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My Resume

I'm a high energy, highly productive engineer and scientist whose career has steadily climbed from computer technician to the top tiers of aerospace research and mission architecture teams. If you're looking for someone who goes deep in multiple disciplines, who cares about people, and who will never settle for mediocre, consider reviewing one of my resume options below.

A Timeline of my Career

The plot below approximates the course of my career since starting full-time work in the aerospace industry. The gradient is showing the average amount of time spent in that discipline, with darker colors representing more time and lighter colors representing less time. It shows that:

1. I was 100% structures until about 2009, when I began working small jobs in the airborne operations and research groups. Between structural tasks, I would fly a campaign as an instrument operator or write control code for a microbolometer. I picked up more diverse and weighty tasks in these other groups as leadership became aware of me.
2. By mid 2012, my structures work was about 25% of my schedule, although there would be weeks where it was a full-time effort, usually when there was a failure and they needed an expert to jump in, guide the recovery, then jump out again.
3. Beginning in about 2013, I worked proposal efforts including planning operations, technical suitability studies, and minor budgeting tasks.
4. Most of my work between 2013 and 2015 was related to robotics, machine vision, infrared systems, and space docking/landing automation.
5. My work with the Methane Monitor program began around 2015 and the many tasks associated with it dominated my schedule for several years. This includes modeling, labwork, fieldwork, airborne operations, data analysis, and conference paper/presentation tasks. This is also the period of time I went back to school full-time for my PhD in aerospace remote sensing.
6. I graduated with my PhD in December 2017, which brought me into the Mission Architecture group. One of my key tasks was architecting the MethaneSat proposal including working with customers, managing technical direction, assisting budget and contracts, networking, attending conferences, and guiding the innovative effort through the Ball system. Between milestones, I supported airborne operations, some structures work, a few research projects, and other major proposal efforts, such as LandSat.
7. In 2019, I left Ball for a startup opportunity outside of the space industry (cloud-based education). Although this was not successful, I learned a tremendous amount about everything from taxes to corporate structure and profit-first motivation.
8. I returned to the industry in 2020 to join Blue Origin as a Sr. Manager in Systems Engineering in their Advanced Development Programs. I run their Mission Architecture group and contribute as both a high-level Systems Engineer and a Mission Architect to a suite of programs.

Short Resume

This is the two-page summary of my career.

Complete Resume

This compiles everything into one long PDF.