Line management of group of senior staff with broad flight management responsibilities including MSR Arm Product Delivery Managers, Perseverance Operations Team Chief and deputy, GCD project System Managers and Chief Engineers.

Perseverance Rover Mobility Development M2020 Mobility FSW Lead – Responsible for Rover Compute Element FSW development of mobility-related modules including drive, mob, nav, and vgnc. Specific responsibilities include ECR authorship, change approval and tracking, software development cycle reviews. M2020 Surface GNC Lead - Responsible for algorithm development, software implementation and testing of Navigation (ENav/NAVLib), image processing (VISLib), VCE surface software and FPGA firmware as well as surface attitude, pointing and positioning. M2020 Flight Systems Mobility Domain Lead – Responsible for requirements development, operations planning, ATLO testing, and VnV.Fast Traverse Task Manager – Led development of Fast Traverse technologies through series of research projects culminating in infusion to M2020. Coordinated the development of a unique urban localization capability as part of DARPA MARS 2020 program (CalTech has filed provisional patent protection). Integrated MER navigation flight software (GESTALT) to FIDO research rover and to ROAMS simulation. Optimized portions of GESTALT navigation software as part of MER 9.2 flight software build. Designed object oriented architecture for transparent networking of software components as part of Distributed Avionics project. Lead Navy funded project to transfer binocular stereo-based obstacle detection software to man portable DoD robot. Served as lead technical manager for large (~1 M$/yr) research project titled Science Operations On Planetary Surfaces (SOOPS), which involved integration of Maestro ground planning tool, CLARAty-based research rovers, and the ROAMS simulation engine. Represented robotics section in JPL marketing efforts as part of NASA’s Innovative Partnership Program to foster greater partnership with major defense and aerospace companies.

Founded Rossum Technologies Inc, a robotics development and consulting company. Responsible for business development, project management, client negotiations, and proposal writing.