Experience

STAR HARBOR Space Academy

• Co-Founder, Director, Research & Development

  • May 2013 - Present

  Colorado, Earth STAR HARBOR will be the world’s first publicly accessible spaceflight training facility and cutting-edge research and development campus for emerging technologies. Our mission is to cultivate a sustainable and thriving future for all those on and off the planet. We believe the minds and technologies that solve our challenges in space will help to solve many of our most pressing challenges on Earth. This is why we are creating affordable public access to the critical infrastructure and… Show more STAR HARBOR will be the world’s first publicly accessible spaceflight training facility and cutting-edge research and development campus for emerging technologies. Our mission is to cultivate a sustainable and thriving future for all those on and off the planet. We believe the minds and technologies that solve our challenges in space will help to solve many of our most pressing challenges on Earth. This is why we are creating affordable public access to the critical infrastructure and testing environments necessary for human spaceflight training and the rapid development of impactful technologies. The key Academy apparatus will include: Boeing 767 for parabolic flight, high-gravity human centrifuge, 4-million+ gallon neutral buoyancy tank, hypobaric and hyperbaric chambers, and a host of other supporting facilities and equipment to come. STAR HARBOR’s vision is to foster a thriving culture of collaboration by establishing an environment where all explorers, students, trainees, researchers, government, military, industry and entrepreneurs can work in tandem. STAR HARBOR will be the hub for space innovation designed to enable more solutions than would have been possible without the cross-pollination our campus is designed to cultivate. StarHarborAcademy.com Show less



UAE Space Agency

• United Arab Emirates
• Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Consultant

  • Aug 2017 - Jul 2018

  Abu Dhabi Supported the Agency in restructuring and redefining roles within the organization for maximum efficiency and best use of personnel. Created outlines for job roles and responsibilities, performance standards, competency matrix and dictionary and internal growth pathways. Also designed a new quantifiable structure to measure growth along the mapped career paths



Spaceship Earth Grants

• Co-Founder and Board Member

  • Jul 2014 - Dec 2015

  San Diego Co-founded a second start up and was Board member of Spaceship Earth Grants, a B-Corp set up to offer scholarships to fly to space on suborbital space flights through a medium of crowdfunding. The company later merged with Kruger Cowne Rising Star announcing the winner at One Young World 2015



USC Stevens Center of Innovation

• Intern

  • Oct 2012 - Jun 2013

  Analyzed market feasibility for new technologies/ provisional patents viable for patent filing



Space Tourism Society

• Non-profit Organizations

• Liaison US-India

  • Oct 2012 - Dec 2012

  Established the Space Tourism Society India Chapter in partnership with SPACE India



USC Stevens Institute of Innovation

• Student Worker

  • Mar 2011 - May 2012

  Greater Los Angeles Area Created database management software reducing data compilation time by 90%



Space Technology & Education Pvt. Ltd.

• Education Administration Programs
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Educator, Product Developer

  • Mar 2009 - Jul 2010

  New Delhi Area, India - Led a team to create India’s first private high altitude balloon mission by students, - Organized India’s first solar eclipse cruise to Maldives for 900 people to view the annual solar eclipse of 2010 - Traveled across India in delivering talks to over 10,000 school students of groups ranging in size from 40 to 1300 inspiring many to pursue the exploration of space as a career



Infosys

• India
• IT System Custom Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Software Developer

  • Sep 2008 - Mar 2009

  Underwent the training courses and developed projects in the following computer languages : C++, JAVA, MATLAB, HTML, PL/SQL, VBasic