Rolla, Missouri

 

Management of consulting engineering firm with overall responsibility for marketing, contract negotiation, and payroll administration.
Firm provides the following services:

Support of Vehicle/Stage PDR (Preliminary Design Reviews) and CDR (Critical Design Reviews)
Development of propulsion system and component models
Evaluation of propulsion system concepts using vehicle trajectory simulations
Providing of flight and ground test data analysis and reduction
Documention/debugging/rewriting of legacy FORTRAN codes

KCCE is unique in providing both propulsion system modeling and vehicle performance-based evaluation of propulsion systems.

Aerojet Propulsion Division, Sr. Engineer, 1-77 to 8-82, 11-83 to 5-92
Sacramento, California

Project Engineer for Spaceplane classified project
Performed test data analysis and reduction for solid fuel ATR test program
Performed engineering research for propulsion study contracts of advanced liquid rocket and air-breathing propulsion systems. Specific projects included:
Nuclear propulsion systems for Mars missions
Hypersonic air breathing propulsion systems
Gelled liquid propellant missile propulsion system
Japanese upper stage cryogenic liquid rocket engine, LE-7
Pulsing solid grain, multi-wafer, gas generator
Variable mixture ratio effects on existing Titan engines
Advanced "Trans Atmospheric Vehicles"
Small ICBM liquid rocket stage concepts
High performance orbit transfer vehicle
ERIS, HEDS, and HEDI liquid rocket engines (for "Star Wars" research contracts)
NASP Single Stage-to-Orbit combined propulsion system
Space Station attitude control engines
Plug cluster engine for Orbit Transfer Vehicle application
Conventional cryogenic engines for Orbit Transfer Vehicle (OTV) application
Propulsion systems utilized in foreign submarine launched ballistic missiles
Unconventional (plug cluster) rocket engine
LOX/LH2 engine design for OTV application
Low thrust chemical rocket design for OTV application
General purpose computer models for generating liquid rocket engine performance data

Aerojet Huntsville Operation, Engineering Specialist, 8-88 to 8-90
Huntsville, Alabama

Member of original Huntsville Operation engineering staff
Conducted job interviews and represented company in technical symposiums & trade shows
Performed engineering research and provided project management for advanced liquid rocket and air-breathing propulsion systems. Research performed for clients in Huntsville, Alabama. Specific projects included:
NASA ALS (Advanced Launch System) engines
J-2 rocket engine data retrieval
Transient liquid rocket simulation code
STV (Space Transfer Vehicle) engine

TRW Ballistic Missile Division, Hardware Engineer 9-82 to 9-83
San Bernardino, California

Responsible hardware development engineer on storable, pressure fed, bipropellant propulsion systems for Stage IV of MX (Peacekeeper) missile system. Technical oversight of contractor (Rocketdyne) activity and progress. Specific hardware included:
Main propulsion and attitude control engines
Helium pressure vessel (cryoformed stainless steel fabrication)
Thrust vector control actuators (electro mechanical ball screw mechanism)
Two stage mechanical pressure regulator
Bipropellant torque motor valve