Aerospace Engineer

Jill Prettyman-Lukoschek

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SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

An award winning performer with more than ten years of project engineering experience for special projects in the high-pressure environment of the Mission Control Center. Demonstrated ability to efficiently plan real-time troubleshooting operations and respond to off-nominal situations. Adept in formulating step-by-step assembly/maintenance procedures and test plans. Have trained astronauts, operations and engineering personnel in system usage and operations. Able to effectively communi- cate with all levels: management, astronauts, flight control team members, and external engineering support.

KEY SKILLS

Project Management Project Testing

Complex Problem Solving

Defining Requirements

Instructor/Mentor

Procedure Writing

Documentation

Operations

Analysis

Design/Integration

WORK EXPERIENCE

5/2005-10/2010

Staff Engineer V, United Space Alliance, Houston, TX

• Certified Flight Controller for the International Space Station realtime console support

• Plug in Plan and Utilization Officer (PLUTO) - Increment 18 lead, Flight 20A lead, Flight 2J/A

lead

• Inventory and Stowage Officer

• Project Engineer - Internal Wireless Instrumentation System (IWIS) and the External Wireless

Instrumentation System (EWIS) realtime and offline console support

• Maintained long term plan, schedules, training and overall integration for the WIS opera-

tions

• provided routine systems engineering support for IWIS and EWIS operations

• led troubleshooting efforts for system recovery

• negotiated both multi-discipline and international agreements for the operation of the

IWIS and EWIS systems

• developed and tested system upgrade implementations and transitions to nominal opera-

tions

Staff Engineer IV/V, United Space Alliance, Houston, TX 5/2001-5/2005

• Flight Software Systems Engineer

• responsible for defining, reviewing and testing the Multi function CRT Display Systems

(MCDS) display development for onboard Shuttle Payload displays/telemetry requirements

• Systems Engineering - Wing Leading Edge (WLE) Impact Detection System (IDS) Return to Flight

Project

• Developed, documented, and implemented operations flow for WLE system

• trained MOD personnel on WLE operations

• developed and tested hardware/software integration tests on the Shuttles and for follow on

releases

• Systems Engineer - MOD representative to the Portable Onboard Computer Control Board

(POCCB)

• reviewed proposed changes for MOD impacted and solicited discipline specific responses as

required

• Project Engineer - Payload Operations Support Team (POST) tools

• Mock payload customer responsible for testing proof of concept for and implementation of the tools suite

• Responsible for training external customers on POST tools operations

Staff Engineer, Lockheed Martin, Houston, TX 10/1997-5/2001

• System Engineer - Mission Control Center (MCC) Telecommunications System (TS)

• Chief Engineer - Interim Control Module

• Project Engineer - Orbital Communications Adapter (OCA) Upgrade to the MCC ground system

Staff Engineer, Lockheed Martin, Houston, TX 2/1995-10/1997

• System Engineer - International Space Station (ISS) Program Office power team member

• Responsible for managing the steady state analysis for the Design Analysis Cycle (DAC)

• Reviewed proposed change requests for Electrical Power System (EPS) impacts and updated

the EPS Architecture Notebook as required for those changes

• Audited ISS Systems for EPS requirement implementation prior to fabrication

Staff Engineer, Loral Aerosys, Greenbelt, MD 7/1990-2/1995

• Certified Spacecraft Engineer for the Explorer Platform/Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer realtime con- sole support

• Scheduling and Planning Engineer

• defined, implemented, and tested the operational sequences for all spacecraft subsystem

commanding and communications paths

• negotiated and defined the payload customer/principle investigator interface • Power and Thermal Spacecraft Engineer

• implemented on orbit checkout of the Power system solar arrays on orbit

• Developed, tested and verified real-time workarounds for SA limitations found during on

orbit checkout

Staff Engineer, Ford Aerospace, Greenbelt, MD 10/1987-7/1990

• Certified Spacecraft Engineer for LANDSAT 4 and 5 realtime console support • Realtime Spacecraft Engineer

• Communications and Thermal System Engineer

• review trending information for the power and the thermal systems

• commanded communications and thermal systems recovery as required

EDUCATION

Auburn University, Auburn, AL

Bachelor’s degree - Aerospace Engineering

SECURITY CLEARANCE

• Highest previous clearance held – Secret

AWARDS

JSC Group Achievement Award for STS-131 Imagery Conversion and Downlink Team - 2010

JSC Center Director’s Award for Innovation for EWIS and IWIS work – 2008

JSC Group Achievement Award for the Expedition 14 Cargo Integration Officer Team - July 2007

NASA Manned Spaceflight Awareness Team Award for the IWIS Power Cable Adapter – 2007

NASA HQ Group Achievement Award for Wing Leading Edge Impact Detection System (WLEIDS) Team - 2006

NASA Manned Spaceflight Awareness Team Award for the USA Reinvention POST Tools Project - 2002

JSC Group Achievement Award for the Internet Telephone Team - 2001

International Space Station Program Office Team Excellence Award for participation on the Attitude and Power Balance Team for ISS – 1996

Boeing Certificate of Achievement for Commendable Performance for Early Ingress Support - 1997

NASA HQ Group Achievement Award for Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer/Explorer Platform (EP/EUVE) Project Team - 1993

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