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San Diego, California, United States

Redondo Beach, California, United States

Chula Vista, California

Provided configuration management support to the Airbus A320neo Nacelle Program. Responsibilities included serving on the internal configuration change board to review and approve change proposals, presenting and submitting design change proposals to the customer for external approval, tracking and documenting the implementation of approved changes on each respective nacelle component, supporting product configuration reviews and product acceptance reviews with the customer prior to each contractual component delivery, and generating and maintaining visual aids to provide adequate change approval status and configuration visibility to Program Leadership. Also served as the Aerostructures configuration management subject matter expert contributing to the corporate-level Teamcenter Unified Product Lifecycle Management software implementation initiative and the Vice President of Administration for the Aerostructures Leadership Development Association (ALDA).

Edwards Afb, Ca

Served as the UCAS-D Flight Test Instrumentation Configuration Lead, providing configuration management to the Unmanned Combat Air System UCAS-D Flight Test Program. Responsibilities included generating, submitting and presenting design change proposals, providing support to the design engineers during the implementation phase of the mentioned design changes, creating instrumentation measurand identifiers, maintaining instrumentation configuration control, and incorporating updates to the instrumentation documentation as requested by the various Integrated Product Teams (IPTs) and Responsible Engineers (REs).

El Segundo, Ca

Served as the F-35 Flight Test Instrumentation Configuration Management Lead, providing direct support to the F-35 Definition Management IPT and coordinating instrumentation design change activities with the F-35 Program Office. Responsibilities included generating and submitting change proposals, estimates and schedules, supplying the program with adequate and timely inputs and supplemental data to incorporate into their change authorization and implementation processes, participating in review boards to ensure the expedited approval of change proposals, timephasing the change-related efforts to supplement the existing program contracts, providing adequate situational awareness to the F-35 Definition Manager and the Flight Test Integration (FTI) Design Manager, and providing Earned Value inputs and status to the FTI Design Manager.

El Segundo, Ca

As F-35 Building Block Test Lead, duties consisted of providing direct support to the F-35 Systems Test IPT and coordinating test activities with the functional test team. Responsibilities included development and monitoring of the Building Block Tech Plan, budget & EV reporting, generating activity report inputs, writing or reviewing test Statements of Work and plans, generating test estimates, selecting suppliers during the procurement process, and providing conflict resolution. As F-35 Full Scale Ground Test Instrumentation Lead, responsibilities included development and monitoring of the Full Scale Ground Test Instrumentation Tech Plan, budget & EV reporting, generating and distributing activity reports, interfacing with the Palmdale Manufacturing Center, and providing conflict resolution.

El Segundo, Ca

Supported proposal effort for Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV) Program as spacesuit integrator. Tasks included providing technical inputs for inclusion in proposal package being submitted to NASA, supplying cost estimates for potential project activities, generating design concepts for EVA support hardware, and interfacing with NASA counterparts to define spacesuit system requirements.

Houston, Texas Area

Maintained International Space Station data acquisition software as member of Data Integration Team. Functions included developing software code requirements for International Space Station data acquisition system, ensuring multiple NASA organizations properly adhered to said requirements, updating software requirements documentation, verifying submitted software code, and implementing corrections as necessary.

Houston, Texas Area

Managed flight hardware and related certification project schedules and presented them to NASA management. Additional responsibilities included coordinating flight needs between NASA and contractors, providing project management status for all phases of flight-related activities, and supplying real-time mission support during Extra Vehicular Activities (i.e., spacewalks).

Houston, Texas Area

Operated as research and development team member nurturing spacesuit concepts that are able to withstand the Mars environment. Tasks included designing functional prototypes of life support systems and spacesuits, and testing said prototypes in a simulated Mars environment.

Houston, Texas Area

Worked as project engineer fulfilling short-term hardware contracts. Duties included developing training hardware design concepts, procuring raw materials, maintaining budgets and schedules, supervising technicians and draftsmen, generating CAD drawings, and fabricating training hardware for the astronauts.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Mba, 3.89 Gpa

Master of Business Administration (MBA)

Master Of Science, Technical Management, 3.77 Gpa

Master of Science in Technical Management

Bachelor Of Science, Mechanical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Theta Chi FraternityBachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering Theta Chi National Fraternity