Shalin Mody

Accomplished Engineer with 12+ years combined experience in aerospace systems design, test, operations, and integration. Experience spans technology/concept development, requirements generation, and design-operations/CONOPS strategy for world-class organizations. Particular interest in autonomous vehicles/robotics, bio-mimicry/bio-influenced systems, electro-mechanical systems, CAD/CAM/CNC, MRO domains. Clearance: Secret (Current) PROFESSIONAL CHARACTER & ACHIEVEMENTS: * Lauded for quickly jumping into, reorganizing, and reestablishing contact and trust for a testing effort in a state of confusion. * Streamlined the onboarding within the Test & Evaluation organization. Quickly and successfully onboarded new members (mentees, interns, or otherwise) into a project. Provided support such that younger engineers and technical staff could contribute beyond their expectations. * Promoted to Test Lead for Environmental Testing of UAS within 2 month of initial testing. * Paid attention to detail in systems engineering and requirements generation, management & testing 1000+ requirements of UAS program of record for DoD. * Author of 3 design & operations publications presented at national & international conferences. * Organized Lunch ’n’ Learn sessions to keep abreast of industry news & best practices of engineering. * Operational teamwork experience through both the NASA Space Shuttle & International Space Station as well as an emergency response firefighter. * Awarded for rapid response to resolve issues impacting team of NASA flight controllers. * Awarded for leading mission-critical quality & testing efforts for NASA Space Shuttle/Station ops & planning. * Interfaced with NASA partners to expand beyond traditional technology development methodologies in future space system concepts. * Hands-on leader of a self-started, award winning UAV engineering team as an undergraduate engineering student.