Manager and technical authority of the flight controls design and development on the EUS for NASA’s next generation human rated SLS launch vehicle, including coordination with NASA field centers on the definition, development, and testing of critical vehicle interfaces. Formulate strategies to resolve complex issues associated with human rated requirements, reliability, and safety.Responsible for all aspects of the DDT&E and Project Engineering effort related to avionics flight control, power systems, Autonomous Flight System Safety (AFSS), Thrust Vector Control (TVC), telemetry, and proximity operations with Orion vehicle including project planning, hardware development, and qualification.Responsible for all aspects of the DDT&E and Project Engineering effort related to avionics flight control, power systems, Autonomous Flight System Safety (AFSS), Thrust Vector Control (TVC), telemetry, and proximity operations with Orion vehicle including project planning, hardware development, and qualification.Responsible for managing a diverse technical civil servant and contractor workforce in a telework environment since March of 2020. Established innovative work solutions to ensure development, test, and build efforts have maintained aggressive program schedule and cost.

Manager and technical authority of Avionics and Electrical design and initial integration of the Booster Element of NASA’s next generation human rated SLS launch vehicle, including coordination with NASA field centers on the definition, development, and testing of critical vehicle interfaces. Formulated strategies to resolve complex issues associated with human rated requirements, reliability, and safety.Responsible for all aspects of the DDT&E and Project Engineering effort related to Avionics, Flight System Safety, and Thrust Vector Control systems, including project planning, hardware development, and qualification. Identify program critical path schedule risks and develop risk mitigation strategies throughout the SLS Booster vehicle flight control system program lifecycle.Manager and technical lead of a team of civil servant of contractor direct reports performing the day-to-day design oversight of the SLS Booster avionics systems, thrust vector control system, pyrotechnic initiation system, and flight safety system. Performed functional management including employee evaluations, career planning, and acquisition.

Manager and Technical authority for the design, development, qualification, production, and flight of Avionics including the management and integration of all technical, schedule, safety, financial, and legal aspects for avionics in support of program requirements and schedule milestones; and ensuring decisions are within budget, schedule, and risk allocation as delegated by the Booster Manager.Manager and technical lead of a team of civil servant and contractor direct reports performing the day-to-day design oversight of the SLS Booster avionics systems. Performed functional management including employee evaluations, career planning, and acquisition.Led government/contractor avionics Integrated Product Teams consisting of engineering, safety and mission assurance, and support contractors measuring performance and progress against program goals and objectives.Technical expert for avionics development and design activities for the Booster project. Analyze, test, evaluate, validate, and certify flight hardware, software and system capabilities based on design, operational, and safety requirements.Provide technical insight on the software (LabVIEW, Assembly, C++) and firmware (VHDL, Verilog) development for flight avionics and supporting ground test equipment by contractor organizations across various geographic locations, including the monitoring of requirements development, design, coding, verification and validation of software and firmware products.Provide technical insight on the development of Simulink avionics box models as well as model integration support with model metadata into integrated vehicle model.

Manager and Technical authority for the design and development of the Ares First Stage Avionics including the management and integration of all technical, schedule, safety, financial, and legal aspects for avionics in support of program requirements and schedule milestones; and ensuring decisions are within budget, schedule, and risk allocation as delegated by the Ares First Stage Project Manager.Manager and technical lead of a team of civil servant and contractor direct reports performing the day-to-day design oversight of the Ares First Stage avionics systems. Performed functional management including employee evaluations, career planning, and acquisition. Led government/contractor avionics Integrated Product Teams consisting of engineering, safety and mission assurance, and support contractors measuring performance and progress against program goals and objectives.

Technical assistant to the department director providing engineering expertise and support for development of flight sensors, imaging systems, and GN&C hardware including requirements and concept development, design, documentation, unit testing, verification testing, and system integration testing.NASA MSFC technical authority for the overall design and analysis of flight video and imaging systems, subsystems, and components including detectors, EGSE, and test facilities assigned to MSFC.Technical team lead of a group of civil servant and contractor direct reports designing and building imaging hardware, software, thermal control, and power systems for MSFC space station and space shuttle flight experiments. Performed functional management including employee evaluations, career planning, and acquisition.Provided project management functions for duration of science experiment payload lifecycles which including planning (budget & schedule), control of critical path and risk identification and mitigation.

Extensive experience in designing, fabricating, and testing space qualified imaging electronics. Lead designer responsible for the design, fabrication, and testing of a soft x-ray detector and electronics for the Solar X-ray Imager (SXI) program. SXI was built for NOAA and flew on a GOES platform. Developed and tested Space Shuttle post Columbia return-to-flight imaging systems for the External Tank (ET) and Solid Rocket Booster (SRB) programs.Design engineering lead on the Space Station microgravity science glovebox (MSG) imaging system.Lead designer on the development, fabrication, and testing of avionics systems, including imaging, thermal control, and data acquisition systems for several MSG payloads.Team lead for the Space Station internal audio/video system design. Coordinated system design efforts with other NASA field centers and international partners NASDA and ESA. Designed and delivered several imaging systems for Shuttle Spacelab payloads.Design engineering lead on the space shuttle middeck glovebox imaging system.