Objective: Seeking a challenging position where I can continue to build upon my space, ground, and communication network experiences. Acquire new technical skills to increase my knowledge across deep space networks and various ground and communication network infrastructures. This includes satellite mission planning, contact scheduling, collection, analysis, anomaly resolution and dissemination operations, as well as the field of Electronics, Data Exploitation, RF Footprint, Mobile, and Cross Access Collection Strategy development.

SUMMARY

Real-Time Collection and Reporting LEO, HEO, and GEO Multi-Site Operations

SIGINT/IMINT Collection Management Training and Outreach

Develop Binary Command Uploads International Partnering

Satellite Contact Planning & Activities Team Management Facilitator

Satellite Cross Access Team Lead Adjunct Faculty Instructor

RF Mission Director - NSOC Operations NRO Space Launch Technical Lead

SIGINT/IMINT Mission Management LEO Senior Payload/Mission Planner

Anomaly Resolution Contingency Plans LEO Senior Payload Specialist

Related Technical Skills

Software

STK - Satellite Tool Kit

Mission Collaboration Allocation

Payload Allocation Resources

Satellite Eclipse (power management) Resources

Satellite Time Management Systems

TCP/IP and FTP

Systems Knowledge

Data Routing & Control Bus

Micro Cats processing Subsystems

On Board Computer Processing Subsystems

Satellite Component and Subsystems

Orbital Mechanics

Payload Data Management Subsystems

DCL – Basic Digital Command Language VAX/VMS/WAN Systems

SAS/PEARL – Basic Programming UNIX Based Systems

Time Management Subsystems RMS – Resource Management Systems

Overhead Tasking Management Systems Mission Distribution Systems

Professional experience

2023 –Present

Relative Dynamics – Greenbelt, MD (National Aeronautics and Space Administration)

Assigned Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, VA

Project Manager - Asset Planning

oI served as a special projects manager for the Range Operations Contract II, providing project management and coordination for high-priority Wallops range sustaining engineering projects, including asset condition and performance monitoring, IBM Maximo updates and improvements, and asset decommissioning. I also serve as a backup asset planner to ensure range assets are adequately maintained.

2022 –2023

Allied Universal Security Systems and Solutions – BWI Airport, Maryland

Security Officer

oServe in a high stakes environment to safeguard the American way of life. Across the nation I will be on the front line of DHS’s team as they secure airports, seaports, railroads, highways and public transit systems, thus, protecting our transportation infrastructure and ensuring freedom of movements for people and commerce.

Excellent knowledge of security protocols

Operate security systems and emergency equipment

Exceptional interpersonal skills

Ability to solve problems and provide quick reaction as they arise

React quickly and appropriately during stressful and dangerous situations such as Active Shooter, Human Trafficking, Counter Terrorism, etc.

Testing security systems for Counter Terrorism/Explosive residue, if needed, and operating X-ray machines and metal detectors.

Fluent in emergency procedures such as performing CPR/First Aid

Operating various screening equipment and technology to identify dangerous objects in baggage, cargo, and on passengers, and preventing those objects from being transported on aircraft.

Maintain focus while working in stressful environment including noise from alarms, machinery and crowd distractions, time pressure, and disruptive angry passengers in order to preserve ability to identify and locate potential life threating or mass destruction devices, and to make decisions in both crisis and routine situations.

Engage in continuous development of critical thinking skills, necessary to mitigate actual and potential security threats, options and approaches.

1990 – 2022

Jimmies Crabs Seafood, Inc., Linthicum Heights, MD (Owner & Distributor)

Dedicated to bringing quality products, sourced responsibly. To ensure customer receives highest quality seafood, produce, and various crabbing equipment available. Job objective is to develop a seafood business that provides an open environment with many opportunities for continuous growth.

oSmall business owner with 34 years’ experience in specialized commercial crabbing (both working on the Chesapeake Bay and Wholesale). Business also includes large scale distribution of various seafood and produce, to include all types of crabbing equipment (crab traps, crab pots, nets, trout lines, pots and burners).

oHighlights of Qualifications

Highly experienced in providing food product supply and distribution services.

Sound Knowledge of food markets and sales industry trends

Immense knowledge of cost accounting and inventory management practices.

Familiarity with preventive maintenance, cleaning and operation of boats and delivery vehicles.

Ability to develop and maintain positive relationships with clients and vendors.

Load and transport food products from docks, boat ramps, airport facilities to Restaurants, Grocery Stores, and seafood markets, correctly and in a timely manner.

Label and store all incoming supplies, in a careful and correct manner.

Monitor and update company database for all clients accurately.

Contact clients and conduct post-delivery follow up, in a professional and effective manner.

