Mike works or Northrup Grumman as the Chief Engineering for Structures for the Solid Rocket Boosters on the NASA Space Launch System. He has 20 years of experience in structural design and analysis on missile and rocket systems. The past 15 years he has been with Northrup Grumman and it predecessors in Promontory Utah. Prior to that Mike worked for Raytheon Missile Systems in Tucson Arizona as an Opto-Mechanical Engineer.