While supporting NASA’s HDTN (High-Rate Delay Tolerant Networking) project, I play a critical role in ensuring the successful development and implementation of this groundbreaking technology.

• Schedule Management: Developed and maintained detailed project schedules for the HDTN initiative, ensuring alignment with NASA’s mission-critical timelines and objectives. By identifying and resolving over 20 scheduling conflicts, I ensured the project met key milestones on time.

• Resource Allocation: Collaborated with engineers and mission teams at Glenn Research Center to optimize resource allocation, ensuring seamless support for HDTN’s testing and deployment phases.

• Risk Mitigation: Conducted comprehensive risk analysis and “what-if” scenario planning to anticipate potential delays in the development cycle, resulting in contingency strategies that minimized disruptions.

• Data-Driven Insights: Provided actionable reports to stakeholders, analyzing dependencies and critical path tasks, which helped prioritize efforts to accelerate HDTN's high-speed data transfer capabilities.

• Cross-Functional Coordination: Facilitated communication between engineering teams, mission planners, and project stakeholders to ensure cohesive execution of project deliverables, enabling the HDTN system to achieve data transfer rates four times faster than its predecessors.

• Process Refinement: Supported engineers in refining workflows and testing processes, enhancing the scalability and reliability of the HDTN system, which empowers missions with unprecedented connectivity through innovative data storage and forwarding techniques.

While supporting NASA’s Lunar 3GPP Project, which focuses on deploying wireless 4G and 5G technologies on the Moon, I play a vital role in advancing this groundbreaking initiative aimed at revolutionizing lunar communications.

• Comprehensive Schedule Management: Developed and maintained detailed project schedules, identifying over 15 critical path tasks to ensure timely progress in researching and testing 4G and 5G networking technologies for lunar applications.

• Resource Optimization: Collaborated with engineering teams to align resources with project milestones, ensuring efficient utilization of personnel and equipment during simulation and prototyping phases.

• Risk Analysis and Contingency Planning: Conducted risk assessments to identify potential delays in the integration of networking technologies, developing contingency plans that safeguarded the project's adherence to its timeline.

• Stakeholder Reporting: Delivered actionable reports to stakeholders, summarizing progress, risks, and critical task updates, providing leadership with the insights needed to make informed decisions regarding next-phase development.

• Cross-Functional Team Coordination: Facilitated communication and coordination between mission planners, communication engineers, and testing specialists, ensuring seamless collaboration across teams working on the integration of lunar communication networks.

• Workflow and Testing Support: Supported the refinement of workflows and testing protocols, enabling the successful evaluation of 4G and 5G technologies for lunar surface applications. These technologies aim to ensure reliable communication between crew members, vehicles, and instruments on the Moon.

• Strategic Alignment with Mission Objectives: Played an integral role in aligning project deliverables with NASA’s overarching lunar exploration strategy, contributing to the long-term goal of establishing sustainable and robust lunar communications.

While supporting NASA’s Lunar Surface Propagation Project, which investigates the performance and modeling of wireless communication systems in the unique lunar surface environment, I contributed to advancing the project through the following key responsibilities:

• Detailed Schedule Management: Created and maintained intricate project schedules, tracking progress across multiple research phases, including modeling, simulation, and emulation of lunar communications. By resolving over 20 scheduling conflicts, I ensured timely achievement of critical milestones.

• Resource Coordination: Aligned resources across interdisciplinary teams, ensuring that researchers, engineers, and analysts had the necessary tools and data to conduct comprehensive studies on lunar communication systems.

• Risk Assessment and Mitigation: Conducted detailed risk assessments, identifying potential challenges in simulation and emulation activities, and implemented mitigation strategies to prevent delays and maintain project momentum.

• Actionable Stakeholder Reports: Provided concise and actionable reports to stakeholders, outlining progress, key findings, and resource allocation insights, which informed strategic decision-making at each project phase.

• Workflow Optimization: Supported the refinement of research workflows and testing protocols, increasing efficiency and enabling teams to complete simulations and analyses ahead of schedule.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Facilitated effective communication among engineers, researchers, and mission planners, ensuring alignment on project objectives and the seamless integration of findings into NASA’s broader lunar exploration initiatives.

