Prior to this, I worked as a NASA Extravehicular Activities (EVA) flight controller and crew trainer at the NASA Johnson Space Center. As an EVA flight controller in Mission Control I provided realtime expertise on spacesuits, airlock operations, and spacewalk tasks. As an instructor, I trained space shuttle and space station crews in a multitude of facilities including part-task trainers, shuttle and station mockups, virtual reality simulator, vacuum chambers, and the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL).  A portion of my work also involved the operational aspects of future human space exploration missions, including field deployments to the San Francisco Volcanic Field with the NASA Desert Research and Technology Studies (RATS) team to execute simulated lunar and asteroid missions.

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I have also worked at the NASA Glenn Research Center as a test operations engineer, conducting test runs for various cryogenic fuel (liquid hydrogen) experiments including zero-boil-off tests, propellent tank liquid acquisition devices, and solid hydrogen formation. Additional assignments included flying as a test conductor onboard NASA zero-gravity (zero-g) aircraft.