As Director, I am responsible:To build, maintain, and support system analysis capabilities at Langley; To continuously acquire and develop the personnel and advanced analysis and design tools required to capture the most advanced technology and costing methodology; To ensure the technical quality of our systems analysis products; To expand Center-to-Center alliances in the area of systems analyses; and, identify where and how Langley and its partners can realize the NASA vision for aeronautics, science, and space exploration

This position will plan, direct, coordinate, implement and exercise authority for policy making, organization, control, integration, and completion of all functions of the Diversity and Equal Opportunity office.Responsibilities of the position include, but are not limited to:• Develops policies for non-discriminatory employment practices and monitors their implementation and impact. Interprets non-discrimination policies and laws and equal opportunity regulations for members of the community. • Serves as Title IX and ADA Coordinators.• Assists the Center’s Organizational Unit Managers in identifying, resolving and preventing equal employment opportunity/affirmative action complaints.• Consults and advises Line and Project Managers on the application of equal employment statutes and regulations.• Prepares and interprets the annual Model Agency Plan and related compliance reports.• Supports the Center’s hiring processes; reviews applicant pools to ensure representation in accordance with diversity goals; consults with human resources regarding strategies to recruit diverse applicants.• Develops and conducts training on topics related to equal opportunity, non-discrimination, sexual harassment, Title IX, diversity, and affirmative action.• Supervises EO staff which consists of counselors, trainers, and administrative support.• Investigates complaints of alleged discrimination and/or harassment; meets with persons involved in equal opportunity complaints in order to verify case information, summarizes findings and collaborate with management on recommendations for corrective action, if appropriate.• Facilitates informal resolution of internal complaints, where appropriate, in order to resolve disputes.• Participates in various committees, professional trainings, industry conferences, and conventions.

As the manager of the Space Technology Projects Office, I manage a core unit of 6 Civil Servants. I am responsible for the capture and execution of both directed and competed projects won in the Office Of Chief Technologist’s solicitations in Early Stage Innovation, Game Changing Technologies and Cross-Cutting demonstrations. I am responsible for the canvassing the Center for innovative ideas, classifying those ideas between the three Chief Technologist divisions, and weighing those ideas with respect to the Center’s technical capabilities and priorities. I then make recommendations to Center leadership as to what ideas should be invested into to compete in the solicitations. I am the Center’s Technical Point of Contact for Space Act Agreement SAA1-1020 between Langley and Johns Hopkins Appllied Physics Laboratory for Collaborations with Langley

Open Innovation/Crowdsourcing, Open Innovation/Technology Scouting, Grand Challenges for Early Innovation

I served a six-month detail as the Deputy Director of the Systems Analysis and Concepts Directorate. I worked closely with the SACD Director and the deputy directors of the Core Resource Units, Product Units and Business Units to ensure that all plans and tasks are consistent and well integrated within the overall Center strategy and operating plan. I shared responsibility with the Director for identifying SACD user and funder needs; I ensured the adequacy of systems analyses in concert with the Directorate’s Chief Engineer. I was responsible for implementing the Directorate’s Strategic and Innovation Plans. I strengthened partnerships between SACD and Goddard Space Flight Center. I partnered with the deputies of the Engineering Directorate and the Research Directorate to provide concept-to-flight services to the product units; I was responsible for the transition of personnel from the TEAMS 2 pre-procurement team to the Source Evaluation Board. I recommended personnel changes; resolved informal complaints; and, in an effort to expose junior staff to the merits of Space Systems Analysis, I was responsible for executing a 6-week summer program in Systems Analysis conducted by the National Institute of Aerospace. I am expert in Open Innovation – the need for companies to exploit the developments and products of competing and ancillary companies in the execution of its business plan. I have been engaged, in partnership with the Space Life Sciences Directorate at Johnson Space Center, in applying open innovation tools and methodologies in the solution of scientific problems. I have conducted two global open innovation challenges in the areas of sensor swarms, planetary protection and assaying life beyond Earth. I maintain contact with my customers at Headquarters, Johnson Space Center and Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory and other Centers.

I am the programmatic lead and interface for all of Langley's work in support of lunar activities including the Altair and Lunar Surface Systems Projects within the Constellation Program. I am also the programmatic lead for Langley Research Center participation in bid and proposal activities associated with lunar systems studies and lunar science investigations.

I have the responsibility for ARES I-X Integrated Design and Analysis project's successful implementation. I define, plan, schedule, and control the activities associated with Thermal Analysis, Structural Analysis, Vibro-acoustic Analysis and Aerodynamic Analysis. I am responsible for those who will perform the tasks. I monitor and coordinate the activities of the team, and will review their deliverables. I report progress to the senior management of Langley and the Constellation program. I assign tasks to contractors and consultants, monitor their activities and deliverables and assure that knowledge transfer is indeed taking place. I have responsibility for both financial and human resources.

• Represents the Shuttle Program Manager in deliberations between the Program Office, the Projects and JSC Engineering Directorate• Central point of contact to transmit Shuttle-related issues to the NASA Research Centers: Langley Research Center, Glenn Research Center, Ames Research Center and Dryden Flight Research Center • Central point of contact between the Shuttle Projects and the Research Centers in terms of transferring Orbiter sustaining engineering tasks from the Engineering Directorate at Johnson Space Center to the Research Centers • Responsible for workforce allocation, budgeting, schedules and milestones• Represents the Research Centers during Program Manager’s Reviews and Program Planning and Budget Execution activities• Member of the Space Shuttle Program Office Business Management Leadership Team

• Represented the Langley Research Center to its strategic partners - the Army Research Lab and the National Institute of Aerospace, and its strategic suppliers.• Represented the Center and my organization’s Director in developing relationships between other NASA centers’ offices of strategic management • Responsible for negotiating a strategic plan for the National Institute of Aerospace distinguished professors. The strategic plan provided the framework for the professors to develop the research and educational program necessary to achieve Langley’s research and educational objectives as well as provide for an educational facility.• Responsible for forming relationships with Glenn Research Center and Johnson Space Center Advanced Planning Offices with the intent to develop relationships that would allow the strategy offices at the Centers to come together and share lessons learned as these organizations became operational.

Managed Branch (22 civil servants, 18 contractors) that developed, demonstrated and transferred methods for mission analysis, systems analysis, technology benefits analysis, and preliminary design of exploration systems• Created Science Mission Proposal Evaluation Team and advocated the team's activities to be applied to the proposal evaluation of SMEX, UNESS, MIDEX, Discovery, New Horizons, and New Frontiers Missions • Collaborated with five of the six Competencies at NASA Langley and all of the 10 Field Centers in Agency • Collaborated with Intercenter team to develop the Agency's view of human space exploration• Supported NASA Office of Space Flight, Office of Biological and Physical Research, Office of Space Science, Office of the Space Architect and the Exploration Systems Mission Directorate• produced a customer-oriented branch strategic plan• Led Agency's inaugural Independent Program Assessment on the Mars 2001 missions