Occupation?

I am a Mechanical Integration Engineer at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. I work on hardware supporting the Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission 4 (which will launch later this year) and the ELC (a mission to provide flight spare components for the International Space Station).

Before this job I worked at the Naval Research Laboratory In Washington, DC designing spacecraft and related items for the Navy's space program and a private spacecraft company (Orbital Sciences Corporation in Dulles, VA for 3 years) in between.

I was a Chevrolet Certified Technician in 1981 and had worked in the auto repair business from 1978 to 1986 before I went to engineering school (Maryland).

My son likes to tell folks I am a "rocket scientist" , but I correct him and tell them I am an engineer who builds the stuff that is launched on top of the rockets. These items are generally dreamed up by rocket scientists.


Mostly interesting work, but can be boring and pain in the A$$ at times.