Education:

l M.S. Mechanical Engineering (Dynamics & Control), Villanova University, Villanova, PA, 1999

l B.A. Astronomy (Astrophysics), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 1989

l Supplemental Coursework:

      Real-Time Embedded Systems Programming, UC Santa Cruz, December 2006

      C++ Programming, City College of San Francisco, December 2006

      Spacecraft Guidance & Control (Mechanical Eng.), CSU Santa Clara, 2002

Corporate Awards

l PRIDE Award, Intra-theatre Image Transmission System (IITS) Program

l PRIDE Award, Program 607, A10 Critical Issue Teamwork

Technical Proficiencies

l Engineering Analysis:

      Rigid Body Dynamics, Orbital Mechanics, Control Systems, Statistical Methods (Monte Carlo analysis and modeling), Modeling and Simulation of Systems, Image Processing (MRI)

l Tools:

      Emacs, vi, gcc, gdb, gnumake, Visual C++, Clear Case, RCS

l Languages:

      MATLAB, Simulink, FORTRAN, C/C++, IDL, S-Plus, Cobol, Ada95, Awk/Sed, PERL, Unix Shell Scripting

Core Competencies

l Simulation and Modeling (spacecraft systems)

l Software Test and Debug (white box testing)

l Aerospace Engineering Analysis

l Programming/Analysis Results Presentations

Engineering Experience

l 11 years aerospace engineering Lockheed Martin/GE Aerospace

      7 years in SCIF environment

l 2 years software engineer UCSF/DVA Medical Center

Professional Experience:

09/2000-10/2003-Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Sunnyvale, CA

Senior Software Engineer, Clearances: SSBI, DoD/S

Engineering Analysis and White Box Testing of High Fidelity Analysis Simulation

        Analyzed dynamical performance of Guidance, Navigation and Control (GN&C) software for the Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS High) in a high-fidelity analysis simulation environment. The spacecraft is 3-axis stabilized in GEO orbit.

        Implemented various on-orbit scenarios (orbit insertion, orbit adjust, attitude adjust, housekeeping) to determine if GN&C systems functioned according to designed specifications.

        Recommended changes and documented results to correct errors and design flaws. This also served as a benchmark for flight software releases and as a baseline to insure the proper implementation of the flight software when bench tested with actual spacecraft hardware.

        Researched space vehicle mass properties to insure GN&C simulation parameters matched finite-element model.

10/1998-10/2000-UCSF/DVA Medical Center, San Francisco, CA

Scientific Programmer

Application Development and Computer Support for Multi-Site Clinical Research

        Ported HDF-DICOM conversion utility written in Unix shell script/C/C++ to Windows NT Visual C++ environment.

        Adapted existing Visual C++ code to integrate the HDF-DICOM conversion utility.

Statistical Programming and Analysis

        Developed alternating least squares fit model in S-Plus for statistical analysis of acquired Magnetic Resonance (MR) metabolite data.

        Developed HOH filter in IDL to augment presence of faint metabolite spectra acquired from MR spectroscopy scanner.

08/1997-10/1998-Lockheed Martin Corporation, Pearl Harbor, HI

Systems Analyst, Clearances: SCI/TS, DoD/S

Systems Analysis/Operations and Maintenance

        Operations & Maintenance role to troubleshoot problems with mission-critical information dissemination system used to handle intelligence data for the US Military Forces in the Pacific Theater.

        Ported software from MicroVAX in FORTRAN to PC in C.

07/1990-07/1997-Lockheed Martin/GE Aerospace

Systems Engineer/Analyst, Software Developer

System Rearchitecture, Program 470:

        Worked on program to port legacy ground system code from Fortran and C to C++. Used PERL to locate and organize system file information. Platforms used were both Sun workstations and HP workstations. Used SED/AWK to locate system file information.

Systems Integration, Program 607 (Engineering Analysis Group):

        Developed phase-locked loop model in MATLAB to assist in system analysis.

        Worked on team to resolve high-profile flat-spin anomaly of single-axis, spin-stabilized, on-orbit spacecraft. Rapid prototype models developed in MATLAB and Simulink.

        Implemented JPL ephemeris software as part of study. Used Sed, Awk and Perl to process output files.

        Developed MATLAB model to simulate RF transmission lobes represented by a Bessel function used during spacecraft cross-link acquisition.

        Developed Monte Carlo simulation to determine fuel consumption of a launch vehicle during take-off and initial orbit insertion taking into account mechanical, dynamical and spurious error sources.

        The simulation was written in FORTRAN and developed on a Sun workstation, and used as part of a trade study.

IITS (Intra-theater Image Transmission System) Program:

        Troubleshooting position to work on user-interface software for a battlefield facsimile transmission system.

        Debugged and corrected critical failures to the software overcoming a lack of technical documentation for the code.

Inter-segment Interface (ISI):

       Worked as a Maintenance Engineer to work off action items on software used to disseminate acquired spacecraft data to various sites for analysis.  The code was written in FORTRAN and Cobol CICS on IBM 8090 XA Mainframe computers.

GEM (GE Ephemeris Management):

        Operations & Maintenance Engineer responsible for legacy ground station software code.

        Code used to determine ephemeredes of on-orbit spacecraft. Written in Fortran IV, H-extended on IBM 8060XA Mainframe computers.