PROFILE

Versatile engineer with a BS in Aerospace Engineer and 15 years of industry experience in multiple organizational roles: guidance analyst; subject matter expert; software principal engineer; project manager; team lead; mentor; and systems and integration engineer. Capable of coordinating multi-discipline teams by the successful leadership and close-out of many projects in a dead-line oriented environment. Significant experience cultivating customer and peer relationships, as well as providing technical support. Accomplished in software, process, and test requirements development. Driven to exceed expectations and expand personal knowledge and skills. Enjoys engineering challenges and versatility of assignments.

SKILLS

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, May 1995

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Barrios Technology, Incorporated                16441 Space Center Blvd., Suite B-100, Houston, TX 77058

Job Title: Senior Engineer                                      Security Clearance: National Agency Check w/ Inquiries

Contracted to United Space Alliance Flight Design & Dynamics - Ascent/Descent Flight Design Branch

Position: Flight Design Engineer                                                                         May 2004 – August 2011

Provided technical and project integration support for engineer and management personnel for project, change requirements, and issue resolution within an area containing 100+ engineers divided into multiple technical disciplines.

• Impacted and integrated programmatic changes and change requests
• Performed configuration management and engineering change control using a company-defined quality management system.
• Ensured change requirement modifications are implemented per project milestones.
• Ensured process life cycle reflected project goals and functional design requirements.
• Interface with internal and external customers.
• Conducted best practice assessments for knowledge management to ensure safe and error-free production cycles.
• Evaluated and analyzed guidance, navigation, and control Space Shuttle flight software.
• Presented Space Shuttle flight software changes to peer engineers and management for education.
• Conducted root cause analysis on data production and process error escapes to improve design processes and quality assurance.
• Developed requirements for simulation software and process work-flow modifications.

·         Documented flow-up and flow-down requirements for traceability.

·         Performed test plan and software life cycle reviews.

·         Support development of interface control documents and interface requirements.

• Reviewed peer engineer technical briefings prior to community panel presentation.

Accomplishments include:

·         Awarded Branch Peer Award (May 2006) for leading a continuous improvement team of 6 engineers to streamline an internal Space Shuttle integrated avionics verification process

·         Awarded Employee of the Month (Jan 2008) for represented the Branch team pre-mission production process during an ISO 9001/14001 quality standards inspection which resulted in no audit findings.

·         Awarded Employee of the Month (Nov 2009) for initiating and leading a team of 20 engineers in the capture and retention of Space Shuttle guidance, navigation, and control and pre-mission trajectory knowledge and documentation.

·         Awarded NASA Space Flight Awareness Team Award (February 2011) for supporting a NASA integrated simulation benchmarking and evaluation team that led to selection of simulation capable of meeting JSC-DM Branch core requirements and efficiency and cost goals.

Position: Flight Design & Dynamics Space Shuttle Production Engineer    October 1996 – August 2011

Subject Matter Expert for Space Shuttle ascent intact aborts, in addition to Flight Design Engineer position. 

• Lead and managed a team of 14 engineers. Prioritized and assigned tasks.
• Provided status and feedback to management team. 
• Supported first line managers in hiring engineers and performance appraisals.
• Interfaced with upstream and downstream customers.
• Designed, optimized, and verified ascent intact abort trajectories and performance boundaries for Space Shuttle missions.
• Calculated abort propellant dump profiles to support C.G. travel and entry flight stability.
• Developed and ensured error-free data product content and on-time delivery.
• Conducted vehicle trajectory analysis and optimization using 6DOF simulations to ensure good performance and flight behavior and compliance with documented design constraints.
• Analyzed GNC performance issues through anomaly re-creation in six degree-of-freedom simulators, detailed study of software requirements, and algorithm development history.
• Performed independent verification and validation of Shuttle integrated avionics testing.
• Conducted software application testing to verify and validate desired operability and compliance with design requirements.
• Wrote test plans, user’s guides, and desktop procedures for software applications.
• Mentored and trained peer engineers for data product certification.
• Improved and maintained abort data product process, software tools, and procedures.
• Provided status and feedback to Level 1, 2, and 3 Management.
• Presented analyses to multiple NASA/Contractor community panels.

Accomplishments include:

• Supported the abort trajectory design for 50 Space Shuttle missions (STS-85 to STS-135)
• Achieved seven certifications to generate and quality assure Space Shuttle mission data products.
• Certified 45 peer engineers for data production.
• Awarded USA Employee of the Month (Team Award - July 2002) as a participating member in a three-year reinvention project moving the ascent/descent shuttle trajectory design from launch minus 12 months to launch minus 7 months.
• Awarded NASA Space Flight Awareness Honoree Award (September 2010) for discovering and correcting an inability to protect the Space Shuttle forward reaction control system dump constraints and margins limit when using the generic dump timer for minimum and midpoint propellant loads.

Starfire Engineering & Technologies Incorporated               2429 Iowa St, Suite K, Lawrence, KS 66049

Job Title: Project Engineer                     July 1996 – October 1996

• Conducted stress analysis and design modifications for rail freight upgrades.

Design, Analysis, and Research Corporation        1440 Wakarusa Drive, Suite 500, Lawrence, KS 66049

Job Title: Aerospace Engineer                       October 1995 – July 1996

·         Aided in the development, testing, and debugging of the Advanced Aircraft Analysis aviation design and analysis software.

MILITARY EXPERIENCE

Arizona Air National Guard                                (Feb 1990 – Feb 1996)                                 Phoenix, AZ

Alaska Air National Guard                                 (June 1989 – Feb 1990)                           Anchorage, AK

Veteran with Honorable Discharge

Job Title: Security Specialist/Security Police                                                          Security Clearance: Secret

Rank: Staff Sergeant (E-5) 

• Protected United States Air Force weapon systems and priority resources.
• Activated for Operation Desert Storm (Security Clearance: Top Secret), and Operation Deny Flight. 

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Cadence Management Corporation: Project Management & Managing Project Management

Apollo Root Cause Analysis

USA Leadership Institute Series

USA Integrating Project Management

Introduction to Space Systems Engineering

Introduction to JAVA

Beginner’s C

Lean Six Sigma (Green Belt) Training