Cassandra Clouse

About Cassandra Clouse

So there I was spinning on a blue and green sphere in the middle of space. No Guide. No towel. Whose idea was this anyway? A question that didn\'t matter much because I\'d lost my receipt, assuming I had a receipt at some point, somewhere between there and here. I began to wonder if I had asked to be sent to this location. Around the same time, I felt a huge craving for milk and a nap.After spending a few years in a dusty and very boring location known as Texas, I managed to become an overachiever and escape by way of the US Army. The first year of my West Point experience, people yelled a lot, and I walked around with black socks pulled up to my knees. While this may sound like a less than a stellar vacation spot, it was still better than Texas. After hours of math, blowing up electronic parts, and marching in circles, I graduated with a degree in electrical engineering and was sent to a place where there would be less math but more marching in circles. I was told to run when there was really no hurry. I was then told how awful I was at running. While none of this felt very good at the time, it all worked out. After escaping from the Army, I went to work finding bugs and blowing up small electronic parts which made me happy. I also spent time playing Army part-time and working on a masters degree all about people and designing things in a way that didn\'t require those same people to have an engineer\'s brain. It was just as well as most engineers are too busy engineering to lend their brains to strangers. The engineering for humans part was fun so I decided to go back to school and get better at it. The running while not in a hurry part worked out too. Once the men in green suits and shiny pins stopped telling me I had to run faster, I actually started getting faster. After a bit of this, I decided running 50 miles through the woods sounded like a really good idea. Turned out it was. While all of this was going on, I also had to talk to a lot of people. Initially I assumed most people were the same or at least had similar motivations. Turns out that wasn\'t the case at all. Many people were nice. Some weren\'t nice at all. I\'m still not exactly sure why anyone would choose to be the latter, but enough people do to make me think that there are a number of utterly confused people on this planet. I prefer the nice ones. Between the talking, running, marching, and engineering, I wound up with a personal relationship with Jesus. That\'s when I found the answer to life, the universe, and everything.

Experience

1. 711th Human Performance Wing Senior Engineer

   Air Force Research Laboratory

   Sep 2025 — Present

Education

• Wright State University

  PhD, Engineering

  2008 — 2019

• Wright State University

  MS, Human Factors Engineering

  2001 — 2004

• United States Military Academy at West Point

  BS, Electrical Engineering

  1993 — 1997

Skills

• Dod
• Army
• Requirements Analysis
• Program Management
• Security Clearance
• Defense
• Human Factors
• Systems Engineering
• Leadership
• User Experience
• Project Management
• Government Contracting
• Software Development
• Software Engineering
• Process Improvement
• Software Project Management
• Military Operations
• User Interface Design
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Government
• Engineering Management
• Human Performance
• Task Analysis
• Web Design
• User-Centered Design
• Mobile Devices
• Rapid Prototyping
• User Research
• Virtual Environments
• Adobe Photoshop
• Adobe Illustrator
• Business Process Improvement
• U.s. Department of Defense
• Military
• Unity3d