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Houston, Texas, United States

Senior leader for the JSC Engineering, Technology, and Science (JETS) contract responsible for the successful execution of all JETS work performed for the Crew & Thermal Systems Division (EC) at NASA JSC. EC is responsible for designing, testing, and developing technology for environmental control/life support systems (ECLSS) and active thermal control.

Houston, Texas, United States

Senior leader for the JSC Engineering, Technology, and Science (JETS) contract responsible for the successful execution of all JETS work performed for the Crew & Thermal Systems Division (EC) at NASA JSC. EC is responsible for designing, testing, and developing technology for environmental control/life support systems (ECLSS) and active thermal control.

Senior Project Manager for NASA on the JETS contract focused on life support systems for the International Space Station

Houston, Texas, United States

• Project Leader for Next Generation Sensor Platform for Sperry Technology
• Leading a team of physicists, engineers and technicians to develop the Next Generation Nuclear LWD tools (Density and Neutron Porosity)

• Leading a team of 50-70 in Sperry Technology to build and test new prototype tools in Houston, Texas and Nisku, Canada. Functions include test facility engineers, technicians, procurement planners, technical writers.
• Responsible for ensuring safety of all team members, quality and expediency of test execution, and driving continuous improvement in every discipline

• Lead a team of 25-30 in Sperry Technology to design and execute testing of new prototype tool designs.

Houston, Texas Area

• Driving schedule, requirements verification and managing cost for multiple new product development projects in Sperry Technology including the new technology platform logging while drilling (LWD) tool and a dozen.
• Continuing support as the Global Assembly Operations Manager driving multiple cost and efficiency saving efforts in the prototype assembly process

Houston, Texas Area

• Leading a team of 25-30 in Sperry Technology to build and test new prototype tool designs.
• Responsible for continuous improvement in the prototype tool assembly process. Worked with team to develop and implement process improvements, with focus on the process to transition new products to manufacturing..
• Establish and pursue competency development and training for the assembly technician and project planning disciplines.
• Manage staffing and workload for these disciplines across all major technology development projects in Sperry Technology.

• Manage test programs and prototype development for new tool designs including improvements to the Magnetic Resonance Imaging Logging (MRIL) telemetry tool and the High Data Rate Negative Pulser (HDR-NP) mud pulse.
• Specializing in Root Cause Investigation for failure events on production tool lines

Houston, Texas

• Continuing work on the prime engineering contract for Johnson Space Center
• Manage diverse teams to complete technically complex projects within budgets and aggressive schedules
• Design, fabrication and certification of the externally mounted high definition video camera system for the International Space Station (ISS)
• Deployment of a high definition earth viewing (HDEV) camera system experiment to stream HD video of the earth from the ISS. See link to video stream below.

Houston, Texas

• Continuing work on the prime engineering contract for Johnson Space Center
• Manage diverse teams to complete technically complex projects within budgets and aggressive schedules
• Design, fabrication and certification of the externally mounted high definition video camera system for the International Space Station (ISS)
• Manage schedule and scope of an IT project to develop an electronic workflow to replace and improve the paper heavy JSC test request and approval process and track testing tasks to completion
• Project initiation and requirements development for an Ion Exchange Column to increase the efficiency of the Water Recovery System on the ISS
• Assembly and Certification of an emergency ammonia detection system for the ISS against an extremely accelerated schedule

Houston, Texas

• Working for the prime engineering contract for Johnson Space Center
• Coordinate and execute technical tasks throughout the life of a project including: design, drafting, procurement, manufacturing, assembly, testing, certification and delivery
• Lead Project Engineer on the ISS GPS Antenna project. Repaired and recertified three GPS Antennas, then built and certified three additional antennas for use as spares

Greenville, Texas

• Support shipside personnel by interpreting engineering drawings and researching supply chain problems related to engineering
• Develop intelligence and surveillance technologies for the US Air Force and integrate electronic systems into military aircraft

Fort Worth, Texas

• Work in the Quality and Reliability Engineering department concerning data extraction and analyses for the continual improvement on the maintenance practices of the railroad

Erie, Pennsylvania

• Worked in the Unit Exchange Department for GE Rail by investigating and handling customer disputes regarding overdue material and tracking scorecards for Customer Service Centers

Fort Worth, Texas

• Supported research in the Applied Photonics Research Laboratory in the TCU Engineering Department
• Biomedical Research measuring cell contraction using Optical Interferometery
• Designed new technique for demodulation of radio frequency Microelectromechanical system (MEMS) using Matlab and LabVIEW

Master Of Business Administration (Mba)

Activities and Societies: Bauer MBA Society, National Association of Women MBAs

Bachelor Of Science, Electrical Engineering

Activities and Societies: SWE, IEEEGraduated Cum Laude. Minor in Japanese. Summer abroad in Japan. Received Academic Dean's Scholarship.