Experience

Felix & Paul Studios

• Canada
• Media Production
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Production Project Manager

  • juil. 2021 - - aujourd’hui

  Switching from designing and managing aerospace technologies, as Production Manager at Felix & Paul Studios I have joined an award-winning creative team to tell the story in of our next steps towards the Moon and beyond using the latest in immersive technology. Switching from designing and managing aerospace technologies, as Production Manager at Felix & Paul Studios I have joined an award-winning creative team to tell the story in of our next steps towards the Moon and beyond using the latest in immersive technology.



Canadian Space Agency

• Canada
• Defense and Space Manufacturing
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Technical Project Manager

  • sept. 2018 - - aujourd’hui

  Technical manager for CSA's starting position on the new Lunar Gateway Program that brings together the ISS partners to establish lunar colonies and an orbiting platform on and around the moon. CSA has committed to providing advanced external robotic services to the orbiting Gateway station that will provide a way point for astronaut missions to the moon and beyond. To get there, we need to establish the infrastructure for enabling the eventual launch and deployment of the 21st robotic system that will enable Canadian astronauts to partake in the next big step in human space exploration. As the technical manager for delivering that infrastructure, I am responsible for defining the mission level requirements, directing contractor work and managing the interdisciplinary team at CSA to design, development, build, test and integrate the robotic interfaces that will support the robotic manipulators that will follow. Managing CSA's vanguard project for the Gateway Program requires driving the development of key programmatic processes and processes and initiating technical integration with our international partners on Gateway.

• Lead Robotics Systems Engineer

  • juin 2003 - sept. 2018

  Canada's contribution to the International Space Station (ISS) is the three robotics element Mobile Servicing System (MSS). The MSS is a critical and indispensable component of the all international partners' programs enabling the assembly, maintenance, inspection, and the capture and berthing of some of the most modern vehicles to ever orbit the Earth. Beginning with the delivery of Canadarm2 in 2001, the MSS took over the assembly of the ISS from the space shuttle's iconic Canadarm. The two-armed Dextre was launched in 2008 taking over numerous external maintenance tasks previously requiring astronauts to perform during risk laden spacewalks. The role of MSS has been continually expanded to include the management and operation of external science payloads, loading and offloading of visiting spacecraft like SpaceX Dragon vehiclw, the re-configuration of the ISS for it's continuing evolution, and the execution of technical demonstrations and space-based science.As Systems Manager for the MSS, I've lead the CSA and our contractor teams responsible for ensuring the proper performance of the MSS for it's current and ever expanding mission. With each new task raising the bar for spaced-based robotics, this was both a challenging and rewarding responsibility.As lead systems engineer for Canada's two-armed Special Purpose Dexterous Manipulator (SPDM), or 'Dextre', on the ISS, I was responsible for the commissioning and performance during on-orbit operations of one of the most complex robotics element ever deployed and operated on-orbit. Working with our NASA counterparts, I established the forum to integrate third party users intending to use the versatile services and capabilities of Dextre and the ISS. This brought in an entirely new role for Canadian space robotics to support technology devolvement by our partners and private organizations and to enable on-orbit business ventures such as NanoRacks' Kaber micro-satellite deployment system.



Neptec Design Group

• Operations and Test Engineer

  • juil. 1999 - sept. 2002

  • Project (Mission) engineer for the Canadian Space Vision System (SVS) operated by the on-orbit astronauts in support of on International Space Station (ISS) assembly missions. I was responsible for SVS-related flight product design, testing and presentation of analyses and progress reports to the customer (NASA) on a weekly basis.• Test lead for various aspects of SVS software and hardware including its interaction with ISS systems external to it. This included system integration, performance and qualification testing at Neptec and at NASA facilities at JSC and KSC. This entailed the raising and definition of discrepancy notices when they occurred and supporting their follow on resolutions.• Real time support as SVS systems specialist at the Mission Control Centre (MCC) at NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC) for multiple ISS assembly missions in coordination with the Space Shuttle's robotic Canadarm and the ISS-based MSS.



Excalibur Systems

• United States
• Aviation & Aerospace
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Firmware and Test Engineer

  • sept. 1997 - juin 1999

  • Firmware engineer for a real-time RF threat simulator that was marketed to NATO pact countries. Developed and maintained embedded real-time firmware code for a dual processor, multiple VME card system that drove microwave generators used to test naval radar receivers and operators. These systems could simulate the real-time microwave environments existing in the modern battlefield.• Integrated hardware, software and firmware and performed final testing of the deliverable to customer.• Key team member in porting the threat simulator systems to new hardware and software platforms. This included selecting the new computer boards and porting the real-time embedded software from a linear language (C) to an object-oriented language (C++). This required a complete re-design of the real-time software code using object-oriented design (OOD) techniques tailored to real-time applications.