Aerospace Advocate. Education Enthusiast. Webmaster.
Primarily, as a Flight Planning Engineer, I collaborate with stakeholders across the Artemis enterprise and international partners to manage an integrated traffic and event plan (ITEP). ITEP is a tool to help guarantee that crew and cargo vehicles arrive and depart safely from the lunar surface and destinations beyond. The Artemis enterprise comprises 5 programs: Space Launch System (SLS), Orion, Exploration Ground Systems (EGS), EVA and Human Surface Mobility (EHP), and Human Landing Systems (HLS) programs. I create and maintain data solutions to facilitate discussions between these 5 programs on operational requirements and constraints to ensure science and other mission objectives are achieved.
Secondarily, I assess operational and technical requirements, which I then facilitate coordination to obtain necessary agreements for executing the flight plan. When the flight plan or on-orbit activities violate flight requirements, I recommend possible resolutions to ensure successful on-orbit missions. I love how this task fits my personality. I work to encourage integration between diverse stakeholders while pioneering creative solutions. The integration work also appeals to my insatiable desire to learn; working with many organizations exposes me to a variety of approaches, priorities, and philosophies in space operations management
Hometown: Los Angeles, CA
Hobbies: Traveling; taking massive open online courses – I love learning!; reading biographies; enjoying aerobic dance workout sessions from the 1980s–2000s, visiting museums; enjoying craft beers; speaking at, developing, and facilitating K-12 STEM outreach activities