I’m a Physicist turned Engineer who strives to solve complex challenges, drive innovation, and enable teams to do their best work. My career has taken me from individual contributor to engineering management, and into lead systems engineering roles. Whether leading a tiger team, mentoring engineers, or driving R&D, I focus on building trust and collaboration to deliver solutions that exceed customer expectations and make the world a safer place.
Areas of Expertise
Algorithm Development
Model Based Systems Engineering
Computational Methods
People Management
Antenna Design
Sprint Planning
Program Management
Plasma Physics
Recent Projects
Next-Generation Relay Ground Station: RGS-A
Deployment Plan for an Open Source Catastrophe Modeling Platform
Sustainable Business Model for an Interoperability Testing Center
Chesapeake Bay Oyster Monitoring: Save the Bay
Re-scalable Aperture for Precision Targeting Radar: RAPTR
Management Philosophy
Helping to enable others to do their best work is what motivates me. In order to to achieve this, I focus on servant leadership and managing with emotional intelligence. My definition of servant leadership is eliminating my self-interest from the decision making process. Instead, focusing on the success of my team and the organization by developing a mutual beneficial relationship. I think the best way to be an effective servant leader is through emotional intelligence. To me, emotional intelligence is being compassionate, asking more questions, respecting individual needs, listening more carefully, and valuing the unique contributions.
Management is the most noble of professions if it’s practiced well. No other occupation offers as many ways to help others learn and grow, take responsibility and be recognized for achievement, and contribute to the success of a team.
— Clayton Christensen