PROGRAMS:

COMPANIES:

• Boeing
• McDonnell Douglas

LOCATIONS:

Kennedy Space Center

POSITIONS:

During the 80s most of my work was hands on the hardware. I began as material specialist receiving, stocking and kitting. I did this as an interim until the large Spacelab parts arrived at KSC and the Payloads group MDSTCO began to hire technicians to process the hardware. In late 1981 I became a technician working on Spacelab1. My primary duties were to route and mount all of the CCTV (Closed Circuit TV) under the floor of the module and mounted most of the Strain Gages used in the first flights for VFI (Verification of Flight Instrumentation).

In the 90s I became involved in scheduling and was promoted to manager of the daily scheduling group (PICS) (Payload Integrated Control Schedule). Over the years, all of the scheduling groups were transitioned into my area of responsibility, which became known as “Multi-Mission Planning and Scheduling”. During this time I helped develop new scheduling tools in PDMS (Payload Data Management System), transitioned other scheduling products from different platforms and tools, all in the vision of creating the all in one integrated scheduling system.

In 2000s I began to transition to Project Management and took on various task during a period when we were downsizing. Some of those task included being a Launch Site Support Engineer for the ISS Truss missions. I was asked again to transition our WAD tracking system from PDMS to Maximo. To accomplish this I lead a cross sectional team of NASA and Boeing teammates to meet this milestone and the project was completed on schedule and with no impact to daily floor operations. I also made a return to the scheduling area as a technical lead. Working to develop and document scheduling process, in order to transition the daily schedules into the mission schedules and improve our integrated products. I also began supporting the Constellation program by writing the draft for their IMS document and becoming familiar with Primavera.

In October 2007 I transitioned into the Configuration Management group to become lead of Change Management which includes processing all ISS and Shuttle change paper, documentation changes, provide various board support, and the Engineering Support Request (ESR) changes as related to NASA UB and CAPPS. I continued to support the Constellation program by developing a process for documentation reviews, compiling changes and tracking them back to CX Receipt Desk. I also helped develop a system for tracking the changes performed for the O&C High-bay modification and worked on the transition of facility support from CAPPS to the newly formed ISC contractor, by identifying all facility data by PMN and turning over the change management documentation. In the last year I have become the Certification of Flight Readiness (CoFR) facilitator for NASA UB and CAPPS. All in all I have had a unique opportunity to see how man spaceflight is performed from many different views. I would not change a thing….. Other than keep doing it?