Elizabeth Córdoba

Aerospace Systems Engineer @NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Assistant Section Manager; Flight Systems Engineering, Integration, & Test - Co-manage Section of 280 engineers to ensure flight product quality as well as career development Group Supervisor, Verification and Validation (V&V)(20••••21)- Manage, train, and coach ~20 V&V engineers - Technically advise the V&V personnel on all major flight projects Mars2020 Payload Lead Systems Engineer (20••••19)- Lead the Systems Engineering effort for the seven Mars2020 Instruments - Identify and resolve issues so the instruments meet JPL’s requirements, expectations, and constraints within the allocated resources and with acceptable risk Mars2020 Instrument Engineer (20••••16)- JPL Systems Engineer for the MEDA Environmental Science Instrument and the RIMFAX Ground Penetrating Radar - Develop requirements, functional descriptions, interfaces, and operations scenarios for the instruments SMAP Flight System V&V Engineer (20••••14)- Lead Phase C and D Flight System Verification and Validation Activities - Author test plans and procedures for the System Tests, Thermal Verification, and Stress & Robustness testing SMAP Science Phase Activity Lead (20••••11)- Led multidisciplinary flight system and instrument teams to develop the Radar and Radiometer Functional Description Documents and Interface Control Documents - Wrote Testbed Requirements and Verification Plan for Instrument Science tests and analyses SMAP Instrument Systems Engineer Team Member (20••••11)- Managed development, release, and configuration control of L3 and L4 Instrument requirements - Resolved conflict in requirements development from L2 to L5 SURP Principal Investigator (2008 – 2015)- Led the University Partnership program for \"Space systems product development: Educating the next generation of space engineers\" with MIT’s Space Systems Lab Mission Concepts Systems Engineer (2007 – 2009)- Performed as the Systems lead for multiple proposals - Represented JPL in the Air Force Think Tank