Also known as: mgrabois
Award-winning engineer with effective communication, leadership, interpersonal, and problem-solving skills. Over years of experience in training, operations, technical writing, and multi-disciplinary systems engineering. Equally comfortable in individual and team-based projects. Highly organized. Able to manage multiple, high-priority assignments simultaneously. Published author of papers presented at international conferences. In my current position at GE, I am a member of a team responsible for training GE Oil Gas employees and other customers in GE's Drilling product line, from the control units on board a ship to the blowout preventer and well head on the ocean floor. Knowledge of electrical and hydraulic systems as well as instructor skills from my previous job have been invaluable. In my prior position as a NASA instructor, I led a team of engineers in designing and implementing a curriculum for training astronauts and flight controllers in operations and malfunctions in various Space Shuttle systems in both individual and team settings, and I was qualified to certify instructors and flight controllers. I specialized in training the electrical, hydraulic, mechanical, life support, and thermal systems. In I presented a paper on an Apollo knowledge capture project at a conference in South Korea the paper was published in Acta Astronautica in . Numerous other writing projects have included software user guides, crew operation manuals, systems-level hardware overviews, flight procedures rationale handbooks, instruction manuals, study guides, and console handbooks. I have worked on several projects giving human factors experience, from spacecraft cockpit switch layout and crew display design to graphical user interface design for instructors and ground controllers. Specialties Skills include instructor, flight controlleroperator, technical writing, cockpit display design, graphical user interface design, and knowledge capture projects.