Hire and provide direction and training to staff, supervise employees, develop business strategies, and monitor actions from customer to sales data.

Responsible for brand development, enhancing productivity, managing finances, overseeing inventory levels.

Leadership skills, operations, knowledge of POS software, employee management software and financial management software.

Identify and develop business strategies along with effective advertising.

2020 – 2022

Traffic Control Services – Assigned Glen Burnie, MD

Crew Leader

oCrew Leaders are responsible for setting up flagging operations and complex work zones, which may include shifting lanes, merging patterns, and complex intersection work. They assist with TMA and stake body jobs as well as other larger projects. Crew Leaders actively participate in controlling traffic in work zones, meet with clients for pre-job briefs, and are responsible for a company vehicle, equipment, and a fuel card.

2018 - 2019

SAGE Services Group LLC - Assigned Greenbelt, MD (National Aeronautics and Space Administration)

Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS), NOAA Satellite Operations Facility, Suitland, MD

Senior Hardware/Software Quality Engineer. Duties assigned in the task order require support on the safety and mission assurance services II (SMAS II) contract.

oThe work supports Goddard projects in the implementation of agency and center policy in the areas of occupational safety and health, systems safety, reliability and risk assessment, mission software and ground system assurance, quality engineering, systems review, management systems and mission assurance, both on site and at supplier facilities. Work requires the support of flight projects such as NASA collaborations with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, including the Joint Polar Satellite Systems-1 (JPSS-1) and Geostationary Operational Environment Satellite (GOES) program.

2017 – 2018

Noblis, Inc. – Assigned Greenbelt, MD (National Aeronautics and Space Administration)

Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS), NOAA Satellite Operations Facility, Suitland, MD

JPSS Study Lead

oLeading a team of subject matter experts in satellite operations, systems engineering, systems architecture, ground system operations, and continuous delivery, to study the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Office of Satellite Products and Operations (OSPS) ground system operations of the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS). Providing innovative recommendations for service and operations, reducing costs, and increasing operations efficiencies.

2015 – 2017

National Security Agency Civilian – Assigned Fort G. Meade Headquarters (NSA)

Targeting Strategy and Mission Integration Organization

COSMIC Project Lead

oCOSMIC is the next generation for the NSA collection requirement system. System designed to capture all NSA requirements that are to be prioritized, planned, scheduled, and tasked against various collection platforms. Responsibilities include developing function requirements to support all design and implementation phases of product. System provides enhanced capabilities when creating collection requirements to include posture and strategy visualization toward various target sets.

2009 - 2015

United States Air Force Civilian – Assigned to the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO)

Integrated RF Operations / Overhead Collection Management Center (NSA)

Radio Frequency Mission Director (NSOC)

oReal-time Collection Management Authority (CMA) for Integrated RF SIGINT tasking-related issues and serves as the Senior IRFO/OCMC Representative on the National Security Operations Center floor. Assign RF collection assets and priorities in response to real-time requirements. Collaborate with Primary and Secondary Party Customers, Crypto Logic Centers, Military Commands, Field Stations in order to manage and optimize RF SIGINT collection tasking. Coordinate GEOINT requests, and ensure their accurate and timely enter into the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency collection management systems for efficient cross agency collaboration.

Integrated RF Operations / Overhead Collection Management Center (NRO)

Senior Mission Manager (OVERHEAD/FORNSAT/FIXED GROUND)

oResponsible for mission management activities related to the execution across all NSA RF collection requirements and exercise Collection Management Authority. In coordination with the Offices of Primary Concern (OPCs), will review and evaluate all relevant requirements and validate all resulting tasking. Monitor the use of resources to execute diverse worldwide RF mission requirements. Provide oversight and support to field site operations to include development of Signal Information Files (SIFs), Target Information Files (TIFs), and associated special capabilities for signal recognition and collection. Allocate collection resources for search and detection efforts, management of remote collection facilities (RCF) antenna resources, and maintaining sustain mission environment awareness.

1996 - 2009

ITT Corporation Advanced Engineering & Sciences – National Reconnaissance Office (NRO)

Assigned to the Naval Research Laboratory, Washington D.C.

