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Security Clearance - Spacecraft Systems Engineer

Location:
Greenbelt, MD, 20770
Posted:
March 06, 2025

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Resume:

Daniel J Schultz

Burtonsville, MD *****

301-***-****

*****@***.***

SECURITY CLEARANCE: SECRET

EXPERIENCE:

Senior Professional Staff II

The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD Flight controller for the New Horizons and Parker Solar Probe spacecraft. Supported humanity's first flyby reconnaissance of a Kuiper Belt object 2014MU69 (Arrokoth) on January 1, 2019. Familiar with NASA Deep Space Network operations, performed RTG power analysis to support mission planning.

Satellite Systems Engineer

Lockheed Martin Corporation at Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD Member of the Flight Operations Team for the Hubble Space Telescope at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Responsible for safe and efficient operation of HST Science Instruments and Pointing Control subsystems including Fine Guidance Sensors, gyros and star trackers. Supported all five Space Shuttle service missions to HST including Joint Integrated Simulations, performed aliveness and functional tests of new science instruments and gyros during astronaut EVAs.

Engineering volunteer

The Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT)

Member of the Amateur Radio on International Space Station (ARISS) team, built and tested amateur radio flight hardware currently in use onboard the International Space Station. Supported thermal vacuum testing of AMSAT Phase 3D amateur radio satellite. Currently evaluating and developing software tools for planning.and executing low- thrust propulsion for amateur radio satellite missions. Editor of annual AMSAT Space Symposium proceedings for past twelve years.

Chairman of the Board

Adopolis Inc,

A Hague accredited international adoption agency. Assists the agency in compliance with complex government and international regulations.

EDUCATION:

Johns Hopkins Engineering for Professionals

MS, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Course work in Analog Electronic Circuit Design, RF and Microwave Circuits, Digital Signal Processing, VHDL/FPGA Microprocessor Design, Software Defined Radio, Advanced Optics and Photonics Laboratory, Microwave Communications Laboratory.

The University of Iowa

MS, Physics

Academic course work included Radio Astronomy, Magnetospheric and Solar Terrestrial Physics. Laboratory experience included high vacuum systems, sputtering and evaporation of metal films, thick film hybrid circuits. MS thesis work involved measurement of oxide films by Rutherford Backscattering Spectrometry, including operation of Van de Graff accelerator, solid state particle detectors, nuclear instrumentation and associated electronics. Teaching assistant for introductory and intermediate physics labs with highly positive student evaluations.

Oakland University

BS, Electrical Engineering and Physics (double major)

Worked in university machine shop, designed and built many devices for faculty research. Internship at Argonne National Laboratory building instrumentation for a nuclear reactor coolant flow experiment.



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