Michael Coolidge Email & Phone Number

Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States

• Leads the overall IRRT effort on evaluating Falcon launch vehicles. Transitioned oversight from qualifying a new launch vehicle through to Falcon becoming a relied workhorse where the Government is a minority customer.
• Acts as technical Chief Engineer for all SMC Launch Vehicles. Ensures consistency in evaluation of risks between different launch vehicles. Evaluated how proposed changes would affect overall risk posture and.
• Worked closely with SpaceX as they used MBSE to design the Falcon 9 and then used various models to constantly monitor and optimize the overall rocket and performance.
• Wrote the Operating Instruction on how the IRRT would investigate, develop, document, evaluate, manage, and present Risks both to the Launch Decision Authority and the Development Contractor. The majority of the.
• Applied Agile methodologies to allow the IRRT organization to adapt to new workloads prioritizing this workload with existing tasks. This also ensured that all tasks were identified and tracked to completion across a.
• Managed the transition of the JIRA database from DI2E to Platform 1 when the government decided to change solution providers. This involved rewriting all the code and fixing all the security and logic issues with the.

Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States

Work as a trained DAU Certified Acquisitions Professional aiding SMC programs through difficult problems.

Providing Systems Engineering support to various SMC organizations.

Long Beach, CA

Led an 80 person organization guaranteeing Boeing properly builds, tests, and fields new C-17 aircraft as well as all modifications to the C-17, C-130 Avionics Modernization Program, and B-1B Avionics Upgrade program.

Various

Served for 29.5 years as a Scientist, Engineer, Program Manager, and Contracting Officer. Primarily worked Space related programs, Space Lift Range, Ground Equipment supporting space, and Rockets/Rocket Fuels.

El Segundo AFB, CA

Directed 100+ member team evaluating Systems Engineering practices Space and Missile Systems Center-wide.

SMC - El Segundo CA

Dual hatted as both the Chief Engineer and Deputy Commander for the 800 person Space and Missile Systems Center's (SMC) MILSATCOM Wing.

El Segundo, CA

Deputy Commander of a 450 person organization in charge of the Air Force Satellite Control Network and the Spacelift Ranges.

Alexandria, VA

Oversaw R&D programs within this Joint Agency in charge of detecting, protecting, and defusing Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical threats.

Patrick AFB, FL

Led a team of 35 government/400 contractors in charge of all ground support equipment for Space Launches from Cape Canaveral. Includes Radars, Telemetry, Optics, Command Destruct, and Communications equipment.

El Segundo, CA

Directed a team of 24 responsible for maintenance and upgrades to 14 Satellite Operations Centers at Falcon AFB and Onizuka AS.

Developing new High Energy Rocket Fuels and Explosives.

To develop new high energy Rocket Fuels and Explosives

Phd, Chemistry

Earned my PhD at the University of Washington under the AFIT Civilian Institute program. My research emphasis was in Physical Chemistry.

Ms, Chemistry

Concluded all my course work and successfully defended my research topic in just 2 years. The research topic chosen was in Physical.

Ba, Chemistry