Rachel Sholder

About Rachel Sholder

I work at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL) as a cost analyst…

Experience

1. Cost Analyst

   Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory

   Aug 2017 — Present · Laurel, MD, US

   Lead cost modeling efforts, impacting instrumental programmatic and engineering decisions, by statistically calculating full lifecycle costs of NASA space missions for various proposals ranging from $50 million to $3 billion Serve as the cost analyst for NASA programmatic reviews (Preliminary and Critical Design Reviews) Determine technical uncertainties and develop probability distributions to model and analyze cost risk Perform fault management software testing for NASA’s first planetary defense mission, DART, scheduled to launch in 2021 by writing JAS scripts and working in the UNIX/LINUX environment

Education

• Lehigh University

  Master of Science (M.S.)

  2016 — 2017

• Lehigh University

  Bachelor of Science (B.S.)

  2012 — 2016

• The Johns Hopkins University

  Doctor of Engineering

  2023 — 2026

Skills

• Organization
• Community Service
• Microsoft Powerpoint
• Statistics
• Powerpoint
• Microsoft Excel
• Social Networking
• Leadership
• Singing
• Microsoft Dynamics Nav
• Time Management
• B2b
• Teamwork
• Html
• Social Media
• Performing Arts
• Excel Services
• Public Speaking
• Access
• Typing
• Css
• Data Cleaning
• Data Preparation
• Dance
• Sales Process
• Data Analysis
• Mathematics
• Facebook
• Keyboard Skills
• Microsoft Office
• Event Planning
• Team Leadership