Dave Doody
Objective: Connect the Public with Space Exploration
SIDELINE TO MY CAREER AS SENIOR ENGINEER WITH CALTECH
I've a certain knack, a love really, for making technical subjects clear to intelligent adults, without oversimplifying, while sharing wonder and enthusiasm for embracing nature. This has developed over the years teaching technical subjects to airline pilots, teaching programming and navigation, teaching at Art Center College of Design, and through involvement in public engagement at JPL ancillary to technical responsibilities in robotic interplanetary space flight operations.
Experience
Member of Faculty,
Art Center College of Design
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Presently, preparing and teaching courses in Basics of Interplanetary Flight to brilliant artists, designers, and other interested adults.
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Senior Engineer,
Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA
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Presently, and for the past nineteen years, member of the Advanced Mission Operations Section (although the Section's name has changed often). Flight Operations Lead Engineer, previously Systems Engineer, with Cassini Realtime Operations. Active in publishing and contributing to JPL Outreach activities, increasingly via the high-leverage World-Wide Web. Formerly, member of the Magellan Mission Control Team throughout Magellan's flight, as Operations Engineer and Deputy Mission Control Team Chief. Member of the Voyager Mission Control Team from Voyager-2's Saturn-Uranus cruise through Neptune encounter.
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Proprietor,
Space Craft International
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A sideline since 1987 designing and offering hands-on educational scale model kits of real space exploring machines. Solely because of this effort (still a unique niche), hundreds of thousands of inquisitive people worldwide have learned the workings of interplanetary space flight.
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Instructional
Project Engineer, JPL
Deep Space Network
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Designed µP-based training systems for the operators of the Mark-IV Deep Space Network, and evaluated them on site (Goldstone) with users. This involved both contributing to the design and test of the overall system, a simulator of the Link Monitor and Control Subsystem at the Deep Space Communication Complexes (DSCC), and also having full responsibility for development of assigned training modules for various subsystems of the DSCC, for example, Frequency and Timing, Transmitter, Telemetry, Command. Contractor: Ford Aerospace & Communications Corporation.
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Systems Engineer,
Santa Catalina Island Company
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Designed shipboard and land-based electrical and communications systems, and business software systems. Taught employees to use, program and maintain them. Conducted solar-power application and wind-power application studies including test site system design and evaluation. Agency: Bombard Enterprises.
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Lead Instructor,
R&D Engineer,
Japan Air Lines
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Designed microprocessor-based realtime simulation and display systems, instructional facilities and courses. Taught navigation, aerodynamics, meteorology, regulations, flight operations, and cockpit procedures to the captains of Japan Air Lines, the FAA, and captains and flight crew of many other foreign and domestic clients. Contractor: International Air Service Company.
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Lived Aboard Sailboat
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We quit our jobs, sold our cars and home, and let the wind take us down the California coast aboard our 46' Cross ketch, all for serendipity. Taught celestial navigation part time en route. Spent ten years in all living aboard our sailboat, carrying our own water, generating our own electrical power from the sun and wind.
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Education
MA, Human Development, Pacific Oaks College, Pasadena. BSEE equivalence in USAF technical school, tutoring, and work experience. Undergraduate course work at Loyola University of Los Angeles 2 years. Additional undergraduate course work at University of California at Davis 1 year. FAA Commercial Pilot Certificate, multi-engine rating. FAA Ground Instructor Certificate. Completed various technical courses related to performance of work assignments throughout career. This included attending courses in order to set up and teach them at the home institution.
Please see linked pages, but note I have not been adding to the first two lists since 1996 and 1997 respectively, so they're way out of date. Sorry.
Honors
NASA Exceptional Service Medal. Two National Air & Space Museum Trophy flight team awards. AIAA Distinguished Lecturer Recognition. Fourteen NASA Group Achievement awards. ITT Geneen special operations recognition. San Fernando Valley Engineering Association flight team award. Merit Award, Society for Technical Communication. NOVA Award for "Promoting space to the public via the world-wide web." JPL SPOT Huygens Support Award.
Contact:
Dave Doody
4239 Canyon Crest Road
Altadena, California 91001-3717
Telephone at JPL: 818.393.7732, at home: 626.398.5133
Email at JPL: dave.doody@jpl.nasa.gov
Email at home: dave@SpacecraftKits.com
Email at the College: doody@ArtCenter.edu
Personal website: Almitra
UPDATED UTC 2007 AUGUST 11
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