• Strategic Impact: Contributed to the development of advanced communication models that enhance NASA’s understanding of how wireless systems function in the lunar environment, laying the groundwork for reliable lunar communication networks for future missions.

While supporting NASA’s Real Time Optical Receiver (RealTOR) Project, which leverages commercial-off-the-shelf technologies to create scalable and cost-effective optical communications ground receivers, I played a pivotal role in the project’s success through the following contributions:

• Detailed Schedule Management: Developed and maintained comprehensive project schedules, tracking critical milestones and ensuring alignment with research objectives, resulting in 100% on-time delivery of prototype phases.

• Resource Allocation and Optimization: Coordinated resource allocation across engineering and research teams, ensuring the timely procurement and integration of commercial-off-the-shelf technologies to meet project demands.

• Risk Mitigation Planning: Identified and resolved over 15 potential delays during the design and testing phases, implementing contingency plans that safeguarded project timelines and minimized disruptions.

• Stakeholder Communication: Delivered detailed reports summarizing progress, resource utilization, and potential risks to stakeholders, providing actionable insights that informed strategic decisions.

• Workflow Enhancement: Supported engineers in refining testing protocols for portable optical communication ground receivers, enhancing the efficiency and accuracy of performance evaluations.

• Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration: Fostered collaboration among research, engineering, and procurement teams to ensure seamless integration of commercial technologies and alignment with NASA’s cost and scalability goals.

• Strategic Impact: Played a key role in advancing the development of low-cost, scalable optical communications ground receivers, contributing to NASA’s vision of expanding optical communication capabilities for space exploration.

While supporting NASA’s KaSTLE Project, which focuses on developing a phased array antenna system to enable real-time communication with the Lunar Terrain Vehicle (LTV) on the lunar surface, I contributed to the project’s success through the following key responsibilities:

• Precise Schedule Development: Created and managed detailed project schedules to track the design, development, and testing of phased array antennas, ensuring alignment with NASA’s Extravehicular Activity & Human Surface Mobility program milestones.

• Risk Management and Mitigation: Conducted thorough risk analyses to identify and address over 20 potential challenges during antenna integration and testing, implementing mitigation strategies that maintained project timelines.

• Resource Coordination: Optimized resource allocation by coordinating with engineering teams and mission planners, ensuring seamless access to critical components and tools for system development.

• Stakeholder Reporting: Delivered actionable reports to project stakeholders, summarizing progress, risks, and key developments, enabling data-driven decision-making at critical junctures.

• Workflow Refinement: Supported the refinement of antenna testing protocols, enabling accurate performance evaluations under simulated lunar motion conditions.

• Team Collaboration: Facilitated collaboration between cross-functional teams, including communication engineers and lunar mobility experts, ensuring that system development aligned with LTV operational requirements.

• Strategic Contribution: Played an integral role in advancing NASA’s ability to maintain reliable communication with the Lunar Terrain Vehicle while in motion, a key capability for supporting human exploration on the lunar surface.

• Streamlined Salesforce Implementation: Led the successful deployment of Salesforce CRM, ensuring seamless integration with existing business systems and processes.

• Optimized Data Management: Designed and maintained custom Salesforce dashboards and reports, providing real-time insights to improve decision-making and sales efficiency.

• Enhanced User Experience: Delivered tailored training sessions and ongoing support to team members, increasing adoption rates and user proficiency in leveraging Salesforce tools.

• Automated Workflows: Developed and implemented automated workflows and processes within Salesforce to eliminate manual tasks, reducing operational inefficiencies and boosting productivity.

• Oracle Database Management: Managed and optimized Oracle database systems for the Coast Guard Training Department, ensuring reliable access to training materials and critical information.

• Data Migration & Integration: Led the migration of legacy training data into Oracle databases, ensuring seamless integration with training management systems and enhancing data accessibility for personnel.

• Performance Tuning: Conducted performance tuning and troubleshooting of Oracle databases, improving system efficiency and response times for training applications and resources.

• Security & Compliance: Implemented security protocols and compliance measures in Oracle databases to safeguard sensitive training data and maintain adherence to government regulations.