Experience

NORTHROP GRUMMAN INNOVATION SYSTEMS, INC.

• United States
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Flight Software Lead for HALO, part of the NASA Artemis Gateway program

  • Jun 2019 - Present

  Flight Software subsystem lead for the Gateway HALO Module for the NASA Artemis program. Artemis is the program dedicated to getting boots on the moon by 2024. The HALO module is the first habitable module on the lunar orbiting Gateway. HALO will have portals to allow docking with the Orion space capsule carrying astronauts, cargo modules, and lunar lander. Flight Software subsystem lead for the Gateway HALO Module for the NASA Artemis program. Artemis is the program dedicated to getting boots on the moon by 2024. The HALO module is the first habitable module on the lunar orbiting Gateway. HALO will have portals to allow docking with the Orion space capsule carrying astronauts, cargo modules, and lunar lander.



Northrop Grumman

• United States
• Defense and Space Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Consulting Engineer Embedded S/W, Artimis HALO Software Lead

  • Jun 2019 - Present



Orbital ATK is now Northrop Grumman!

• Flight Software Lead, TESS Explorer Spacecraft

  • Sep 2014 - Jun 2019

• Sr. Manager, LEOStar-2 Software Engineering

  • Mar 2011 - Jun 2019

  Responsible for a team of software engineers who develop embedded software to run on Orbital's LEOStar-2 satellites. Our customers are generally NASA Goddard, and JPL. Our goal is to develop the best product we can as efficiently as possible to remain competitive.



Orbital Sciences Corporation is now Orbital ATK!

• Defense and Space Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• MAU IRAD Software Lead

  • Sep 2010 - Jun 2014

  Software development lead for a company funded effort to support our LEOStar-2 missions going forward using the Explorer MAU which is a Rad750 based flight computer avionics box built by SEAKR.

• Flight Software Lead for the GEMS program

  • Sep 2010 - Jun 2012

  Responsible for the embedded Flight Software development for the GEMS satellite. Responsible for full software lifecycle development from proposal and requirements development through design, development, testing and launch.

• Senior Manager, Flight Software

  • Aug 2007 - Mar 2011

  Responsible for the flight software team at Orbital in Dulles, Virginia. Managed personnel and assigned them to tasks and projects within the company.

• Manager of Simulations and Ground Software

  • Aug 2003 - Aug 2007

  Manager of Orbital's Simulation group providing the Dynamic Satellite Simulator (DSS) and Hybrid Dynamic Simulator (HDS) to customers both internal and external to Orbital. Also managed the development of the MAESTRO Command and Telemetry Software used to control our satellites.



Tellabs

• Ashburn, VA

• Development Manager

  • Jan 1998 - Aug 2003

  Software Development Manager for Tellabs' OEM echo cancellation and other voice quality enhancement products for wireless and landline telephone networks providing products to Nokia, Nortel among other communications companies. Software Development Manager for Tellabs' OEM echo cancellation and other voice quality enhancement products for wireless and landline telephone networks providing products to Nokia, Nortel among other communications companies.



CTA Space systems

• Sr. Principal SW Engineer

  • 1991 - 1998



NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

• United States
• Defense & Space
• 700 & Above Employee

• Software Engineer

  • Oct 1985 - Oct 1991

  Worked in Code 735 developing Unix device drivers for the Star Bus feasibility study for a star topology fiber optic network to be used for the Space Station. Developed Ada software for the EUVE Explorer satellite. Worked on a team pioneering the Software Bus architecture initially used on the SAMPEX Explorer Satellite and eventually on numerous follow-on Small Explorer satellites including those of today. Worked in Code 735 developing Unix device drivers for the Star Bus feasibility study for a star topology fiber optic network to be used for the Space Station. Developed Ada software for the EUVE Explorer satellite. Worked on a team pioneering the Software Bus architecture initially used on the SAMPEX Explorer Satellite and eventually on numerous follow-on Small Explorer satellites including those of today.