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Washington Dc Area

Washington Dc Area

Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States

Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States

The 1st SOPS is the U.S. Space Force’s premier organization for space-based space domain awareness to assure access to space by commanding satellites to collect and disseminate decision-quality information throughout the spectrum of conflict. The squadron commands, controls and operates the Space Based Space Surveillance System, Advanced Technology Risk Reduction system, Operationally Responsive Space-5 and the Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program.Mission crews conduct 24-hour operations supporting the three major functions of satellite control: telemetry, tracking and commanding for USSF’s only space-based SDA assets. Orbital analysts, mission planners and program engineers provide program-specific knowledge and support to those crews while operators perform all pre-contact planning, real-time contact and post-contact actions.

Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States

The 1st SOPS is the U.S. Space Force’s premier organization for space-based space domain awareness to assure access to space by commanding satellites to collect and disseminate decision-quality information throughout the spectrum of conflict. The squadron commands, controls and operates the Space Based Space Surveillance System, Advanced Technology Risk Reduction system, Operationally Responsive Space-5 and the Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program.Mission crews conduct 24-hour operations supporting the three major functions of satellite control: telemetry, tracking and commanding for USSF’s only space-based SDA assets. Orbital analysts, mission planners and program engineers provide program-specific knowledge and support to those crews while operators perform all pre-contact planning, real-time contact and post-contact actions.

Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States

Chosen to lead the standup of a new program focused on R&D for establishing domain awareness of the space beyond GEO (known as XGEO or cislunar) and out to at least Earth-Moon L2. Established 3 new lines of effort and a new flight experiment program. Conducted experiments with existing systems, coordinated across multiple govt agencies and international partners, and organized strategic level summits to orient USG planning and policy.Oracle was stood up as a flight program under the newly-formed cislunar R&D team. The goal with Oracle is to demonstrate the end-to-end capabilities needed to effectively monitor cislunar space. This includes the flight segment as well as the ground back end to process all of the data coming down.

Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States

Chosen to lead the standup of a new program focused on R&D for establishing domain awareness of the space beyond GEO (known as XGEO or cislunar) and out to at least Earth-Moon L2. Established 3 new lines of effort and a new flight experiment program. Conducted experiments with existing systems, coordinated across multiple govt agencies and international partners, and organized strategic level summits to orient USG planning and policy.Oracle was stood up as a flight program under the newly-formed cislunar R&D team. The primary goal of Oracle is to demonstrate the end-to-end capabilities needed to effectively monitor resident space opjects in cislunar space. This includes the flight segment, ground segment, and back end to process all of the mission data.

Albuquerque, New Mexico

Plans and executes strategic R&D investments to deliver cutting edge space domain awareness (SDA) capabilities within the SpaceCraft Object Tracking and Characterization (SCOTCH) portfolio. Lines of effort include XGEO SDA, local area awareness, new phenomenology investigation, and creating innovative techniques and system solutions that enable rapid analysis of information to provide real-time indications and warnings.

Colorado Springs, Colorado

In coordination with the Catalyst Campus staff, led the execution of the Resilient Commercial Space Communication Accelerator. The Space Accelerator program, sponsored by AFRL Space Vehicles Directorate, is one of the premier progams in the DoD space innovation portfolio. The program brought in seven leading commercial space communication startup companies with the goal of working to integrate their commercial solutions into gov't use. Responsibilities included: problem statement definition, marketing the program on the front end, interviewing applicants, managing day to day operations, establishing lines of communication with gov't agencies for cohort companies, securing gov't guest speakers, and organizing events including the demo day and defense innovation day among other things.

Albuquerque, New Mexico Area

Oversaw space domain awareness programs within the SpaceCraft Object Tracking and Characterization (SCOTCH) portfolio ranging from algorithm and tool development to RF systems and large scale optical structures.

Dayton, Ohio Area

Selected to attend the Air Force Institute of Technology as a direct accession masters student out of AFROTC. Completed an MS in Systems Engineering and earned a Graduate Space Systems Certificate in the process. Worked on an experimental star tracker payload that flew onboard FalconSAT 8. Used modeling and simulation to study large-scale breakup scenarios in low earth orbit. Wrote code in Python and used Systems Tool Kit as the modeling and simulation suite. Also leveraged the high performance computer 'Thunder' to process the large amount of parallel scenarios required for the effort.

Master Of Science - Ms, Systems Engineering

The GSE program takes students with traditional engineering backgrounds (mechanical, electrical, aerospace, etc.) and produces graduates.

Advanced Orbital Mechanics, Orbit Mechanics

The Advanced Orbital Mechanics (AOM) course develops space professionals who can create innovative TTPs by applying the principles.

Graduate Space Systems Certificate, Space Systems Technology

The Graduate Space Systems Certificate Program is designed for students with traditional engineering backgrounds (mechanical, electrical.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Chemical Engineering, Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Air Force ROTC (Distinguished Graduate | CTA) Arnold Air Society

Space Operations Course (Space 100), Military Space Systems Operations

The Space Operations Course is a hybrid distance learning course consisting of two parts: a 45-day instructor led (synchronous.