Currently the Chief Engineer and Lab manager of the NASA
Telescience and Internet Systems Laboratory at Kennedy Space Center. Job
duties include providing technical direction and information systems
in support of pre-launch scientific payload processing and launch
operations.
Responsibilities include planning next generation computer networks
and the development and operations of computer and network systems
that remotely extend KSC's launch site presence (voice, video, data,
telemetry) to and from remote locations.
Civil Servant for NASA at the Kennedy Space Center since 1982.
Past Accomplishments:
- KSC Communications Engineer for SLS/Orion vehicle checkout (2016 - present)
- Manage and operate KSC's streaming video and telemetry systems (1996 - 2016)
- Managed and operated KSC's Payload Operational Network 1983-2001
- NASA Agency-Wide Webmaster - 1994 - 1996
- Setup NASA's first Web Server - 1993
- Lead developer for the 1st Windows based Internet Network News Reader WinVN - 1993<
- Lead developer - multiple NASA AI/Symbolics Expert Systems
- Setup NASA/KSC's first Ethernet based Local Area Network (1983-1986)
- Electrical Engineer - NASA Spacelab Experiments Division
- Design Engineer - NMR/MRI Lab Florida State University
- Systems Programmer - Plato System - Florida State University