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Program Planning Chair managing the overall definition, development, recruitment of speakers and marketing for our very successful "Future of Space: Challenges in Getting to Mars and Back" event December 9, 2015. Please see the link provided for more information and the video. https://www.mitwa.org/event/future-spaceLiaison to the MIT Alumni Club of the Puget Sound

• Provided technical expertise in the start up phase to iJet’s internal teams in the domains of satellite communications, aviation weather, NextGen, and related FAA operational and certification avionics approvals. • In a business development function, while representing iJet at FAA, industry, and standards meetings, successfully facilitated the development of many constructive relationships and partnerships in satellite communications, aviation weather, as well as airline customers • Wrote aviation weather products concept paper on graphical flight deck weather for pilots, contributed to associated business cases and requirements development • Applied advanced knowledge, including from FCC filings on earth stations aboard aircraft and AMSS service rules in FSS allocated spectrum, of airborne satellite based connectivity in the L band and emerging Ku and Ka bands for airline passenger communications to guide connectivity strategy for airline operational applications running on iJet’s Platform as a Service• Performed detailed link budget analysis to estimate link performance accounting for spectrum regulatory restrictions, aircraft location heading and attitude, elliptical antenna beam shapes, ASI, numerous propagation effects, commercial modem capabilities of iDirect and Hughes including DVB-S2, RF implementation losses, VSWR, and noise figure• To shape the standards to benefit iJet and the aviation industry at large, worked with standards making bodies including the RTCA MET and Aeronautical Information Data Link Services Special Committee (SC) 206, RTCA Air Ground Communications SC 222 addressing L band AMS(R)S communications over Inmarsat and Iridium, the AEEC Ku/Ka Band WG developing the avionics standard ARINC 791, and AEEC EFB subcommittee developing an Aircraft Interface Device avionics standard

• Nominated by Boeing and approved by the NextGen Institute as industry co-lead of the JPDO Weather Working Group’s IT and Enterprise Services (ITES) team spanning 2004-2012 working with aviation industry as well as FAA, DOD, NOAA NWS, Eurocontrol, and Open Geographic Consortium furthering the development metadata standards for aviation weather and developing 4-D weather Cube and NextGen Network Enabled Weather (NNEW) program concepts. These programs are worth > $1B• Worked with Boeing Air Traffic Management (ATM) systems engineering team on the FAA’s Global CNS System (GCNSS) program with a substantial space-based segment on mission, operational, functional, and performance requirements analysis and system concept, design and synthesis of GCNSS for ATM with System Wide Information Management (SWIM) network capability• Conceptualized, developed, performed, and analyzed an experiment for test of L-band satellite Voice over IP (VoIP) services for FAA controlled airspace leading to two publications• Contributed to the Boeing’s successful GCNSS II proposal and acted as NAS weather system focal for the early SWIM effort under GCNSS II and authored the GCNSS II transition plan to SWIM for the NAS weather systems• Served as a Boeing representative to the RTCA Special Committee 206 on Meteorological and Aeronautical Information Data Link Services which valued my expertise in space based communications and meteorology• Authored key sections and served as editor of the “SWIM Governance Policies” document, version 1.0 and took a similar role in developing the early versions of the “SWIM Governance Processes” for the SOA based program aligning the service lifecycle with the FAA Acquisition Management System process. Provided technical recommendations to the FAA on NAS automation system of systems architectural views

• Assessed the state of 3G cellular technology development and competitive landscape and drove the product vision and roadmap for Operational Support System (OSS) software products to be sold to wireless communications service providers including mediation, customer activation, and combined CRM/network performance products. Translated highly complex and technical concepts into meaningful proposal content which contributed to several contract wins• Taught courses on Internet Protocols and technology, including business relevance, to a highly diverse set of colleagues across the organization which facilitated better product planning and roadmap acceptance

• Initiated and led cross functional group for development and capture of top-level service requirements for the global LEO satellite based broadband communication system • Collaborated with Teledesic industry partners and prime contractors on the functional partitioning of the Teledesic system, interface definitions, system budgets, link budgets, and system architecture including network elements and either led or participated in every major system optimization. • Discovered closed form mathematical expressions for the design of non-geostationary, inclined-orbit global satellite constellations for use in system optimizations avoiding sequential trial and test• Successfully initiated, led, working cooperatively across the organization, the Teledesic system design change from one based on a 840 satellite constellation to one based on 288 satellites which led to the filing of a modification to Teledesic’s original FCC filing. • Performed launch risk, cost, sparing strategy optimization for alternative space constellation options across the world’s launcher fleet• Defined, analytically calculated, and established constellation, user, and system availability budgets, defining boundary between availability and other network measures of QoS and analyzed QoS, capacity, availability, and latency performance of the Teledesic network for its ability to inter-network with TCP/IP• Assisted Technical Regulatory team in obtaining and maintaining FCC and ITU licenses including analysis of competitive systems and was granted two U.S. Patents regarding the sharing of RF spectrum

DRG was a builder of small satellites before small satellites became all the rage for the government sector initially, later moving into the commercial domain.• Program manager and architect of several small satellite architectures and designs, including several for government communications and remote sensing missions, and DRG’s Orpheus small satellite• Directed and performed advanced concept studies with budgets up to $1 million which were successfully delivered on time and under budget• Hardened a government satellite system to the effects of radiation including the hands on testing of electronic and RF components which the customers “rad hard mafia” considered exemplary• Developed expertise in previously unfamiliar areas becoming the corporate expert in space environmental effects such as radiation and spacecraft charging, space power system detailed budgeting and modeling, solar arrays, batteries, DC power electronics, attitude control modeling/simulation, orbital dynamics simulation/modeling, constellation analysis and design, thermal analysis and design• Through deep understanding of stability analysis, developed a satellite attitude control design which took unique advantage of an attitude instability providing to a solution which satisfied multiple mission requirements simultaneously• Provided input to company principals on new business ideas and strategies, wrote proposals, and was instrumental in bringing about and sustaining a large portion of DRG’s business base including work for Teledesic and the FORTE spacecraft battery hardware program. Personal initiative jump started the FORTE proposal writing 80%. With the proposal success became the program manager.• Developed, on my own initiative, a comprehensive space infrastructure Excel-based model of the Teledesic concept including constellation, Ka band communications, launch, spacecraft design and subsystem aspects. Most complete model done of a space system at the time.

• Cracked a particularly difficult physics problem employing nonlinear optimization as a key part of a small team with diverse and advanced knowledge leading to a multi-billion dollar program• Served as spacecraft systems engineer for this large program of national importance including system and subsystem requirements and budget definition, launch integration, and analysis in several complex, diverse and unique technical areas that provided important guidance for the program