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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, calibration, validation, and operations.▪ 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 initiative to update the on-orbit configuration of the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP) Cross-track Infrared Sounder (CrIS), satisfying a key NOAA enterprise objective and leading the path for improved national weather forecasts by enabling the downlink of higher resolution data.▪ 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 globe.Served as corporate personnel Team Lead and Manager, Task Program Manager, and Capture Manager.

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 (SDR) algorithm teams. Directly contributed to the successful launch, checkout, and monitoring of the spacecraft and ground system.▪ 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 acquisition, distribution, analysis, and archive of test data during Suomi NPP spacecraft environmental testing at the integration site and during checkout activities at the Vandenberg Air Force Base launch site. ▪ 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) system, the technical computing support infrastructure for the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) Preparatory Project (NPP) cal/val program.▪ 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 development. Developed effective, adaptive, and low-cost infrastructures for rapidly collecting, processing, distributing, and archiving test data from vendor sites to government analysts across the country. Reduced overall data transfer time from days to hours and gave analysts the ability to quickly inform government leaders of test anomalies and overall progress.▪ 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