Washougal, Washington, United States
I am presently taking an intermission in my career following my ten-and-a-half years of service at SpaceX before taking on new responsibilities. My interests are in guidance, navigation, and control of spaceflight systems and look forward to developing expertise in GNC modeling and algorithm development to complement my extensive avionics hardware and systems expertise.
I provide engineering expertise on an as-needed basis at ExoLambda LLC; providing valuable insights to meet the needs of our varied customers as well as growing my own skill set.
I am taking a sabbatical from my career to recover energy following an amazing 10+ years at SpaceX; moving to be near my family, improve my personal fitness, pursue my private pilot's license, and pursue other personal goals.
I am responsible for cradle-to-grave design, development, manufacture, test, and operation of sensors and sensor systems used in SpaceX products to provide propellant quantity estimation, environmental control and life support; and guidance, navigation, and control. I lead a small team to develop the next generation of environmental control and life support sensors and sensor systems for SpaceX Starship crewed vehicles and propellant leak detectors for the SpaceX Starship launch vehicle system. I am a mission operator and serve as navigator for SpaceX Dragon 2 missions for both institutional and private customers.
I am responsible for cradle-to-grave design, development, manufacture, test, and operation of sensors and sensor systems used in SpaceX products to provide guidance, navigation, and control; environmental control and life support, and propellant quantity estimation. I am a navigator of SpaceX Dragon and Dragon 2 spacecraft as well as an operator of Starlink spacecraft.
I am responsible for acceptance and qualification test programs for the GNC hardware used in all of SpaceX's products, providing support for vehicle GNC systems, supporting new product development, and other duties as assigned. I am a trained navigator for the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft.
I am responsible for operating the Texas A&M University Aerospace Engineering Unmanned Flight Laboratory, a research laboratory focusing on fixed-wing unmanned aircraft systems. The Unmanned Flight Laboratory is a satellite laboratory of the Vehicles Systems & Control Laboratory under the auspices of Dr. John Valasek. In this position, I have been responsible for testing remotely-piloted and autonomous aircraft in partnership with industry partners including Raytheon, Aeroprobe Corp, StarVision Corp, AFOSR, and NavAir. I designed, built, and flight tested the TAMU Pegasus UAS, our first research workhorse UAS. I also develop and support systems for these vehicles and other affiliated labs and provide systems engineering expertise on an as-needed basis.