Meet our team

Our team is positioned to provide proven and innovative solutions for achieving your goals and requirements, with our flexible staffing, streamlined corporate structure, and competitive pricing. Cumulatively, we've received many notable awards, including: Presidential Rank Award - NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal - NASA Exceptional Service Medals - NASA Public Service Medals - Astronaut Silver Snoopy Awards - NASA Group Achievement Awards - Lockheed Martin Corporate Engineer of the Year. We bring this experience, expertise and excellence to your projects.

Our team members are located throughout the continental United States and near NASA Centers, as shown by the green dots on the map to the right.

David A. Zimmer, Ph.D.

Technical Expert & Principal Systems Engineer

M.S., Systems Management and Systems Safety (USC)
B.S., Mechanical Engineering (CSU)

• Over 30 years of NASA flight hardware design, development, manufacture, test and integration experience. Fully knowledgeable of NASA Program, Design, Production and acceptance requirements, and the NASA Program Life Cycle.
• Over 10 years of experience as a Resident NASA Quality Assurance Representative at various production facilities (Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, U.C. Berkeley SSL, Electronic Assembly manufactures, and Composite Structure manufactures) and perform In-Process and Final Source Inspection Acceptance for a multitude of flight-qualified hardware vendors across the United States.
• Oversaw the construction, assembly, and acceptance testing of GOES-R Series Solar Panels, Solar Ultra-Violet Imager (SUVI) and Global Lightening Mapper (GLM) Instruments; supported TIROS spacecraft assembly, integration and test operations, including being an active member of the Launch Operations Team for the NOAA-N and the NOAA-N Prime spacecraft
• Program/Site Manager, Reliability and Quality Assurance Manager, and System Safety Manager, at Hernandez Engineering Inc. at NASA Ames Research Center (Moffett Field, CA), covering all Facilities and Programs/Projects with which Ames was involved
• System Safety Manager for Boeing Aerospace Operations at NASA Ames Research Center, covering Space Shuttle Biological Payloads; Jet Aircraft Maneuverability Modifications, Wind Tunnel, and Arc-Jet Research Facilities
• Systems Engineering Manager and Chief Engineer at Westinghouse Electric Corporation on Tomahawk Vertical Launch Program and C4 TRIDENT SSBN Missile Launching Systems, Systems Safety and Weapons Safety Engineer for both Nuclear and Conventional Missile Launchers
• Currently hold NASA Workmanship Inspection Certifications for: (a) Crimp, Cable and Harness Fabrication, (b) Polymeric Applications, (c) Electrostatic Discharge Control, and (d) Soldered Electronic Hardware Assemblies per IPC/J-Standard-001F with the Space Addendum

Allan S. Benjamin, Ph.D.

Senior Scientist

Ph.D., Energy and Kinetics, TRW Cooperative Fellowship (UCLA)
M.S., Mechanical Engineering, NASA Fellowship (Brown University)
B.S. Aerospace Engineering, Alcoa Scholarship (Brown University) magna cum laude
• Over 30 years scientific experience in aerothermodynamics; developing and applying probabilistic risk assessment (PRA) methods and modeling/simulation techniques to evaluate safety and reliability issues for space systems, nuclear systems, and defense systems
• Senior Scientist Fellow at Information Systems Laboratories. Consulted with NASA Headquarters, Office of Safety and Mission Assurance (OSMA) on System Safety (SS), Risk Informed Decision Making (RIDM), Continuous Risk Management (CRM), and Enterprise Risk Management (ERM)
• Principal writer of NASA’s System Safety Handbook - Volume 2 (NASA/SP-2014-612), NASA’s special publication on organizational risk and opportunity management (NASA/SP-2014-615)
• Presented three papers at the 2016 and 2014 Probabilistic Safety Analysis and Management (PSAM) conferences
• Published author of “Enterprise Risk and Opportunity Management: Concepts and Step-by-Step Examples for Pioneering Scientific and Technical Organizations” (2017)
• Principal Scientist and Manager of Advanced Concepts at ARES Corporation
• Distinguished Member of Technical Staff (DMTS), Supervisor, and Member of Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories
• Member of Professional Staff at TRW Systems Group

Charles Robinson

Lead Auditor / Quality Engineer

B.S., Business Administration (University of La Verne, CA)
American Society of Quality Control (ASQC) - Fellow
IRCA Certified Aerospace Lead Auditor
• NASA Exceptional Public Service Medal
• Lead Assessor for NASA Risk Assessments, HTSI
• Program Manager, Tempe, AZ Command Center, ES&S and AES
• Director/Manager, Engine Systems Quality Assurance, Grimes Aerospace
• Director, Quality Assurance for the Systems & Equipment Division; Director, Product Quality for the Aerospace Sector; Director, Product Quality; QA Project Manager; and Senior QA Engineer, AlliedSignal AEROSPACE
• Field Quality Assurance Representative; Tool Designer; and Precision Inspector, Air-to-Air Short Range Attack Missile (Classified Program), Lockheed Martin

