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Reston, VA, US

Provide direct Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance (SETA) and scientific support to Intelligence Community (IC) programs.

Chantilly, VA, US

Provided direct, enterprise SETA support to IC programs.

Chantilly, VA, US

Co-led development of the second national Earth Observations Assessment (EOA 2016), a triennial assessment of the national portfolio of Earth-observing systems that serves as the foundation of the federal planning process for civil Earth observations.

Chantilly, VA, US

• Provided cross-organization programmatic and technical support throughout all life cycle phases of our nation's most advanced environmental polar-orbiting satellite system including its development, testing, launch.
• Led pre-launch instrument and spacecraft test data campaigns, directly contributing to the successful execution of ambient and environmental test programs for four instruments.
• Drastically reduced test data analysis response time by designing, building, and maintaining advanced end-to-end infrastructures for rapid acquisition, distribution, and archive of terabytes of data.Co-led an.
• Conducted in-depth spacecraft data rate analyses, collaborated with stakeholders, and developed an innovative solution to reconfigure direct broadcast content and provide improved data quality for users across the.

Chantilly, VA, US

• Provided science team management and coordination support. Facilitated successful planning and execution of Suomi NPP calibration/validation (cal/val) tasks for four instruments and multi-agency Sensor Data Record.
• Identified and resolved many programmatic and technical issues by interfacing regularly between the program office and external organizations within the government, industry, academia, and public user communities.
• Directly enabled the mitigation of a major on-orbit sensor degradation anomaly by developing and implementing an innovative process for rapid operational ground system updates.
• Facilitated public release and use of mission data. Provided crucial user support to fourteen multi-agency teams using expertise in instrument data formats, tool usage, and cal/val computing facility operations.Led the.
• Designed and implemented an innovative technical infrastructure for test data flow that met all user needs and led to successful test execution. Proposed and negotiated plans between the vendor and government.
• Successfully coordinated and led a crew of ten on-site “data clerks” to support the 24/7 near real-time distribution and archive of thermal-vacuum test data.

Chantilly, VA, US

• Provided software development, systems engineering, and scientific data analysis support that enabled the development of the Government Resource for Algorithm Verification, Independent Test, and Evaluation (GRAVITE).
• Populated and managed a test data repository for rapid cal/val. Developed software to process binary instrument and spacecraft telemetry data to assess instrument health and status.
• Coordinated numerous system interface tests including ground operations exercises and exercises to flow data to external users.Supported NPP VIIRS, CrIS, and Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite (OMPS) instrument.
• Developed and deployed a technical data analysis computing infrastructure to the VIIRS test facility.
• Led an effort to procure, install, and test a dedicated high-speed, cross-country Digital Signal 3 (DS3) connection.
• Efficiently coordinated instrument sell-off activities and ensured all performance requirements were met.

• Self-employed side business; Co-led all aspects including personnel management, contracts, finances, payroll, human resources, and recruitment.
• Provided technical intern services to 24/7 IT support desks and supported software development projects within NOAA and NASA at locations in Maryland, Colorado, and California.

Rochester, NY, US

Arlington, VA, US

Newport, RI, US

Bachelor Of Science, Imaging Science, Minor In Economics

Master Of Science, Earth Systems Science