Experience

Raytheon Technologies

• United States
• Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Engineering Fellow

  • Jul 2006 - Present

  - Chief Engineer of a large program. Responsible for execution of all engineering activities (>100 engineers) to internal and customer leadership.- Technical staff, performance simulations department. Provide technical assistance to department manager, including interviews, independent reviews of programs, and supporting department strategy and technology initiatives.- Astronomical research. Developed methods for quantifying systematic and random uncertainties in many-dimensional space. Continued refinement of photometry and star formation history measurement software packages.Previously- Flight Test technical lead for a large program. Responsible for execution and coordination of all flight test activities, including pre-flight predictions, data and tool deliveries, execution, and post-test analysis and reports. Coordinate and present internal and customer reviews related to all of the above activities. Frequently present to internal and customer senior management.- Technical staff for systems engineering / integration and test team. Led Critical Design Review, support evaluation of requirements changes (often coordinating with customer), requirements development and traceability / compliance analysis, perform architecture trades. Lead high-visibility tasks as needed.- Section Head, performance simulations. Led team of ~10 engineers responsible for simulation work on multiple programs. Responsible for staffing programs, performance reviews and discussions for my section, and other supervisory duties- Lead Engineer on a capture effort, responsible for all engineering activities on the program and reporting to the Product Line Chief Engineer.- Simulation lead and team member. Coordinate and contribute to development of high-fidelity performance simulations



University of Arizona

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Postdoctoral Researcher

  • Sep 2003 - Jul 2006

  - Measured star formation histories of most known Local Group galaxies based on archival HST imaging- Developed technique to measure density of stars as a function of distance from star locations on color-magnitude diagrams- Refined algorithms for automatic star detection and photometry on stacks of images. Current package is capable of analysis millions of stars on hundreds of images, and has modules to optimize accuracy of reductions on all three main HST cameras. - Measured star formation histories of most known Local Group galaxies based on archival HST imaging- Developed technique to measure density of stars as a function of distance from star locations on color-magnitude diagrams- Refined algorithms for automatic star detection and photometry on stacks of images. Current package is capable of analysis millions of stars on hundreds of images, and has modules to optimize accuracy of reductions on all three main HST cameras.



National Optical Astronomy Observatories

• Postdoctoral Researcher

  • Sep 1999 - Sep 2003

  - Signal Processing: developed techniques for automatic detection and measurement of point sources on Hubble Space Telescope images. Developed approach for correction charge transfer inefficiency.- Refined techniques developed in dissertation for measuring star formation histories of nearby galaxies through statistical analysis of distribution of stars in color-magnitude space- Studied periodic variable stars in nearby galaxies to refine distance measurements to galaxies- Received AURA Science Award, 2002