Baltimore City County, Maryland, United States
More than 30 years of professional experience in Project Management and Systems Engineering on a number of NASA, ESA, and NOAA programs. Has performed project management, systems engineering, quality management, and technical task leadership to support the entire life cycle of complex satellite scientific instruments/payloads, satellite ground command & control systems, simulation systems, and data processing information systems. Currently manages for the JHU/APL Space Exploration Sector a number of NASA projects and also coordinates the Independent Research and Development (IR&D) Program.
Managing the Space Exploration Sector/Civil Space Solar, Space, and Astro Physics Programs Area.
(1) Project Manager for the Europa Imaging System (EIS) for the NASA Europa Clipper mission. (2) Project Manager for the NASA Io Volcano Observer (IVO) mission, a proposed low-cost, outer-planet mission to explore Jupiter's moon Io. (3) Deputy Project Manager for the NASA Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission. (4) Project Manager for the Energetic Particles Low Energy Instrument (EPI-Lo) for the NASA Parker Solar Probe mission. (5) Project Manager for the Suprathermal Ion Spectrograph (SIS) instrument for the ESA Solar Orbiter mission. (6) Space Exploration Sector Independent Research and Development (IR&D) Coordinator (7) Managed a number of NASA study projects including: (a) NRC Decadal Studies (Uranus Orbiter; Ice Giant Orbiter and Probe; Trojan Asteroid Tour; Comet Sample Return; Mercury Lander; Vesta Asteroid Lander) (b) Architecture definition and technology development/maturation for software configurable, multi-function, multi-band lunar nav/comm payloads (c) Communications experiments (d) DSN Antenna Replacement study. (8) Supports business development and business improvement activities.
Courses taught in the Space Systems Engineering and Technical Management programs: (1) Applications of Space Systems Engineering (2) Advanced Technology (3) Quality Management in Technical Organizatios
(1) Managed a number of NOAA programs to design and maintain satellite ground system components. (2) Led and took part in several successful proposal efforts for new business. (3) As corporate Quality manager responsible for evaluating and improving corporate business and communications processes to meet strategic objectives. Led a team that deployed an ISO 9001:2000 corporate quality management system. Initiated implementation of CMMI in the Government Business Division.
Coordinated the integration of scientific software and algorithms into the NASA EOSDIS information system for processing and disseminating satellite climate data.
(1) Led a team of NASA scientists and software developers in designing Monte-Carlo simulation and data analysis software for an ESA satellite mission (SPI on INTEGRAL). (2) Led a team of NASA engineers and technicians through the successful calibration, testing, integration and launch of a scientific payload on a NASA satellite mission (TGRS on GGS/WIND).