Nick Kopp Email & Phone Number

Houston, Texas, United States

Huntsville, Alabama, United States

Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL

• Provide overall management, leadership, and technical direction for 20 engineers and scientists including performance, time & attendance, policies, issue resolution, corrective measures. Evaluate and select new hires
• Responsible for directing the Individual Training Plans of OCs in training including evaluating performance to plan, determining corrective action through critical verbal and written feedback, and providing leadership.
• Serves on Payload Operations Director’s (POD) Real-time Flight Control Team, assisting POD by ensuring smooth flow of information, processes, and procedures throughout 24/7 ISS Science Payload operations shifts.
• Supports Astronaut Crew procedure and ground command plan execution ensuring that ISS science payload operations are conducted within Flight Rule and Payload Regulation guidelines, safely, on time, and within science.
• Manages available resources to ensure planned and real-time operational readiness by coordinating with NASA science Payload Developers, European Space Agency (ESA) and Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) ISS.
• Leads anomaly resolution for off-nominal payload events by assessing impacts to operational plan, analyzing possible solutions, and coordinating safe and timely troubleshooting plans to return payload and Astronaut.

Huntsville, Alabama Area

• Leads a team of Engineers, Subject Matter Experts, Contracts Administrators, and Estimating Specialists to develop engineering solutions to customer driven requirements changes, assessing the impact to the design and.
• Serves as the primary liaison between NASA customer and Boeing Configuration Baseline Manager for “What If” assessments. Assessments consistently exceed customer expectations in monthly customer ratings.
• Maintains a working knowledge of SLS systems including Avionics, Structures, Propulsion, Manufacturing and Assembly, Systems Engineering, Integration, and Test as well as NASA and Boeing processes.
• Develops and implements best practices, processes, and procedures in regard to Boeing’s response to customer driven potential engineering changes.
• Analyzes potential engineering changes; assesses impact, risk, and cost to program baselines; determines cost/schedule variations; and conducts rough order of magnitude pricing estimates to engineering changes and.
• Partners with cross functional teams of engineers throughout the program to facilitate and integrate individual responses ensuring that necessary information is obtained; creates recommendation and presents solution.

-Serves as an Avionics Horizontal Integrator on the Space Launch System Core Stage Systems Engineering, Integration, and Test integrated product team.-Reviews Avionics such as Flight Computer, Redundant Inertial Navigation Unit, and various other instrumentation and sensor systems Envelope Drawings and Specifications to ensure Avionics supplier.

Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL

• Responsible for Payload Short Term Plan (STP) implementation and changes throughout 24/7 ISS POIC Flight Control Team shifts. Develops and coordinates Planning Product Change Requests, Orbital Communications Adapter.
• Coordinates a complete review of Payload STP to ensure documented science requirements and operational plans are incorporated into baseline ISS plan.
• Maximizes science return through the effective and efficient use of Astronaut Crew time utilizing NASA Consolidated Planning System (CPS) and ISS planning processes.
• Developed and maintained one of three Payload only Generic test Simulation timelines by integrating science requirements into a single operational plan using NASA CPS. The simulation timelines are used to test validity.
• Developed, maintained, and coordinated the Payload Joint Multilateral Simulation timeline inputs by developing an operational timeline from NASA science requirements and coordinating and integrating with input plans.
• Quickly developed an expert knowledge of CPS and developed software training for new employees.

Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL

• Coordinated Operations Change Requests through the entire change process by collaborating with change requestors to author requests and performed a technical review of change paperwork to assign reviewers and actions..
• Ensured that change requests were reviewed, approved, and implemented correctly.
• Maintained an operational knowledge of the Payload Integration Management System Operations Change Request software.

Guided students to successfully use software programs; troubleshot software and hardware problems while managing resources of a Residence Hall Computer Lab.

Organized and presented lesson plans for Engineering 100 course which oriented 26 freshman Aerospace Engineering students to the major, the campus, and life at University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign.

Analyzed engineering drawings of NPOESS Satellite bus structure parts for structural integrity using Stress and Strain structures theories for metallic and composite parts, wrote technical reports detailing findings.Supported Part Design Engineers in establishing structural integrity of weak parts.

B.S., Aerospace Engineering

Activities and Societies: Illinois Space Society, AIAA, DDR Illini, University of Illinois Astronomy Club.

Ms, Electrical Engineering

Courses: Spacecraft Guidance and Navigation; Introduction to Robotics and Control Theory; Classical Control Design (frequency domain SISO.