Project Manager Engineer

Jared Leidich abpejk@r.postjobfree.com

Overview

I am currently an Aerospace Engineer at Paragon Space Development Corporation in Tucson, AZ looking for challenging

opportunities at small research and development focused companies.

Work Experience

Paragon Space Development Corporation August 2009 to Present

Aerospace Engineer Tucson, AZ

Currently serving as testing lead under Lockheed Martin and NASA JSC designing test environments for and testing

human-rated parts scheduled to launch to deep space and reenter the atmosphere in February 2013

Served as lead engineer for the development of a small reentry vehicle payload canister under NASA ARC

Wrote several winning Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) grants

Served as lead designer for and significantly contributed to the writing of winning $1.7 million Commercial Crew

Development (CCDev) grant proposal which was recently recognized at the White House during the fiscal year 2011

budget release by NASA administrator Bolden

Authored over 10 papers published with ICES, AIAA Space 2010, 2011 and TFAWS

Sitting on the Life Support Sciences and Systems Technical Committee for the American Institute of Aeronautics and

Astronautics

Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) December 2008 to June 2009

Research Assistant Boulder, CO

Served as lead engineer for the redesign of CRIA (Cosmic dust Reflectron for Isotopic Analysis) for testing

Conducted major instrument modifications to improve performance, increase ease of assembly, and prepare for

potential lunar flight build; instrument was found to be successful in testing at the Heidelberg dust accelerator

NASA RFLUSH Wastewater Precipitate Filter Project Fall 2007 to May 2009

Designer, Analyst Boulder, CO/Houston, TX

Designed and built novel inclined clinostat to simulate reduced gravity particle motion

Created concept models for a wastewater precipitate filter for potential use at the prospective Lunar Outpost

Competed for and was awarded 2 microgravity flights at NASA JSC through the Systems Engineering Flight Program

Created with NASA scientist Dr. Evan Thomas a clinostat design under consideration for patent by NASA JSC and awarded

pending tech brief publication

Authored 2 papers published at ICES 2009

Drag and Atmospheric Neutral Density Explorer (DANDE) Project Fall 2007 to January 2009

Separations Team Lead / Designer / Analyst / Machinist Boulder, CO

Designed, analyzed and built over 10 components scheduled for launch to Low Earth Orbit in June 2012 as part of the

first commercial payload planned to fly through the Commercial Orbital Transportation Systems (COTS) program

Served as Separations Team Lead through the development of a novel kinematic mounting and release system

Participated as core team member on winning Nanosat V competition (greater than $220K AFRL grant funding, $200K

additional funding from NASA, COSGC and industry partners and award of launch worth several million dollars)

Other Work Experience

Columbine Hills Concrete Summer 2007, 2008

Project Manager Silverthorne, CO

Served as project manager of CDOT US6 roadway expansion/safety improvements 2007 and FAA Granby/Grand County

Airport rebuild 2008

Scheduling of as many as 30 employees among up to 4 subcontractors working at a time

Budget management of over $1M dollars per month

Engineers Without Borders USA Fall 2006 to present

Project Engineer / Project Manager Boulder, CO, Rwanda

Managed the implementation of 18 institutionally sized high efficiency cook stoves in rural Rwanda

Aided in the design of a new iteration of rocket stove adapted for use in Rwanda with locally available pumas stone

Design manuals for local installation of rainwater catchment and UV systems in sub-Saharan Africa

Early Internships

Lockheed Martin Space Systems Co., student intern for the Orbital Space Plane 2003 - 2004

Coors Brewery research and development laboratory, student intern 2003 - 2004

Boeing Space Systems Company, senior design for the expandable ball rover (Mars and Lunar exploration) 2008 - 2009

Education

University of Colorado at Boulder Graduated May 2009

BS Mechanical Engineering Boulder, CO

Successfully completed the NASA Spacegrant fellowship through the Colorado Spacegrant Consortium (COSGC)

Passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) exam 2007, scheduled to take the PE exam in California April, 2012

Winner 2009 CU Mechanical Engineering design expo

Judges pick 2005 CU Boulder design expo

Teaching assistant and lab director for Computer Aided Drawing and Fabrication sophomore design course 2005, 2006

University of Arizona Spring Semester 2011

Graduate Level Coursework Tucson, AZ

Advanced Thermodynamics and Advanced Engineering Analysis (Vector Calculus)

Other Interests

World travel to over 70 countries

Outdoor sports including climbing 22 of Colorado s 14,000 ft. peaks and alpine skiing in Colorado s backcountry

Playing piano for over 20 years with 2 classical albums (www.JaredLeidich.com/music)

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