LEO Technical Payload Manager & Mission Planning Specialist

oLeads a group that delivers unique data to intelligence communities.

oExpert in coordination/integration of tasking requirements from military and intelligence groups into specific missions and the translation of those objectives into sets of commands for upload directly to satellites.

oAs a technical collaborator with other satellite-based intelligence gathering programs, helps maximize the efficient use of overhead assets to cover all spectrums of data to meet needs of a variety of intelligence customers.

oMonitors specific missions, ensures completion, verifies data quality and routs data packages to specific customers.

oInteracts personally with military, congressional, and intelligence personnel to formulate and modify specific mission plans on a daily basis.

oConducts satellite power system management calculations to maximize effectiveness of missions.

oDevelops and implements payload tasking scenarios required for reduced or restricted Electrical Power Subsystems

oDevelops UNIX based tools that automate data evaluation processes

oResponsible for providing management activities for the Payload Support Group (PSG) organization to include 24/7 shift work coordination.

oResponsible to provide management and test engineering support to the Command Generation (CGS), Mission Planning (MPS), and Task Group Definition (TGD) software systems to include various external programs.

oProvide quality assurance to meet military & government requirements as well as briefing internal and external organizations on product satisfaction prior to and after mission execution.

oResponsible for payload management and Mission Planning expertise to manage internal spacecraft subsystems, generate payload tasking directives, creative anomaly solving solutions, and coordinate all payload related activities.

oConducts daily interaction and coordination with tasking activities of a program operations coordination group, a mission support facility, tracking facilities and field sites.

ITT Corporation Advanced Engineering & Sciences – National Reconnaissance Office (NRO)

Assigned to the Naval Research Laboratory, Washington D.C.

LEO Senior Payload/Operations Specialist

oResponsible for the operation and integrated tasking systems (Mission Planning Systems, Command Generation Systems and Task Group Definition Systems) and various special applications (Timing Management System, Doppler Beacon Systems and Satellite Toolkit Application Tools) in support of around the clock mission/resource planning, command generation and system time management.

oConducts daily interaction and coordination with tasking activities of a program operations coordination group, a mission support facility, tracking facilities and field sites.

oProvides technical support to mission operations and support personnel with regard to system tasking and time management.

oPerforms technical writing across various program levels and periodically updates documents for operations and training purposes.

1991 - 1996

Honeywell – National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Assigned to the Goddard Space Flight Center/NRL Field Site – Aerospace Division

oLEO Senior Collection Management Specialist/Spacecraft Analyst

oConfigured and operated main frame computer systems, Digital and Radio Frequency equipment and multiple software applications to support day-to-day satellite operations.

oMonitored telemetry data during real-time and off-line activities to assist engineers with identifying, correcting and developing work-around solutions to resolve anomalous conditions.

oReduced and trended Electrical, Thermal, and Attitude data to support the health and safety of spacecraft to include scheduling small thrusts, long duration maneuvers, electrical power system management, and solar shade operations.

oProcessed tasking and up-linked tasking commands (LOADS) to spacecraft.

oTroubleshot RF and Digital anomalies to resolve conflicts during on-line and off-line activities.

oSupplied graphic support and presented product information to customers.

oPerformed technical writing and developed new procedures and materials for training purposes.

oExecuted preventive maintenance on site antennas and ground equipment by running diagnostics when required.

Education/Training

Arundel High School – Graduated 1989

Howard Community College - Completed Electronic, Literature, and Computer Courses

Value Based Six Sigma Greenbelt - 2010

Adjunct Faculty Certification, National Cryptologic School (NCS) - 2012

3000+ hours’ specialized training, National Cryptologic School, Military War College 1993 - 2016

Computer Courses: Access, Excel, Desktop publishing, Motif, Comet, Word Perfect, File maker Pro, Frame maker, Power Point, TCP/IP, Next Systems, Unix fundamentals, VAX/VMS/WAN operating course including Digital Command Language (DCL) programming.

Awards and Recognition

Certificate of excellence for exceptional work involving covert rescue operations, Senior Operations Officer to the Director of the National Security Agency. (2015)

National Intelligence Professional Award. NRO/DNI – Outstanding professionalism shown toward the true intent of the joint and multi-national organizations. (2014)

NRO Employee of the year. Award Chain – NRO/MOD/NROC/OD-7/OCMC. (2013)

National Intelligence Meritorious Award. Department of National Intelligence – Producing the most timely, highest quality, and best intelligence data to U.S. policy makers on the events which transpired in a target nation. (2011)

National Intelligence Meritorious Award. Department of National Intelligence – Recognition of collective performance that has resulted in accomplishments of a clearly superior nature and significant benefit to the I.C. Community. (2009)

Letter of Commendation, Captain Jeff Graham, U.S. Navy for superb performance, can-do attitude, and dedicated professionalism in support of the Naval Space Technology Program. (2007)

ITT Corporation Advanced Engineering & Sciences Peer Recognition Award received from peers for continued innovative support to the Payload Support Group. (2007)

Certificate of Recognition for exceptional performance and outstanding contribution to the mission of the National Reconnaissance Office (2005)

Certificate of Appreciation for superior accomplishment, Director of Central Intelligence Agency. (2003)

Mission Operation Division 6-SIGMA performance award for 1,500,000 plus minutes of no data loss (1995)

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