface requirements with NASA’s International Space Station Program in support of SNC’s Dream.

Mclean, VA, US

• NASA International Space Station Program liaison to commercial companies developing crewed space vehicles
• Lead horizontal and vertical integration tasks related to the definition and verification of engineering and programmatic interface requirements
• Perform technical and programmatic trade studies and technical assessments and present recommendations to NASA program management on issues based on cost, schedule, safety, and the technical impacts of all feasible.
• Coordinate joint engineering analysis and tests for various teams including thermal, electrical power quality, electromagnetic compatibility, structural loads, and risk and reliability
• ISSP focal for vehicle interface issues, data exchanges, and technical and schedule performance activities

Mclean, VA, US

• Performed interdisciplinary and inter-organizational issue resolution, strategic and tactical planning, and International Partner coordination for NASA’s ISS Program
• Promoted to technical lead (July 2012) of small contractor team responsible for Systems Integration
• Led the Bilateral Electrical Working Group (BEWG) consisting of NASA and Russian engineers, strategic planners, Safety representatives, and flight control operators
• Performed technical and programmatic trade studies and technical assessments management boards and presented recommendations to NASA program boards based on impacts to cost, schedule, safety, and the technical.
• Mediated issues between international and local engineering teams and maintained schedules for integration of new Russian modules despite late-cycle design flaws and failures of critical test hardware by shifting scope.
• Identified opportunities and implemented solutions that increased team efficiency through the development of software tools

-Lead engineer responsible for integrating between system specialists and NASA stakeholders to define and test requirements for hardware supporting the Space Shuttle and the ISS for projects such as GLACIER and EVA Repair Tools -Authored requirements documents for over ten hardware design projects defining functional, physical, and performance requirements.