Projects ...

Main projects

1. FTA Deputy Project Manager [2008 - present]
   NASA LaRC is contributing substantial design, development, fabrication civil service personnel, and facility resources to produce structural mass simulators that match the outer mold line and mass characteristics of the Orion-CEV flight system. NASA LaRC FTA Project Principal Role is to design, develop, produce, and delivery structural mass simulators to support flight testing of the Orion Launch Abort System (LAS)
   * Orion Crew Exploration (video clip)

Pad Abort (PA-1) Delivered DEC 2008

Pathfinder Delivery MARCH 2009

Ascent Abort (AA-1) Under Construction

Secondary projects

1. Educational and Employee Outreach Programs:
   • NASA Langley Ambassador Program (2004 - present)
   • Hispanic Advisory Group Chair/Webmaster, Hispanic Employment Program (HEP) (1996 - present)
   • Coordinator/Webmaster, Latina Women of NASA (LWON) (2002 - present)
   • Coordinator/Webmaster, Women of NASA (WON) LaRC (1997 - present)
   • Presenter, NASA Langley Speakers Bureau (1998 - present)
   • Web Translator, CERES S'COOL Project (1998 - 2005)
   • Member/Webmaster, Federal Women’s Program (FWP) Committee (1993 - 2002)

Past Projects

1. Space Operations Technology Manager/Project Chief Engineer in the Space Operations Program Office [Detail: 2006-2008]
2. FTA Technology Deputy Project Manager[6 mo. Detail: 2007-2008]
3. Flight Ops Engineer - Flight Operations Branch [Detail: 2006]
   - Characterizing Attention Distribution in Aircraft Operation (CAnDAO) Experiment Flights onboard the Cessna 206H
   - Optical Active-passive Remote Sensing Instrument Suite (OASIS) Flight Test mission deployment in Mexico City supporting MILAGRO/MIRAGE-Mex project onboard the King Air B-200 (Summer '06)
   - GoMACCS Flight Test mission deployment in Houston, Texas onboard the King Air B-200 (Fall '06)
4. Software Manager for the Cockpit Motion Facility (CMF) Digital Controller Unit (DCU) [2000 - 2007]
5. Simulation System Engineer for NASA LaRC General Aviation (GA) aircrafts supporting such research programs as Aviation Safety Program (AvSP)/Synthetic Vision System (SVS), Weather Accident Prevention (WxAP) Project/Aviation Weather Information (AWIN). These programs are intended to help revitalize the U.S. general aviation. [NASA Facts Sheet: FS-2004-02-84-LaRC] [2004 - present]
6. Level III - Software Manager for the General Aviation (GA) research community supporting Small Aircraft Transportation System (SATS) projects. [2002 - 2003]
7. System Engineer for the General Aviation (GA) research community [1994-2001]
• Researchers from: Small Aircraft Transportation System (SATS), and Advanced General Aviation Transport Experiments (AGATE), Aviation Weather Information (AWIN), Crew Hazards and Error Management (CHEM), Error Proof Flight Deck (EPFD), Synthetic Vision (SynVis) projects.
8. Systems Engineer for the Visual Motion Simulator (VMS)
   • Support of the Blended-Wing-Body (BWB) project [1999-2000]
   • Support of the High Speed Civil Transport (HSCT) - HyperSonic Research (HSR) project [1997-99]
   • Sikorsky S-61 Helicopter real-time simulation program [1994-95]