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Director - Global Launch Services
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Director - Global Launch Services
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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E. Asher Best is listed as Director - Global Launch Services at Rocket Lab, a with 1873 employees, based in Littleton, Colorado, United States. AeroLeads shows a matched LinkedIn profile for E. Asher Best.
E. Asher Best previously worked as Director Space Advanced Programs at Jacobs and Business Development Principal at Jacobs. E. Asher Best holds Msee, Flight Controls from Ohio University.
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Asher's current responsibilities include market research of current and future space systems technologies to ensure technical relevance to client needs, evaluation of current market trends and strategic partnerships to further add value to client offerings. Focus is on space flight payloads and/or space systems.Prior to this role, Asher was responsible for new business capture and proposal activities for the IT, Cyber, and Intelligence business segment and pursued a number of opportunities within the US Federal Government sector. Having spent his first 13 years in the aerospace and defense industry, he has proactively taken on challenges of increasing responsibility and complexity in the areas of technical leadership, software development and project management. As the Skill Lead for the Jacobs Control Dynamics team, he was responsible for hiring, performance appraisals and strategic team development.Asher is a passionate self starter that is able to see a need and develop a unique solution to solve that need while operating on time and on budget. His attention to detail translates into robust solutions that provide real value to the customer. He possesses 13 years of experience developing software solutions, in various languages, through the entire software life-cycle and with a flexible design approach to accommodate changing requirements. The aerospace and defense industry has very stringent design requirements that must be met under all circumstances which requires significant attention to detail.He has experience with software development process standards such as CMMI, AS9100 and ISO. Software language experience includes Matlab, C/C++, perl, HTML, CSS, SQL/MySQL, Python, C#/VB ASP .Net and Linux/UNIX shell scripting. Asher is a proactive fast learner and regularly learns new languages in order to solve new problems as necessary.
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Director - Global Launch Services
CurrentAsher is responsible for connecting innovative launch services to customer needs. Primarily responsible for Government customer support across the DoD, IC, and NASA. Interfaces with Legislative Affairs for program advocacy and Government market insight.
Nov 2022 - Present
Director Space Advanced Programs
Responsible for market research of current and future space systems technologies to ensure technical relevance to client needs, evaluation of current market trends and strategic partnerships to further add value to client offerings. Focus is on space flight payloads and/or space systems.
Mar 2021 - Nov 2022
Business Development Principal
Responsible for capture and proposal management of medium to large Government services contracts. Responsibilities included new business opportunity identification and research, bid/no bid evaluation, strategy development, key personnel identification and recruitment, organizational design, business teaming negotiation and development, proposal content development and production, technical research, and proposal review. Directly and significantly involved in a number of IT/Cyber/Intelligence, NASA and DoD bid opportunities. Experience interfacing with Jacobs executive management to align business pursuits with strategic growth arenas and develop strategy for successful new business pursuits.
Sep 2017 - Mar 2021
Flight Control Engineer
My primary responsibilities are to execute first line manager responsibilities of the control dynamics team for the Space Launch System (SLS) at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville Alabama. This includes technical support, strategic hiring, performance appraisals and personnel career development and training. Utilizing my 14 years experience in the space launch industry, I effectively serve as the primary interface between the NASA customer and the technical subcontractor team. I bring an innovative management approach and have been recognized time and again for my accomplishments. I also support the technical needs of the group through software algorithm development, control system design for the Active Lateral Fluid Harmonic Absorber (ALFHA), flexible dynamics analysis, GN&C systems integration and other technical needs as necessary.
Oct 2012 - Oct 2017
Sr. Analytical Engineer
Control Dynamics Engineer for NROL-34 and NROL-36 missions; responsible for developing control system fight parameters, conducted and verified frequency and time domain analysis and presented at major customer reviews. Innovative Software Developer using MATLAB; provided integrated user data review capabilities, data searching and computation. Project Leader of various improvement efforts responsible for providing project definition and integration of projects as well as coordination with executive leadership. Guidance engineer for the Intelsat 14 mission; responsible for developing control system fight parameters, conducted and verified analysis and presented at major customer reviews.
Dec 2006 - Oct 2012
Embedded Software Engineer
Guidance, Navigation and Controls Software Engineer. Served as Mission Engineer lead, responsible for overseeing other Mission Engineers and developed process improvements.
Jul 2003 - Dec 2006
2 education records
E. Asher Best education
Msee, Flight Controls
Ohio University
Bsee, Electrical Engineering
Ohio University
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What company does E. Asher Best work for?
E. Asher Best works for Rocket Lab.
What is E. Asher Best's role at Rocket Lab?
E. Asher Best is listed as Director - Global Launch Services at Rocket Lab.
Where is E. Asher Best based?
E. Asher Best is based in Littleton, Colorado, United States while working with Rocket Lab.
What companies has E. Asher Best worked for?
E. Asher Best has worked for Rocket Lab, Jacobs, Ula - United Launch Alliance - Lockheed Martin & Boeing, and Lockheed Martin.
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E. Asher Best holds Msee, Flight Controls from Ohio University.
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