Charles Aukai

Principal Satellite Engineer at SES

Huntington Beach, California, United States

About

Have obtained management and non-management positions. Technical oriented and operate well as an individual and a team member. Enjoy facing challenges and a quick learner. Specialties: Programming (FORTRAN, VB, some UNIX)

Experience

  • Principal Satellite Engineer at SES Satellites
    Jul 2025 - Present · 1 yr 1 mo

    Performed engineering duties such as anomaly resolution, trending data, or procedure development and/or review.

  • Intelsat (19 yrs 1 mo)
    • Principal Satellite Engineer
      Mar 2007 - Jul 2025 · 18 yrs 5 mos

      Performed engineering duties such as anomaly resolution, trending data, or procedure development and/or review.

    • Mgr. Orbital Operations
      Jul 2006 - Mar 2007 · 9 mos

  • Manager at St. George Pizza
    Nov 2006 - Dec 2007 · 1 yr 2 mos

    Responsible for setting up restaurant for opening & cleaning up for closing. Performed inventory checks & handled purchasing. Assisted in daily duties such as delivery, food prep, dish washing, & customer service.

  • PanAmSat (10 yrs 7 mos)
    • Mgr. Orbital Operations
      Apr 2006 - Jul 2006 · 4 mos

    • Orbit Analyst
      Jan 1999 - Apr 2006 · 7 yrs 4 mos

      Maintain & determine orbit & attitude for the satellite fleet through data analysis & processing. Created & maintained programs to increase department efficiency, to generate reports, & to format data for non-departmental programs to access. Languages used were VAX DCL, VAX FORTRAN, Visual Basic stand-alone, Visual Basic for Microsoft Excel, & some UNIX scripts.

    • Satellite Engineer
      Jan 1996 - Jan 1999 · 3 yrs 1 mo

      Required to work as a team member & as an individual when analyzing trends & anomalies, developing & approving procedures, supervising special operations, & presenting & validating training material. Wrote software requirement specifications for the creation of new programs & upgrades to existing ones. Developed & maintained programs in VAX DCL, VAX FORTRAN, Visual Basic for Microsoft Excel, & CECIL. Received special assignment of Superbird-C. Performed standard duties & provided consultation.

  • Satellite Control Supervisor at Hughes Commincations Inc.
    Jan 1993 - Jan 1996 · 3 yrs 1 mo

    Developed & approved ground procedures. Lead team projects involving procedure updates, satellite hand over, hardware & software upgrades, & software acceptance testing. Required to perform standard management duties (performance reviews, interviews & hiring, determining & executing disciplinary action). A member of the Satellite Control Workstation Team. Refined software requirements, performed beta testing, & generated user documentation. At times performed duties of Satellite Controller.