Greg Dawes

Experience

1. Element Operations Manager

   NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

   Aug 2013 — Present

   The Element Operations Manager (EOM) plays a critical role in assessing the impacts of maturing flight requirements at the major elements. Provide the leadership necessary to coordinate the impacts of design changes on the operations of hardware. The EOM’s are the critical link to assess impacts and initiate/lead changes required to accommodate the program’s evolving requirements. The EOM’s have a unique familiarity with the system (technically), the engineering designers and the Program requirement’s that makes them critical to leading technical and operations teams to develop analysis and impacts and present operations issues and provide risk mitigation scenarios to the Program. The EOM’s are responsible for planning the execution of Verification testing. The EOM provides the ability to interface with the program to understand and possibly negotiate their requirements and then communicate those requirements to the engineering or operations organizations and effect necessary changes in an element.Though the budget development and management has been transitioned, the EOM still retains the expert knowledge of the daily resource requirements necessary to operate and still plays an important role in the budgetary cycle.As Launch Vehicle Offline Processing EOM, I was the NASA Subject Matter Expert (SME) responsible for the SLS booster pathfinder activity. This involved extensive integration within NASA, TOSC, and externally with the Army Corps of Engineers as well as the locomotive company that we contracted with for this effort. The pathfinder project was a complete success. A number of new technicians and crane operators received the training necessary to process SLS booster segments. We were also able to complete V&V on the modifications made to the build-up stand platforms and associated GSE.

Education

• University of Central Florida

  BSME

  1981 — 1985

Skills

• Requirements Management
• Finite Element Analysis
• Aircraft
• Program Management
• System Architecture
• Security Clearance
• Spacecraft
• Systems Engineering
• Government Contracting
• Composites
• Trade Studies
• Proposal Writing
• Requirements Analysis
• Engineering Management
• Defense
• Aerospace Engineering
• Space Systems
• Aircraft Design
• Fortran
• Information Assurance
• Telelogic Doors
• Engineering
• Orbital Mechanics
• Aerospace
• Simulations
• Managerial Skills
• Technology Management
• Radar
• Avionics
• Aerodynamics
• System Requirements
• Configuration Management
• Project Planning
• System Safety
• Manufacturing
• Flight Test
• System Design
• Dod
• Analysis
• Satellite