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Consultant – Developed and fabricated flight computers and pod electronics for the Microcosm Scorpius sounding rocket avionics. Served as lead engineer for the electronics design of the Lunar Prospector Trans Lunar Injection (TLI) stage pyro command timer. Performed multiple worst-case analyses using extreme values for various circuits used on the NASA Deep Impact SCU and RIU modules. Designed the attitude control interface electronics board used on NextSat for the DARPA Orbital Express mission. Presently serving as the lead electronics engineer for the attitude control interface modules used on the NASA Kepler and WISE missions.
1987 - 1996 Southwest
Research Institute, San Antonio, TX
Manager (1994– 1996) - Spacecraft Computer Development – Supervised the development of embedded flight computers for science payloads and spacecraft control functions.
Principal Engineer (1991 – 1994)- Designed analog I/O circuitry for spacecraft computers and space science instrumentation.
Research Engineer (1987 – 1991) – Designed front-end electronics using charge-sensitive amplifiers and high-speed analog circuits for space plasma research instruments. Developed and patented a digital time-of-flight circuit for sub-nanosecond time interval measurement.
1985 - 1987 Honeywell
Commercial Flight Systems, Phoenix, AZ
Engineer – Designed low voltage power supplies for flight systems. Performed circuit analysis on flight hybrid designs prior to production.
1978 – 1985 Datapoint
Corporation, San Antonio, TX
Engineer (1984 – 1985) – Designed low voltage power supplies for commercial business computers.
Associate Engineer (1982-1984) – Bread boarded and tested low voltage power supply designs.
Engineering Technician (1978 – 1982) – Assisted engineering in the bread boarding and testing of new designs and circuits.
PROFESSIONAL Member, IEEE