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Houston, Texas, United States

Houston, Texas, United States

• Federal government Senior Executive Service position
• Lead a diverse organization of over 1000 spaceflight medical personnel, human systems engineers, research scientists and occupational and industrial health/hygiene experts. Directorate responsibilities cut across every.
• Lead directorate financial management with budget of greater than $120 million annually.
• Lead resource management, risk management and strategic planning.
• Leading directorate cultural change to a more responsive, transparent and customer focused organization.

Houston, Texas

• Federal government Senior Executive Service position
• Lead a diverse organization of over 1000 spaceflight medical personnel, human systems engineers, research scientists and occupational and industrial health/hygiene experts. Directorate responsibilities cut across every.
• Lead directorate financial management with budget of greater than $120 million annually.
• Lead resource management, risk management and strategic planning.
• Responsible for directorate Information Technology security, security plans, incident response and managing Information Technology security risks
• Leading directorate cultural change to a more responsive, transparent and customer focused organization.

Houston, Texas Area

• The Spaceflight Systems Division is responsible for flight control, astronaut training, and operational development of International Space Station, Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle and Boeing Commercial Crew Vehicle.
• Led a diverse team of over 250 personnel, responsible for technical leadership, crew safety and risk mitigation, workforce management, strategic planning and contract management.
• Led division financial management with budget of greater than $25 million annually
• Led a major reorganization and cultural change from a single to multi-program organization.
• Served as a member of the Flight Operations Directorate Board of Directors, responsible for assisting and advising the Flight Operations Director with long-term strategic planning, directorate goal definition and.
• Selected for, and graduated from, the Federal Government Senior Executive Service Candidate Development Program (SESCDP).

Houston, Texas

• Six-month executive development rotation as part of the NASA SESCDP.
• Provided leadership and technical direction for the development and operation of JSC Information Technology systems, as well as planning, analysis and control of Directorate budgets and resources.
• Led the establishment of the IRD project Technical, Cost and Schedule Review (TCSR) process.
• As JSC Deputy Chief Information Officer, represented JSC at Agency Deputy Chief Information Officer meetings, at the Agency Deputy Chief Information Officer Face-to-Face meeting and worked multiple agency-wide actions.
• Served on the JSC Mission Support Benchmarking team charged with providing recommendations on how best to out-source/in-source our JSC Mission Support workforce.

Washington D.C.

• Participated in Agency financial and resource management, Agency strategic planning and Agency strategic plan execution. Gained knowledge of Federal regulations and policy, and Agency monetary and resource allocations.
• Participated in Agency performance evaluation and measurement of technical, financial, schedule, and risk for programs and activities across the Agency.
• Participated in fostering partnerships and negotiating with political stakeholders including the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and congressional staff.
• Led the OCFO Risk-Based Management Implementation Team charged with defining and implementing a risk-based approach for OCFO strategic execution in order to focus the OCFO leadership team on the most important agency.
• Served on the Agency Information Technology Portfolio Review Team charged with reviewing the current Agency IT portfolio and defining a methodology for accurate reporting to OMB in order to comply with legislative.

• The Expedition Vehicle Division was responsible for flight control, astronaut training, and operational development of International Space Station systems.
• Led a diverse team of over 250 personnel, responsible for technical leadership, crew safety and risk mitigation, workforce management, strategic planning and contract management.
• Led division financial management with budget of greater than $25 million annually

• The Mission Operations Facilities Division was responsible for operations and development of mission control and astronaut training facilities in support of the Space Shuttle, ISS and advanced programs.
• Provided leadership and technical direction to a team of over 1000 facility operations, maintenance and development personnel.
• Led a major cultural change to a more responsive and program customer focused organization.
• Led division financial management with budget of greater than $100 million annually
• Led process analysis and improvement teams
• Led division team to identify strategic technical and financial plan to develop the next generation of mission control and training systems while simultaneously reducing annual operations expense by 50%, resulted in.

• The Space Vehicle Mockup Facility provided full-scale mockups of the International Space Station, Space Shuttle and advanced program spacecraft for astronaut training, mission support, engineering development and.
• Led a diverse team of approximately 75 mockup development engineers, facility operations and maintenance staff, and support personnel.
• Responsibilities included managing daily operations, facility safety and security, project management, strategic planning and budget management.
• Directly responsible for an annual budget of $9-15 million
• Established facility development, management and operations processes.
• Successfully led the facility through several periods of major cultural change and expansion

Bachelor Of Science, Aerospace Engineering

Masters Of Engineering, Industrial Engineering