Mark Alexander Kordon

RELEVANT RESEARCH AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

JPL Technical Group Supervisor/Task Manager, Systems Engineering Section 313 (2004- Present)/ Project and Enterprise Computing Systems Section 366 (2000 – 04), 2000‑present 

· Group Supervisor – Responsible for supervising a staff of ~27 JPL and contract employees in the Modeling and Simulation Technologies Group.

· Task Manager/CAM – Responsible for the conceptual development and day-to-day management of the Integrated Spacecraft Analysis Tools and Multi-Mission Analysis Tools for Mission Ground Services and Systems (MGSS) Program Office. Responsible for oversight of tools simulating spacecraft power, thermal, telecom, propulsion, pointing, command and data handling domains. Tools support several flight projects with an easy-to-use, easy-to-integrate, variable fidelity, parameterized solution designed to support rapid trade studies, performance analysis and sequence development throughout the lifecycle of a flight project for a wide variety of mission types, mission phases and hardware configurations.

· Lead Researcher - Responsible for the conceptual development and day-to-day management of the CECAD Automated Design Optimization research task. This effort applies evolutionary computing to spacecraft simulations to automate the design search and optimization of space vehicle elements in the formulation phase.

· Co-Investigator/Task Manager/CAM - Responsible for the conceptual development and day-to-day management of the Multi-Mission Tools for JPL’S Model-Based Engineering Design Initiative (MBED). Initiative seeks to provide a unified model-based formulation phase capability infused into both the line and projects.

· Task Manager/CAM - Responsible for the day-to-day management of the Mission Scenario Development Workbench for the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL). Software allows mission planners to quickly develop and test activity plans vs. candidate spacecraft architectures early in the formulation phase of a JPL flight project.

· Task Manager/CAM - Responsible for the day-to-day management of the Dawn Pointing Checker Tool for the Dawn Project. Software ensured safe spacecraft operations by verifying proper pointing before sequences were uploaded.

· Principle Investigator - Responsible for the day-to-day management of the JPL’s Library of Reusable Computer, Modeling, Simulation and Visualization (CMSV) Tools task. This effort provides a web page and middleware to search, understand and retrieve models and tools from repositories laboratory wide.

· Task Manager/CAM - Responsible for the day-to-day management of the software development on several other tasks including Prognostic Technologies, Mission Tradespace Tool, Sequence Translating, Editing and Expanding Resource.

· Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) - Led Grassroots and ROM costing efforts in the area of Modeling and Simulation (2003).

Senior Simulation Software Developer, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA

1991‑1999

· Lead Modeler for Developing New Products – Analyzed, designed and implemented models and simulations for various JPL flight projects.

· Simulation Software Developer - Analyzed, designed and implemented models and simulations for the Corp Battle Simulation (CBS). CBS supports the training of U.S. Army senior commanders and their staff.

Electronic Technician, Rochester, NY

1984‑1989

· Taylor Instruments, (10/87 – 8/89)

· Xerox Corporation under contract through Lehigh Design, (6/87 – 10/87)

· Founded and managed retail hobby store. (8/86 – 5/89)

· Taylor Instruments under contract through Tad Technical, (5/86 – 9/86)

· Moscom Corporation, (9/84 – 2/86)

EDUCATION

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Department of Computer and Systems Engineering

Degree: Bachelor of Science, 1991

Monroe Community College, Rochester, New York

Degree: Associate of Applied Science in Electrical Engineering

Credentials

Secret Security Clearance (1/92 – Present)

RELEVANT PUBLICATIONS AND CONFERENCE PAPERS

Journal Articles and Conference Papers

1. Mark Kordon, Steve Wall, Henry Stone, William Blume, Joseph Skipper, Mitch Ingham, Joe Neelon, James Chase, Ron Baalke, David Hanks, Jose Salcedo, Benjamin Solish, Mona Postma, Richard Machuzak"Model-Based Engineering Design Pilots," IEEE Aerospace Conference Proceedings, Big Sky, MT., March 2007.

2. Richard J. Terrile, Mark Kordon, Dan Mandutianu, Jose Salcedo, Eric Wood and Mona Hashemi "Automated Design of Spacecraft Systems Power Subsystems," IEEE Aerospace Conference Proceedings, Big Sky, MT., March 2006.

3. Richard J. Terrile, Hrand Aghazarian, Michael I. Ferguson, Wolfgang Fink, Terrance L. Huntsberger, Didier Keymeulen, Gerhard Klimeck, Mark A. Kordon, Seungwon Lee and Paul von Allmen , "Evolutionary Computation Technologies for the Automated Design of Space Systems," NASA/DoD Conference on Evolvable Hardware, Washington, DC., June 2005.

4. Kordon, M., and J. Baker, J. Gilbert, D. Hanks, "Space Mission Scenario development and Performance Analysis Tool," IEEE Aerospace Conference Proceedings, Big Sky, MT., March 2005.

5. Kordon, M., and G. Klimeck, D. Hanks, H. Hua, "Evolutionary Computing for Spacecraft Power Subsystem Design Search and Optimization," IEEE Aerospace Conference Proceedings, Big Sky, MT., March 2004.

6. Kordon, M., and E. Wood, "Multi-Mission Space Vehicle Subsystem Analysis Tools," IEEE Aerospace Conference Proceedings, Big Sky, MT., March 2003.

Submitter/Contributor on 7 JPL New Technology Reports.