Nicholas Marks Email & Phone Number

Houston, Texas, Us

Reston, Virginia, Us

• Developed, tested and launched flight software in embedded C for sub-orbital rocketmissions with NASA, JPL, the DOD and others as cognizant engineer of the attitudecontrol subsystem (see http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sounding-rockets/index.html).• Worked through full project life cycle including establishing requirements, creating designdocuments and presentations, developing mission specific software, acceptance testing,integrating system, launch operations and post-flight data analysis.• Managed testing and qualification of a new inertial navigation system, directing otheremployees, establishing test protocols and analyzing results.• Developed specialized flight software in embedded C for JPL Mars 2020 parachute testmission to send parachute release signal based on in-flight dynamic conditions.• Developed a wide range of test automation software in C#, significantly increasing efficiencyand cutting multiple man hours per test. Improved production yield on flight computerboards from 50% to 100% while cutting testing time by 80%.• Created data analysis scripts in MATLAB and modified simulations in Simulink.• Found and diagnosed an obscure flight computer software timing issue, preventing a missionfailure and received save of the month award.• Wrote and delivered test software for suppliers to improve product testing pre-delivery,resulting in a much higher yield of accepted parts.

Belrose, New South Wales, Au

• Designed embedded C firmware and hardware upgrades for embedded electronics productsand control systems, interfacing multiple hardware components.• Designed software and hardware for a new product, an optical car counting sensor andcontroller that used a set of mounted lasers and control logic to determine the number ofcars vs motorcycles and people that had entered and exited a multi-story parking garage.• Developed a new software product, an elevator controller, from conceptual stages throughtesting to deployment in the Embarcadero Delphi programming language.• Diagnosed and solved problems with current systems such as a railway timekeeping network.• Performed research and development for new products using contemporary developmenttechniques including a modular Android control system and a car park management system.• Worked with a multi-disciplinary team of software, electrical and mechanical engineers.

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Mechatronic Engineering

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Physics