Resume

• 1974

  Bachelors Degree in Engineering

  Agriculture/Material Science

  Post Graduate Courses

  Spacecraft Control Systems

  University of California

  Los Angeles

• Simulations

  Systems Engineering

  Data Analysis

  Strategic Planning

  Programming

  Matlab

  Requirements Management

  Program Management

  Air Force

  Aerospace

  Leadership

  Simulink

  Project Management

  DoD

  Proposal Writing

  Government Contracting

  Integration

  Microsoft Office

  Engineering

  Testing

  Rasmussen

  Rasmussen

  California Lutheran University

  Space Vector Corporation

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  Guidance Dynamics Corporation

  California Lutheran University

  Senior Project Engineer

  Role: \nLed project engineering teams for numerous sounding rocket attitude control system and component development efforts and launch support.\nConducted system design analysis of sounding rocket trajectories and flight safety compliance. \nResponsible for technical analysis

  testing and evaluation of cold-gas reaction control systems

  including gas consumption

  thrust sizing

  and minimum impulse bit. \nPerformed field work

  including the installation of sounding rocket flight destruct components and pre-flight check-out of reaction control

  stage separation and payload recovery deployment systems. \nProvided key technical and logistics support for contract proposal efforts. \nActed as liaison with machine shops

  environmental test labs and processing facilities.

  Space Vector Corporation

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  Guidance Dynamics Corporation

  Simi Valley

  CA

  I have been actively engaged in space vehicle product development for over thirty years

  starting as a project and field engineer for Space Vector Corporation

  designing

  assembling

  testing and launching cold-gas attitude control systems aboard NASA and Air Force Geophysical Laboratories sounding rocket payloads. For the last twenty-two years I founded

  then have served as president and chairman of the board of Guidance Dynamics Corporation (GDC)

  a company that has established itself as a leader in air bearing-based hardware-in-the-loop spacecraft development testbeds.\n\nFounded

  then led Guidance Dynamics Corporation for 22 years. Continues to serve as President and Chairman of the Board.\n\nActed as Program Manager for over 300 successful firm-fixed-price hardware and software development programs and proposals for customers including; Successfully completed $2.5 million Formation Control Testbed contract for JPL in 2009.\n\nResponsible for mechanical and pneumatics engineering oversight for most of the company's projects. Maintains detailed and specialized knowledge of pneumatic control systems

  including thruster

  actuator

  reaction wheel and control moment gyro design

  fabrication

  assembly

  system integration

  testing

  delivery and installation.\n\nGenerated and submitted all company technical and cost proposals and quotations to commercial

  government and government prime customers

  and negotiated all resultant company contracts.\n\nHeld security clearance and served as facility Security Officer

  1990s.\n\nWorks closely with CNC machine shops and specialized processing houses

  including software and electronics development

  electromagnetic coil winding

  surface grinding

  chemical finishing and electroplating

  bonding and heat treating.\n\nProficient in SolidWorks

  MS Project

  MS Office

  Adobe Acrobat

  Deneba Canvas

  Mac OS X

  Windows Vista\nMaintains a working knowledge of AutoCAD

  MatLab

  Basic and C programming

  finite element analysis

  President & Program Manager