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Resume of Kerry M. Soileau

ksoileau@wt.net
(281)792-5417

Date of Birth: 8 June 1956
Citizenship: American
Clearance: Secret (inactive)
B.S., Mathematics, June 1976, University of Central Florida
M.S., Mathematics, May 1980, Louisiana State University
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: Shuttle Mission Operations: 5 years in the following capacities in the Mission Control Center: Operations Integration Officer (one flight); Trajectory Officer (four flights); Flight Dynamics Officer (four flights). Management: 5 years - As Mission Control Center operator, managed flight dynamics backroom support team. Acting Head of Advanced Programs Integration Section (1993). Teaching: 2 years - As teaching assistant at LSU, taught all levels of mathematics through calculus. Computer Hardware/Operating Systems: 12 years - VAX, Perkin-Elmer, Hewlett-Packard 9000, Hewlett Packard 9845, Hewlett-Packard 9825, DOS and UNIX OS. Computer Languages/Software: 12 years - BASIC, C, C++, CLIPS, FORTRAN 77, LISP, PROLOG, ICON, DBASE, HPL, MACSYMA, LATEX, Mathematica, Excel, Microsoft Word, MacDraw, Lotus, MacPaint, PowerPoint, MacProject, Interleaf.
PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS: While an undergraduate, contributed to a paper on the shape of a rotating fluid (American Journal of Physics.) Wrote Master's thesis on root distributions of reduced cubic polynomials with distributed coefficients. Stern, S. A. and Soileau, K. M., "Operational Implications for Path-Constrained Rendezvous," Proceedings of the AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference, Snowmass, CO, August 19-21, 1985, pp. 812-820. Soileau, K. M. and Stern, S. A., "Path-Constrained Rendezvous: Necessary and Sufficient Conditions," Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, Vol. 23, September-October 1986, pp. 492-498. Stern, S. A. and Soileau, K. M., "Inadequacy of Single-Impulse Transfers for Path-Constrained Rendezvous," Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, Vol. 24, May-June 1987, pp. 282-284. Soileau, Kerry M., "Defining Optimal Point-to-Point Transfer Surfaces for Orbital Path-Constrained Rendezvous," Proceedings of the AAS/NASA International Symposium, Greenbelt, MD, April 24-27, 1989, pp. 103-107. Soileau, Kerry M., "Formulae for the Statistical Interrelationships Between Several Orbital Parameters of Particles in the Oort Cloud and Other Orbiting Aggregates," Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy, Vol. 49, No. 1, 1990, pp. 11-29. Wrote and marketed GradePlus, a teacher's gradebook application for Atari and IBM-compatible computers. Only Mission Operations Directorate person to be selected to present a paper at the World Space Congress held in Washington, D.C. during August 28-September 5, 1992.
HONORS: Member of 1976 UCF William Lowell Putnam Exam Team. Achieved score of 1500 (780 M/720 V) on the GRE. Awarded James B. Duke fellowship by Duke University. Offered fellowship by Rice University. Nominated LSU Outstanding Teaching Assistant, 1980. Achieved a perfect score on LSU Complex Variables prelim exam. NASA Sustained Superior Performance Award, 1987. NASA Group Achievement Award, for STS-26 Preparation and Support. NASA GEM Award, 1993. Listed in Marquis Who's Who in Science and Engineering, Marquis Who's Who in America, Marquis Who's Who in the World.
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY: 6/80-present: NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX; Aerospace Technologist; Mission Operations, Space Station Program Office. 11/87-present: President, Positronic Software, Houston, TX; Software Development and Marketing. 5/79-9/79: NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX; Aerospace Summer Intern; STS Operations Integration. 9/79-5/80, 9/78-5/79: Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA; Graduate Teaching Assistant. 9/77-9/78: Amoco Production Company, New Orleans, LA; Exploration Technologist; Well Log Data Processor.