Santa Clara University

Ed’s current position is Director of Flight Sciences for Engineering. Prior to that he served as the Director of Design Engineering. While the Director of Design Engineering he had several special assignment including helping Product Centers with process. He also led a team that unified a one company Design process with Standards, Guidebooks and Processes geared toward helping engineers.

Prior work experience, Ed worked on the manned space flight program Apollo, special spacecraft Corona and missile programs (THAAD and FBM). Within those assignments Ed has extensive experience in design verification, flight analysis, systems, test and design of hardware. He understands the important of schedule, startups, communication within a program, and contracts. He worked a three year stint managing Re-Entry Accuracy Software development (which was delivered on time). He also spent three years in the Washington Office as a liaison to the FBM customer. He later led the START program and managed the development of several contracts (which were delivered under budget and ahead of schedule). He later led both the Digital Electronics Design and Electronics Design Organizations and helped EPI promulgate best practices, while acting as the Electrical Subcouncil co-lead.

Ed is active in the community and serves on two university advisory boards (Santa Clara University and California University at Valejo). He has been active in going into classrooms to motivate students to pursue science and engineering. He also extensively mentors within Lockheed Martin SSC as well. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Physics from California State University at Fresno. He has also done extensive graduate work at the University of Santa Clara. He has also been certified by the Institute of Certified Professional Managers, as a Certified Manager. He is active in the local SNAP program and is a member of the AIAA, INCOSE, ICPM and MA societies and is a past member of SWE.

Ed is also co-leading a Hardware and Software reuse group for the US Space Program Mission Assurance Workshop for the Space Quality Improvement Council (SQIC).

Ed has also shares his Leadership Experiences with others and was requested to be a keynote speaker for the Fall 2009 Graduate Systems Sloan Class at MIT.