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Odenton, Md, Us

Odenton, Md, Us

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United States

Senior level program and technical support to aerospace organizations and companies.

Greenbelt, Maryland

Served as the Director of Safety and Mission Assurance (SMA) for NASA GSFC establishing policy for and implementation of quality assurance, reliability engineering, risk management, system safety, institutional safety, workmanship, electrostatic discharge (ESD) program activities, audits and assessments, and system review activities for a multitude of spaceflight programs, projects, and instruments. Report to the Center Director and Agency Safety and Mission Assurance Chief. Reviews technical and flight safety aspects of GSFC Projects, spacecraft systems, launch vehicle systems, operational ground systems. Senior Coordination with Center Management, Flight Programs and Projects Directorate and Engineering and Technology Directorate for future and current program and project development activities.

Greenbelt, Maryland

Served as the Deputy Director of Safety and Mission Assurance (SMA) at the NASA GSFC responsible for managing the organization and supervising leaders in quality assurance, reliability engineering, risk management, system safety, institutional safety, workmanship, electrostatic discharge (ESD) program activities, audits and assessments, and system review activities in support of over 20 spaceflight programs, projects, and instruments. Report to the Director of Safety and Mission Assurance. Reviews technical and flight safety aspects of GSFC Projects, spacecraft systems, launch vehicle systems, operational ground systems. Provide leadership for the Directorate in managing Directorate office personnel and activities. Provide leadership for development of SMA budgets and staffing requirements, IT activities, day to day operations of Directorate. Coordinate with Flight Programs and Projects Directorate and Applied Engineering and Technology Directorate to address safety and mission assurance issues.

Served as the Associate Director of Safety and Mission Assurance (SMA) at the NASA GSFC responsible for managing the organization and supervising leaders in quality assurance, reliability engineering, risk management, system safety, institutional safety, workmanship, electrostatic discharge (ESD) program activities, audits and assessments, and system review activities in support of over 20 spaceflight programs, projects, and instruments. Report to the Director/ Director of Safety and Mission Assurance. Reviews technical and flight safety aspects of GSFC Projects, spacecraft systems, launch vehicle systems, operational ground systems. Provide leadership for the Directorate in managing Directorate office personnel and activities. Interviewed and hired individuals for key positions, developed employee upward mobility training programs, established performance objectives, finalized performance ratings, and rewarded employee via non-monetary and monetary awards based upon their performance. Provide leadership for development of SMA budgets and staffing requirements, IT activities, day to day operations of Directorate. Coordinate with Flight Programs and Projects Directorate and Applied Engineering and Technology Deputy Directorate to address safety and mission assurance issues. Review and establish SMA support for proposals and new missions. Provide leadership and oversight to major system source selections approving the acquisition strategy and selected and coached source evaluation board chair for a $150 million dollar procurement.

Greenbelt, Maryland, United States

Successfully led and managed an office of 200+ engineering professionals responsible for the engineering and integration of spaceflight systems including systems engineering and guidance, navigation, and control systems. Oversee multi-disciplinary teams in the design, development, integration, test, evaluation, operation and long-term maintenance of flight vehicle, payload hardware, information technology systems such as the Flight Dynamics Facility, software, and associated resources to support the operations of the Division. Interviewed and hired individuals for key positions, developed employee upward mobility training programs, established performance objectives, finalized performance ratings, and rewarded employee via non-monetary and monetary awards based upon their performance. Review and critique flight systems requirements, operations concepts, implementation approaches, verification plans, technical performance, cost and schedules. Supervise and oversee GS 14/15 Branch managers and GS 11/12/13/14/15 personnel.

Successfully led and managed a diverse team (diverse with respect to skills, age, experience, education, race, culture and national origin) of 40+ mission systems engineers who led the technical teams on Flight Project on NASA Space Science Enterprise missions. Led in providing in providing end-to-end mission systems engineering on flight and ground systems projects across all phases of the NASA development lifecycle including advanced concept development, project formulation, implementation, and operations. Provided personnel coaching, mentoring, rewards, recognition, performance planning and evaluation. Initiated personnel actions (e.g. advertisements, promotions, transfer) and employee discipline to address conduct and performance issues. Negotiated human resource requirements with Flight Projects through the Center-wide workforce exercise process. Performed periodic technical review of projects in formulation and implementation. Served on red teams and blue teams in the proposal development process. Provided technical and administrative leadership to develop and maintain the Center's space science missions systems engineering critical skill mix and leading edge technology capabilities.

Greenbelt, Maryland, United States

Served as Associate Branch Manager providing technical and administrative leadership to develop and maintain the organizations critical skill mix and leading edge technology capabilities. Led initiative to develop "world-class" excellence in core competency elements including systems engineering, project formulation, and instrument management. Contributed to the development of the Systems Engineering Education and Development (SEED) program develop employees with competency in mission systems engineering. Performance planning and evaluation for forty three engineers. Developed employees through coaching, mentoring, and recognition activities. Led workforce planning and promotion planning.

Greenbelt, Maryland, United States

Served as OTA / Payloads Manager to define and implement systems engineering requirements for flight systems and ground information systems for planned/contingency servicing missions. Led and coordinated trending, engineering analyses, and anomaly resolution activities associated with the OTA and the science instrument payload. Formed and led teams in order to implement the objectives of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) project for the science mission and servicing missions including data downlink information systems studies and analyses. Coordinated with HST Senior Management including NASA Headquarters personnel, Systems Management, Mission Operations Management, Systems Engineers, Ground Information Systems Management, Space Telescope Science Institute, and Flight Operations Team (FOT). Served as on-call Mission Operations Manager on rotating basis responsible for operation of HST Observatory and associated ground information systems.

Greenbelt, Maryland, United States

As Operational Systems Manager coordinated activities to prepare the HST Control Center and Information Systems for the First Servicing Mission. Managed implementation of hardware, software, networks and facility changes.

Greenbelt, Maryland, United States

As the Operations Engineer planned and implemented activities to transition STGT (an integral part of the Space Network) to Operations. Managed development of operational and maintenance procedures, supporting documentation, training course work, and logistics required for operations. Assessed contractor performance and coordinated activities between Development and Maintenance and Operations (M&O) contractors. Identified tasks that could most effectively be performed by M&O contractor. Supported STGT system and subsystem test activities.

Greenbelt, Maryland, United States

Provided Systems Engineering, operations, program management in support of NASA GSFC's Mission Operations and Data Systems Directorate (MO&DSD), Networks Division and NASA Communications (Nascom) Division support. Provided Nascom Augmentation systems engineering and project management. Planning for integration of Department of Defense's Consolidated Space Operations Center (CSOC) into NASA's end-to-end Space Network (SN). Security Planning for the Nascom Control & Status System (CSS). Executed Project Management and Systems Engineering support for the Navy's Space and Naval Warfare Command (SPAWAR) in Crystal City, Virginia.

Linthicum Heights, Maryland, United States

As Systems Integration and Test Engineer for the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) Operational Line Scan (OLS) instrument, tested and evaluated the OLS during factory system level testing and during spacecraft testing. Performed hands on design, development, and implementation of test scenario's to prove out OLS instrument end-to-end systems integrity. Developed and maintained system level tests including test plans, procedures, and software to test the OLS in various simulated operational environments. Evaluated the performance of the instrument during pre-launch testing and during on-orbit operations. The OLS sensed earth and ocean climatology data in both the visible and infrared and also collected, formatted, stored, and downlinked all spacecraft sensor data and spacecraft stored telemetry data.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Electrical And Electronics Engineering

Graduate Level Coursework In Electrical Engineering

Graduate Level Coursework In Electrical Engineering