Karen Gentle

Senior Quality Manager / Quality Engineer

M.B.A., Master of Business Administration, Virginia Polytechnic and State University
B.S., Bachelor of Science, Industrial and Systems Engineering
• Senior Quality Manager, Engineer, QARMS
• Senior Program Manager, Leidos
• Director, Operations Excellence, Honeywell Technology Solutions Inc.
• Program Manager, Mission Assurance Services, Honeywell Technology Solutions Inc.
• Six Sigma Master Black Belt
• Certified ISO/IEC 27001 Lead Auditor, Nov 2011
• Introduction to CMMI for Development, Version 1.3, Nov 2011
• Bravo Silver Award for contributions to successful Dimensions International integration, 2008
• HTSI Quarterly Team Award for Business Systems Team

Regina Palmer 

Quality Engineer

M.B.A., University of Colorado at Denver
Bachelor of Science,  Business

• Over 38 years of aerospace experience working spacecraft, instruments, launch vehicles, ground systems and research and technology programs as a Quality professional.
• Space Strategic Quality Director, Lockheed Martin
• Space Civil Space Line of Business (LOB) QA Manager/Director
• Space Mission Assurance Manager for Multiple NASA Programs, Lockheed Martin
• Mission Assurance Manager, Mars Global Surveyor (MGS), Mars Odyssey, and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO).
• Certified Six Sigma Black Belt

Eric Haverly

Quality Engineer 

Master’s in Mechanical Engineering, Villanova University
Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Purdue University
Advanced Course in Engineering, General Electric
• Over 30 years of experience leading Mission Assurance Teams (System Safety, ESH, Hardware/Software QA, EEE Parts, Materials, Reliability and Contamination Control).
• Quality Assurance Senior Manager, Calibration and Nondestructive Test Operations, Lockheed Martin
• Sensing & Exploration Systems East Coast Ops Mission Assurance Lead
• 12+ years as a senior manager of the following areas: Calibration Labs, Nondestructive Test, Supply Chain Quality, Product Acceptance, Orion/Artemis Program, Space Exploration Systems, Space Science and Energy Systems and GOES program.
• Certified Six Sigma Green Be

Michael P. Kelly

SMA / Quality Engineer

M.B.A., University of Baltimore, Baltimore, MD
Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
• Over 39 years’ experience as a Safety and Mission Assurance professional
• NASA Safety Center (NSC):
  • Chief, Technical Excellence Office;
  • Chief Safety & Mission Assurance Officer and SMA Leadership Technical Discipline Team Lead
  • Quality Engineering Technical Discipline Team Lead
• NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC):
  • Safety and Mission Assurance, Assistant Director, GS-15
  • Mission Support Division Chief, GS-15
  • Mission Support Deputy Division Chief, GS-15
  • Supply Chain Manager, GS-15
  • Senior Systems Assurance Manager, GS-15
• Conference on Quality in Space and Defense Industry (CQSDI) Committee Member, 2011-2024
• SMA Technical Excellence Program (STEP)
  • Level 3 Graduate in SMA Technical Leadership, 2021
  • Level 3 Graduate in Quality Engineering, 2019
  • Level 2 Cohort Program Graduate, 2016
• Special Act Award from SMA Management for Developing the Code 302 Business Plan, 2009
• Conference on Quality in Space and Defense Industry (CQSDI) Committee Member, 2011-2024
• GOES Project Peer Award 2006, and GOES Special Act Award from the project, 2004 and 2005

Ronald E. Perison

Risk Management / Quality Engineer

Master of Engineering Management, 1995, George Washington University
BS Industrial Engineering, 1986, SUNY at Buffalo
BA Political Science, 1984, SUNY at Fredonia
• 33 years of specialized aerospace and aircraft experience at GSFC, JHU/APL and US Air Force in supervisory management, aerospace engineering, risk assessment and requirements management throughout the project lifecycle.
• NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) Branch Head, GSFC CSO Assurance Management Branch
  • Associate Division Chief – Code 390
  • Wallops Flight Facility SMA Assistant Director, Code 300
  • Assistant Group Supervisor – Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab (JHU/APL) Space Department, Space Mission Assurance Group
  • Chief Safety and Mission Assurance Officer (CSO):
    o OSIRIS-REx through successful launch and return-to-earth; landing in September 2023 concluding a 7-year mission
    o Explorers Program Office: AIM, THEMIS, IBEX, WISE, CINDI, TWINS
    o EOS Aura
    o Interim Control Module (ICM) for the International Space Station
    o Hubble Space Telescope – SM3B
    o Solar Terrestrial Probes Program: TIMED, STEREO, MMS
• Certified AS9100 auditor and in NASA risk management.
• SMA subject matter expert on formal reviews including Red team and Green teams, and new business (proposals) on space, aircraft, and missile programs for NASA and DoD customers.
• Robert H Goddard Exceptional Achievement for Engineering Team – LandSat9 ESPA Flight System (2021)
• NASA Silver Achievement Metal - OSIRIS-REx SMA Team (2017)