Richard van Allen
Vice President and Director, Space Systems Division at Microcosm, Inc.
- Role
- Vice President and Director, Space Systems Division at Microcosm, Inc
- Location
- Beverly Hills, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Richard van Allen
A highly disciplined, decisive, reliable and well-organized senior executive with…
Experience
Vice President and Director, Space Systems Division
Jan 2003 — Present · Torrance, CA, US
As manager of the Space Systems Division, Dr. Van Allen is responsible for directing Microcosm’s work in designing mission architectures, mission and systems engineering, mission analysis, autonomy and orbit and attitude control systems. He manages the company’s base of activities in the Earth-orbiting and interplanetary mission arenas. Within the Earth-orbiting mission category are both rendezvous and inspection missions at LEO and GEO. Dr. Van Allen is also heavily involved in new business activities associated with all of the areas just described.
Education
Purdue University
Master of Science (M.S.), Aerospace Engineering
1968 — 1969
Purdue University
Ph.D., Aerospace Engineering
1975 — 1977
Purdue University
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
1964 — 1968
Skills
- Air Force
- Cross-Functional Team Leadership
- Testing
- Spacecraft
- Management
- Systems Engineering
- Propulsion
- Avionics
- Orbital Mechanics
- C4isr
- Space Systems
- Integration
- Defense
- Six Sigma
- Analysis
- Engineering
- Proposal Writing
- Aircraft
- Strategy
- Requirements Analysis
- Project Planning
- System Design
- Aerospace
- Requirements Management
- Product Development
- Dod
- Program Management
- Government Contracting
- Launch Vehicles
- Simulations
- Configuration Management
- Systems Design
- Satellite
- Project Management
- Software Development
- Orbit Determination
- Engineering Management
- Security Clearance
- Manufacturing
- System Architecture
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