Jon Rodriguez Email & Phone Number

Greenbelt, Maryland, United States

• Provide day-to-day direction for operations and engineering activities, create short and long term support schedules, project milestones, and team assignments. Maintain subject matter expertise in space communication and tracking networks, tracking and acquisition data, and customer spacecraft capabilities. • Lead engineering activities including new mission integration, facility capability enhancement, and analysis. Oversee sub-teams to creating scripts and tools for automation, data processing, and analysis.• Work with contract management on level of effort and budget estimates, project planning, and employee performance evaluation• Prime technical interface to customers and NASA management. Work to maintain relationships, define integrated schedules and milestones, and negotiate requirements and interfaces. Serve as the team’s technical authority for risk evaluation and root-cause-corrective-action processes.• Maintain oversight of internal and external requirements, verification matrixes, and design and CONOPS documents. Leverage requirements and documentation to ensure that mission needs are met, to provide sub-teams with a scope of work, and to ensure that activities and decisions are traceable. • Extensive experience working directly with NASA’s Near Space Network, the Johnson Space Center Flight Operations Directorate, international governmental aerospace organizations, and multiple private operators of spacecraft and launch vehicles. Experience working and communicating across disciplines and leadership levels to achieve overall mission goals.

Flight Dynamics Facility, Nasa Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md

• Led FDF capability development and integration of the SpaceX Crew Dragon vehicle, the first human-rated vehicle fully supported by the FDF in the previous nine years; applying knowledge of orbital mechanics, navigation, spacecraft communication, and tracking networks culminating in successful mission support.• Conducted unique studies for NASA programs assessing the capability of FDF and Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS) systems for support of new missions using Matlab, Python, and Systems Tool Kit (STK) to conduct orbit dynamics analysis and Monte Carlo trajectory datasets• Served as Product Owner (scrum master) overseeing software development of the primary software tools used for mission support. Provided technical direction to a cross-discipline team of software developers and flight dynamics engineers to maintain and enhance software capability. Defined math models, logic, and orbital mechanics for the software, as well as developed software requirements and wrote test procedures• Extensive experience in real-time console support for critical launch, on-orbit, ISS-rendezvous, and reentry operations as well as routine navigation and trajectory product generation support for TDRS and NASA Earth Observing Satellites.

Nasa Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md

The AERONET project at NASA Goddard is a large-scale network of sun photometers that measure and characterize atmospheric aerosols. In the engineering, maintenance, and support division my primary responsibilities included: Directing operations of the network of approximately 500 remotely operated instruments• Coordinated instrument supply, site distribution, and flow through the calibration facility.• Wrote comprehensive VBA programs that can easily move instruments, predict supply and shortages, and clearly communicate this information to colleagues.• Coordinated short and long term deployments around the world, providing the bridge between site managers, scientists, and administrators.Evaluating field data and providing troubleshooting solutions to site management• Evaluation necessitated a thorough understanding of the relation between the science, instrumentation, and processing systems of AERONET.• Communicated with local site managers to evaluate data and correct anomalies, and trained collaborators and develop instructional material concerning instrument operation and data interpretation.In charge of integrating sphere calibrations and temperature corrections• Analyzed and applied calibrations, which required interpretation of instrumental changes while in the field and maintenance performed at the calibration facility.• Analyzed historical data for trends in order to create defaults for missing characterizations and to flag and evaluate outliers.Maintaining calibration equipment and ensure compatibility with network standards• Developed calibration standards based on data quality requirements and uncertainty based on instrument limitations. • Monitored the integrating spheres for fluctuations and develop corrections for bad calibrations.*in the same role but employed by Sigma Space Corporation from April 2012 to Dec. 2014

Philadelphia, Pa

• Designed and manufactured cryogenic test bed components and developed programs to automate test cycles and record data• Traveled to the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory and the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment Telescope sites to install Z-spec instrument and operate observing runs. Developed Bash shell scripts to automatically processes and distribute data• Managed daily laboratory administrative activities*Part-time student employee from 2009-2011

Master Of Engineering (M.Eng.), Aerospace Engineering

I am currently pursuing a Master of Engineering degree in aerospace engineering. I am taking classes part-time as I also work full-time.

Bachelor Of Arts, Physics

At the University of Pennsylvania I double-majored in Physics with a concentration in Astronomy, and Philosophy with a concentration.