NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER
• Director of the New Opportunities Center July 2025 to Present
Leads the New Opportunities Center (NOC) to help scientists identify new and compelling mission concepts. This role includes helping scientists write engaging mission proposals in response to NASA Announcements of Opportunities (AO).
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• NASA Excepted Service May 2024 to July 2025
Establish the SpinSat Technology Demonstration mission, which will provide variable gravity levels and radiation environments for Biological & Physical Science payloads, as a NASA Program Office. Create a Proposal Writing Training Program for Ames scientists.
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: JET PROPULSION LABORATORY
• Project Manager Science Understanding through Data Science Project October 2021 to April 2024
Manage JPL’s effort to bring physical scientists and data scientist together to increase the speed, depth, and rigor of the lab’s research endeavors. Responsible for the budgets, scheduling and staffing of this cross-lab cross discipline task.
• A-Team Lead Study Architect December 2013 to April 2024
Lead a team of approximately 35 scientists, systems engineers, and technical discipline experts to plan, conduct, and provide in-session study leadership and facilitation for A-Team concept studies.Responsible for the overall quality of A-Team studies and provide technical oversight of A-Teamproducts, processes, tools, and methods.
• Proposal Manager: High Energy X-Ray – Probe (HEX-P) July 2022 to November 2023
Responsible for the generation of the HEX-P Step 1 Proposal. This proposal is responding to NASA’s first call for $1B-class Astrophysics Mission concepts.
• Senior Technical Staff for Project Formulation December 2011 to December 2013
Support JPL pre-projects and proposals. Responsibilities include the development & implementation of Pre-Project principles & practices, cognizant of the formulation phase lifecycle, manage the architecture and information content of the Frontline Website and institutional support systems for pre-project and proposal phase activities.
• Deputy Manager Project Formulation Support Office May 2008 to November 2011
Manage a technical team to support JPL pre-projects and proposals. Responsibilities include the development & implementation of Pre-Project principles & practices, cognizant manager of the formulation phase lifecycle, manage the architecture and information content of the Frontline Website and institutional support systems for pre-project and proposal phase activities.
• Project Formulation Support Office January 2005 to May 2008
Responsibilities include the development of JPL’s Pre-Project Principles & Practices document; a Constellation Program white paper for the Establishment of New Projects, templates for Science Gate Products; and the design, development and deployment of the Strategic Planning & Project Formulation Office and the Project Science Support websites.
• Deputy Proposal Manager – Gravity Recovery & Interior Laboratory March 2006 to August 2007
Responsible for the generation of the GRAIL Step 1 Proposal and Step 2 Concept Study Report.
• Exploration Systems Mission Directorate (ESMD) Program Support November 2004 to May 2005
Responsibilities include the development of the ESMD Program Management Handbook, the generation of the Constellation Systems Program Plan, and the collection & generation of gate product templates and examples dictated by the ESMD Program Management Handbook.
• Program Engineer for the Navigator Program December 2001 to December 2004
Responsibilities include the generation and implementation of program-level documents and processes(e.g., Risk Management Plan, Review & Evaluation Plan, NEPA Plan), management of Extra-Solar Planets NRA, and program-level studies to address the needs and goals of NASA’s Astronomical Search for Origins and Planetary Systems theme.
• Manager Telecommunications & Mission Services for Mars September 2000 to December 2001
Responsibilities include coordinating requirements and ensuring delivery of JPL telecommunications,data, and mission services to all national and international Mars missions requiring JPL resources.
• Supervisor Advanced Mission System Engineering Group May 2000 to September 2000
Responsibilities focus primarily on the development of advanced mission operation concepts and administrative & personnel issues for individuals on CloudSat, Develop New Products (DNP), Mars Surveyor Program, Outer Planets & Solar Probe, Telecommunications & Mission Operations Directorate (TMOD) in the Mission Systems Engineering Section (314).
• Supervisor Science System Engineering Group December 1995 to May 2000
Responsibilities focus primarily on administrative and personnel issues for approximately 25 individuals on the Cassini, Mars Global Surveyor, EOS and Galileo Science Teams in the Mission Systems Engineering Section (314).
• Science Systems Engineer Cassini Mission October 1994 to September 2000
Responsibilities included: performing system engineering trade studies between the Cassini Science Office and the Cassini Ground System; assist in the development of the design of the uplink and downlink system and coordinate the design of all Science internal and external team interfaces.
• Manager LightSAR Manifesting Task November 1997 to September 1998
• Manager Space Shuttle Manifesting Task November 1996 to June 1998
• Proposal Manager: Mars Climate Network (PASCAL) October 1996 to December 1996
• Manager Cassini Science Planning Operations Element (Acting) October 1992 to September 1993
• Cassini Science System Engineer September 1989 to October 1992
• Voyager Science Sequence Coordinator: Encounter March 1981 to September 1989
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