Keith Schlee Email & Phone Number

Washington, DC, US

• Serving as a Systems Engineer within the Mission Systems Engineering Branch (Code 599) supporting the GOES-R and JPSS projects at Goddard Space Flight Center. Also supporting other projects such as AOS and OSAM-1 at.
• Collaborate with scientists and engineers in multidisciplinary teams to develop feasible mission and instrument architecture outlining the baseline approach to the various mission elements: flight, ground, launch.
• Lead the overall technical team across multiple disciplines, providing direction, gathering information, identifying risks, and making decisions to improve the likelihood of mission success
• Manage the technical baseline by establishing and managing requirements and technical resources via generation of documents like the Systems Engineering Management Plan (SEMP), Heritage Assessment, Technology Readiness.
• Provide end-to-end systems engineering leadership and support that include requirements and architecture development that spans the entire mission development life cycle from conceptual studies (Pre-Phase A) through.

Palmetto, FL, US

• Company Co-Founder
• Responsible for Food and Drug Administration (FDA) compliance, process control development, and new product formulation

Reston, VA, US

• Supported NASA’s Exploration & In-space Services Projects Division (NExIS, f.k.a. SSPD) at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) on the OMES II Contract
• Draft work instructions, procedures, generate schematics, prepare test readiness reviews, and draft test reports for Propellant Transfer Subsystem (PTS) hardware to support the OSAM-1 (On-Orbit Servicing, Assembly and.
• Perform System Level Validation and Verification (V&V) for the PTS with verification methods being inspection, demonstration, analysis, and test
• Design, fabricate, and maintain the Ground Support Equipment (GSE), including Electrical GSE (EGSE), to support testing
• Perform end-to-end refueling testing in the PTS Servicing Testbed area located in the at NASA GSFC Robotic Operations Center (ROC)
• PTS development is a joint effort between NASA GSFC and NASA Kennedy Space Center (KSC)

Washington Navy Yard, DC, US

• Technical oversight of portable friction stir welding (FSW) system qualification for repair of aluminum structures
• Research uses applicable to the US Navy and Marine Corps for robotic stir friction welding systems
• Development and implementation of ship hull visual inspection plans using underwater remotely operated vehicles
• Perform ship hull surveys using a VideoRay Pro 4 underwater vehicle to record biofouling data as part of efforts to reduce the fleet’s environmental impact and improve overall efficiency by implementing new coatings
• Perform R&D and conduct testing of wireless energy transfer systems for unmanned air, surface, and underwater vehicles
• Design and fabricate prototype hardware using additive manufacturing methods

Palmetto, FL, US

• Lead and contributed to the engineering design effort for omni-directional (Mecanum) and standard wheel magnetic climbing robotic platforms focused for operator use on wind turbine towers, ship hulls, field erected.
• Received 5 US patents for technology developed
• Generation of technical documentation for: user manuals, technical review presentations, performance analyses and specifications, test reports, wiring harness specifications, CAD models & drawings, bill of materials.
• Fabrication of parts in-house and sourcing parts from foreign and domestic manufacturers and suppliers
• Hardware and software development (programming and debugging) of an Arduino based microcontroller
• Use case development and demonstration for Visual Inspection, MIG Welding, Sandblasting, Eddy Current Paint Thickness Inspection, 3D Surface Measurement, and VBSS (Visit, Board, Search, and Seizure) Maritime Boarding

Dulles, VA, US

• Cognizant engineer responsible with qualifying and accepting tanks for the National Security (NSS) and Star-2 GEO satellites as well as the Cygnus ISS resupply vehicle
• Produced and maintained Performance Specifications and Statement of Work (SOW) documents and served as primary subcontract deliverable (SDRL) point of contact and reviewer for all tanks used by the Space Systems Group.
• Interfaced with subcontractors for technical issues and primary reviewer for SDRLs including schedules, interface control drawings, analyses, technical reviews (PDR, CDR, UAR, TRR), test procedures, and compliance.
• Reviewed detailed propellant management device (PMD) computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analyses
• Technical contact and participant in Material Review and Failure Review Boards (MRB / FRB) and root cause / corrective action (RCCA) investigations
• Oversaw technical accuracy, quality, relevance, and execution of qualification and acceptance tests

Mclean, Virginia, US

• Supported the NASA Launch Services Program (LSP) at Kennedy Space Center in a wide range of assignments, including the independent verification and validation (IV&V) assessments of analytical items throughout the life.
• Assisted with spacecraft separation Monte Carlo Simulations of several LSP Missions including Delta II (GLAST, WISE, NOAA-N’, GRAIL), Atlas V (MSL), Pegasus (IBEX), and Taurus (GLORY, OCO)
• Supported NASA colleagues with testing and modeling fuel slosh in spinning spacecraft using LabVIEW / MATLAB tools
• Supported Delta II Winds Console for GLAST launch in 2008
• Conducted an extensive trajectory feasibility analysis of a Peacekeeper derived launch vehicle using POST software (Program to Optimize Simulated Trajectories) with a NASA colleague
• ELV Integrated Support Superior Performance & Achievement Awards: 05/2007, 02/2008, 05/2008

• Provided product and R&D support for the Cessna Caravan aircraft with heavy use of CATIA V5

Daytona Beach, Florida, US

• Taught Experimental Wind Tunnel Laboratory to over 160 students over four semesters
• Included setting up experiments, developing lectures, and assigning final grades

Pittsburgh, PA, US

• Designed new work space area layouts using AutoCAD R5 in the compressor / turbine blade wax injection molding area
• Introduced to the process of single crystal casting and gas turbine blade design

Ms, Aerospace Engineering

Bs, Aerospace Engineering