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Nottingham, Md, Us

Lanham, Maryland

Supply expert-level technical analysis and evaluation of instrument performance during pre-launch calibration and characterization testing for JPSS VIIRS instruments as co-task lead of NASA customer instrument development and delivery team.Manage the instrument operations including scheduling and execution of on-orbit calibrations, including the development of novel instrument commanding for both Terra and Aqua MODIS.Oversee instrument anomaly investigation, response, and recovery for multiple instrument- and spacecraft-related events including software resets and hardware failures by finding a balance between minimizing data losses and assuring instrument health.Generate and compile technical reports, web-postings, and presentation materials to brief MODIS project scientist and members of the greater science community on MODIS instrument status and performance.

Lanham, Maryland, United States

Execute calibration agenda for the Spectro-radiometric Calibration Assembly (SRCA), an on-board calibrator subsystem of each MODIS instrument using its radiometric, spectral, and spatial characterization modes to evaluate the performance of MODIS visible, infrared, and thermal bands.Develop updates to the MODIS reflective solar band calibration algorithm and promptly deliver related calibration coefficients to science data processing team to account for changes in instrument performance.

Lanham, Maryland, United States

Analyze results from MODIS instrument calibrations, on-board calibrator data, and earth-scene observations to assess the performance of the MODIS calibration algorithm then evaluate, recommend, and document changes when proper.

Greenbelt, Maryland

Perform systems engineering tasks for the Space Support Equipment for the Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission 4 including mass properties analysis, tracking space shuttle interface requirements, and supporting equipment test campaigns.Serve as NASA-customer book manager and Photo/TV console operator at Johnson Space Center, Mission Control as part of the Shuttle Integrated Team (SIT) for STS-125.

Graduate Certificate, Project Management

Graduate Certificate in Engineering

Master'S Degree, Applied Physics

Master's Thesis - "Selective Deposition of Metal-Oxides Using Self-Assembled Monolayer Resists" Research Assistant Teaching Assistant

Bachelor'S Degree, Physics, Cum Laude

St. Mary's Project - "Design and Construction of a Raman Laser System for Atom Interferometry" St. Mary's Scholar