Nate Brower Email & Phone Number

St. Louis, Mo, Us

Bridgeton, Mo

Huntsville-Decatur-Albertville Area

• Lead Operations Controller, ISS Increment 58• Ensured operational feasibility of International Space Station (ISS) on-orbit plans from one month to one week prior to execution.• Coordinated dynamic, contamination, and power-down events with Payload Developers to ensure external payload hardware assets remained within their operational envelopes and met all safety requirements.• Submitted, reviewed, and approved Operations Change Requests (OCRs) and Engineering Change Requests (ECRs) for payloads operating onboard the ISS.• Coordinated with Johnson Space Center counterparts, payload developers, and support personnel to ensure all resources in place for ISS operations.• Certified NASA Payload Operations Integration Center (POIC) flight controller for the International Space Station.• Provide real-time troubleshooting, decision making, and resource management coordination to keep ISS crew on schedule for completing planned science objectives.• Responsible for ensuring operational hazard controls are in place for ISS crew safety.• Primary real-time point of contact for payload developers running science experiments onboard the ISS.• Developed training curriculum for new hires to expedite certification process.• Performed administrative duties for maintaining OC team operations log and generating anomaly response templates.• Provided guidance on development of ISS crew procedures and planning products to ensure operational feasibility.

Hunstville, Al

• Led five-person development team for avionics installation designs on multiple Part 27 and 29 rotorcraft. Supervised initial on-site installations of avionics on aircraft. • Provided senior approval on all engineering CAD drawings produced for avionics installations. • Primary point of contact for interfacing with multiple customers. Developed customer-driven requirements and implemented engineering design changes based on customer feedback. • Developed advanced digital signal processing algorithms for increasing signal to noise ratio in vibration-based drive train diagnostics.• Designed and trained support vector machine classifier to successfully identify high degrees of backlash in marine hydrokinetic devices using parametric data inputs. • Analyzed drivetrain vibration data for AH-64, MH-6, CH-47, OH-58 and UH-60 variants for US Army Condition Based Maintenance (CBM) program.• Provided troubleshooting for abnormal aircraft vibration issues using AVA, IVHMS, VMEP, and MSPU Health and Usage Monitoring Systems (HUMS). • Evaluated effectiveness of existing condition indicators (CIs) and developed improved CIs and thresholds for fault detection on damaged rotorcraft components. • Wrote updated HUMS script files and supported flight tests of new software.• Reviewed, edited, and approved environmental qualification test plans and reports for rotorcraft components. Performed modal testing on equipment to be installed on aircraft. • Coauthored condition indicator development summary for ADS-79C, Appendix D. • Developed improved adjustment coefficients for rotor track and balance on the MH-6 main rotor and AH-64D tail rotor.• Applied unsupervised machine learning algorithm to rotorcraft fleet data, resulting in successfully isolating damaged drivetrain components from the healthy population.• Utilized MATLAB and Python in signal processing and data visualization applications.

- Analyzed Army Aviation Engineering Directorate vibration data.- Developed custom MATLAB-based GUI for visualizing large quantities of rotorcraft vibration data.