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Ocala, Florida, United States

• Provide strategic direction across five major programs, owning FAA relationships with Boeing, Firefly Space, Sierra Nevada Corporation, SpaceX, and United Launch Alliance. Drive technical evaluations of propulsion.
• Lead four teams with total of 25 individuals focused on licensing efforts, including evaluation, surveillance, and anomaly investigation. Ensure team focus, collaboration, and performance. o Experience with 14 CFR part.
• Deliver end-to-end review of launch and reentry vehicles, from design and development to deployment planning and systems safety to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements & standards. o Consult with license &.
• Partner with Division Managers to develop and administer program plans, policies, procedures, resources, and strategic business objectives.
• Collaborate government agencies to develop U.S. space policies.
• Align requirements with strategic plans to streamline licensing process, interfacing with NASA and Air Force Range counterparts. Deliver technical expertise and relationship management to resolve issues.o Experience.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Served as chief technical liaison for Commercial Crew Program (CCP), directing NASA’s interagency partnership with FAA in commercial spaceflight.
• Facilitated CCP collaboration on policy, licensing, and regulatory functions; led technical interchange and interagency meetings, legal working groups, and contracting/procurement activities.
• Delivered insight to FAA concerning NASA’s current/future design plans, requirements, certification processes, flight readiness, and flight operations.
• Spearheaded project to review & assess NASA spaceflight requirements, management plan, and safety policies to support FAA licensing of CCP missions, alongside development of future FAA human space flight regulations. o.

Houston, Texas Area

• Served as Division Management Team member, guiding policy, organizational structure, strategic planning, and implementation plans. Delivered strategic oversight to technical integrations, human spaceflight issues.
• Led development of verification strategies & requirements to measure system compliance and determine flight objectives, enabling system validation.
• Directed development, review, and approval of operational products and procedures. Identified technical risk, providing management team with recommendations for risk mitigation.
• Oversaw division certification efforts and served as voting member on control board for design, hardware acceptance and certification reviews, including Flight Readiness Reviews.

Houston, Texas Area

• Led 5-10 technical team members through design assessments and analysis cycles to identify improvement opportunities in reliability, supportability, and operability of Lunar Lander while reducing cost and weight.
• Delivered technical expertise and guidance during development of Lander’s operational concept definition, design reference missions, and mission plans; ensured alignment with vehicle design requirements.

Houston, Texas Area

• Headed cross-functional team of engineers, developers, trainers, and analysts to effectively plan and execute space shuttle missions.
• Led 10-member team of developers and flight controllers to redesign critical mission control software used during shuttle ascent and entry. Result improved failure detection/diagnosis, faster response time, and reduced.
• Contributed technical expertise in development of three new aerospace vehicle's design concepts, system engineering evaluations, and requirements development.
• Delivered oversight and design reviews of turbomachinery, valves, hydraulics, avionics, flight dynamics, software and electrical/mechanical, separation, guidance & control systems.
• Served as Software Panel Co-Chairman at Mission Control Center; directed hardware & software development and developed software certification policy/requirements for personal computers in flight critical operations.

Master Of Science - Ms, Mechanical Engineering

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Aerospace, Aeronautical And Astronautical Engineering