Provides support as a lead assessor and safety and quality assurance consultant serving high-risk, high-consequence customers in the aerospace, defense, and scientific industries.

• Lead assessor on client safety and mission assurance reviews
• Quality assurance consulting for aerospace, defense, and scientific industry customers
• Subject matter expert support on high-risk, high-consequence programs

Veteran-owned small business focused on aerospace consulting services. Over 30 years of experience as a NASA civil servant and independent consultant, providing consulting in safety and mission assurance, quality assurance, program and project life cycle review, and the federal procurement process.

• ASRC Federal Holding Company, LLC — Beltsville, MD
• ATA Aerospace — Greenbelt, MD
• Virginia Commercial Space Flight Authority / Mid Atlantic Regional Spaceport — Wallops Island, VA
• Millennium Engineering and Integration Co — Arlington, VA
• Princeton University — Princeton, NJ
• Astrion — Colorado Springs, CO

Served as senior SMA advisor and point of contact for mission assurance across Wallops Flight Facility programs, projects, and operations, with responsibility for ensuring the proper level of mission assurance was defined, documented, and implemented.

• Representative at the Goddard Space Flight Center Safety and Mission Assurance Directorate at Wallops
• Senior SMA advisor for Wallops Flight Facility programs, projects, and operations
• Coordinated institutional safety with the Greenbelt organization for ongoing communication and collaboration
• Served on investigation teams and anomaly review boards determining root cause of project anomalies and close calls
• Senior member of the Wallops Executive Safety and Health Committee overseeing facility-wide safety issues

• Source Evaluation Board Chairman, NASA Balloon Operations Contract (NBOC), 2014
• Senior SMA Member, ACT America Probe Failure Mishap Investigation Team (Close Call), 2018
• Senior SMA Member, Super Pressure Balloon Anomaly Engineering Review Team, 2018
• Senior SMA Member, BETTII Balloon Anomaly Mishap Investigation Team (Close Call), 2017
• Senior SMA Member, WFF Runway Incursion Mishap Investigation Team (High-Visibility Close Call), 2015

• Standing Review Board Chairman, East Pacific Origins and Characteristics of Hurricanes (EPOCH), 2017
• Standing Review Board Chairman, High-Resolution Mid-infrared Spectrometer (HIRMES), 2018

Progressive engineering assignments across safety and mission assurance, technology development, and personnel management, spanning entry-level aerospace engineer through line management positions.

• Chaired program and project system-level reviews including PDR and CDR covering cost, schedule, risk, and technical progress
• Developed budgets and conducted manpower planning for SRO personnel

• Developed branch manpower, budget, and resources across electronic parts, packaging, and radiation groups
• Negotiated with project managers for proper levels of support personnel
• Provided leadership in closing actions from the directorate level
• Served as Acting Branch Head in the absence of the Branch Head, resolving administrative matters covering time and attendance, travel, and procurement
• Organized and implemented physical move of branch operations from Building 6 to Building 22, including negotiating physical space and instituting lab processes and procedures

• Monitored technology development status and provided strategic road mapping for the next generation of national weather satellite systems
• Researched new implementation of instrument technologies and reported results to the multi-agency program office
• Provided recommendations to the NPOESS mission assurance director on quality assurance plans, organization strategies, and processes for implementing QA requirements

• Restructured the SOMO technology development program at GSFC to focus projects on relevant elements of the NASA strategic plan
• Yielded $1 million in savings on a $20 million per year program, reused on new and innovative technology development
• Received a Special Act Award from Johnson Space Center, Lead Center, for leadership in this restructuring
• Eliminated redundancy by establishing collaborations and partnerships on 5 of 40 projects with other NASA Centers, agencies, and academia
• Aligned current projects with NASA Enterprise Strategic plans through peer reviews and focus sessions with project managers
• Built coalitions with external agencies and entities

• GSFC representative on the agency working group that revised NASA workmanship standards for electronic assembly processes
• Negotiated changes to these standards and reached consensus among other NASA Centers
• Lead Author of NASA workmanship standards for surface-mount technology
• Recognized as a leading national expert in surface-mount technology manufacturing processes
• Initiated testing programs to qualify SMT for high-reliability aerospace applications

• NASA New Technology Development Program — Co-delegated Program Manager for a NASA Headquarters program validating new and emerging electronic technologies for NASA flight projects
• Assurance Technologies Division Lab Manager — Justified and obtained over $500,000 in lab improvements covering scanning acoustic microscopy, IR thermal imaging, and thermal vacuum capabilities, increasing testing efficiency by 20 percent and reducing part testing time from three weeks to one week
• GSFC Flight Projects Technologist — Drafted a preliminary technology infusion process covering funding sources, key selection activities, and validation strategies for Mid TRL technologies; authored briefing to NASA Headquarters stakeholders on GSFC technology infusion successes

Retired as an Electronics Technician Chief Petty Officer after 22 years of service in the U.S. Navy. Foundational electronics and shipboard systems experience that informs every aerospace and defense engagement Bob takes on today.