Mark Clayson Email & Phone Number

El Segundo, California

Space Architecture Dept., Systems Engineering Division. Systems and Systems of Systems (SoS) Architecture, design, performance & requirements Analysis for DoD, NRO, NOAA & NASA space programs. CDC (Concept Design Center) Space Architecture Team lead on over 50 studies (SBSS, MIMS, BFT, TC, IISR (HSI), NOAA, Canadian Polar Comm, KSA IMSS, etc.). C4ISR, MC2C & ORS SoS architectural development & analysis. Hyperspectral and lidar system concept development team lead, SMV missions and payloads database development, missile defense data fusion evaluation, space laser (LASSOS) and sensor applications concept development & evaluation, SBIRS Low & RAMOS experiment planning & definition. Systems engineering process and requirements analysis, modeling, tool development & documentation. Interplanetary (Cassini) & earth payloads readiness, performance & cost/risk analyses. Meteorological & climate systems architecture and portfolio analyses. Navigation systems and portfolios. Communication architectures for various systems (SBSS, TSAT, NRO, NSF polar comm., etc.). Common and modular spacecraft bus studies.

El Segundo, California

9/90 - 9/95 BSTS/AWS/SBIRS Sensor Systems and Systems Engineering. System performance simulation and trades, including phenomenology. Primary (IR) payload performance (missile detection & tracking) simulation, trades & analyses. Full responsibility for secondary payloads (optical, nudet). Evaluation of contractor ground demos, designs & analyses. 2/89 - 8/90 SBWAS Systems Engineering. Development, performance simulation & analyses of space-based IR concepts for air vehicle detection; countermeasures, risk assessment, trades.

El Segundo, California

Image Exploitation Dept., Sensor Systems Subdivision. Simulation, reduction & analysis of space-based optical sensor data associated with several operational and developmental programs. Phenomenologies: celestial, limb, hard earth, straylight, targets, UV to LWIR.

Torrance, California

Full responsibility for night courses in astronomy, including lectures & laboratory. Taught 3 semesters.

El Segundo, California

Advanced Technology Dept.,Optics Laboratory. Radiometric Signatures, Responsible for space flight hardware - upgrades, assembly, tests & analyses of multiple calibration source and spectral filter subassemblies. Radiometric field work, atmospheric & celestial phenomenologies.

Boulder, Colorado

Astro-Geophysics Dept. Global ozone analyses of sonde, Umkehr and satellite network data. Thesis on BUV satellite retrieval of stratospheric ozone profiles (processed 1200 CCTs of data and archived at NCAR). Also NCAR Computing Fellow 1977.

Boulder, Colorado

Assisted full professor in astronomy instruction, exam & paper grading, consultations, observation sessions including observatory and planetarium operations.

Colorado Springs, Co

Software development & test for DoD war gaming, etc. 2 summers.

Master Of Science (M.S.), Systems Architecture And Engineering

Master Of Science - Ms, Astrophysical, Planetary & Atmospheric Sciences

Thesis on the Global Stratospheric Ozone Distribution from 1 1/2 Years of OGO IV BUV Data

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Physics And Astronomy

Diploma, Ap Courses (English, Math, Science, History), Physics, Calculus

Activities and Societies: Track, cross-country & math teams. President of the Physical Science Club. NHS, CSF, ICC.