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El Segundo, Ca, Us

El Segundo, California, Us

Technical Leader of the Aerospace Corporation's Nuclear Hardness & Survivability (NH&S) department in the Engineering & Technology Group (ETG). Leads nuclear weapons survivability techical analysis projects for Pentagon and Command level commanders and our national leadership at the very highest levels. Leads the Aerospace Enterprise Survivability Working Group (E-SWG) and SWG lead counterpart to current SMC satellite programs (GPS, NGG, NGP, ESS) with industry Primes for development of NUDET radiation survivability and natural space environment requirements and analysis of hardened electronics designs on U.S. Space Force, National Security Space & NASA space vehicle programs, Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center programs and DoE NNSA programs. Cleared for nuclear survivability tasks & program support at SCI, DoD Top Secret and DoE Q-levels.

Reston, Va, Us

Performs spacecraft systems engineering and leadership of Space Vehicle team supporting GPS Generation 3 Space Vehicle assembly, test and integration (AI&T), requirements management and verification, for the GPS System Engineering and Integration contract with Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center. Coordinates segment test and verification results with system-level verification team. Conducts formal technical reviews of all the prime contractor’s verification artifacts in support of presenting space segment requirements to the government for formal sell-off.

Reston, Virginia, Us

Performs engineering and leadership of Space Segment Verification team to verify the GPS Generation 3 Space Segment requirements, for the GPS System Engineering and Integration contract with Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center. Member of the Integrated Verification & Planning sub-IPT within the Test, Evaluation & Verification IPT. Coordinates segment verification results with system-level verification team. Conducts formal technical reviews of all the prime contractor’s verification artifacts in support of presenting space segment requirements to the government for formal sell-off. Uses event-based planning (EBP) process to develop verification plans and requirement verification closure reports.

Falls Church, Va, Us

Served as proposal manager on numerous strategic captures for NGAS. Responsible for leading teams in NG business acquisition process and NG proposal development process. Recently integrated Directed Energy’s Solid State Laser-Technology Maturation program's successful Conceptual Design Review. Received high praise from VP and PM on improvement in cross-subsystem integration, marketing messages and overall quality. Recently led D3I proposal Task Order 1 for space-based tactical imagery and battlefield satcom capability for the Army, successfully developing and integrating the spacecraft, payload, mission analysis, launch vehicle and ground segment design solutions. Produced a viable small-satellite constellation solution with few resources. On Advanced EHF (AEHF) satellite communication payload program accomplishments include: leading current NextGen EEHF Independent Capture Assessment, led AEHF 2013 Aviation Week Program Excellence Award team (won, eval team stated “BEST EVER”), led development of SMC Protected MILSATCOM Demonstration proposal (won 3 of 6 tasks bid). Key team member on several capture efforts including: ONR Solid State Laser Technology (won), DARPA 100Gbit/sec Airborne Communications Link (won), DARPA Falcon Strike Laser Program (won), DARPA MIST Phase 2 Lasers and DARPA Laser Radar Technology, NASA ICESat-2 Flight Laser, Air Force Research Lab W/V-Band Satellite Communications Experiment (won), DARPA Diverse Accessible Heterogeneous Integration (system on a chip) technology (won 4 task orders). Led proposals for 6 different spacecraft flight Cryocooler proposals, DARPA Phoenix experiment, and Army SMDC Nanosatellite Program. Held key positions on the Air Force DWSS Spacecraft and prime integration contract (won), ORS Modular Space Vehicle (MSV) spacecraft program (won) and the DARPA Membrane Optic Imager for Real-Time Exploitation (MOIRE) spacecraft concept (won by NGAS).

Falls Church, Va, Us

Space Vehicle Systems Engineer, leading joint SMC / Aerospace / NGAS working group defining spacecraft unit Environmental Test requirements for the Defense Weather Satellite System at Northrop Grumman's Aerospace Systems (NGAS) at Space Park in Redondo Beach, CA. Successfully led contentious negotiations of spacecraft environmental test requirements from MIL-STD 1540E for the new Defense Weather Satellite System. As the project lead for a joint SMC / Aerospace Corp / NGAS environmental test working group, led negotiations of high-impact (>$100M risk) 1540E spacecraft, dynamics and thermal test requirements.

Arlington, Va, Us

Mission Assurance engineering lead on high-priority national satellite program. Member of Spacecraft Systems Engineering department. Developed 93 new tailored spacecraft design and manufacturing standards for use on new satellite program. Flowed new requirements down to all hardware specifications and negotiated compliance with spacecraft unit vendors across US and one in Germany.

Dallas, Tx, Us

Performed Systems Engineering Trades for Space & Missile Systems Center Launch and Range Programs (SMC/LR) and SMC/SY. Evaluated Boeing proposals for systems engineering and cost engineering compliance and performed negotiations. Developed Delta II launch program cost estimates for SMC/LR. Created cost models, cost estimating relationships and the annual Program Office cost estimate for total Life Cycle Costs.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Store Leadership Program participant, developed numerous 6 Sigma projects to improve sales on national level. Worked as Assistant Store Manager and later Store Manager (in Training) in challenging operational retail sales environment. Manager of 250 employees' day-to-day store operations.

Randolph Afb, Tx, Us

Led the joint USAF / TRW / Boeing / General Dynamics team performing Nuclear Hardness and Survivability. Responsible for ensuring nuclear hardness of all Minuteman and Peacekeeper ICBMs through nuclear testing, physical inspection and engineering analysis. Led 52-person systems engineering & test team. As chief of ICBM Threat, was responsible for all threat and intelligence analysis of current threats to U.S. nuclear assets to ensure survivability with the U.S. intelligence community, primarily DIA and CIA. Chaired the joint AF/Navy Strategic Hard Parts working group—partnered with the U.S. semiconductor industry to ensure radiation hardened IC’s will be produced in the future for satellites and nuclear weapons. - Championed ground breaking ICBM Launch Vehicle engineering physical security study to AF senior leaders to point out security weaknesses and enable security upgrades- Developed new specifications on nuclear environments to more accurately represent new modeling which will save millions of $- Led a joint intelligence & engineering team to develop new enemy threat estimations to our ground based nuclear weapons, keen insight into the world sociopolitical situation won difficult approval by CIA & DIA to elevate terrorist threat estimation BEFORE 9/11/01

Randolph Afb, Tx, Us

Performed systems engineering, acquisition and operations on SMC satellite and missile systems. Program experience in major DoD programs STSS, SBIRS, MILSTAR, and ICBMs.

Bs, Space Operations

High School Diploma, College Prep