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- Responsible for a staff of 4 managers with 70+ employees that operate the machine shop, assembly areas, and test facilities for the fabrication and test of in-space propulsion products including various rocket types (monopropellant, bipropellant, and electrical thrusters). In charge of establishing and maintaining department budgets, as well as maintaining skills competencies, establishing training programs, and actively supporting employee succession efforts.

Redmond, Washington, United States

- Supervisor for up to 20+ project engineers at any one time that support production, development, and proposal efforts for future business. Responsibilities include ensuring appropriate tools available for personnel to complete day-to-day activities, completion of one-on-one performance reviews, management of overall group budget, support strategic planning of core products, development of core competencies of the group, and providing guidance and support for career development of project engineers.- Work directly with program managers and business development group to allocate the appropriate support for the various on-going programs. Approximately 30+ different programs throughout the year that need to be staffed appropriately for efforts that span short duration standard production programs to several year development programs. Responsible for staffing current programs as well as ensuring adequate staff and capabilities are available for future programs.- Lead improvement initiatives to support the growing needs of the business. Projects include, but not limited to, streamlined process to support a method to status various programs to upper management, implementation of standardized paperwork for processing of core products, development of templates to improve efficiency of test procedure creation, and development of tool to manage staffing for engineers.

Redmond, Washington, United States

- Responsible for translating specification requirements into a design that was fully compliant to the needs of the customer for various in-space propulsion products. Led over 30 + engineers from various locations including mechanical designers, electrical designers, thermal analyst, structural analyst, materials and process engineers, system engineers, manufacturing engineers, and quality engineers. - Coordinated and presented technical status on a regular basis to internal management team as well as the customer. Presentations include pulling together packages for technical interchange meetings, monthly management reviews, System Requirements Reviews, Preliminary Design Reviews, and Critical Design Review.- Led investigations for various technical issues with core productions. Solutions reached using investigation tools including fault tree analysis, functional deployment matrices, experimental testing, root cause assessments, and verification testing. - Experience working on production and development programs for both monopropellant & bipropellant engines. Tasks included design, analysis, fabrication, and testing of rocket engines to assure compliance with design objectives and customer requirements. Additional responsibilities involve review and approval of engineering designs, evaluating work instructions, conducting performance analysis, conducting experimental and production testing, test data analysis, and leading formal failure investigations.

El Segundo, California, United States

- Develop and analyze thermal models of various satellite configurations to assist in the design of spacecraft and provide predictions of temperature environments for critical flight hardware.- Support IRAD testing activities to fully correlate thermal models of satellite batteries. Duties included modeling test setups, helping in fabrication of test hardware, laying out instrumentation for test program, and documenting all testing activities with formal memos and reports.- Summer intern 2000 & 2001

Master Of Science - Ms, Mechanical Engineering

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Mechanical Engineering