Daniel Korf Email & Phone Number

Houston, TX, US

Houston, Texas

• Primary objective is to evaluate the Space Shuttle system’s launch design ensuring compliance with NASA and USAF 45th Space Wing requirements for the protection of life, health, and property
• Certified in Range Safety Design Level 1 (5 months early)
• Received background clearance and granted access to Mission Control Center at JSC
• Represented Range Safety on FDD’s Shuttle Knowledge Capture project
• Participated in weekly Range Safety tag-up meetings and discussed lessons learned
• Received Flight Test II task on the flight mechanics of an errant Launch Abort System

• Assessed designs, edited, and printed documents for the Cockrell School of Engineering
• Assisted the Dean of Engineering’s staff as a full-time student
• Experienced working under the direction of superiors

Houston, Texas

• Worked 50 hours a week with both Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GN&C) and Constellation Training Facility (CxTF) divisions at NASA Johnson Space Center
• Experimented and analyzed 6 satellite boards with GN&C's GPS simulator in Building 16
• Collected satellite data for a quality evaluation of new circuit boards and antennas
• Created a MATLAB plots varying radio signal frequencies for analysis of the satellites
• Experienced Trick, C, C++, Tcl/Tk on a Linux OS through NASA software training
• Modified and debugged ascent, orbit, and entry Trick simulation runs in C code

Houston, Texas

• Consecutive summer internships of constructing, organizing, and quality assessing oil well databases
• Responsible for collecting and analyzing data as well as specific oil well file updates
• Gained valuable interactive communication skills while working with many co-workers
• Mentored new interns by identified any unnecessary work and teaching beneficial habits

Houston, Texas

• Constructed a portion of LOWIS database which is now used as a data entry platform
• Utilized creativity skills to construct the "Dual Completion" schematics in RMIS database
• Interpreted daily drilling reports to generate wellbore structures and oil well history schematic diagrams
• Developed technical writing skills and learned how to work under superiors in project groups