Experienced Chief Engineer and Project Lead at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.- Expertise in the practical application of systems engineering and project management processes for large scale development and sustainment space system programs: -- Chief Engineer for the $188M NASA/Systems Engineering Advanced Services (SEAS) Contract, serving as the systems engineering technical leadership across a broad spectrum of NASA missions. -- Group Lead for the NASA Mechanical Systems Engineering Services (MSES) Contract, Advanced Systems Engineering Group, ensuring the cost, schedule and technical performance for all ASE Tasks, as well as supervisory responsibilities for ASE Group Members. -- Mission Operations Lead and Deputy Program Systems Engineer for the joint NOAA/NASA Space Weather Follow On (SWFO) Program. -- Mission Systems Engineer for the ICESat-2 Project, responsible for technical oversight of the development, test, integration, and operations of the ICESat-2 mission. -- Project Lead, ensuring the cost, schedule and technical performance all MSES contract NOAA/NASA Joint Polar-Orbiting Satellite System (JPSS) Flight and Ground development tasks. -- Development Technical Lead for the $1B NOAA/NASA GOES-R Ground Segment development effort -- Lead Systems Engineer for the operations center (Earth Science Mission Operations) for NASA's Earth Observation System (EOS) suite of environmental satellites (Aqua, Aura, Terra and TRMM) -- Project Manager for design, development, test, and transition to operations of $54M cloud detection and forecasting system for the Air Force Weather Agency- Integral member and DoD Data Processing Segment lead of joint NASA GSFC/DoD/NOAA Earth Science mission team developing the ground system for the National Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) - Masters of Science degree in Computer Science; graduated #1 in the class- 20 years of Air Force experience, with outstanding leadership, personnel management, organizational, and oral and written communication skillsSpecialties: Satellite Systems Engineering