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Cape Canaveral, Florida, United States

Lead Artemis spacecraft, payload, and upper stage ground processing operations.

Washington, United States

Currently serve as the Executive Officer to the Deputy Administrator on daily and strategic activities. Responsibilities include researching and developing briefing materials for the Deputy Administrator; coordinating, managing, and prioritizing activities; tracking and following-up on key actions for NASA offices; drafting technical correspondence on behalf of the Deputy Administrator; providing advice and guidance to managers and employees on questions and situations related to the Office of the Deputy Administrator; and assist with special projects and research assignments associated with the Deputy Administrator’s focus on exploration, technology and innovation, and education.

Kennedy Space Center, Fl

Served as Element Operations Manager (EOM) within the Exploration Ground Systems (EGS) program. Responsible for developing and implementing ground concepts of operations for the Orion spacecraft, Space Launch System (SLS) upper stage, SLS primary/co-manifested/secondary payloads and spacecraft/launch vehicle adapters. Ground operations responsibilities included offline processing flight hardware (transport, lifting, fueling, encapsulation, etc.) through final integration to the launch vehicle & testing at the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB).Lead for Orion spacecraft pre-launch ground operations at Kennedy Space Center.

New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

Served as Engine Section End Item Owner (EIO) for the first SLS Core Stage production at Michoud Assembly Facility (MAF). Responsible for addressing production roadblocks, evaluating contractor performance, developing progress reports & schedule forecasts. NASA representative on multiple tiger teams chartered to address significant manufacturing challenges.

Kennedy Space Center

Served as operations engineer supporting the Spacecraft Offline Operations (SOO) functional team within the Exploration Ground Systems (EGS) program. Responsible for identifying Ground Support Equipment (GSE) requirements to support transportation, lifting & handling, environmental control, servicing & de-servicing of the Orion spacecraft and other flight hardware elements.

Kennedy Space Center

Designed and built full scale mock-ups of the Orion spacecraft ground operations demonstrations including crew egress/ingress, servicing & de-servicing ground support equipment fit checks, servicing and de-servicing, commodity loading demonstrations and evaluating technician access. Designed/low fidelity mock-ups of the Orion Crew seats for the Pad Abort - 1 Crew Module located in the Smithsonian Museum.

Fort Lauderdale, Fl

Performed routine, non-routine line maintenance duties on Airbus A319 and A321 fleet at Ft. Lauderdale International Airport. Removed and replaced Pratt & Whitney V2500 jet engines on Airbus A319 and A321 aircraft. Removed and replaced auxiliary power units on the Airbus 320 family.

Miami, Fl

Performed line maintenance duties on Saab 340A and Metroliner 227 aircrafts.

Miami, Fl

Assembled, disassembled, and repaired Pratt & Whitney JT8D-100/200 and GE CFM-56-3/7 jet engines.

Master Of Science - Ms, Mechanical Engineering

Coursework in Space Environment and Payload Instrumentation, Modal Analysis, Dynamics, Continuum Mechanics, Classical Thermodynamics.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Aerospace Engineering

Activities and Societies: Sigma Gamma Tau - Aerospace Honor SocietyCoursework in Solid Mechanics, Orbital Mechanics, Flight Structures.

Faa Certificate, Airframe Mechanics And Aircraft Maintenance Technology/Technician

Education record