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Victoria, Canada And Los Angeles, California

Greater Los Angeles Area

As a member of JPL's Navigation and Ancillary Information Facility (NAIF) team, I was one of a small team of four software engineers building a new and improved, object-oriented (C++) version of NASA/JPL's SPICE software toolkit and data product suite. SPICE allows users to determine the position, velocity, pointing, instrument field-of-view, etc. of.

San Francisco Bay Area

Council member, consulting in the telecommunications, space science, and physical sciences domains.

San Mateo, California

Responsible for guiding the engineering development of capabilities and features included in Questiny's proprietary Wireless Network Simulator (WiNS) software tool; a multi-spectral, multi-network telecommunications system network planning and analysis tool used by Questiny in our consulting activities, and also used by our customers to perform.

Palo Alto, California

Senior analyst assigned to multiple company-wide new business activities, delivering critical communications system modeling expertise to guide satellite system design. Developed custom software tools to precisely estimate the overall performance of a network of communications satellites, ground-based fixed/mobile users, and system gateways.

Developed probabilistic risk models to guide early design decision-making for space transportation and lunar architecture systems in a risk-informed manner. Built simulation tools that coupled probabilistic failure data with computational physics models to characterize the response of human spaceflight systems in the event of a full or partial system.

Mountain View, California

Performed statistical analysis of Cooper-Harper ratings provided by NASA pilots during orbital rendezvous and lunar landing flight simulations. Investigated the limitations of statistical analysis as applied to ordinal data and proposed new ways (e.g., Kendall-tau tests) of determining the degree of correspondence between different rankings. Created new.

Radio Science Team Member, Cassini mission to Saturn. My doctoral research focused on remote detection of geophysical structures in Saturn's rings by analyzing radio signals transmitted from the Cassini spacecraft, through the rings, and received on Earth by the antennas of NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN). During these experiments, we discovered fine-scale.

Pasadena, California

Studied noise processes and stability in electronic oscillators, culminating in an internal report and a refereed journal publication. Contributed a chapter section on ring occultation for an upcoming book on radio science, to be published in Wiley’s JPL Science and Technology Series. (Part-time during Ph.D.)

Mountain View, California

Theoretical research into modes of electromagnetic induction that are thought to power electric currents inside Jupiter's moon Europa. (Part-time during Ph.D)

Santa Rosa, California

Provided telecommunications system design support (simulation software side) and training to dozens of engineering professionals. Managed a portfolio of clients, acting as liaison between customers and our software engineering team to continuously improve our commercial computer-aided design (CAD) tools. Selected as the sole representative of HP EEsof USA.

Folsom, California

Successfully led the assembly and test program for a $US 500,000 satellite transceiver. Designed and developed numerous electronic filters for mobile communications networks. Duties included all prototype engineering, manufacturing, testing, and final design for manufacturability. These efforts culminated in several successful commercial products for L3.

Cambridge, Canada

As a member of the Space Science group, I successfully managed assembly, test, and verification activities for the NASA Scatterometer (NSCAT) remote sensing satellite program. As a member of the corporate research and development team, I designed, built, and tested next-generation components for communications satellites using superconductive thin film.

Ph.D., Electrical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Stanford Intercollegiate Ice Hockey Team; Stanford Recreational Sailing Team; Recording artist, included on the.

Certificate, Stanford Ignite (Summer Institute For Entrepreneurship)

Spacecraft Mission Design

M.S., Aeronautics/Astronautics

Focus areas included orbital mechanics, space systems engineering, compressible flow, and propulsion systems.

M.S., Electrical Engineering

Focus areas included electromagnetics, optics, radar, and signal processing.

M.Eng, Engineering

M.Eng Thesis: "Transversal and Elliptic Function Microwave Filters on Microstrip utilizing High-Temperature Superconductive Thin Films"

B.Sc.E, Electrical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Varsity Rowing Team (Crew), VP Science '91 (1989), Chairman of Engineering Week (1989), Clark Hall Pub Staff.

The Roots

Certificate, Computer Science

Completed the Beginner and Intermediate classes in this three-class certificate program.