CV: Attitude Controls Engineer

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Date Submitted:	13-07-2008
Last Modified:	14-07-2008 (05:40)

Job information

Current job:	Attitude Controls Engineer
Employment Term:	Permanent
Relocation:	Own country
Date available:	within 2 months
Industry:	Civil Agencies/International Organizations, Satellite Manufacturers and Subcontractors, Satellite Operators, Consulting/Engineering Services
Keywords	attitude controls control GN&C ACS flight mission operations satellite

EXPERIENCE
Spacecraft Attitude Dynamics and Controls Engineer
Space Systems / Loral
(6/00 to present)
Controls analysis lead
      EchoStar 8
      EchoStar 9
      EchoStar 11
      Intelsat 14
      NSS-12
Mission operations controls lead (Controls 1)
      EchoStar 9
      Telstar 18
      XTAR
      DirecTV 9
      EchoStar 11
Performed analysis of
      Attitude control using thrusters/wheels
      Linear and nonlinear control systems
      Angular momentum management and yaw estinmation and control
      Linear Quadratic Gausiian (LQG) Systems
      Thruster Alignment
      ACS propellant budgeting
      Acquisition modes
Devleoped controls analysis tool
Gave presentations at design reviews
Contributed to anomaly resolution
Wrote documentation for spacecraft operations
Provided customer support for spacecraft operations
Provided on-site customer training
Signed off on specifications and other requirements docuements
Developed sequence of events (SOE) for mission operations
Supported in-orbit test (IOT)
Performed community outreach to elementary and secondary schools

Dynamicist
Hughes Space and Communications Company
(6/95 to 8/97; 2/99 to 5/00)
Performed analysis of
      Spinning spacecraft dynamics
      Attitude control using thrusters/wheels/magnetic coils
      Appendage deployment
      Spacecraft separation
Performed operations in mission control center for HS601 spacecraft
Performed flight software qualification testing
Interviewed prospective engineers

EDUCATION
MSE, Aerospace Engineering
University of Texas at Austin, December 1998
Specialization: Guidance and Controls
Master's Report Title: Chaos in Rigid Body Attitude Dynamics
Advisor: Dr. Robert Bishop
Course work:
      Spacecraft Attitude Dynamics (at USC)
      Flight Control Systems
      Linear Systems Analysis
      Optimal Control Theory
      Probability, Statistics, and Random Processes
      Structural Dynamics
      Orbital Dynamics
      Statistical Esrimation Theory
      LQE/LQR
      Mission Analysis and Design
      Digital Control Sysyems
      Nonlinear Control Systems
BA, Physics & Astrophysics
UC Berkeley, May 1995
Research in radio astronomy

PATENT
US 6,634,603; "Magnetic Dipole Tractor Beam"; October 21, 2003.

PUBLICATION
Cooper, J., and Bishop, R., "Chaos in Rigid Body Attitude Dynamics," AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference, Portland, OR, Paper AIAA-99-3970, August, 1999

TECHNICAL
MATLAB, Simulink, csh (UNIX shell programming), C, FORTRAN, Mathematica, Matrix-X, ADSIM, LaTeX, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, FoxPro, Visio, HTML, German.

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