Ph.D. Astronomy
Ohio State University
2000
M.S. Astronomy
The Ohio State
University
1997
ISU Summer Program
1994,1995
M.S. Physics
University of
Trieste, Italy
1992
B.A. magna
cum laude
University of
Trieste, Italy
1988
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Ball Aerosopace 09/2018–present Director of New Business, Civil Space
Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems 11/2013–08/2018 Innovation Manager, Civil Space
Space Telescope Science Institute 12/2011–10/2013
Innovation Scientist
Serve as the senior technical advisor on all innovation and core technology initiatives for the James Webb Space Telescope.
Archive Scientist 03/2010–11/2011
Scientific community “evangelist” for all tools and services offered by the NASA Multimission Archive at the Space Telescope Science Institute. Seeking novel approaches to data mining and visualization for large datasets.
Community Missions Development Manager 01/2007–03/2010
Lead the development and delivery of innovative solutions to
challenging problems in the areas of data processing, data archiving, data
mining, visualization and analytics: co-creator of the GoogleSky concept.
Hubble Chief Engineer 06/2006–01/2007
Delivered innovative and cost effective solutions for the Hubble mission
to improve its scientific return. Conducted detailed risk analysis,
evaluation and implementation of new, innovative IT and web-based solutions.
Archive Scientist & Branch Manager 01/2003–05/2006
Lead the integration of software solution across domains. Responsible
for the professional development, evaluation, retention, and hiring of staff
for the Astronomer Tools and Applications Branch. Lead the development team of the multi-terabyte Galaxy Evolution
Explorer archive for the Space Telescope Science Institute Multi-mission
Archive.
University of Pittsburgh 10/2000–12/2002
Research Associate
Developed and implemented tools to aid the mining and analysis of large
multi-dimensional datasets.
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Project Management
Agile Project
Management
SCRUM, SOA
Communication
Presentation
System Architecture
Distributed Computing
Data Mining
Data Visualization
Business Analytics
Numerical Algorithms
High-Throughput Computing
Languages & Software Visual Studio
C#.NET
& ASP.NET
ActionScript
JavaScript, AJAX
SQL
, JDBC
XML/XLS, KML
Java, Python, PHP
FORTRAN,C/C++,
HTML, XHTML, CSS
IIS, Apache
SOA, SOAP, RPC
MS SQL Server,
Sybase, MySQL
CVS, SVN, Git
R, Mathematica, IDL
US Citizen
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