Orbit Analyst for Milstar and Advanced EHF. Supported Milstar Flight-5 (2002) and Flight-6 launches (2003). Continuing support to Milstar constellation for orbit management, stationkeep performance trending, reposition analysis, and collision avoidance. Preparation of concept of operations and launch readiness for Advanced EHF.

Mission planning and propellant budgeting for A2100 Commercial Satellite proposals.

Performed and assisted in a variety of engineering related tasks for a LEO type satellite constellation.* Collected high-level requirements of a prototype LEO satellite.* Assisted the Space Segment in the initial design of the command subsystem and telemetry requirements.* Developed simulations, both in C and third-party applications, to help design satellite payload and protocols. Studies included: (1) satellite almanac; (2) orbit propagation and footprints; (3) simulation of payload channel selection.* Created Excel macros to query a customer database containing raw data and "spread" the data according to a number of factors such as time of day and location.* Developed formulas for the embedded control of an X-Y antenna positioner, to convert between coordinate systems. Created an associated user program in C on RealTime Linux.* Software testing: Tested pen computer based order processing software.* UNIX system administration.

Duties included administration of Sun and Network Appliance servers and workstations in a heterogeneous environment consisting of SunOS and Solaris; daily backups of servers and desktops; creating scripts using Perl; configuration of Samba services on Sun desktops; installation of new Sun workstations; IP address and user management.

Summer job. Typical tasks involved (1) Drafter: Made revisions to technical drawings based on engineers' designs. (2) Robotics Tester: Ran multiple tests of assembly line robotics, recording the robots' performance statistics and noting discrepancies to the design engineers.