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Los Angeles County, California, United States

Pasadena, California, United States

Pasadena, California, United States

Pasadena, California, United States

Lead the working group to manage strategic planning, investments and implementation of cross-cutting software capabilities, modern practices, and processes across the business units.• Bring organizational transformation approach that is people focused based on Human-centered design philosophy.• Reports to the deputy director of JPL and the Executive Council• Co-leading the design of the structure and the roadmap for the institutional-level SW strategy.

Pasadena, California, United States

Pasadena, California, United States

Building solid partnership with the Systems Engineering community and leadership.Infusing design thinking and stakeholder and user research practices in the division.Managing diverse portfolio of projects within the team from product design, service design, cybersecurity, developer experience, etc.

Pasadena, California, United States

Brought humans forefront of the design of autonomous missions and autonomous spacecraft by applying Human-Centered Design principles and methods.• Expanded from a 6-month experiment to a mature product that delivers features in regular cadence.• Created a service model to meet stakeholder needs.Defined an innovative metrics to quantify the operator influence on the autonomous spacecraft.

Pasadena, California

As a senior lead, I lead UX teams and execute hands-on work, partnering with Product and Program Managers to deliver products. Current products are Augmented Reality based tool for visualizing spacecraft CAD models and for supporting crews and engineers and Model-Based System Engineering (MBSE) tool suite to design, integrate, and test spacecraft systems.

San Francisco Bay Area

I lead and do hands-on work on Co-creation facilitation, UX Research & Design, Test and Evaluation for complex systems. I work closely with product management teams and SW engineering team. As part of GE Global Research which works as an internal technical consulting firm for GE business, I have worked on projects related to control systems such as Power Plant Control Room, Business Jet Cockpit, Helicopter Cockpit, and Locomotive Cabin and also to Industrial Internet (Industrial Internet of Things) such as Digital Twin, Machine Learning, etc. - As a project lead, launched and led projects with distributed multi-disciplinary team - Budget: ~$1.7M Team composition: UX researchers, interaction and visual designers, SW architect, and developers. Team size: 4 to 6 people.- Successfully led customer engagement by facilitating co-creation sessions- Influenced business product strategies by creating the future of operation with customers and stakeholders.- GE Inventor (2015).- 10 patents filed and 2 of them published.Selected Projects:- Augmented/Virtual Reality for Control Room of the Future- Future Rail Operation- Purple Sky – Building Future Flight Deck Experience- Mission Commander – Manned-Unmanned Teaming- Digital Twin User Experience - Human-Model Interaction Experience Design for Anomaly Detection

San Ramon, Ca

Managed and worked as a User Researcher and Interaction designer on a over-$1M design innovation project from a discovery research, to design, prototyping, to productization and commercialization. Worked closely with product management teams, Subject Matter Experts, and SW engineering team. - Innovated a Human-Machine Interface for power generation operators (GE Power) and successfully commercialized as ActivePoint HMI product in GE.- Successfully led co-creation session with users as a participatory design approach.- Influenced other HMI products across GE businesses (GE Energy Connection, GE Oil & Gas, etc.).- Part of the wining proposal team for the research funding from Federal Rail Administration (Budget: ~$1M).- Board member for GE Digital CEO Bill Ruh’s SW Strategy Advisory Board (2014).- GE SWCOE Innovator Award (2013).Selected Projects:- Controls Human-Machine Interface (HMI) User Experience - Controls Convergence User Experience for Oil & Gas- Controls Ecosystem and Tool-chain- Investigation of New Roles for Humans and Automation in Next-Generation Rail Operations

Atlanta, Ga

Research Projects - NextGenAA: Integrated Model Checking and Simulation of NextGen Authority and Autonomy sponsored by NASA. - Collision Avoidance Human Factors Study sponsored by FAA. - Design of Human-Automation Interaction through Computational Modeling of Cognition and the Dynamic Flight Environment sponsored by NASA. - Methodology to Support Dynamic Function Allocation Polices between Humans and Automation sponsored by NASA. - Agent-based Simulation for Assessment of Human-System Performance sponsored by NASA.

Daejeon, Korea

Smart UAV project. Designed and tested a flight controller.

Suwon, Gyeonggi-Do, Korea

System design and integration for electronics manufacturing automation. (e.g., cellular phone and monitor assembly line robots, etc.)

Ph.D., Aerospace Engineering, Cognitive Systems Engineering

Dissertation: Model-Based Metrics of Human-Automation Function Allocation in Complex Work Environments

Ms, Aerospace Engineering, System Design

MS Special Topic: Method for Determination of the Level of Autonomy for Unmanned System

Bachelor'S Degree, Eletrical And Electronic Engineering

Thesis: Embodiment of Automatic Tree Growth Using Lindenmayer System via C++