Mike Gioia Email & Phone Number

Sunnyvale Califonia

Work and experience includes:19 years of satellite design in following areas.-Satellite Structures design using carbon fiber, honeycomb structures, titanium alloys, alumimun alloys, and other alloys for specialty structures, thermal performance and EMI / Faraday Cage.-Satellite Systems design: Requirements flowdown, Verification, Validation, FFMEA's, etc-Satellite harness design.-Satellite conceptual, preliminary and system architecture designs for proposal and early design efforts.-Propulsion component and system design.-Ion propulsion system design and integration.-Optical and RF satellite payload design.-Expert at CAD systems CREO Parametric 2, CREO Elements/Pro 5.0 and I-DEAS NX.-Mechanical Integration: Create Envelope and Interface drawings to define subsystem requirements and interfaces.-Three years of Mechanical Design, Integrations and System Engineering for the Space Station Program

Primary tasks: Development of next generation underwater acoustic sensors.Design of ocean floor and vertical column sensor arrays.Extensive design of sensors using thermoset and thermoplastic materials.Responsible for many one time build underwater devices for varying tasks to measure pressure, salinity, flow velocity, temperature, etcTypical customers were Woods Hole, NOAA, Scripps, etc