Engineering
Excellence.

10+ Years Experience

Professional Experience

  • Managed $3.9M AI development IRAD effort focused on on-board spacecraft autonomy and ground ops automation via AI models.
  • Led team of 20+ engineers on 7 workstreams: 4 focused on developing Reinforcement Learning and Supervised Learning AI prototypes that show business value; 3 focused on simulation improvements using NVIDIA Omniverse.
  • Directing engineers to stand up cloud infrastructure (AWS EC2, MLFlow, NVIDIA Omniverse) and validate safety-driven AI training pipelines.
AI/MLLeadershipCloud InfrastructureSpacecraft Autonomy
  • Oversight of 10+ B&P and R&D efforts with teams of 15+ staff, total budget of $10M, ensuring milestone progress, technical alignment, and spend compliance across all projects.
  • Led 5 ROM and 5 BOE generation efforts in support of 10 RFP capture opportunities, each ranging in scale from $5M to $200M.
  • Provided strategic direction for emerging concepts and early-phase programs critical to advancing NG's servicing roadmap.
  • Consulted as Lead Systems to develop requirements and perform architecture trade studies for the Next-Gen Servicing spacecraft, guiding development of L1 Mission Requirements and new program System Architecture.
  • Spearheading a $5.9M automation initiative projected to reduce mission planning and ops costs by up to 65% for MEV and MRV missions per year.
  • Defined end-to-end automation roadmap with cognizant engineers; resolved internal resistance and organized new hires to meet goals.
  • Delivered executive-level pitches and secured multi-million-dollar funding by demonstrating $13M in yearly projected savings across future missions.
R&DBusiness DevelopmentSystems ArchitectureAutomation
  • Led historic GEO undocking of MEV-1 from IS-901—the first between two commercial satellites—ensuring a safe and timely operation, and re-docking with our second customer, effectively demonstrating reusability of space servicer for client vehicle life extension.
  • Managed staffing, budget ($12M), schedule (IMS), and execution for mission analysis and ops readiness for Optus D3 mission; led successful mission change from IS-37e to Optus D3 mission with only 3 months' notice.
  • Built and led cross-functional teams of 80+ engineers to prepare for upcoming Optus D3 docking; proactively filled resource gaps, led mission rehearsals, and created tiger teams to fix configuration management and other mission issues under tight deadlines.
  • Maintained program financial health with $1.2M reserve, ensuring schedule and milestone adherence across all mission workstreams; managed IMS and EVMS.
On-Orbit ServicingProgram ManagementFlight OperationsHistoric First
  • Led successful Mission Critical Design Review (CDR) for MRV & MEP mission.
  • Provided ROM estimates and systems guidance for 5+ servicing mission RFPs.
  • Led 3 parallel client vehicle compatibility assessments; managed relations with clients and acted as CAM for mission analyses.
  • Managed the careers of 16 employees in parallel to programmatic lead responsibilities.
Systems EngineeringCDRPeople ManagementRobotics
  • Managed team of 9+ systems engineers to develop and maintain requirements, verifications, and interfaces.
  • Led systems planning and development efforts for MRV Mission and Vehicle PDRs.
  • Identified and addressed gaps in mission-level architecture, systems processes, and systems analyses.
Systems EngineeringPDRTeam Leadership
  • Led systems and requirement planning and development efforts for MRV and MEP; developed 900+ MRV mission and vehicle requirements.
Requirements EngineeringSystems Engineering
  • Interfaced with Blue Origin and Lockheed Martin as main NG requirements POC.
  • Derived/decomposed over 300 vehicle requirements as lead requirements engineer.
  • Managed team of 5 engineers to develop 6 subsystem specifications in Cameo.
  • Led successful TE Systems Requirement Review (SRR).
LunarCross-Company CollaborationRequirements EngineeringSRR
  • Performed verification and validation of 4000+ MEV-1&2 mission, system, and bus requirements using DOORS (requirements management software).
  • Acted as Systems Flight Lead and Support for MEV Flight Operations.
  • Created client vehicle compatibility verification and validation process; managed first successful compatibility assessment between two commercial geostationary satellites.
  • Developed MEV spacecraft test plan and procedures in collaboration with systems and test engineers; including Rendezvous, Proximity Operations, and Docking (RPOD) sensor test plans for robotics lab.
  • Derived 200+ requirements for MEV's mechanical docking system and RPOD sensor suite from customer mission requirements.
V&VFlight OperationsRPODTest PlanningHistoric First